GeForce GTX 590 vs GeForce GTX Titan Black

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX Titan Black, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 889 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this particular card. It features 2880 SPUs along with 240 Texture Address Units 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 Black		11666 points
GeForce GTX 590		6680 points
	Difference: 4986 (75%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		250 Watts
GeForce GTX 590		365 Watts
	Difference: 115 Watts (46%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX Titan Black should theoretically be a small bit superior to the GeForce GTX 590 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		336000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 590		328320 MB/sec
	Difference: 7680 (2%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan Black is much (about 175%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 590. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		213360 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 590		77696 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 135664 (175%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 590 should be quite a bit (approximately 37%) better at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX Titan Black, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 590		58272 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX Titan Black		42672 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15600 (37%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.