Nvidia isn’t going to let the year end off without at least one more product on shelves, but the new Titan RTX is far from a consumer card. Much like the Titan V from last year, the range has shipped from slightly more powerful, far more expensive consumer-facing cards into more attainable compute chips that are far more useful in research and industry than in your latest PC gaming rig. That doesn’t mean it won’t work there, but you’ll find it tough to justify the $2500 cost for gaming alone.
The Titan RTX is unbelievably powerful though, irrespective of its price. It’s a version of the same TU102 GPU found in the GTX 2080 Ti, albeit the fully featured board and not a slightly pared down one. That puts it more in-line with the Quadro RTX 6000 compute card, which costs a massive $6300. Considering this new Titan RTX will feature the same 24GB of GDDR6 memory and the same number of RT, Tensor and CUDA cores, it’s certainly a far more approachable offering for those needing the extra compute power for deep learning, intensive ray-tracing animation and rendering and more.
The Titan RTX is more powerful than the GTX 2080 Ti as you might expect, with Nvidia projecting around 15% more performance in raw gaming performance. But given that it’s over double the price, it’s clear that this isn’t the market Nvidia is aiming for with this release. Instead, interested parties will find use in the card’s 72 Turing RT and 4,608 CUDA cores, both of which will be valuable in FP32, FP16, INT8 and INT4 calculations that can rapidly decrease the training times of neural networks.
The Titan RTX is launching later this month, with Nvidia expecting it on shelves within the USA before the year rounds out. You’ll be able to find it elsewhere afterwards, although you better have a good reason for throwing down this type of money if you aren’t doing cutting-edge research of some kind.
Last Updated: December 4, 2018
Viper_ZA
December 4, 2018 at 13:15
Whatever you do, do not buy this GARBAGE for gaming purposes please. Unless, you like wasting your moola xD
geel slang
December 5, 2018 at 11:49
Why is it garbage? Its expensive but its the fastest gaming card on the market.
Viper_ZA
December 5, 2018 at 11:55
If you are a gamer, you shouldn’t consider this GPU. Looking at the specs, you are better off using your money elsewhere. It’s serious overkill and will be redundant come next year, such is the way of electronics 😉 If you want high end, get a 1080ti and wait for the next gen cards to pop up AND go have yourself a wonderful holiday 😀
geel slang
December 6, 2018 at 14:43
I get that, it is expensive, but it is not garbage. Anything but, it is in fact the best available. Thats my point.
Viper_ZA
December 6, 2018 at 15:22
Perhaps, but at double the price of RTX 2080 Ti for example, it will be money wasted and that is just my opinion. The jump in performance from the previous gen cards does not warrant such a spend…
HvR
December 5, 2018 at 12:21
Wouldn’t call it garbage, but agree buying this card for gaming purposes is like buying a bulldozer for your daily commute to work