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When Nvidia launched the GTX 1080 earlier this year, it didn’t take long before rumors of a new Titan-branded card followed in its wake. Unlike the GP100, which will utilize HBM2 and launch in early 2017, the Nvidia (not GeForce) Titan X is based on a different piece of silicon: GP102. This new top-end card combines a wider memory bus and higher core counts with the same GDDR5X that debuted with the GTX 1080, and it offers significantly higher performance — if you can stomach the price.

Multiple reviews of the card are up at Hot Hardware, PC Perspective, and Tom’s Hardware Guide. The Titan X packs 3,584 cores, 224 texture units, and 96 ROPS, with a base clock of 1417MHz and a boost clock of 1531MHz. That’s 40% more cores and texture units than the GTX 1080 and 50% more ROPs, though these gains are offset by decreased clock speeds, which are roughly 12% lower than the GTX 1080. Memory bandwidth is up to 480GB/s, and the TDP is just 250W — impressive for a card with specs like these.



Here’s the bottom line: This GPU is statistically a monster, and it performs like one. THG notes: “If you were of the mind that one GP104 couldn’t handle 3840×2160, Titan X could be your solution.” AMD’s Fury X has already been generally outclassed by the GTX 1070 and 1080, but fans of Team Red could at least point to a handful of DirectX 12 titles where the Fury family competed well against Nvidia’s latest GPUs. That’s gone at the top end — even when the Fury X manages to trade shots with the GTX 1080, Nvidia’s Titan X obliterates them both by 20-40%. This is the first GPU that can drive 4K at high frame rates — but boy, it comes at a price.

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