GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Nvidia Titan X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Nvidia Titan X, which uses a 16 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 1417 MHz. The GDDR5X memory runs at a speed of 1251 MHz on this particular model. It features 3584 SPUs as well as 224 Texture Address Units and 96 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

The Nvidia Titan X should in theory perform a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti in general. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		491520 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		336000 MB/sec
	Difference: 155520 (46%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X is a lot (more or less 80%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		317408 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		176000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 141408 (80%)

Pixel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X is quite a bit (approximately 42%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		136032 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		96000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 40032 (42%)

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 transported past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock 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 that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.