The NVIDIA GTX 1080, not the GTX 1080 Ti, is running inside a gaming rig. (Photo : YouTube/HardwareCanucks)
NVIDIA is making headlines left and right as their GTX 1080 reportedly can be used to crack passwords due to its power while the Pascal-based Titan X continues to sell out on the GeForce website.
PC gamers who want the best immediately jumped to buy the NVIDIA GTX 1080 when it was launched several months ago. The GTX 1070 soon followed for those who are looking to upgrade their old video cards and the GTX 1060 was launched to compete with the AMD Radeon RX 480 and possibly the Radeon RX 470.
The real shocker was the new Titan X powered by NVIDIA's new Pascal GPU which is rated to be 30 percent better than the GTX 1080 but about 70 percent more expensive. Some are already contented with the GTX 1080 considering that it handles 1440p gaming without breaking a sweat.
Security company Elcomsoft even tested the GTX 1080 for cracking passwords and found that it was almost 50 percent faster than the GTX 980 in the process, Digital Trends has learned. The Pascal card can make 7100 attempts per second while the Maxwell card can only do 3800 on cracking a Microsoft Word document with password protection.
Even the average Intel CPU can only dish out 30 attempts per second but that is because a GPU and a processor process data differently. It is also the reason why GPUs can mine Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency types better than a processor.
Meanwhile, NVIDIA is still selling their new $1200 Pascal Titan X like hotcakes despite its expensive price tag. It was expected that only a select few would buy the card because the price to performance ratio is not optimal.
NVIDIA's Pascal Titan X sells out often on GeForce.com, Motley Fool reported. A quick look at the NVIDIA Titan X Tracker from Nowinstock.net also shows that the video card is out of stock in 12 slots for different vendors and sites.
If the demand still rises higher than the supply, some scalpers could try to gouge the prices. GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 cards suffered the same fate when they were initially released as PC gamers rushed to buy one off of the online shops.
NVIDIA's Pascal Titan X continues to sell more and supplies are looking to be thinly spread. The GTX 1080 still remains to be the adequately priced overpowered videocard for today's AAA game titles.
