GeForce GTX 980 vs GeForce GTX Titan Black

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX Titan Black, which makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 889 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this particular card. It features 2880 SPUs as well as 240 TAUs 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 980		13552 points
GeForce GTX Titan Black		11666 points
	Difference: 1886 (16%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 980		165 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan Black		250 Watts
	Difference: 85 Watts (52%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX Titan Black should be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 980 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		336000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 980		224000 MB/sec
	Difference: 112000 (50%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan Black will be much (more or less 48%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 980. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		213360 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 980		144128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 69232 (48%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 980 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980		72064 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX Titan Black		42672 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 29392 (69%)

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 transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. 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 higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.