GeForce GTX 460 SE vs Nvidia Titan X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Nvidia Titan X, which makes use of a 16 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 1417 MHz. The GDDR5X RAM runs at a speed of 1251 MHz on this particular model. 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 460 SE		150 Watts
Nvidia Titan X		250 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Nvidia Titan X should theoretically be quite a bit better than the GeForce GTX 460 SE in general. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		491520 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE		108800 MB/sec
	Difference: 382720 (352%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X is quite a bit (about 917%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 460 SE. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		317408 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE		31200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 286208 (917%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Nvidia Titan X is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		136032 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE		20800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 115232 (554%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.