GeForce GT 1030 vs Nvidia Titan X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Nvidia Titan X, which uses a 16 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 1417 MHz. The GDDR5X RAM works at a speed of 1251 MHz on this specific model. It features 3584 SPUs along with 224 TAUs and 96 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 1030		30 Watts
Nvidia Titan X		250 Watts
	Difference: 220 Watts (733%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Nvidia Titan X, in theory, should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 1030 overall. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		491520 MB/sec
GeForce GT 1030		49152 MB/sec
	Difference: 442368 (900%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X should be a lot (about 684%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 1030. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		317408 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		40480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 276928 (684%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Nvidia Titan X is superior to the GeForce GT 1030, and very much so. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		136032 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		20240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 115792 (572%)

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 MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher 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 processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock 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 graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.