NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun announces the new NVIDIA Pascal Titan X (Photo : Twitter / NVIDIA)
NVIDIA has shocked the world with their surprise announcement of the new NVIDIA TITAN X powered by the Pascal GPU architecture with a not so surprising $1200 price tag.
Gamers should not be confused as the recently revealed Titan X is the new one which has the new GP102 GPU from NVIDIA and not the old Titan X from last year. NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang revealed the card during an artificial intelligence meetup in San Francisco where he casually just raised his hand to present the new beastly graphics card.
As expected, the new NVIDIA Titan X blows the previous generation cards out of the ocean. It even beats the GTX 1080 with over a thousand more CUDA cores.
The NVIDIA Titan X has a staggering 3584 CUDA cores and 12GB of the new GDDR5X memory, PC World has learned. Unfortunately, the memory bandwidth speed is the same as the GTX 1080 at 10Gbps although it can be suspected that it would have more overclocking headroom compared to the former.
NVIDIA even claims that the Titan X is the largest GPU that has been built in the history with its 12 billion transistors. What's even more interesting is that it delivers more performance than the GTX 1080 even with the lower clock of 1531MHz thanks to the huge increase in CUDA cores.
Our CEO joined a meetup of #deeplearning experts to unveil the new #TITANX, our top-end GPU. https://t.co/8bUUZHw9Z5 pic.twitter.com/FaM5p9IpUJ
— NVIDIA (@nvidia) July 22, 2016
Of course there is still a possibility that the Titan X can still go over the GTX 1080's boost clock and that would even result to more graphics power. It also beats the former Maxwell Titan X with its 1075MHz clock.
Another interesting figure to take note of is that the NVIDIA Pascal Titan X can dish out 11 TFLOPs of compute performance compared to the GTX 1080's 9 TFLOPs, WCCFTech reported. It also has a 384-bit bus for its memory and will be powered through an 8+6 Pin Power.
The new NVIDIA Titan X is presumably for those who want the smoothest 4K gaming experience possible. While the GTX 1080 can hold up with some titles in 4K, it does not necessarily allow players to experience a stable 60 frames per second.
NVIDIA's Titan X would also need a larger PSU in a rig as its TDP is rated at 250W what with all that huge performance boost over the old Titan X and the GTX 1080. The launch price for the new card is $1200 and it is expected to be rolled out on August 2.
