Nvidia Titan Xp vs Radeon RX 590

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 590, which makes use of a 12 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1469 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this card. It features 2304 SPUs along with 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

The Nvidia Titan Xp should theoretically perform a lot faster 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 is much (more or less 79%) better at AF than the Radeon RX 590. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The Nvidia Titan Xp is a lot (more or less 223%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 590, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.