Conclusion
...Titan X is 60 per cent faster than its immediate predecessor and 20-25 per cent speedier than a well-overclocked GTX 1080.The Nvidia Titan X is the fastest consumer graphics card ever made, and it's the first to lay credible claim to being a true 4K60 GPU.
Benchmarked at the preferred 4K resolution, Titan X is 60 per cent faster than its immediate predecessor and 20-25 per cent speedier than a well-overclocked GTX 1080. Performance, then, isn't in doubt.
Nvidia achieves the lofty numbers by using a larger Pascal die that, at 471mm², is considered actually quite conservative for a top-end GPU when judged by recent standards, thus intimating just how efficient Pascal is.
In an area bereft of serious competition for a while, Nvidia can charge what it deems the market will bear for a consumer graphics card, and $1,200 (£1,099) is the entry fee to the absolute best single-GPU performance available.
Anyone surprised at the price shouldn't be. This isn't a GPU for GTX 1070 wannabees, it's not a GPU for those who think going down the SLI route offers more performance, and it certainly isn't a GPU for people whose main remit when purchasing is value for money.
Titan X is decidedly ostentatious in nature. It's for the person who wants, and can readily afford, a £5K PC built with the very latest goodies the world of tech has to offer - Core i7-6950X, 2TB NVMe SSD, etc. That person isn't me, probably isn't you, but enough exist for Titan X to be a marketable GPU.
Common sense infers that GP102 will be distilled into a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti soon, at a more attractive price point, so Titan X is, as very much designed, an early-adopters' card.
As impressive as the numbers are, especially when overclocked, hammering everything else out of sight, Titan X isn't perfect. The GPU isn't a full implementation of the GP102 die and the cooler, while looking and feeling lovely, really isn't up to the task of getting the most out of the underlying silicon. This is a card begging to be watercooled.
Nvidia's Titan X sets a new standard of what's possible in PC gaming. Quite simply, it's the card that everyone wants.
Benchmarks well when OC'd
Beautifully built
Massive framebuffer
Cooler holds potential back
Nvidia Titan X (Pascal)
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