Nvidia Titan X vs Radeon RX 480 4GB

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 480 4GB, which has core speeds of 1120 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 480 4GB		150 Watts
Nvidia Titan X		250 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Nvidia Titan X should theoretically perform a lot faster than the Radeon RX 480 4GB overall. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		491520 MB/sec
Radeon RX 480 4GB		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 262144 (114%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X will be quite a bit (about 97%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 480 4GB. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		317408 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 480 4GB		161280 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 156128 (97%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Nvidia Titan X is superior to the Radeon RX 480 4GB, and very much so. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		136032 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 480 4GB		35840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 100192 (280%)

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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, 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 are processed per second. This figure is worked out 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 texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to the 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 card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.