GeForce GTX Titan vs Radeon RX 580

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 580, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1257 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 2000 MHz on this specific model. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon RX 580		13630 points
GeForce GTX Titan		10162 points
	Difference: 3468 (34%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 580		185 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan		250 Watts
	Difference: 65 Watts (35%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX Titan should theoretically perform just a bit faster than the Radeon RX 580 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		288384 MB/sec
Radeon RX 580		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 26240 (10%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan will be just a bit (more or less 4%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 580. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		187488 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 580		181008 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 6480 (4%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 580 is superior to the GeForce GTX Titan, though not by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 580		40224 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX Titan		40176 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 48 (0%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.