GeForce GTX 970 vs Nvidia Titan Xp

Intro

Compare those specs to the Nvidia Titan Xp, which uses a 16 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 1582 MHz. The GDDR5X RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1426 MHz on this particular card. It features 3840 SPUs as well as 240 TAUs and 96 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

Nvidia Titan Xp		27938 points
GeForce GTX 970		10867 points
	Difference: 17071 (157%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Nvidia Titan Xp		810 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 970		262 Sol/s
	Difference: 548 (209%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 970		145 Watts
Nvidia Titan Xp		250 Watts
	Difference: 105 Watts (72%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Nvidia Titan Xp should be 150% faster than the GeForce GTX 970 overall, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		560845 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 970		224000 MB/sec
	Difference: 336845 (150%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan Xp should be much (about 248%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 970. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		379680 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 970		109200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 270480 (248%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Nvidia Titan Xp is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		151872 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 970		67200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 84672 (126%)

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 data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.