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Nvidia has been launching GPUs at a rapid-fire pace this summer. The GTX 1080 and 1070 debuted in late May and early June, the 1060 dropped earlier this week, and now the full-fledged Titan X is shipping by August 2. The new GPU was announced by Jen-Hsun Huang last night and sets a speed record for fast turnarounds between the launch of a new architecture and the debut of its top-end GPU. The first GTX Titan launched nearly a year after the first Kepler GPU, while the Titan X launched roughly six months after Maxwell.

Branding on the new GPU is a bit confusing. Previous Titan-class GPUs have used a secondary label, like Titan Black or Titan X. In this case, Nvidia is removing the “GeForce” branding on the GPU and calling it the Nvidia Titan X. This could prove confusing for customers, but it may also signal that this card is meant to straddle the line between Nvidia’s gaming and workstation divisions.

The new card is based on the GP102 GPU and will offer 3,584 CUDA cores at a base clock of 1417MHz and a boost clock of 1531MHz. While this is somewhat slower than Nvidia’s GTX 1080, which ships at 1607MHz / 1733MHz, the 40% increase in cores (the 1080 has just 2560) will more than offset the 12% decrease in clock. A new 384-bit memory bus gives the GPU 480GB/s of bandwidth — almost as much as what AMD debuted with its Fury X last year, but coupled to a far more powerful GPU.


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