GeForce GTX 460 vs GeForce GTX Titan

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX Titan, which features a core clock frequency of 837 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1502 MHz. It also uses a 384-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 2688 SPUs, 224 TAUs, 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 460		2557 points
	Difference: 7605 (297%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 460		150 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan		250 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX Titan should in theory perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 460 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		288384 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 460		86400 MB/sec
	Difference: 201984 (234%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan is a lot (about 396%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 460. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		187488 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460		37800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 149688 (396%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan is superior to the GeForce GTX 460, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		40176 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 460		16200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 23976 (148%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. 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 can be applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one 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 figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.