Tuesday, August 2nd 2016
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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
My point was that it's all about the prestige, not really about the day-to-day performance...just like the guy who buys a BMW M5 to drive 20 minutes to and from work.
Just as an aside, I actually own a BMW M5 - albeit an elderly E34 version....and yes I do commute to and from work in it. I also travel a country that has a very high percentage of challenging single/double lane gravelled roads, and a lot of bad roads (and bad road conditions) in general. Not everyone buys with the same requirements in mind.
Tinkering with Water Cooling, building your own cabinet or generally messing around with hardware is part of the hobby....buying the most expensive GPU, regardless of your need, is not (it's just bling)
As for your M5, wouldn't you be better served with something 4x4 considering all the bad roads? ;-)