GeForce GTX 970 vs Nvidia Titan X

Intro

Compare that to the Nvidia Titan X, which comes with core clock 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 TAUs and 96 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Nvidia Titan X will be 119% quicker than the GeForce GTX 970 overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		491520 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 970		224000 MB/sec
	Difference: 267520 (119%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X will be much (about 191%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 970. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		317408 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 970		109200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 208208 (191%)

Pixel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X will be much (approximately 102%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 970, and able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		136032 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 970		67200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 68832 (102%)

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 maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling 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 graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.