Looks like a good news for gamers as NVidia officially launched the GTX Titan X, reportedly the most powerful single-GPU solution available today.
Back in Feb. 2013, when NVidia brought in the Titan brand, they broke their GPU naming convention in order to make more of an impact.
After serving up a few details regarding the card at the GDC 2015, NVidia, an ace manufacturer of graphics processing units (GPUs) and system-on-a-chip units (SOCs) for mobile computing market has officially launched its newest offering in the Titan series, Titan X.
Kotaku noted while users eagerly awaited for next-gen GeForce 700 card, the tech giant launched the GeForce GTX Titan, making use of 7.08 billion transistors for a massive price of US$ 1,000. Despite the fact that the Radeon R9 290X brought similar performance for half the price six months later, Nvidia refused to change Titan's MSRP.
With its monstrous 12GB GDDR5 VRAM, Titan X is now the biggest single GPU graphics card solution on the market, according to GameDebate.
That said, will the GTX Titan X meet the demands of the biggest gaming resolution in the market i.e. Ultra High Definition; 4X, 3840x2160, or 8,294,400 pixels, is yet to be seen.
According to AnandTech, the GTX Titan X gives NVidia's flagship video card line the Maxwell treatment, boasting all the new features as well as sizeable performance gains that users saw from the Maxwell last year with the GTX 980. To make sure this is not a reprise of the original Titan, there are some key differences that make the new Titan not the same kind of prosumer card the original was. However, as far as a performance standpoint is concerned, NVidia intends to make the GTX Titan X as impressive as the original.
In order to achieve this, NVidia has assembled a new Maxwell GPU, GM200 (Big Maxwell). From a high-level standpoint, GM200 is the GM204 taken to its logical extreme. It's more power hungry than GM204, bigger and faster. AnandTech noted, at 8 billion transistors occupying 601mm2, it's NVidia's largest GPU ever. In fact for the first time in quite some time, practically every last millimeter is dedicated to graphics performance, which coupled with Maxwell's performance efficiency makes it a formidable foe.
GTX Titan X | |
| CUDA Cores | 3072 |
| Texture Units | 192 |
| ROPs | 96 |
| Core Clock | 1000MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1075MHz |
| Memory Clock | 7GHz GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus Width | 384-bit |
| VRAM | 12GB |
| FP64 | 1/32 FP32 |
| TDP | 250W |
| GPU | GM200 |
| Architecture | Maxwell 2 |
| Transistor Count | 8 Billion |
| Mf Process | TSMC 28nm |
| Launch Date | 17th March '15 |
| Launch Price | $999 |
Users can grab the GTX Titan X directly from NVidia and within a few weeks, they can get it through online retail partners like Newegg and Amazon. The card is priced at $999.
