GeForce GTX Titan vs Radeon RX 580

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 580, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1257 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this card. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator 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		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

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX Titan should be a little bit faster than the Radeon RX 580 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan should be a bit (more or less 4%) more effective 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

The Radeon RX 580 is a bit (about 0%) better at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX Titan, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (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: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, 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 the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.