GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce GTX Titan X

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX Titan X, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1000 MHz, and 12288 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1750 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also is comprised of 3072 SPUs, 192 Texture Address Units, and 96 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 X		17879 points
GeForce GTX 970		10867 points
	Difference: 7012 (65%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX Titan X will be 50% quicker than the GeForce GTX 970 in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan X should be much (more or less 76%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 970. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan X		192000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 970		109200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 82800 (76%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan X is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan X		96000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 970		67200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 28800 (43%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it 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, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.