Nvidia Titan Xp vs Radeon RX 590

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 590, which has a core clock frequency of 1469 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 2000 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 12 nm design. It is made up of 2304 SPUs, 144 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 590		175 Watts
Nvidia Titan Xp		250 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (43%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Nvidia Titan Xp should theoretically be much better than the Radeon RX 590 in general. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		560845 MB/sec
Radeon RX 590		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 298701 (114%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan Xp will be much (more or less 79%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 590. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		379680 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 590		211536 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 168144 (79%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Nvidia Titan Xp is superior to the Radeon RX 590, by a large margin. (explain)

Nvidia Titan Xp		151872 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 590		47008 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 104864 (223%)

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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the 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 chip could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.