Manufacturer: Nvidia Price: $ 1000 US Author: Steven Walton Date: 03/18/2015

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Today Nvidia is releasing their latest and most powerful gaming GPU yet, called the GeForce GTX Titan X this monster is a considerable upgrade over their previous flagship part the GTX 980. Armed with a whopping 3072 CUDA cores and 12GB of GDDR5 memory the GTX Titan X is ready to take on 4K gaming... Almost 3 years ago to this day we found ourselves getting a first look at Nvidia’s Kepler architecture with the GeForce GTX 680. Codenamed ‘GK104’ the GPU was constructed using 3.54 billion transistors, featured a memory bandwidth of 192.2GB/s and cost a cool $500. The GTX 680 was the end of the line for the GeForce 600 series, at least as far as single-GPU varieties were concerned. However the GTX 680 was far from the end of the line for the Kepler architecture and this was made apparent in February of 2013 when Nvidia did the unexpected. While we were all eagerly awaiting the arrival of the GeForce 700 series, Nvidia dropped what they called the GeForce GTX Titan, a Kepler based GPU featuring a mind-blowing 7.08 billion transistors for an unbelievable price of $1000. The GTX Titan was the king of the hill and even though 6 months later the Radeon R9 290X ended up offering similar performance for half the price, Nvidia didn’t change their MSRP. Instead ending the Titan was Nvidia’s own GeForce GTX 780 Ti, with 7% more CUDA cores the GTX 780 Ti was not only faster but also cheaper at $700. Still for 6 months the GTX Titan ruled as the ultimate GPU and all gamers dreamt of owning one. As good as the GTX Titan was at spitting out frames in the latest and greatest gaming titles, this was never the sole purpose of this GPU. Instead the GTX Titan featured 64 double-precision cores providing 1.3 Teraflops of double-precision performance and previously this could only be found in Tesla-equipped workstations and supercomputers. This made the GTX Titan an ideal solution for students, researchers and engineers as it delivered supercomputing performance to consumers. A year on from the initial GTX Titan release Nvidia followed up with a full 2880 core version known as the Titan Black which boosted double-precision performance to 1.7 Teraflops. Then a month later the GTX Titan Z landed which effectively placed two Titan Black’s on a single PCB for 2.7 Teraflops of compute power. However the GTX Titan Z made little sense as Nvidia saw fit to slap on a $3000 asking price, three times that of the single GPU version. Since then the GeForce 900 series has arrived and unlike previous high-end Nvidia GPU’s this series uses the Maxwell architecture. To date the GTX 980 leads the charge with a modest 2048 cores and a $550 asking price. The GTX 980 is the undisputed single GPU king, offering an unbeatable performance vs. power ratio. Given that the GTX 980 does only feature 2048 cores using 5.2 billion transistors in a rather small 398mm2 die area making it 29% smaller with 26% fewer transistors than the flagship Kepler parts, we knew there would be more to come from Maxwell. Now 6 months after the release of the GTX 980 we have the GTX Titan X and it is bigger and more complex than anything we have seen previously. The headlines include 3072 CUDA cores, 12288GB of GDDR5 memory operating at 7Gbps and a grand total of 8 billion transistors. However unlike previous Titan GPU’s the new Titan X isn’t intended to be used by students, researchers or engineers. Rather it is designed exclusively for high-end gaming and as such offers similar compute performance to that of the GTX 980. At its peak the GTX Titan X will deliver 6600 GFLOPS single precision and 206 GFLOPS double precision processing power. Announced at GDC a fortnight ago, Nvidia teased gamers with some of the headlines but didn’t reveal any pricing or performance info. Today we finally get to show you how the GTX Titan X performs. However due to the unique way that Nvidia launch products these days, as I write this we have no idea about the pricing and won’t know till you know, when the card is officially unveiled. Without getting bogged down in how stupid that is, let’s move on to check out the GTX Titan X in greater detail.

Table of Contents >>> Introduction <<< GTX Titan X in Detail Testing Methodology Benchmarks: Crysis 3, BioShock Benchmarks: Metro Redux, Tomb Raider Benchmarks: Sleeping Dogs, Battlefield 4 Benchmarks: Thief, Watch Dogs Benchmarks: Dying Light, Hitman: Absolution Benchmarks: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Far Cry 4 Power Consumption & Temperatures Overclocking Performance Conclusion Next Page ->

Rob	Posted on: 03/17/2015 07:19 PM This thing is well overpriced!

KingTitan

Posted on: 03/23/2015 08:26 PM Yeah with no real DP processing it's not with $1K.

shersha

Posted on: 03/24/2015 01:55 AM I will wait for the GTX 980 Ti to deliver the same performance for much less.

Ron

Posted on: 04/05/2015 09:04 PM Really nice card, however for someone who wanted a balance between a Great Graphics card an a Great Card for Adobe Programs there is no point to this card for me at the price. I had hoped for more of a all purpose HIGH END combo card which I know is possible almost like the original TIYAN. Oh well. I think they have lost some of the market for this card.