Saturday, March 7th 2015
NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN-X Pictured Up-close
Here are some of the first close-up shots of NVIDIA's new flagship graphics card, the GeForce GTX TITAN-X, outside Jen-Hsun Huang's Rafiki moment at a GDC presentation. If we were to throw in an educated guess, NVIDIA probably coined the name "TITAN-X" as it sounds like "Titan Next," much like it chose "TITAN-Z" as it sounds like "Titans" (plural, since it's a dual-GPU card). Laid flat out on a table, the card features an a matte-black colored reference cooling solution that looks identical to the one on the original TITAN. Other cosmetic changes include a green glow inside the fan intake, the TITAN logo, and of course, the green glow on the GeForce GTX marking on the top.
The card lacks a back-plate, giving us a peek at its memory chips. The card features 12 GB of GDDR5 memory, and looking at the twelve memory chips on the back of the PCB, with no other traces, we reckon the chip features a 384-bit wide memory interface. The 12 GB is achieved using twenty-four 4 Gb chips. The card draws power from a combination of 8-pin and 6-pin power connectors. The display I/O is identical to that of the GTX 980, with three DisplayPorts, one HDMI, and one DVI. Built on the 28 nm GM200 silicon, the GTX TITAN-X is rumored to feature 3,072 CUDA cores. NVIDIA CEO claimed that the card will be faster than even the previous generation dual-GPU flagship product by NVIDIA, the GeForce GTX TITAN-Z.
Source:
MaximumPC
The card lacks a back-plate, giving us a peek at its memory chips. The card features 12 GB of GDDR5 memory, and looking at the twelve memory chips on the back of the PCB, with no other traces, we reckon the chip features a 384-bit wide memory interface. The 12 GB is achieved using twenty-four 4 Gb chips. The card draws power from a combination of 8-pin and 6-pin power connectors. The display I/O is identical to that of the GTX 980, with three DisplayPorts, one HDMI, and one DVI. Built on the 28 nm GM200 silicon, the GTX TITAN-X is rumored to feature 3,072 CUDA cores. NVIDIA CEO claimed that the card will be faster than even the previous generation dual-GPU flagship product by NVIDIA, the GeForce GTX TITAN-Z.
85 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN-X Pictured Up-close
I think the only real justification for this card is for people that want the uncrippled compute functionality. Or if someone well off just wants it. ;)
This may well be a thoroughbred gaming card, if so it may be cheaper than we all think. Without the compute benefit of Kepler it would be unwise for Nvidia to sell at the same point as Titans before.
The 12gb is a worrying sign though.
All I need is CUDA cores and lots of VRAM for what I do, DP is not needed, atleast by me :toast:
Who buys this graphics card leaves it just as it is
The green LED and the black color are really beautiful.
What a shame to get rid of and put a waterblock on it.
I used to bash that same power circuitry a lot, probably some members here recall that aswell :toast:Damn right qubit (about the tenterhooking :) )! Can't wait to see reviews too! Maybe they are holding off until Nvidia's GTC which is due soon this month.
www.gputechconf.com/ March 17-20
GM 200 should be a GM 204 + GM 206 in most respects, so ~50% over GTX 980 given roughly equal clocks, a little less in CPU bound situations, more in VRAM bound situations, and a little greater still if using 8GHz/8Gbps memory IC's rather than the 7GHz chips of the 980/960.
.......................GM 204...........GM 206..........Total........."publicized GM 200 spec"
Cores...........2048................1024..............3096...............3096
SM's.................16.......................8...................24.....................24
Bus width.....256...................128...............384..................384
L2 (MB).............2........................1.....................3.......................3
ROP.................64......................32..................96....................96
TMU..............128.....................64................192.......................?
Die size........398..................228............~ 580*...........est 600
* 398 + (228 - 20% PHY already included in GM 204....Command Processor, Thread dispatchers, Display out, PCI-E interface, SLI interface, NVENC)
Maybe 1.-1.5 year after.
Only without backplate backside look really empty and much cheaper.
Hopefully EVGA will make a custom model with waterblock allready attached, single slot, and 2x8pin connector, higlhy overclocked.
I didn't pay much attention to the Kepler Titans but didn't Nvidia not allow non-reference coolers on the Titan/Titan Black? They may do the same thing again with the Maxwell Titans.
They didn't allow custom PCBs for sure though.
For how much this card will cost it better come with a damn backplate. Also i am pretty sure AMD has released more cards with backplates out of the box than Nvidia.
For example, my MSI GTX 780 Ti GAMING cost me £500 but still doesn't have a backplate.