At launch, the $1000 price tag seemed insanely, almost offensively, high. Sure, it was the first time we’d seen the much-vaunted GM 200 GPU appear in a form we could jam in to our desktop machines, and it is most definitely head and shoulders above the GTX 980 in terms of gaming performance, but it didn’t have the same feel as the original Titan.
It lacked the supercomputer, double-precision capabilities for a start, and we never warmed to the black shroud of the ‘X’ either. The big problem, however, is that card sitting nonchalantly to its right – the GTX980 Ti.
It was always going to happen. GPU history has taught us that much. But there lease of the GTX 980 Ti has rendered the Titan X almost entirely irrelevant. The higher clockspeeds of most iterations of its younger sibling made the difference between core count vanish, and often delivers the GTX 980 Ti a performance lead.
And yet compare graphics cards, the Titan X is still almost $400 more expensive, only buying you an extra 6GB on top of the GTX 980 Ti’s frame buffer. By the time you need 12GB of graphics memory, the next generation of mid-range GPU tech may well be making this ol’ultra enthusiast card look tired.
SPEC
- Base Clock: 1127 MHZ, Boost Clock: 1216 MHz
- 2-way, 3-way, 4-way SLI Ready
- Memory Detail: 12288 MB GDDR5
- Memory Bit Width: 384 Bit
- Memory Bandwidth: 336.5 GB/s
- Microsoft DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.4 Support
- HDMI 2.0, DisplayPort 1.2 and Dual-link DVI
- NVIDIA Dynamic Super Resolution Technology
- Recommended PSU: 600W or greater power supply
- Price : $10
Verdict
Plus - Huge frame buffer; overclockable.
Minus - No double precision; doesn’t offer value at super-expensive price.
