GeForce GTX Titan vs Radeon RX 580

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 580, which comes with clock speeds of 1257 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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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		10162 points
	Difference: 3468 (34%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX Titan should in theory be a bit better than the Radeon RX 580 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		288384 MB/sec
Radeon RX 580		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 26240 (10%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan should be just a bit (approximately 4%) better at AF than the Radeon RX 580. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		187488 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 580		181008 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 6480 (4%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 580 is a better choice, but only just. (explain)

Radeon RX 580		40224 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX Titan		40176 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 48 (0%)

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 (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as 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 potential to get to the maximum fill rate.