Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan X - The Best Video Card on the Market?
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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1,781 words · ~8 min read
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I feel bad for the guys over at NVIDIA PR and marketing I really do not because
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of the recent 3 and a half gig gtx970 Fiasco not because of the hours that I
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know they work based on when I get responses to my emails and not because
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the hardware that it's their job to convince us to buy is particularly hard
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to sell most of the time I feel bad for
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the NVIDIA guys because it has got to be hard to keep finding more and more
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creative ways to write reviewers guides and product pages that exist just to
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communicate that this new thing we made is the world's fastest GPU again because
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yes folks they've done it again this is the GTX Titan X the well world's fastest
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GPU Corsair h8i GT and h100i GTX
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all-in-one liquid coolers make your system run cooler and look better too
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click on this graphics card to learn
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more let's start with the specs under the hood of the Titan X you'll find a
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gm200 GPU the big brother to the Maxwell
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architecture GM 204 that powers the GTX
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980 and 970 so you've probably guessed
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by now that the Titan X is also Maxwell based but when I said big brother I
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really meant big the Titan X packs a whopping 8 billion transistors running
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at a base clock clock of 1 GHz with typical boost speeds around 1075 MHz 372
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Cuda 12 gigs of gddr5 memory yeah I said
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12 gigs although that'll be more relevant for computational applications
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and 3D rendering with large models than gaming for the foreseeable future
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running at 7 GHz and connected via a
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384bit bus just like the original Titan
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and Titan black and that's not the only thing it has in common with the original
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Titan I mean I wonder whose job it is at NVIDIA to design the reference coolers
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does he actually do any work anymore cuz this one with its copper Vapor chamber
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aluminum fins and aluminum shroud looks
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just like the old one I mean maybe there was like an incident a couple of years
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ago where he like bumped into Jensen in the cafeteria and Spilled soup down the
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front of his shirt so they actually laid the guy off and then in a fit of anger
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he took the blueprints for their metal shroud stock cooler so all they can do
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now is make slight tweaks to the color scheme every time which okay no sorry I
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don't actually think that's what happened and at any rate the color
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scheme tweak is probably all that this excellent design needed to look even
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more awesome anyway but I still wouldn't have been too disappointed to see a bit
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of a a refresh with a brand new top-of-the-line card the good news
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though is that the looks of a graphics card should probably be the last thing
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you're considering when buying it and the Titan X has got it where it counts
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gen 3 PCIe 16x connectivity at the bottom dual PCIe power connectors one
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six pin and one8 pin at the top and a 6
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plus 2phase power delivery designed to handle the card's 250 wat TDP or 275 wat
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power limit with it set to 110% in your favorite overclocking utility it's got
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two SLI connectors at the top to enable up to four-way configurations which in
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my mind is probably the only way you're going to get enough horsepower to
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justify the 12 gig frame buffer for gaming and the rear IO takes a page from
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the rest of its Maxwell family members with dvii HDMI 2.0 for up to 4K 60 HZ
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displays and triple DisplayPort 1.2
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ports for 5K displays like Dell's fancy pants up2715k that we checked out
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recently here and Surround 4K monitors
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oh yeah and they're all compatible with g-sync as well and of course the other
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new Maxwell features that will be making their way into games over the next
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couple of years are also present here vxgi NVIDIA's fancy voxal based
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real-time lighting technology mfaa they're Handy Dandy and automatically
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applied through GeForce experience anti-aliasing technique that delivers
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very similar results to msaa at a smaller performance hit and there's some
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new stuff like physx which okay physx isn't new but the CPU based
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implementations went open source which what NVIDIA what is this doing in my
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Titan X reviewers guide this supports the GPU Paths of physx just fine moving
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on ah you you want me to talk about VR
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features that I can do even though gaming head-mounted display products
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like Oculus is rift and HTC and valves
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Vive are coming later this year whatever
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that means NVIDIA is hard at work reducing the latency between the frame
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being rendered and displayed on your hmd to reduce motion sickness including a
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new SLI mode that allows presumably this
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works with two gpus one GPU to render the left eye image and the second to
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render the right eye image dramatically improving performance and the
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awesomeness in theory doesn't end there because we haven't even talked about
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overclocked performance of this beast
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and for that I will hand off to Luke but I got a feeling this going to be good
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and it is good this card slams the competition in terms of single GPU Pure
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Performance and it was able to achieve clearly higher minimum maximum and
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average FPS in all the games we tested if you're wondering about its 12 GB of
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vram well Shadow Mordor with ultra textures on was able to use about 6.4 GB
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of the stuff but we will need to push it even harder to see more utilization here
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in terms of overclocking this is a pretty interesting card that 250 to 275
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watt TDP results in a card that really pushes NVIDIA's heat SN design under
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load I was hitting around almost 400
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watts from the wall in terms of power and around 83 to 86° C with the fan on
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auto so it's pretty hot but that's not all it's super power hungry as well the
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first limit I hit was temperature shortly afterwards after a little
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tweaking as well I also hit power and voltage limits and in the end I was able
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to land somewhere around 1375 to 1393
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MHz and NVIDIA expects you to get around, 1400 MHz so you may be able to
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get a little bit more out of your Titan X on your own one of the big factors
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that may have played into my slightly lower clock speed is the room I was
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testing in was at a fairly balmy ambient temperature of 28° C I'm really hoping
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someone makes a really beefy aftermarket Cooling and power solution for this GPU
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I would really like to see what the Titan X is capable of when it's not
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hitting voltage power and Thermo limits
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all over the freaking place maybe hooking up to phase change could even be
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a little fun in terms of price per performance this may not be the best
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value card out there if you but if you want to just Crush things with a single
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card this may be the ticket let me know over on the Forum if you'd like to see more
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titanex videos and what they should be about maybe an SLI Showdown against
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maybe dual 980s or maybe some Subzero cooling with a phase change I don't know
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let me know anyways back to you lonus speaking of cool things or the Forum or
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whatever he was talking about our friends over at cherro have recently
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released a couple of new Dan board products that look pretty D
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compelling oh that's awful these are the
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Dan board block 34200 milliamp batteries two products
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that address one of the major concerns about their previous Dan board products
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the form factor these are super thin
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devices so they're much more likely to be able to fit into things with the
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block and plate at about 0.5 in and4 in
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thick respectively of course they still feature all the same safety measures
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like overcharge protection that we're used to seeing on churro products but do
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so at a size that is much easier to fit in your pocket oh and they also want us
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to show off the uh new Revel tech danboard mini figure which could add a
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bit of cute Dan board flare to your desk
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at work or uh at home or your GTX Titan
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X isn't that adorable look at it go on there it's so
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cute anyway check out the link in the video description for more info on all
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of this good stuff from our friends over at chiro so there you have it the Titan
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X is well the fastest GPU in the world
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congrats NVIDIA you've done it again no wonder you were more focused on putting
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chips in cars at CES this year at least then people will congratulate you for
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you know something different for a change well even if you're bored of
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building fast graphics cards over and over again I for one appreciate it and
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as much as I'm looking forward to spending a lot of time with this GPU I'm
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looking forward even more to the next rabbit that you guys pull out of your
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hat keep on Trucking guys so that's it
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guys like this video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it leave a
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comment uh hopefully on the Forum Linked In the video description if your
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feelings are more complicated than that you want to interact with our community also linked in the video description
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we've got a place where you can give us a contribution you can buy a cool t-shirt like this one you can change
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your Amazon bookmark to one with our affiliate codes So when you buy your shiny new Titan X we get a small
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Kickback that kind of thing helps us out a lot um I think that's pretty much it
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