NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER Comparison

Head-to-Head Benchmarks

The benchmark data shows a decisive overall victory for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, which wins both recorded head-to-head tests against the GTX TITAN X. The two cards were only directly compared in two compute-oriented workloads, but the margins are stark and consistent with the generational gap between them.

In the Geekbench OpenCL test, the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER records a score of 199,267 against 41,471 for the GTX TITAN X. That is a 79.2% delta in favor of the newer card, meaning the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER delivers roughly four times the raw compute throughput in this API. This is the largest single gap in any shared benchmark, and it reflects the massive increase in shading units, clock speeds, and memory bandwidth that separate the two architectures.

The Geekbench Vulkan test is much closer. The RTX 4070 Ti SUPER scores 53,683 while the GTX TITAN X scores 49,397, a delta of 8%. While the newer card still wins, the margin is far narrower than in OpenCL, suggesting that the older Maxwell architecture holds up relatively better in Vulkan workloads, or that the test itself does not fully leverage the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER's newer feature set. Still, the result is a win, and it gives the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER a clean 2-0 record in direct comparisons.

Looking at the broader database averages, the picture is more nuanced. The GTX TITAN X has an average benchmark score of 36,530 across all recorded tests, while the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER averages 31,087. This puts the older card at the 80th percentile of all GPUs in the database, compared to the 76th percentile for the newer card. The discrepancy arises because the two cards were tested in different benchmark suites: the GTX TITAN X has results only in Geekbench Metal, OpenCL, and Vulkan, while the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER includes a wide range of PassMark tests, including legacy DirectX 9, 10, 11, and 12 workloads, plus 2D and compute tests. The PassMark DirectX 9 score of 360 and DirectX 10 score of 181 are relatively low and drag down the average, even though the card clearly dominates in modern compute tasks.

For context, the GTX TITAN X's nearest rivals in the database include the AMD Radeon RX 5300M (average score 36,529, delta 0%), the NVIDIA T1000 (36,289, delta 0.7%), and the AMD Radeon PRO W6400 (37,157, delta -1.7%). The RTX 4070 Ti SUPER's nearest rivals include the NVIDIA Quadro M5000 (31,206, delta -0.4%), the NVIDIA GRID M60-1Q (31,220, delta -0.4%), and the NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell (31,532, delta -1.4%). These comparisons show that each card sits within a tight cluster of similar-performing products, but the clusters themselves are very different in composition and age.

FAQ

Q: Which GPU wins the Geekbench OpenCL test?

A: The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER wins with a score of 199,267 versus 41,471 for the GTX TITAN X, a delta of 79.2% in favor of the newer card.

Q: How large is the Vulkan performance gap between the two cards?

A: The RTX 4070 Ti SUPER scores 53,683 in Geekbench Vulkan, while the GTX TITAN X scores 49,397, a delta of 8%. The newer card wins, but the margin is relatively modest.

Q: Which card has a higher average benchmark score across the database?

A: The GTX TITAN X has an average score of 36,530, which is higher than the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER's average of 31,087. However, the two cards were tested in different benchmark suites, so this comparison is not direct.

Q: What percentile rank does each card hold among all GPUs?

A: The GTX TITAN X sits at the 80th percentile, while the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER sits at the 76th percentile.

Q: Does the GTX TITAN X win any head-to-head benchmark against the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER?

A: No. The RTX 4070 Ti SUPER wins both recorded head-to-head tests: Geekbench OpenCL and Geekbench Vulkan. The GTX TITAN X records zero wins.

Q: What is the difference in memory bandwidth between the two cards?

A: The RTX 4070 Ti SUPER has a bandwidth of 672.3 GB/s, while the GTX TITAN X has 336.6 GB/s. The newer card offers roughly double the bandwidth.

Where Each One Wins

The RTX 4070 Ti SUPER is the clear winner in modern compute-heavy workloads. Its OpenCL score of 199,267 is nearly five times the GTX TITAN X's 41,471, making it the obvious choice for any application that leverages OpenCL for general-purpose GPU computing, machine learning inference, or scientific simulation. The Vulkan win, while smaller at 8%, still indicates that the Ada Lovelace architecture handles modern graphics APIs with better efficiency. The card also brings hardware ray tracing cores and tensor cores, which the GTX TITAN X lacks entirely, so any workload that uses those features will see a massive advantage on the newer card.

The GTX TITAN X does have a higher average benchmark score in the database, but this is a function of the test suite rather than raw capability. Its three Geekbench results (Metal, OpenCL, Vulkan) are all relatively strong, and the card sits at the 80th percentile, above the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER's 76th. This suggests that for users running older or more specialized workloads, particularly those that rely on Metal or legacy OpenCL paths, the GTX TITAN X can still hold its own. Its 12 GB of GDDR5 memory on a 384-bit bus provides 336.6 GB/s of bandwidth, which is respectable for its era and sufficient for many 1080p and 1440p gaming scenarios.

In terms of physical characteristics, the GTX TITAN X is a dual-slot card at 267 mm long, 111 mm tall, and 38 mm wide, making it easier to fit in smaller cases. The RTX 4070 Ti SUPER is a triple-slot card at 310 mm long, 140 mm tall, and 61 mm wide, requiring more clearance and potentially more robust cooling. Both cards have a suggested PSU of 600 W, so power supply requirements are similar, but the newer card draws 285 W versus 250 W for the older one.

Specification Differences

The two cards differ in nearly every major specification. The GTX TITAN X uses 12 GB of GDDR5 memory on a 384-bit bus, delivering 336.6 GB/s of bandwidth. The RTX 4070 Ti SUPER uses 16 GB of GDDR6X on a 256-bit bus, delivering 672.3 GB/s. The newer card has more memory and double the bandwidth, despite a narrower bus.

Clock speeds show a dramatic jump. The GTX TITAN X runs at a base of 1000 MHz and a boost of 1089 MHz, with memory at 1753 MHz (7 Gbps effective). The RTX 4070 Ti SUPER runs at a base of 2340 MHz and a boost of 2610 MHz, with memory at 1313 MHz (21 Gbps effective). The newer card's boost clock is more than double the older card's base clock.

Compute resources also differ sharply. The GTX TITAN X has 3072 shading units, 192 texture mapping units, and 96 ROPs. The RTX 4070 Ti SUPER has 8448 shading units, 264 TMUs, and 96 ROPs. The newer card has 66 ray tracing cores and 264 tensor cores, which the older card does not have at all. Pixel rate rises from 104.5 GPixel/s to 250.6 GPixel/s, and texture rate from 209.1 GTexel/s to 689.0 GTexel/s. FP32 compute goes from 6.691 TFLOPS to 44.10 TFLOPS, and the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER adds FP16 at 44.10 TFLOPS (1:1) where the GTX TITAN X has no FP16 rating.

Physical specifications differ as well. The GTX TITAN X is dual-slot, 267 mm long, 111 mm tall, and 38 mm wide, using 1x 6-pin plus 1x 8-pin power connectors. The RTX 4070 Ti SUPER is triple-slot, 310 mm long, 140 mm tall, and 61 mm wide, using a single 16-pin connector. Both have a suggested PSU of 600 W. The bus interface moves from PCIe 3.0 x16 to PCIe 4.0 x16. Display outputs change from 1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0, and 3x DisplayPort 1.2 to 1x HDMI 2.1 and 3x DisplayPort 1.4a.

Architecture Differences

The GTX TITAN X is built on the GM200 chip using the Maxwell 2.0 architecture, manufactured on a 28 nm process at TSMC. The die size is 601 mm² with 8,000 million transistors, yielding a transistor density of 13.3 million per mm². The RTX 4070 Ti SUPER uses the AD103 chip with the Ada Lovelace architecture, manufactured on a 5 nm process, also at TSMC. The die is smaller at 379 mm² but packs 45,900 million transistors, giving a transistor density of 121.1 million per mm², roughly nine times higher.

The Maxwell 2.0 architecture supports DirectX 12 (12_1), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4. The Ada Lovelace architecture supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4. The key architectural addition in Ada Lovelace is the dedicated ray tracing and tensor core hardware, which enables hardware-accelerated ray tracing and AI-based features such as DLSS. The GTX TITAN X has no such hardware, so these features are entirely absent.

The memory subsystem also reflects the architectural shift. The GTX TITAN X uses GDDR5 on a 384-bit bus, while the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER uses GDDR6X on a 256-bit bus. The newer memory type and higher effective clock speed (21 Gbps versus 7 Gbps) more than compensate for the narrower bus, resulting in double the bandwidth.

The GTX TITAN X was released on March 16, 2015, as part of the GeForce 900 generation, succeeding the GeForce 700 series and preceding the GeForce 10 series. The RTX 4070 Ti SUPER was released on January 23, 2024, as part of the GeForce 40 series, succeeding the GeForce 30 series and preceding the GeForce 50 series. Both are now end-of-life products.

The Verdict

The data is unambiguous: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER is the superior GPU for modern workloads. It wins both head-to-head benchmarks, with a 79.2% margin in OpenCL and an 8% margin in Vulkan. It offers more memory (16 GB versus 12 GB), double the bandwidth (672.3 GB/s versus 336.6 GB/s), more than double the shading units (8448 versus 3072), and a boost clock of 2610 MHz versus 1089 MHz. It adds ray tracing and tensor cores, which the GTX TITAN X does not have, and it supports DirectX 12 Ultimate versus DirectX 12 (12_1).

The GTX TITAN X does have a higher average benchmark score (36,530 versus 31,087) and a higher percentile rank (80 versus 76), but this is a distortion from different test suites. The GTX TITAN X was only tested in Geekbench workloads, while the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER includes PassMark tests that cover older DirectX versions and 2D workloads. Those legacy tests drag down its average, but they do not reflect real-world modern performance.

For gaming at high resolutions, content creation, ray tracing, or any compute-heavy task, the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER is the clear choice. The GTX TITAN X remains a capable card for its era, and its Metal and Vulkan scores show it can still handle many tasks, but it cannot match the newer card's raw throughput or feature set. If the choice is between these two, the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER wins on every meaningful modern benchmark. The GTX TITAN X is only worth considering for legacy systems or specific workloads where its older API support or smaller physical footprint (dual-slot, 267 mm length) is a requirement.