GeForce GTX Titan vs Radeon RX 590

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 590, which uses a 12 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1469 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this specific card. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 590		175 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan		250 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (43%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX Titan should perform a small bit faster than the Radeon RX 590 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		288384 MB/sec
Radeon RX 590		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 26240 (10%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 590 is a bit (approximately 13%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX Titan. (explain)

Radeon RX 590		211536 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX Titan		187488 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 24048 (13%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 590 will be a bit (more or less 17%) more effective at AA than the GeForce GTX Titan, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 590		47008 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX Titan		40176 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6832 (17%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.