GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs Nvidia Titan X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Nvidia Titan X, which has core speeds of 1417 MHz on the GPU, and 1251 MHz on the 12288 MB of GDDR5X memory. It features 3584 SPUs as well as 224 Texture Address Units and 96 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		120 Watts
Nvidia Titan X		250 Watts
	Difference: 130 Watts (108%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Nvidia Titan X should theoretically be much superior to the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB overall. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		491520 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 294912 (150%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X will be a lot (approximately 193%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		317408 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		108432 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 208976 (193%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Nvidia Titan X is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		136032 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		72288 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 63744 (88%)

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 data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at 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 graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.