GeForce GTX Titan Black vs Radeon RX 580

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 580, which comes with a core clock speed of 1257 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 2000 MHz. It also features a 256-bit bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It is made up of 2304 SPUs, 144 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon RX 580		13630 points
GeForce GTX Titan Black		11666 points
	Difference: 1964 (17%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 580		185 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan Black		250 Watts
	Difference: 65 Watts (35%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX Titan Black should in theory be much better than the Radeon RX 580 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		336000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 580		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 73856 (28%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan Black is a small bit (about 18%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 580. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		213360 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 580		181008 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 32352 (18%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan Black is superior to the Radeon RX 580, though only just barely. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		42672 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 580		40224 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2448 (6%)

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 MB per second) that can be moved over 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 memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core 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 per second.

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