We know very little about Nvidia’s Titan X – just that when Nvidia announced at it GDC last week, that it would be their most powerful (and most expensive!) card to date. We have no idea what sort of specification Nvidia’s latest prohibitively expensive beast possesses – though we do know that it’ll outperform every other single card solution on the planet, and that we’ll finally be getting a little more of the nitty-gritty at Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference on March 17th. But just how powerful is the card?
With little more than speculation and informed guesswork to go on, quite. Nvidia’s CEO Jen-Hsun Huang revealed the beastly new card at Epic’s Unreal Engine 4 keynote at GDC and revealed just two facts about the card: Its 12GB of memory (presumably, without any odd memory shenanigans), and a ludicrous eight billion transistor count.
We also learned that the card’s heart, the chop that powers it is codenamed GM200, which means it’s based on the same core technology as the GTX 980. The transistor count through, if we’re to use it as a comparative number for anything, means that we could potentially see around a 50% increase in performance over Nvidia’s current king of the Maxwell crop. That’s obviously rather dependent on the new card’s memory bandwidth, which we’d expect to at the very least match that of the last TITAN-branded card.
Here’s a look at the specs for NVidia’s Maxwell cards, compared to the Kepler-based Titan Black
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan X | NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan Black | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 | |
| GPU Architecture | Maxwell | Kepler | Maxwell | Maxwell | Maxwell |
| GPU Name | GM200 | GK110 | GM204 | GM204 | GM206 |
| Die Size | ~600mm2 | 561mm2 | 398mm2 | 398mm2 | 228mm2 |
| Process | 28nm | 28nm | 28nm | 28nm | 28nm |
| CUDA Cores | 3072? | 2880 | 2048 | 1664 | 1024 |
| Texture Units | TBA | 240 | 128 | 104 | 64 |
| Raster Devices | TBA | 48 | 64 | 56 | 32 |
| Clock Speed | TBA | 889 MHz | 1126 MHz | 1051 MHz | 1127 MHz |
| Boost Clock | TBA | 980 MHz | 1216 MHz | 1178 MHz | 1178 MHz |
| VRAM | 12 GB GDDR5 | 6 GB GDDR5 | 4 GB GDDR5 | 4 GB GDDR5 | 2 GB GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 384-bit | 384-bit | 256-bit | 256-bit | 128-bit |
| Memory Clock | 7.0 GHz? | 7.0 GHz | 7.0 GHz | 7.0 GHz | 7.0 GHz |
| Memory Bandwidth | 336.0 GB/s | 336.0 GB/s | 224.0 GB/s | 224.0 GB/s | 112.0 GB/s |
| TDP | 225-250W | 250W | 165W | 145W | 120W |
| Power Connectors | 8+6 Pin | 8+6 Pin | Two 6-Pin | Two 6-Pin | One 6-Pin |
| Price | $999-$1349 US? | $999 US | $549 US | $329 US | $199 US |
Numbers like that can – and usually are – rather boring, so perhaps a more interesting demonstration of what we might expect from the Titan X is this demonstration of Unreal Engine 4 – which was rendered in real-time on a single Titan X at GDC.
Last Updated: March 9, 2015
Hammersteyn
March 9, 2015 at 17:16
12GB?
http://www.fantasticsupermarket.com/images/725/wooden-salt-bucket-3_mini.jpg
Chris
March 9, 2015 at 18:53
It’s confirmed to have 12GB Ram and eight billion transistor count. So no salt on on that.
Charl van der Merwe
March 10, 2015 at 15:46
Joke, old, moving on.
Hammersteyn
March 10, 2015 at 16:07
Nope
Judge_Chip
March 9, 2015 at 17:51
WOW, very impressive demo, this GM200 GPU beast has my attention, I was planing a new build around the GTX980 and then adding another when DX12 comes out but the Titan X is certainly worth the wait and two of these beasts in SLI would be a sure way to future proof your GPU investment.
Pariah
March 9, 2015 at 18:03
If that’s the future of gaming graphics, I’m in.
rollingmol
March 9, 2015 at 18:16
This + VR = potential investment option. BURN-YOUR-FACEOOF insurance … there a shyteinyur ™ pants bonus if don’t claim in 5 years.
Joe Black
March 9, 2015 at 18:52
Lovely film. Would be great if they can get the movement of player controlled characters to be as realistic in games. That’s the major improvement that I would like to see.
No more odd sliding. Weird occlusion.
Rendering this vid was more or less a workstation graphics card task. The real-time bit is of course impressive.
Darren Peach
March 9, 2015 at 18:58
That is truly astonishing.
Darren Peach
March 9, 2015 at 19:00
What if there was a Bear in that cave ?
dawith
March 9, 2015 at 20:36
Useless card
cant run it full power in good old South Africa you will trip a eskom plant
trolololo
I_am_Duffman!
March 10, 2015 at 09:35
Just get a wankband.
http://www.lazygamer.net/general-news/counteract-load-shedding-through-masturbation-with-the-wank-band/
Lord Chaos
March 10, 2015 at 06:13
Pitty it’s still using DDR5…
Wyzak
March 10, 2015 at 09:26
Way too many question marks and TBAs. If you don’t have the info, don’t write the article.