GeForce GTX 1080 vs GeForce GTX Titan Black

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX Titan Black, which features a core clock speed of 889 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also uses a 384-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 2880 SPUs, 240 TAUs, 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 1080		21942 points
GeForce GTX Titan Black		11666 points
	Difference: 10276 (88%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1080		180 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan Black		250 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (39%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX Titan Black should in theory be just a bit better than the GeForce GTX 1080 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		336000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1080		327680 MB/sec
	Difference: 8320 (3%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 is a lot (more or less 21%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX Titan Black. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		257120 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX Titan Black		213360 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 43760 (21%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1080 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		102848 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX Titan Black		42672 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 60176 (141%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a 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. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's 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 also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.