GeForce GTX 960 vs GeForce GTX Titan

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX Titan, which comes with core clock speeds of 837 MHz on the GPU, and 1502 MHz on the 6144 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2688 SPUs along with 224 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		10162 points
GeForce GTX 960		7627 points
	Difference: 2535 (33%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan		250 Watts
	Difference: 130 Watts (108%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX Titan should be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 960 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		288384 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 176384 (157%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan should be quite a bit (approximately 160%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		187488 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 115360 (160%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan is a better choice, but not by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		40176 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4112 (11%)

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 largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the 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 texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units 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 processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated 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 drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.