More than a year after the original Titan release, Nvidia has officially unveiled its latest flagship graphics card, the GeForce GTX Titan X. Nvidia touts the peripheral as the world's first consumer-grade single GPU graphics card.
Officially available on March 18, the new Titan X was first shown at this year's Game Developer Conference. At the GDC, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang unveiled the first production model of the overwhelmingly fast and powerful graphics card for attendees to gawk at. Partnering with Epic's CEO and founder Tim Sweeney, Huang wowed that crowd with the Titan X's graphics solution to the much-hyped Unreal Engine 4 and virtual reality gaming.
What stands out in the new GeForce GTX Titan X's specs is its monstrous 12 GB GDDR5 RAM, clocking at a whopping 7 GHz.
With the massive 12 GB RAM, gamers can have a worry-free 4K experience, not minding that the highest video game settings might result in shortage of graphics memory. This means that users, especially hardcore players, can experience much more vivid visuals and a more life-like environment while exploring games such as the "Elder Scrolls" series, "The Witcher" games, and other titles that boast an almost-believable VR experience. And with its massive 12 GB of GDDR5 memory, gamers can play the latest DX12 games on the Titan X at 4K resolutions without worrying about running short on graphics memory.
Based on Nvidia's new Big Maxwell architecture, the new Titan X is a big upgrade over players' much preferred GTX 980. It has 8 billion transistors in a 601 mm<sup>2 field, so it seems bulky, but the large GPU also boasts a higher TDP at 250W. How the Titan is laid out spells notable increased performance, including more CUDA cores and higher memory bandwidth.
The new Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan X costs $999 in the U.S. and £879 in the United Kingdom.
