Sheesh, Nvidia sure isn’t wasting any time. In May the company launched their Pascal range with their high-end enthusiast cards, the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070. Just this week they launch the arguably more important mid-range GTX 1060. Now, in just over a week’s time, they’ll be launching a fourth, absurdly powerful Pascal card. The Titan X is back, and it’s just as ludicrously fast (and expensive) as you’d expect.
The Titan range walks between gaming and high-performance computing, and has never been a value proposition for those just looking to play games at the highest possible frame rates. Sure you’ll achieve that, but it’s not the market the Titan X typically aims at. And that makes sense, given that this new Pascal Titan X will launch on August 2nd for no less than $1200 – nearly double the price of the flagship GTX 1080.
What you get for that admission fee is an irresponsible amount of computing power. Nvidia is claiming that the Pascal-based Titan X is 60% faster than the previous Titan X, built on a new GP102 chip and featuring a staggering 3,584 CUDA cores. It has lower clock speeds than other Pascal cards, with 1.41 GHz and 1.53 GHz on the core and boost clocks respectively, but a larger chunk of memory with 12GB of GDDR5X with a speed of 480GB/s (still no HBM 2 here).
What sets it apart from the more gaming-focused Pascal cards however is the compute numbers the Titan X is able to achieve. The Titan X is the only consumer card even coming close to touching 11 TFLOPs of single precision, which also featuring 44 TOPs INT8 calculations. That enticing for developers diving into Deep Learning, and expands the uses for the Titan X greatly.
But if you’ve got deep, deep pockets and simply must have possible the only card on the market able of achieving 4K/60FS framerates, then look no further. Or wait a bit – because at this rate a GTX 1080Ti might not be as far off as you think.
Last Updated: July 22, 2016
Ottokie
July 22, 2016 at 08:32
The card of the “1%” 😛
Raptor Rants
July 22, 2016 at 08:32
more like the 0.01%
0_0
Hammersteyn_hates_Raid0
July 22, 2016 at 08:39
Funny, you wouldn’t say that when the Master Race comments on comment sections
Raptor Rants
July 22, 2016 at 08:34
I just want to plug this in to my machine once. Just to see what would happen.
Pariah
July 22, 2016 at 08:37
http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view3/3231433/exploding-computer-o.gif
Raptor Rants
July 22, 2016 at 08:44
Seems legit
Marco
July 22, 2016 at 08:55
What I don’t get is why release this so soon when supply of 1080’s and 1070’s are so scarce.
Greylingad[He Charges!]
July 22, 2016 at 08:58
That’s about the same price as a Titan’s eggs….
Admiral Chief - Check
July 22, 2016 at 09:03
Speaking of Titan, uninstalled stupid Evolve Stage 2 this week
ElimiNathan
July 22, 2016 at 12:48
I played 1 game and it felt like it did the first time I played when it was released. Also uninstalled
Admiral Chief - Check
July 22, 2016 at 14:59
SO meh!
Played 2 games, promptly uninstalled (especially after checking how much grind is needed to unlock things)
Raptor Rants
July 22, 2016 at 09:03
But can it play Arkham City?
Skoobaz
July 22, 2016 at 14:14
Oh, is it not rad to say crysis anymore?
Raptor Rants
July 22, 2016 at 16:14
nah. It’s best to use a game that completely doesn’t work on any PC.
Kromas GG
July 22, 2016 at 09:14
What are the chances that both AMD and Nvidia can stop adding an X to the end of their cards. I mean at least call it the Titan Z or better yet Titan Y:Cause I have too much Money Edition.
ElimiNathan
July 22, 2016 at 12:55
There is already a Titan Z its a dual GPU card
Skoobaz
July 22, 2016 at 14:15
The Y: lol.
Skoobaz
July 22, 2016 at 14:13
I’ll take two!
chimera_85
July 22, 2016 at 15:16
Hahahahahahahaha