Nvidia's GTX 1080 showed that it wasn't playing games with the new generation of Pascal cards, with huge, Maxwell Titan beating performance and a power draw that was equally impressive. However it didn't stop there, now there's a new king of the jungle.
Nvidia's GTX Titan X with a Pascal core is one of the most powerful single GPU cards it's ever produced. It offers 3,584 CUDA cores, paired up with 12GB of GDDR5X memory. This lets it output as much as 11 teraflops of computing performance, more than two teraflops more than the GTX 1080 and almost twice that of the GTX 1070.
Power draw isn't crazy though, still sitting at 250w.
To get hold of one of these you will need to put down $1,200, which may seem like a lot, but you can essentially think of the Titan X as a cheap workstation card. Although expensive in its own right, compared to the Quadro cards Nvidia has shown off in recent weeks, it's a bargain. Those cards can cost as much as $4,000, while AMD's newly announced Radeon Pro Duo SSG with 1TB of on board SSD storage, costs as much as $10,000.
With that in mind, gaming benchmarks aren't particularly useful since the target market for such a card is unbelievably small. We will probably see a more powerful GTX 1080Ti show up in the coming months anyway, though that card will still be an expensive one.
Do you know anyone who might consider fitting a Titan X in their PC?
