Nvidia Titan X vs Radeon RX 590

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 590, which features a core clock speed of 1469 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 2000 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 12 nm design. It is comprised of 2304 SPUs, 144 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 590		175 Watts
Nvidia Titan X		250 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (43%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Nvidia Titan X should perform a lot faster than the Radeon RX 590 overall. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		491520 MB/sec
Radeon RX 590		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 229376 (88%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X is a lot (about 50%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 590. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		317408 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 590		211536 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 105872 (50%)

Pixel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X should be quite a bit (approximately 189%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon RX 590, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		136032 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 590		47008 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 89024 (189%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour 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 fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.