‘Titan X’ Upgrade; ‘Nvidia’s’ Most Powerful GPU Yet

“Nvidia” recently rocked the gaming world when it unveiled the “GeForce GTX 1080,” which was briefly the most powerful graphics card in the world. However, the Taiwanese company outdid itself when it announced the new iteration of its “Titan X,” which just blew the aforementioned “GTX 1080’ out of the water. What amused people most about the reveal, is how casually Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang did it.

As PC World reported, Huang let the world know about the new “Titan X” by raising his hand following “a presentation by Baidu chief scientist Andrew Ng during an artificial intelligence meetup in San Francisco.” This was expected of Huang as his style has always been to go with the unexpected.

Supposedly, the new “Titan X” is even more powerful than the “1080,” at least on paper. Powered by the newest “16nm Pascal GPU” variant that “Nvidia” just developed, it has 12GB of GDDR5X of memory, was clocked at speeds of clocked at 10Gbps, and has 3584 CUDA cores. In comparison, the "1080" only has 2560 CUDA cores and only has 8GB of GDDR5X memory.

As Game Rant noted, the “Titan X” has been considered “Nvidia’s” top-line GPU. Anyone who wanted fast graphical performance reached for the big T if they had the budget for. This would likely explain why the company developed an even beefier variant after releasing the “1080,” because more people associate the “Titan X” as its best offering.

With 12 billion transistors, it’s difficult to argue that the new “Titan X” easily outclasses any other GPU in the market. This allows “Nvidia” to maintain its lead as the foremost provider of performance graphics processors in the world, which gamers are only too happy to be patrons of.

As expected, however, the GPU is not going to be cheap. Priced at $1,200, according to Game Planet, the new “Titan X” is even more expensive than the original when it was launched.