Nvidia announces the new Titan X, a ridiculously powerful $1,200 graphics card

Nvidia revealed its Pascal architecture in early May. The first two cards, the GTX 1080 and the GTX 1070, set the bar high for single GPU performance. For the first time ever, a single GPU could deliver 9 TFLOPS of floating point performance. We thought the GTX 1080 would likely remain the king of GPUs for the remainder of the year, but apparently, Nvidia was just getting started.

On July 21, Nvidia's Founder and CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang attended an artificial intelligence meet-up at Stanford University, where he revealed the new world's fastest GPU—and it has a familiar name. The old Titan X is dead, long live the Titan X.

Nvidia said the new Titan X came to be as the result of a bet between Brian Kelleher, Nvidia's top hardware engineer, and Huang. According to the story, Huang didn't believe that Kelleher could squeeze 10 TFLOPS out of a single GPU. Kelleher, however, managed to squeeze out 11 TFLOPS. The new Titan X is a beast of GPU with 3584 CUDA cores (over 500 more than the previous Titan X) operating at 1530MHz. According to Nvidia, the Pascal Titan X is the biggest GPU ever built, and it is 60 percent faster than the previous-gen Titan X.

NVIDIA GPU Specification Comparison
	NVIDIA Titan X	GTX 1080	GTX Titan X	GTX Titan
CUDA Cores	3584	2560	3072	2688
Texture Units	224?	160	192	224
ROPs	96?	64	96	48
Core Clock	1417MHz	1607MHz	1000MHz	837MHz
Boost Clock	1531MHz	1733MHz	1075MHz	876MHz
TFLOPs (FMA)	11 TFLOPs	9 TFLOPs	6.6 TFLOPs	4.7 TFLOPs
Memory Clock	10Gbps GDDR5X	10Gbps GDDR5X	7Gbps GDDR5	6Gbps GDDR5
Memory Bus Width	384-bit	256-bit	384-bit	384-bit
VRAM	12GB	8GB	12GB	6GB
FP64	1/32?	1/32	1/32	1/3
TDP	250W	180W	250W	250W
GPU	GP102	GP104	GM200	GK110
Transistor Count	12B	7.2B	8B	7.1B
Manufacturing Process	TSMC 16nm	TSMC 16nm	TSMC 28nm	TSMC 28nm
Launch Date	08/02/2016	05/27/2016	03/17/2015	02/21/2013
Launch Price	$1200	MSRP: $599 Founders $699	$999	$999

The former Titan X included an unprecedented 12GB frame buffer. Nvidia didn't increase the capacity for the Pascal Titan X, but the new card includes 12GB of Micron's GDDR5X memory. You may have expected HBM2 for a Titan level card, but it appears we'll be waiting for the next generation GeForce series for that.

The Pascal-based Titan X will be available to the public in less than two weeks, but you had better have deep pockets for this one. Nvidia will sell the Titan X directly from nvidia.com for the $1,200 each. Sales will start on August 2 in North America and Europe. The Asian market will have to wait a little longer.

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