Can Someone explain the Titan X Pascal to me, please?

[Anti-grandbean]

I simply do not get the technical aspect of graphic units.

I know that the Titan X has nearly 1000 more 'cuda cores' or stream processors, but the core clock speed is lower than an 1080 GTX - The 12 gigs of VRAM seems a little excessive unless running something at like 8k?

I simply guess I am just not seeing the point in nearly doubling your cost of purchase over the 1080 GTX. Couldn't the 1080 run 4k pretty easily? I don't see 8k coming to the mainstream any time soon nor cost efficient enough to really be a real option soon.

Anyway, I suppose sell me on the card. Why it is worth more than 2 GTX 1080's?

 

[jimmysmitty]

Remember the Titan series is not only a gaming GPU but is also a good GPU for professional purposes like CAD or rendering. That is why it is so over powered.

 

[scuzzycard]

I could never justify buying any of the Titans. 2 GTX 1080s in SLI would be faster most of the time. Plus NVIDIA usually releases a "xx80TI" card that gives most of the Titan's power at a much more reasonable price.

 

[Robert Cook]

well it really is not worth it unless you want to get those nice benchmark scores, or you ahev to max everything a 4K and then crank AA further than on the 1080s. Or if you want to be ready for 120Hz 4K monitors, or if you want to SLI 2 and run a triple monitor display. the only reason to get one is when you need as much power as possible in one card. for instance, I could run a game at 60+ FPS maxed at 4K with a 1080, but when 120Hz monitors come out I can take advantage of the extra FPS ( as I would be so rich I would buy a 120Hz 4K monitor if I could get a titan)

the 12GB of VRAM gets useful as you stat to crank up SSAA as you are effectively rendering an image larger than 4K. also were you to SLI two, and run triple monitors, and SSAA, you could find in some cases that 8GB of VRAM simply is not enough. for 8K the RAM might work, but at that point the core might not be strong enough.

So do not buy it, as single 1080 is already overkill for almost everything.

 

[Martell1977]

It's a "prosumer" card. meaning it primarily meant for people doing work that can be GPU accelerated. i.e. video editing, CAD, etc. If you look at the prices of the workstation cards, under the "Quadro" moniker, they are priced much higher, so the Titan XP is a "jack of all trades" type of card. Cheaper then a workstation card, but can do a good amount of work, and the fastest for games.

For purely gaming, it is faster, but I don't think it's worth the extra money.

 

[Robert Cook]

I could never justify buying any of the Titans. 2 GTX 1080s in SLI would be faster most of the time. Plus NVIDIA usually releases a "xx80TI" card that gives most of the Titan's power at a much more reasonable price.

If they are to drop such a card this time it would have to be a further cut down GP102, which seems like and odd move. although, such a card either way would not surface until vega starts to show its head probably as seen with the furyX ( look how well the 980ti turned the FuryX into a "well AMD tried" card, when it really was going to be a titan killer ( not that the furyX is bad.))

 

[Robert Cook]

It's a "prosumer" card. meaning it primarily meant for people doing work that can be GPU accelerated. i.e. video editing, CAD, etc. If you look at the prices of the workstation cards, under the "Quadro" moniker, they are priced much higher, so the Titan XP is a "jack of all trades" type of card. Cheaper then a workstation card, but can do good amount of work, and the fastest for games.

For purely gaming, it is faster, but I don't think it's worth the extra money.

the sad thing is, it is pretty much only for gaming. it lacks FP64 performance of any decent amount, and thus is only useful for if you need less than 12GB of VRAM but more than 8 which is pretty niche.

 

[jimmysmitty]

I could never justify buying any of the Titans. 2 GTX 1080s in SLI would be faster most of the time. Plus NVIDIA usually releases a "xx80TI" card that gives most of the Titan's power at a much more reasonable price.

If they are to drop such a card this time it would have to be a further cut down GP102, which seems like and odd move. although, such a card either way would not surface until vega starts to show its head probably as seen with the furyX ( look how well the 980ti turned the FuryX into a "well AMD tried" card, when it really was going to be a titan killer ( not that the furyX is bad.))

Not sure there will be a 1080Ti though. The difference in performance between the 1080 and Titan X is not as much as the 980 and Titan X was. I doubt they will eat into the sales of the 1080 which already gives a pretty good performance boost over the 980Ti.

 

[Robert Cook]

I could never justify buying any of the Titans. 2 GTX 1080s in SLI would be faster most of the time. Plus NVIDIA usually releases a "xx80TI" card that gives most of the Titan's power at a much more reasonable price.

If they are to drop such a card this time it would have to be a further cut down GP102, which seems like and odd move. although, such a card either way would not surface until vega starts to show its head probably as seen with the furyX ( look how well the 980ti turned the FuryX into a "well AMD tried" card, when it really was going to be a titan killer ( not that the furyX is bad.))

Not sure there will be a 1080Ti though. The difference in performance between the 1080 and Titan X is not as much as the 980 and Titan X was. I doubt they will eat into the sales of the 1080 which already gives a pretty good performance boost over the 980Ti.

or they could screw the TitanX owners over again, to make sure the 1080 still has its own room. they must have something up their sleeves for AMD, Q1 2017 will be a fun to watch time.

 

[Martell1977]

I could never justify buying any of the Titans. 2 GTX 1080s in SLI would be faster most of the time. Plus NVIDIA usually releases a "xx80TI" card that gives most of the Titan's power at a much more reasonable price.

If they are to drop such a card this time it would have to be a further cut down GP102, which seems like and odd move. although, such a card either way would not surface until vega starts to show its head probably as seen with the furyX ( look how well the 980ti turned the FuryX into a "well AMD tried" card, when it really was going to be a titan killer ( not that the furyX is bad.))

Not sure there will be a 1080Ti though. The difference in performance between the 1080 and Titan X is not as much as the 980 and Titan X was. I doubt they will eat into the sales of the 1080 which already gives a pretty good performance boost over the 980Ti.

Plus, nVidia proved inconsistent as for releasing "ti" cards on the last gen. I saw so many people telling others to not buy a R9 380X as nVidia will be releasing the 960ti "soon". That card was never announced and thus never materialized, but I wonder how many people kept waiting for it.

My point is to never wait for an unannounced card, there isn't even rumors about a 1080ti.

 

[Robert Cook]

I could never justify buying any of the Titans. 2 GTX 1080s in SLI would be faster most of the time. Plus NVIDIA usually releases a "xx80TI" card that gives most of the Titan's power at a much more reasonable price.

If they are to drop such a card this time it would have to be a further cut down GP102, which seems like and odd move. although, such a card either way would not surface until vega starts to show its head probably as seen with the furyX ( look how well the 980ti turned the FuryX into a "well AMD tried" card, when it really was going to be a titan killer ( not that the furyX is bad.))

Not sure there will be a 1080Ti though. The difference in performance between the 1080 and Titan X is not as much as the 980 and Titan X was. I doubt they will eat into the sales of the 1080 which already gives a pretty good performance boost over the 980Ti.

Plus, nVidia proved inconsistent as for releasing "ti" cards on the last gen. I saw so many people telling others to not buy a R9 380X as nVidia will be releasing the 960ti "soon". That card was never announced and thus never materialized, but I wonder how many people kept waiting for it.

My point is to never wait for an unannounced card, there isn't even rumors about a 1080ti.

I agree I think you hit the nail on the head, Nividia does what they have to, not what the fanboys/consumers think should happen

 

[junkeymonkey]

one thing with titan's aer there all ways reference NVidia retains tight control on them and you don't see aftermarket cards - only evga was allowed to make a hybrid [NVidia pcb ] you can see on the pci-e slot blade above golden figures has NVidia not evga printed then look at like a 980ti reference card for example they got evga printed ther own pcb after first release [reference]

NVidia's licensing is real funny