The longer answer is that the Titan X uses the same 471mm², 12-billion transistor GP102 die as the Titan X configured in nearly the same way: 28 Streaming Multiprocessors split across six Graphics Processing Clusters net you 3,584 CUDA cores and 224 texture units. The short answer is that it's effectively a Titan X with a slightly faster core and faster memory but with a (very) slightly crippled cache and back-end and a 1GB lower frame buffer. In a sense, this is true, as it's set to offer Titan X-beating performance for £400 less and appears to sit well relative to the GTX 1080 too, but it wasn't so long ago that such a proposition would have been unfathomable and even laughable. ![]() ![]() Responses to the pricing reveal have been largely positive, and what's most interesting about that is Nvidia has now managed to get people considering a £700 GPU to be relatively good value. Yes, £700 is a lot, and yes, its MSRP is 40 percent more than the GTX 1080's, but if the 35 percent improvement in performance holds up, that's not such a bad deal, and this time the Founders Edition will be sold at MSRP instead of at a premium. In turn, pricing for the GTX 1080 Ti was also lower than many expected. The GTX 1080 Ti announcement was accompanied by some more welcome and even surprising news, namely a price drop from for the GTX 1080, with the least expensive models in the UK now sitting at £500 or so. Previously, for example, Titan owners could point to superior FP64 performance or a significantly larger frame buffer as evidence of its superiority. Now, the Ti cards have always tended to make the Titan cards look like a pretty bad deal (not that this is likely to bother those who had the cash to splash on Titans in the first place), but this is the first time Nvidia has rendered the current-gen Titan card practically irrelevant. The other reason, and one that Nvidia doesn't shy away from, is that the GTX 1080 Ti is actually faster than the Titan X. Nvidia puts the figure at 35 percent, which we'll of course be putting to the test. There are a few reasons for this, but it basically boils down to the new Ti card having a bigger-than-ever lead in performance over the x80 card - in this case the GTX 1080. Last week at GDC, Nvidia made public its GTX 1080 Ti graphics card, another high-end Pascal GPU that it proudly describes as its best-ever Ti card. In fairness, AMD has had a lot on its plate of late, but with Zen-based CPUs now finally available, the pressure is on the red team to get cracking with Vega, as Nvidia is showing no real sign of slowing down. It's a little hard to believe, but Nvidia has had the high-end GPU market virtually to itself for nearly a year now, with AMD having had no real answer to flagship Pascal parts from Nvidia since the GTX 1080 launched in May last year. US price (as reviewed): MSRP $699 (ex tax) UK price (as reviewed): MSRP £699 (inc VAT) Both these upgraded models keep the vanilla memory specs.Īre you looking for real-world performance figures for one of these so-far mythical GPU beasties? Then rest assured we will be putting one of these "supercomputer in a single graphics card" SKUs under pressure in the HEXUS labs soon.Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Review Manufacturer: Nvidia EVGA also lists a GTX TITAN Z Hydro Copper 12G-P4-3999-KR model with a base clock of 758MHz and Boost Clock of 941MHz. However EVGA has also detailed the GTX TITAN Z Superclocked 12G-P4-3992-KR with a base clock of 732MHz and Boost Clock of 915MHz. The EVGA GTX Titan Z 12G-P4-3990-KR is what you might call the vanilla card with core specs as above. Looking at the EVGA, MSI and ZOTAC details we have been emailed it seems like MSI and ZOTAC have stuck pretty much to the reference spec as listed above, but EVGA has three varieties of GTX Titan Z on offer. It still remains to be seen if this is the case, as we don't have any of these Titan Z cards available to us right now. The delay news came with a suggestion that the Nvidia Titan Z was being subjected to last minute tweaks to help make its performance more of a headline grabber than its price tag. Memory: 12GB GDDR5 (6GB per GPU), 7GHz memory clock speed with 2 x 384 bit interfaceĪlso remember Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang boasted that the above combination of graphics hardware would provide 8 TeraFLOPS of performance.Base Clock / Boost clock: 705MHz / 876 MHz.First of all let's have a quick recap about what these cards will all have in common: So far we've heard from EVGA, MSI and ZOTAC but we are sure more cards will be on the way. The last thing we heard about the GTX Titan Z, following its launch in March, was that it was delayed. The HEXUS news offices have just been hit by a salvo of press releases by Nvidia graphics card manufacturing partners - informing us that they are releasing, introducing and even unleashing their versions of the Nvidia Titan Z dual-GPU graphics card.
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