I feel bad for the guys over at NVIDIA PR and marketing I really do not because
of the recent 3 and a half gig gtx970 Fiasco not because of the hours that I
know they work based on when I get responses to my emails and not because
the hardware that it's their job to convince us to buy is particularly hard
to sell most of the time I feel bad for
the NVIDIA guys because it has got to be hard to keep finding more and more
creative ways to write reviewers guides and product pages that exist just to
communicate that this new thing we made is the world's fastest GPU again because
yes folks they've done it again this is the GTX Titan X the well world's fastest
GPU Corsair h8i GT and h100i GTX
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more let's start with the specs under the hood of the Titan X you'll find a
gm200 GPU the big brother to the Maxwell
architecture GM 204 that powers the GTX
980 and 970 so you've probably guessed
by now that the Titan X is also Maxwell based but when I said big brother I
really meant big the Titan X packs a whopping 8 billion transistors running
at a base clock clock of 1 GHz with typical boost speeds around 1075 MHz 372
Cuda 12 gigs of gddr5 memory yeah I said
12 gigs although that'll be more relevant for computational applications
and 3D rendering with large models than gaming for the foreseeable future
running at 7 GHz and connected via a
384bit bus just like the original Titan
and Titan black and that's not the only thing it has in common with the original
Titan I mean I wonder whose job it is at NVIDIA to design the reference coolers
does he actually do any work anymore cuz this one with its copper Vapor chamber
aluminum fins and aluminum shroud looks
just like the old one I mean maybe there was like an incident a couple of years
ago where he like bumped into Jensen in the cafeteria and Spilled soup down the
front of his shirt so they actually laid the guy off and then in a fit of anger
he took the blueprints for their metal shroud stock cooler so all they can do
now is make slight tweaks to the color scheme every time which okay no sorry I
don't actually think that's what happened and at any rate the color
scheme tweak is probably all that this excellent design needed to look even
more awesome anyway but I still wouldn't have been too disappointed to see a bit
of a a refresh with a brand new top-of-the-line card the good news
though is that the looks of a graphics card should probably be the last thing
you're considering when buying it and the Titan X has got it where it counts
gen 3 PCIe 16x connectivity at the bottom dual PCIe power connectors one
six pin and one8 pin at the top and a 6
plus 2phase power delivery designed to handle the card's 250 wat TDP or 275 wat
power limit with it set to 110% in your favorite overclocking utility it's got
two SLI connectors at the top to enable up to four-way configurations which in
my mind is probably the only way you're going to get enough horsepower to
justify the 12 gig frame buffer for gaming and the rear IO takes a page from
the rest of its Maxwell family members with dvii HDMI 2.0 for up to 4K 60 HZ
displays and triple DisplayPort 1.2
ports for 5K displays like Dell's fancy pants up2715k that we checked out
recently here and Surround 4K monitors
oh yeah and they're all compatible with g-sync as well and of course the other
new Maxwell features that will be making their way into games over the next
couple of years are also present here vxgi NVIDIA's fancy voxal based
real-time lighting technology mfaa they're Handy Dandy and automatically
applied through GeForce experience anti-aliasing technique that delivers
very similar results to msaa at a smaller performance hit and there's some
new stuff like physx which okay physx isn't new but the CPU based
implementations went open source which what NVIDIA what is this doing in my
Titan X reviewers guide this supports the GPU Paths of physx just fine moving
on ah you you want me to talk about VR
features that I can do even though gaming head-mounted display products
like Oculus is rift and HTC and valves
Vive are coming later this year whatever
that means NVIDIA is hard at work reducing the latency between the frame
being rendered and displayed on your hmd to reduce motion sickness including a
new SLI mode that allows presumably this
works with two gpus one GPU to render the left eye image and the second to
render the right eye image dramatically improving performance and the
awesomeness in theory doesn't end there because we haven't even talked about
overclocked performance of this beast
and for that I will hand off to Luke but I got a feeling this going to be good
and it is good this card slams the competition in terms of single GPU Pure
Performance and it was able to achieve clearly higher minimum maximum and
average FPS in all the games we tested if you're wondering about its 12 GB of
vram well Shadow Mordor with ultra textures on was able to use about 6.4 GB
of the stuff but we will need to push it even harder to see more utilization here
in terms of overclocking this is a pretty interesting card that 250 to 275
watt TDP results in a card that really pushes NVIDIA's heat SN design under
load I was hitting around almost 400
watts from the wall in terms of power and around 83 to 86° C with the fan on
auto so it's pretty hot but that's not all it's super power hungry as well the
first limit I hit was temperature shortly afterwards after a little
tweaking as well I also hit power and voltage limits and in the end I was able
to land somewhere around 1375 to 1393
MHz and NVIDIA expects you to get around, 1400 MHz so you may be able to
get a little bit more out of your Titan X on your own one of the big factors
that may have played into my slightly lower clock speed is the room I was
testing in was at a fairly balmy ambient temperature of 28° C I'm really hoping
someone makes a really beefy aftermarket Cooling and power solution for this GPU
I would really like to see what the Titan X is capable of when it's not
hitting voltage power and Thermo limits
all over the freaking place maybe hooking up to phase change could even be
a little fun in terms of price per performance this may not be the best
value card out there if you but if you want to just Crush things with a single
card this may be the ticket let me know over on the Forum if you'd like to see more
titanex videos and what they should be about maybe an SLI Showdown against
maybe dual 980s or maybe some Subzero cooling with a phase change I don't know
let me know anyways back to you lonus speaking of cool things or the Forum or
whatever he was talking about our friends over at cherro have recently
released a couple of new Dan board products that look pretty D
compelling oh that's awful these are the
Dan board block 34200 milliamp batteries two products
that address one of the major concerns about their previous Dan board products
the form factor these are super thin
devices so they're much more likely to be able to fit into things with the
block and plate at about 0.5 in and4 in
thick respectively of course they still feature all the same safety measures
like overcharge protection that we're used to seeing on churro products but do
so at a size that is much easier to fit in your pocket oh and they also want us
to show off the uh new Revel tech danboard mini figure which could add a
bit of cute Dan board flare to your desk
at work or uh at home or your GTX Titan
X isn't that adorable look at it go on there it's so
cute anyway check out the link in the video description for more info on all
of this good stuff from our friends over at chiro so there you have it the Titan
X is well the fastest GPU in the world
congrats NVIDIA you've done it again no wonder you were more focused on putting
chips in cars at CES this year at least then people will congratulate you for
you know something different for a change well even if you're bored of
building fast graphics cards over and over again I for one appreciate it and
as much as I'm looking forward to spending a lot of time with this GPU I'm
looking forward even more to the next rabbit that you guys pull out of your
hat keep on Trucking guys so that's it
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