NVIDIA recently announced its latest product, the Titan X, loaded with its Pascal architecture. The new GPU contains a 12GB GDDR5X RAM and 3854 CUDA cores with 11 TeraFLOPS. The company will start shipping the Titan X on Aug. 2.
The Titan X is powered by a new chip, the GP102, which offers a base clock of 1,417 MHz and a boost clock of 1,531 MHz. It has 10 Gbps memory speed, 384-bit memory interface width and offers a bandwidth of 480 GBps.
It supports simultatneous mulit-projection, is VR-, Microsoft DX12- and Vulkan API-ready and certified to run from Windows 7 to Windows 10, Linux and FreeBSDx86. It is also capable of producing a maximum resolution of 7680 x 4320 at 60 Hz. Power connectivity is via one 8-pin and one 6-pin PCIe connectors, and has connectivity to several types of display monitors via DisplayPort 1.4, HDMI 2.0b and dual-link DVI. This could be the video card that will deliver the 4K 60FPS resolution which gamers have been waiting for a time now.
The company has not revealed other details such as Streaming Multiprocessors (SMs) and texture units, but the community is expecting that they will be made available soonsoon. These are the pieces of information needed to determine how much difference it has from the GTX 1080, which uses the GP 104 chip, Ars Technica reported.
The Titan X is expected to be slower compared to the premium GTX 1080, which clocks at 1607MHz / 1733MHz, but offsets it with more CUDA cores (2560 for the 1080), with a 40 percent difference. ExtremeTech said that it is almost similar to AMD's Fury X in performance but it is paired with a GPU that gives it more punch.
NVIDIA has continuously launched several GPUs in the past two months. It started with the GTX 1080, the GTX 1070, then the GTX 1060 and now, the Titan X. Many have observed that this is an aggressive release schedule, especially when there is no competition.
The new NVIDIA Titan X will start shipping by Aug. 2 for US$1,200 direclty from nvidia.com in North Amercia and Europe. Asia is said to get it soon from other system builders.
