GeForce GTX 560 vs GeForce GTX Titan

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GTX Titan, which makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 837 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1502 MHz on this particular card. It features 2688 SPUs along with 224 TAUs and 48 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

GeForce GTX Titan		10162 points
GeForce GTX 560		3030 points
	Difference: 7132 (235%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 560		150 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan		250 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX Titan should in theory be much better than the GeForce GTX 560 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		288384 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560		128128 MB/sec
	Difference: 160256 (125%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan will be much (more or less 313%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 560. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		187488 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560		45360 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 142128 (313%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan is superior to the GeForce GTX 560, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		40176 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560		25920 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14256 (55%)

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 over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher 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 that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.