Nvidia's $1,200 Titan X GPU Will Blow Your Mind and Budget
Thought Nvidia was done for the summer? Just when I was getting used to my GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card and wrapping up testing the GeForce GTX 1060, here comes the latest Titan X GPU to blow everything out of the water. Targeting enthusiasts with deep wallets, the latest incarnation of the powerful card costs $1,200 and promises to be the most powerful GPU the company has released. The beast is set to be unleashed upon the innocent gaming masses on August 2.
So what exactly does $1,200 get you? Based on Nvidia's new Pascal architecture, the Titan X sports 3,584 CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) cores with 12GB of GDDR5X memory. Compare that to last year's model (3,072 CUDA cores with 12GB of RAM) or the GTX 1080 (2,560 CUDA cores, 8GB of RAM) and you can see the difference. Basically, this new card is 60 percent faster than the previous generation, according to Nvidia.
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While I can only imagine the frame rates I'm going to see playing The Witcher 3 in 4K, I'm more excited for what this is going to mean for my virtual reality exploits. Currently, the lowest recommended GPU for solid VR performance on both the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive is the Nvidia GeForce 970 GPU. With the latest Titan X, I'm expecting graphics so crisp that I could almost touch them — with or without touch controllers.
However, seeing is believing. Before I start mortgaging my future to afford this card, I'm going to put the Titan X through its paces in our lab. Stay tuned.
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