A Closer Look

NVIDIA Titan X's thermal solution is nearly identical to that of the GTX 1080. It cools all components: GPU, memory chips, and voltage regulation circuitry. For the GPU, a vapo-chamber baseplate is used to soak up the heat quickly.


As mentioned before, NVIDIA has updated their backplate design to be thinner than ever, providing more airflow to the second card in an SLI configuration. Should you want to improve airflow even more, the backplate is now made up of two separately removable pieces, and you will not have to remove the main cooler. The pictures above show the removal of each of these pieces. The backplate on top of the GPU has a thermal pad that covers the voltage controller.


The screws are the same special "NVIDIA" screws that can only be reliably removed with the proper tools.


NVIDIA is using a 6+8 power input configuration. With bus power, this setup is good for 300 W of power draw.


The uPI up 9511P is the same voltage controller as on the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070.


The GDDR5X memory chips are made by Micron and are marked with "Z9TXT," which decodes to MT58K256M32JA-100. They are specified to run at 1250 MHz (10,000 MHz GDDR5X effective).


NVIDIA's GP102 graphics processor is the the company's 2nd largest chip using the Pascal architecture. It is produced on a 16 nm process at TSMC, Taiwan, with a transistor count of 12 billion and a die size of 471 mm².