GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce GTX Titan Black

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GTX Titan Black, which comes with clock speeds of 889 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 6144 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2880 SPUs as well as 240 TAUs and 48 Rasterization Operator 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 970		10867 points
	Difference: 799 (7%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 970		145 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan Black		250 Watts
	Difference: 105 Watts (72%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX Titan Black should theoretically be quite a bit superior to the GeForce GTX 970 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		336000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 970		224000 MB/sec
	Difference: 112000 (50%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan Black will be a lot (about 95%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 970. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		213360 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 970		109200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 104160 (95%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 970 is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		67200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX Titan Black		42672 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 24528 (57%)

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 information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the 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 amount of pixels the video card can possibly record to the 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 clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.