NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN vs ATI Radeon X1900 GT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN and ATI Radeon X1900 GT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 46% higher core clock speed: 837 MHz vs 575 MHz
  • 27.2x more texture fill rate: 187.5 billion / sec vs 6.9 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
  • 24x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 256 MB
  • 56.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8190 vs 146
  • Around 54% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 630 vs 409
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 19 February 2013 vs 1 May 2006
Core clock speed 837 MHz vs 575 MHz
Texture fill rate 187.5 billion / sec vs 6.9 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size 6 GB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 8190 vs 146
PassMark - G2D Mark 630 vs 409

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1900 GT

  • 3.3x lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 250 Watt
  • 200x more memory clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 6.0 GB/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt vs 250 Watt
Memory clock speed 1200 MHz vs 6.0 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1900 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
8190
146
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
630
409
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN ATI Radeon X1900 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark 8190 146
PassMark - G2D Mark 630 409
Geekbench - OpenCL 23915
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 62.027
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1218.137
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 5.835
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 36.842
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 215.546
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 10176
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 10176
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3356
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 2901

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN ATI Radeon X1900 GT

Essentials

Architecture Kepler R500
Code name GK110 R580
Launch date 19 February 2013 1 May 2006
Launch price (MSRP) $999
Place in performance rating 428 388
Price now $2,054.59
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 5.09

Technical info

Boost clock speed 876 MHz
Core clock speed 837 MHz 575 MHz
CUDA cores 2688
Floating-point performance 4,709 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 2688
Texture fill rate 187.5 billion / sec 6.9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt 75 Watt
Transistor count 7,080 million 384 million

Video outputs and ports

Audio input for HDMI Internal
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort, One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI... 2x DVI, 1x S-Video
G-SYNC support
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 10.5" (26.7 cm)
Supplementary power connectors One 8-pin and one 6-pin 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.4 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 288.4 GB / s 38.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 384-bit GDDR5 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 6.0 GB/s 1200 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3

Technologies

3D Gaming
3D Vision
3D Vision Live
Adaptive VSync
Blu Ray 3D
CUDA
FXAA
GPU Boost
TXAA