GeForce GT 230 vs Nvidia Titan X

Intro

Compare all 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 RAM. It features 3584 SPUs as well as 224 Texture Address Units and 96 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 230		65 Watts
Nvidia Titan X		250 Watts
	Difference: 185 Watts (285%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Nvidia Titan X will be 1180% quicker than the GeForce GT 230 in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		491520 MB/sec
GeForce GT 230		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 453120 (1180%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X should be a lot (approximately 3507%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GT 230. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		317408 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 230		8800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 308608 (3507%)

Pixel Rate

If using 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 GT 230		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 131632 (2992%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. 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 output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.