NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN-X Specs Revealed

[GhostRyder]

20% tax on items. As for the Aussies, yes - they are absolutely shafted. Criminally so.


Well the new leaks on 390X are cool indeed. If 60% faster than 290X and Titan is 50% faster than 980, tally it against this:

And you'll get a heat. If an 8GB 390X is $1000 and a 12GB Titan is $1000 and both pull 250Watts, this will be a fucking awesome round of cards

If that happens (the 250watt part) I think we would all be blown away. I just hope for around ~300 just so it will not be too difficult to run 3 of them for the crazy people like me (Albeit I am probably sitting this round out). Though if it is I am probably going to blow a gasket.

UK prices tend to differ from US so it's harder to judge here. That being said the only comparison I have directly is for 1440p and it's a £500 Benq Free-sync versus a £620 Asus ROG G-Sync. In comparison the cheapest BenQ at 1440p without Free-Sync is £320 and the equivalent cheapest Asus is £420. So for BenQ you pay an extra £180 (or %56 more) and for Asus you pay an extra £200 (48% more). In terms of what you pay more for Free-Sync or G-Sync, you'll probably find the prices aren't that far off (all TN panels). Though I wont argue the point that Nvidia got there first so slapped a premium on it. If they drop that premium as more Free-Sync appears then they simply did what most tech does - charge more initially because nobody else has it.

The cheapest 1080p G-Sync on this retailer is £330. Unfortunately no 1080p Free-Sync to compare. Another retailer has a 1440p 28" Acer G-Sync at £510 (£80 more than their equiv Free-Sync).

Either way, I have little interest in G/Free sync for now as I may go AMD or Nvidia next round so I don't want a redundant monitor choice.


EDIT: NPU has news - looks like 390X is $700-1000. Sony Xperia wont be happy.



http://www.nextpowerup.com/news/192...leaked-r9-390x-is-60-faster-than-r9-290x.html

So there are 8gb variants already in the works, I missed that honestly as I thought it was just a bunch of hope/rumors. I would think some 8gb variants of the card would be pretty nice in a pair for 4k gamers.

 

[mastrdrver]

20% tax on items. As for the Aussies, yes - they are absolutely shafted. Criminally so.


Well the new leaks on 390X are cool indeed. If 60% faster than 290X and Titan is 50% faster than 980, tally it against this:

And you'll get a heat. If an 8GB 390X is $1000 and a 12GB Titan is $1000 and both pull 250Watts, this will be a fucking awesome round of cards

According to the leaked benchmarks, Titan-X is on average ~38% faster then 980 and 390x is on average ~49% faster then 290x. Though this is an average over 18 games at 4k but it's interesting to note that the leak shows the 980 ~9% faster then the 290x which is almost exactly what the TPU picture above shows.

Though if there's not a 4GB 390x, I'll probably sit out this round if the 8GB cards end up at close to 700 USD (which seems to be the suggestion).

Looks like the original leaks for both are panning out so far..

Nvidia

AMD

What's even being tested here? The score number. I understand the basic specifications are being taken from this, but what's being benchmarked?

 

[arbiter]

Looks like the original leaks for both are panning out so far..

Nvidia

AMD

Worth i guess noting that OpenCL benchmarks have favor AMD for a while. So those can be taken with a grain of salt as that doesn't directly relate to performance in games. It pretty has almost no impact on fps since its not used that heavily in games. Its Why when AMD makes slides to compare their APU to Intel cpu's they use OpenCL based benchmarks for comparison cause they have a huge edge in those.

 

[HumanSmoke]

390X has 4096b vram bus? How does that even work? Can they can fit that many io pins on a consumer-bound chip? There must be an intermediate "consolidator" or something.

The GPU and HBM stacks sit on a silicon interposer.
Each DRAM chip has dedicated dual 128-bit I/O, so four layers = 128 * 2 * 4 = 1024bit. Four HBM stacks surround the GPU on the interposer. The microbumps of solder then connect the HBM stack to interposer and its integrated traces. It will be interesting to see how this effects the pricing with the added complexity, and whether Hynix is doing the final packaging or another third-party manufacturer ( the solder bump pitch should make it an exacting task). I'd assume the HBM+GPU on interposer will then be shipped to AIB's as a complete package.


What surprises me about the whole 390X deal is that benchmarks and specifications arrive at the exact same time as the Titan X / M6000 launch. What are the odds of that happening!

 

[xorbe]

What surprises me about the whole 390X deal is that benchmarks and specifications arrive at the exact same time as the Titan X / M6000 launch. What are the odds of that happening!

The odds are 1 to marketing!

 

[64K]

Well, I've got Huang's speech live at the GPU Technology Conference playing in the background while I work. He's talking about some interesting stuff but nothing yet on the Titan X. Here's the link if you want

http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2015/03/16/live-gtc/