GeForce GTX 580 vs GeForce GTX Titan Black

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX Titan Black, which features a clock frequency of 889 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also makes use of a 384-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 2880 SPUs, 240 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 Black		11666 points
GeForce GTX 580		4956 points
	Difference: 6710 (135%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 580		244 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan Black		250 Watts
	Difference: 6 Watts (2%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX Titan Black should in theory be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 580 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		336000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 580		192384 MB/sec
	Difference: 143616 (75%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan Black is a lot (approximately 332%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 580. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		213360 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 580		49408 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 163952 (332%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan Black is superior to the GeForce GTX 580, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		42672 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 580		37056 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5616 (15%)

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 max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, 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 AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.