NVIDIA Titan XP Review
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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1,296 words · ~6 min read
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so we've only just peeled our protective plastic off the new GTX 1080s and
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revealed the fact that we had the baddest graphics card on the Block when
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bam NVIDIA hits us upside the freaking head with its new flagship the Pascal
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based Titan X like a salmon that suddenly flies out of the river and just
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smacks you right in the face indeed the
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timing of the release was so soon after that 1080 that so many of us were
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surprised but we were able to get our hands on one just before it could swim
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away so let's put it through its paces and see just what kind of a beast we're
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dealing
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with Intel skull Canyon Nook features a
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sixth generation core i7 processor and Thunderbolt 3 learn more at the link in
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the video description so the tit NP is loaded with awesome new features
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including USB 2.0 support the ability to burn things onto a CD and full Y2K
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compliance wait what okay well not really but many people have decided to
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call the new Titan X the XP with P standing for Pascal to distinguish it
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from the older Titan X which was based on the Maxwell architecture I'm not
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exactly sure why NVIDIA recycled the name maybe they decided that the letter
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X was just too good of a hype train for them to get off of I mean I understand
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that that's not the only similarity to the Maxwell Titan X as the two cards
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look quite alike with their black cooler shroud however the Titan XP does have a
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bit of an updated aesthetic carrying over the angular look from the rest of
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the GeForce 10 series as well as a smoother plastic finish and the full
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titan X name proudly displayed on the
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left side you also get a metal finish on both the heat sink fins and the center
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of the blower style fan instead of black
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as well as a back plate which was absent on the original overall I think the card
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has a slightly more premium look than its predecessor but of course that's a
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matter of taste for connectivity you get one HDMI 2.0b port one dual link dvii
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three DisplayPort 1.4 connectors meaning you can output an 8K 60 HZ
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signal if you've got something like a multi 4K setup then there's also an SLI
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connector which supports the new high bandwidth s Bridges you'll need one 8
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Pin and one six pin power connector to power said Titan XP as well but let's
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talk about the heart of this monster the gp102 GPU which continues with the
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GeForce 10 theme of lower numbered gpus
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being more powerful although the Titan X's GP 102 runs at a slightly lower
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boost clock than a 1080 it makes up for this with a whopping 3584 Cuda course
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over a th000 more than the 1080 perhaps
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a little surprisingly this still isn't even the final form for the gp102 as the
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Titan XP has some of the GP 102's Cuda
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cor disabled you'll need to pick up the new Quadro
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p6000 if you want the full fat gp102
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experience but of course that isn't going to matter much unless you're doing
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something like rendering the sequel to James Cameron's Avatar as the Titan XP
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is an insanely powerful card in its own
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right like the Maxwell Titan X you get 12 GB of vram but this is the faster
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gddr5x with a bandwidth of 480 GB per
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second we still don't have hbm2 but this vram configuration makes this card
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firmly aimed at GPU Computing more specifically NVIDIA is marketing the
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Titan XP as a deep learning card in case
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you're unaware deep learning is somewhat of a recent buzzword for using
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artificial neural networks to solve complex problems using lots of virtual
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nodes that perform calculations in layers Loosely modeled on how our brains
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work kind of sort of Highly parallelized chips like the gp102 that contain tons
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of compute cores are quite good for this type of work which has applications and
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everything from language and facial recognition to the life sciences to
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helping driverless cars learn how to deal with obstacles and Hazards on the
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road which NVIDIA perhaps not coincidentally also are working on now I
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know most of you aren't developing bioinformatics algorithms at home so
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let's talk about game performance instead the Titan XP Beats out the GTX
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1080 by about 10 FPS or even more in
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every game that we tested firmly establishing it as the new heavyweight
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champ but with a couple of caveats this
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still can't get always 60fps in 4k in
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every scenario with the settings completely cranked so if you've got a
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bunch of money burning a hole in your pocket for no apparent reason and you
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want to push that many frames to your 4k monitor at those unnecessary settings
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you might be better off with two GTX 1080s and SLI especially as $1,200 us
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the Titan xp's new retail price is exactly about twice the price of a 1080
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now that's going to be give or take depending on your region but still it
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isn't the best bang for the buck card in terms of frame rates and I don't think
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anyone expected it to be with the name of Titan that isn't to say that the Titan XP
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doesn't have its place if you're more of a prosumer who does GP GPU stuff at home
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or you want the extra vram for your ridiculous monitor setup that would
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require that the Titan XP is definitely worth a look but if you just want extra
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gaming performance you'll almost certainly be better off waiting for the
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potential GTX 1080 TI in the previous
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generation the 980ti offered frame rates
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very close to the original Titan X for a
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much lower price so if NVIDIA does roll out a 1080 TI somewhat soon it will
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likely be the green team's top-end card
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of choice for nearly all PC Gamers that want to spend a whack ton of money but
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if you have the money in your budget the Titan XP would be an incredible addition
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to Your Arsenal and would look even more impressive in your battle station than
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that Bliss wallpaper that came with Windows XP if you like this video like
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it and get subs subscribed and if you dislike it stomp the everliving crap out
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of the dislike button just like repeatedly press it a lot until you get
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really tired and then I think your point will probably get across by then if you
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want to buy some stuff that you saw in this video go to Amazon and do that if
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you want to get a shirt you can also click a link in the video description down below like the Amazon one that is
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down there somewhere and you can buy one of those if you want to talk about
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things you can go on the Forum and dock your heart away instead of clicking the
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dislike button for like hours you could ratat Tata Tata about your feelings as
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well also if you want to see another video check out this one it's our GTX
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1080 review a card that is probably much more value than the GTX or the Titan X
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even though it's still really expensive so if you just got to spend a bunch of
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money you can pick one of these