GeForce GTX 560 vs GeForce GTX Titan

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX Titan, which features GPU clock speed of 837 MHz, and 6144 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1502 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also is made up of 2688 Stream Processors, 224 Texture Address Units, and 48 Raster Operation Units.

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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 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan is much (about 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

The GeForce GTX Titan is quite a bit (more or less 55%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 560, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions better. (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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type 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 anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card 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 most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out 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 filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.