Tuesday, August 2nd 2016
NVIDIA TITAN X Pascal Available from Today
NVIDIA's flagship graphics card targeted at gamers and PC enthusiasts, the TITAN X Pascal, will be available from today, exclusively through the GeForce website, at this page. NVIDIA will be directly marketing the card. The card is priced at US $1,199 (excl taxes). Based on the 16 nm "GP102," derived from the "Pascal" architecture, the TITAN X Pascal features 3,584 CUDA cores, 224 TMUs, 96 ROPs, and a 384-bit wide GDDR5X memory, holding 12 GB of memory. The chip is clocked at 1417 MHz core, with 1531 MHz GPU Boost, and 10 Gbps memory, working out to 480 GB/s memory bandwidth. Like the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070, the TITAN X Pascal appears to be limited to 2-way SLI.More pictures follow.
128 Comments on NVIDIA TITAN X Pascal Available from Today
GP102 is a GP100 with all the irrelevant features for rendering removed. Using GP100 instead would just make it extremely scarce, more expensive and so hot it had to be clocked lower. And GTX 1080 was intended to be based on GP104 all along.
A few months later there will be a 1080 Ti with just as good a performance at a much lower price. Nothing is lost to consumers.
Now if they didn't release a 1080 Ti, then yes, everyone can start kicking NVidia left and right.
I don't know why some people cannot get such an obvious thing.
P.S. I will never buy a titan, even if I had the money. I have no problem with waiting.
They'll be rocking a top-end E-chip, with a top-end motherboard and the most expensive RAM you can buy...no overclocking, and the rig will be mainly used for browsing porn sites and playing CS:GO.
At least that's my experience of the persons who buys Titan series, the second they hit the market.
On a more serious note, the first benchmarks for the card that began circulating last week had little to do with gaming....although since this is far from sexy for a mainstream tech forum focused almost wholly on gaming numbers and f.p.s., here's PC World's Titan X SLI review.
It's over priced by a lot regardless if some one can afford it or not.
But there might be a Pascal refresh before Volta...
There is nothing stopping me from wedging a pair of these into every PC in my house. No risk of not being able to pay my bills and carry on living. Me choosing not to, in most part thanks to my own evaluation on the value and the fact it would depreciate at an above average rate, doesn't actually translate to "can't afford it".
Not gonna lie, I am tempted (just the 1 tho!). Reason being, I am concerned there won't be a Ti this round. The gap between the Titan and the 1080 isn't that big and one of the things Titans usually have going for them is ample VRAM, but there isn't a value between the Titan and the 1080. Not to mention, what would the Ti be countering? ^^
If this was the HBM card most thought it would be this time last year, I'd have ordered it already.
I have the 1080 card, and except the crappy un-optimised Assassins Creed: Syndicate, which gives ~45 FPS (not that would matter, since G-Spot is doing wonders), all of the other games are reaching 100 easily .
www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/Radeon_Pro_Duo_Preview/4.html
Unfortunately it's just a standard flagship card with slightly more than normal VRAM.
www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/NVIDIA-Titan-X-Pascal-12GB-Graphics-Card-Review
And on the 'affordability' argument...can't even believe you've had that discussion over there. Or that it is even a discussion :P *eernnn* wrong the stock cooler is still capping out on the 83C temperature limits. And the fan profile won't change that much either, maybe with turbo jet fanspeed you will cap out at 81 C and see a the clocks bin 13-26mhz higher. Wooptiedoo!
EDIT: I see some people think that this will be 'the full gaming chip'... really? GP106 > 104 > 102 > 100. It's not, it lacks shaders, and the past wasn't any different, only Maxwell was different from the 'norm' where a TI was a cut down from Titan X. Kepler's 780 > 780ti says the opposite, and since the new Titan X is a cut down GP100, this will be a Kepler repeat, not a Maxwell repeat.
Bottom line if you shell out 1200 for this... you've lost the plot and I can't take you seriously :)
But I agree Nvidia's stock cooler is less than optimal for such a power hungry card: With stock lowish noise profile, awful throttling. And with lower temp profile, awful noise and still might be throttling.