GeForce GTX Titan X what to expect | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Thu, 05 Mar 2015 08:19:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png GeForce GTX Titan X what to expect | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 GeForce GTX Titan X poses for cam: 4-way SLI capable, ready to ship https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/anton-shilov/geforce-gtx-titan-x-poses-for-cam-4-way-sli-capable-not-too-power-hungry-ready-to-ship/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/anton-shilov/geforce-gtx-titan-x-poses-for-cam-4-way-sli-capable-not-too-power-hungry-ready-to-ship/#comments Thu, 05 Mar 2015 04:27:47 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=238685 Nvidia Corp. demonstrated its upcoming GeForce GTX Titan X graphics cards in its booth at the Game Developers Conference and allowed the press to take pictures of the board. Just like its single-chip predecessors from the ultra-high-end league, the novelty uses an ultra-quiet cooler, is multi-GPU-capable and is not very power hungry. Moreover, the card …

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Nvidia Corp. demonstrated its upcoming GeForce GTX Titan X graphics cards in its booth at the Game Developers Conference and allowed the press to take pictures of the board. Just like its single-chip predecessors from the ultra-high-end league, the novelty uses an ultra-quiet cooler, is multi-GPU-capable and is not very power hungry. Moreover, the card is already in production.

Legit Reviews has published a lot of GeForce GTX Titan X’s photos and revealed some additional peculiarities about the graphics card that promises to be the fastest single-GPU graphics solution on the market for some time thanks to massive amount of stream processors, 12GB of GDDR5 memory and Nvidia’s “Maxwell” architecture.

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The Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan X will continue to use blower-type dual-slot cooler introduced two years ago along with the original GeForce GTX Titan. The new cooler is completely black and has holographic word “Titan” embossed on it. The cooling solution is expected to remain very quiet and efficient. The length of the graphics card seems to be similar to that of its predecessors.

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The new flagship graphics adapter from Nvidia has two MIO connectors for multi-GPU SLI configurations, one 6-pin PCIe and one 8-pin PCIe auxiliary power connectors, three DisaplyPort, one HDMI as well as one DVI output. This means that the graphics card can support 2-way, 3-way or 4-way SLI multi-GPU configurations (just because someone thinks that 3072 stream processors of the GM200 are not enough to play games fine and 12288 SPs are just what the doctor ordered) and will not consume more than 300W of power, which is not that lot by modern standards.

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The graphics card, which Legit Reviews pictured, featured all the stickers typically found on commercial graphics cards that are in production. Therefore, Nvidia can probably start to ship the new Titan X graphics card shortly.

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The card carries 24 GDDR5 memory chips and has a rather sophisticated voltage regulator module.

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KitGuru Says: The new graphics board looks similar to predecessors and has comparable power consumption. Therefore, if your PC supports previous-gen Titan, it will also support the new Titan X.

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Nvidia GeForce Titan X 12GB: What you need to know and expect https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/anton-shilov/nvidia-geforce-titan-x-12gb-what-you-need-to-know-and-expect/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/anton-shilov/nvidia-geforce-titan-x-12gb-what-you-need-to-know-and-expect/#comments Thu, 05 Mar 2015 01:04:39 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=238667 Nvidia Corp. unexpectedly unveiled its highest-performing single-chip gaming graphics card at the Game Developers Conference on Wednesday. The new GeForce GTX Titan X will emerge on the store shelves in the coming weeks and will be the pinnacle of the “Maxwell” architecture. Let’s recap what we already know about the GeForce GTX Titan X and …

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Nvidia Corp. unexpectedly unveiled its highest-performing single-chip gaming graphics card at the Game Developers Conference on Wednesday. The new GeForce GTX Titan X will emerge on the store shelves in the coming weeks and will be the pinnacle of the “Maxwell” architecture. Let’s recap what we already know about the GeForce GTX Titan X and what should we expect from it.

The Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan X graphics card with 12GB of onboard GDDR5 memory will be powered by the code-named GM200 graphics processor that contains over eight billion of transistors. The GPU, which is also known as the “Big Maxwell”, is the most complex graphics processor ever made. 12GB of memory indirectly confirm that the graphics processing unit sports 384-bit memory bus, which, given the “Maxwell” architecture (and ROP to memory controller ratio), points to 96 raster operating units. Earlier it was reported that the GM200 would feature 3072 stream processors and 192 texture units, which seem to be accurate information.

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The “Big Maxwell” is projected to offer around 33 – 50 per cent higher performance than the GeForce GTX 980, given its configuration, depending on applications. However, keep in mind that Nvidia’s “Maxwell” was not designed to handle professional computing tasks, therefore, it does not support native double precision FP64 compute capabilities. Even the GM200 will not be able to beat its predecessor, the GK110 in high-performance computing tasks (e.g., simulations) that require FP64.

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If Nvidia managed to maintain transistor density of the code-named GM204 graphics processor with the GM200, then the chip itself should be pretty large, about 615mm², which will result in extremely high cost. If the GM200’s die size is indeed 615mm², then a 300mm wafer can produce hold only around 95 of such chips. TSMC’s revenue per wafer processed using 28nm fabrication technology was $5850 last year. Therefore, even if GM200’s yield rate is at 100 per cent (all dies are good and can run in full configuration), one chip should cost Nvidia over $61 without testing and packaging. At 85 per cent yield, one GM200 chip costs the GPU designer around $73 without testing and packaging.

The GeForce GTX Titan X graphics board will carry 12GB of GDDR5 memory running at 7GHz. 12GB of memory is not only excessive for today’s video games, but is also very expensive. For some reason, Nvidia decided not to use SK Hynix and Micron’s premium GDDR5 components capable of running at 8GHz, but even current memory sub-system provides 336GB/s of bandwidth, which is a lot. Keeping in mind that Nvidia’s “Maxwell” GPUs use memory bandwidth very efficiently, the new GeForce GTX Titan X should demonstrate unbelievable performance in ultra-high-definition resolutions, such as 3840*2160.

The ultra-expensive GPU and a lot of memory will naturally make the new Titan X a very expensive graphics card. Previously it was reported that the board will cost $1349 in retail when it becomes available.

Keep in mind that many of the details about the GeForce GTX Titan X are yet to be confirmed by Nvidia at the GPU Technology Conference later this month.

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KitGuru Says: The real surprise about the GeForce GTX Titan X is that Nvidia decided to install 12GB of GDDR5 memory on a consumer-class graphics card. This will ensure that the board’s performance will not be limited by memory capacity any time soon, but this naturally increases the price. What remains to be seen is how high performance of the new Titan X will be in real-life applications. While the board will clearly leave behind existing graphics solution, it is not completely clear whether it is worth $1349.

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