Nvidia Titan X vs Radeon VII

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon VII, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1400 MHz. The HBM2 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1000 MHz on this particular model. It features 3840 SPUs as well as 240 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Nvidia Titan X		250 Watts
Radeon VII		295 Watts
	Difference: 45 Watts (18%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon VII will be 113% quicker than the Nvidia Titan X in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon VII		1048576 MB/sec
Nvidia Titan X		491520 MB/sec
	Difference: 557056 (113%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon VII is just a bit (more or less 6%) more effective at texture filtering than the Nvidia Titan X. (explain)

Radeon VII		336000 Mtexels/sec
Nvidia Titan X		317408 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 18592 (6%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Nvidia Titan X is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		136032 Mpixels/sec
Radeon VII		89600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 46432 (52%)

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 data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on 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 bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.