NVIDIA Titan X Pascal 12 GB

[qubit]

But wait, isn't TPU an anti-AMD bias site and that W1zzard person an NVIDIA paid shill?

lol you'll never find me saying that!

Dunno what's up with those people.

 

[bug]

But wait, isn't TPU an anti-AMD bias site and that W1zzard person an NVIDIA paid shill?

I suspect TPU can be anti-anything, depending on whose products lag behind at a given time.

More on topic, I have zero interest in the Titan line, but what I get from this review is that single card 4k gaming for the masses is at least two generations away. Makes my upgrade path that more difficult, becuase I'm not thrilled about using 2560x1600 as a stopgap solution. I'll probably cheap out and stick with FHD.

 

[the54thvoid]

But wait, isn't TPU an anti-AMD bias site and that W1zzard person an NVIDIA paid shill?

You always were harsh (or more critical) of noise from cards and coolers. But that's a good thing. Lots of sites dismiss or don't even mention sound output as a metric.

 

[Moofachuka]

I have a feeling this might turn out to be like Intel vs amd... Amd can't catch up to Nvidia and they stop increasing performance...

 

[bogami]

It works well, just right for 21.9 1440x3440, and 4K monitor. Because I have no other option I have to buy this . but this does not mean that all is well and good.The name of this card is wrong according to the figures that have been announced but it seems that orders for DGX 1 and TESLA exceed the production capabilities and 1080Ti became TITAN X pascal without double RAM and almost all the other goodies .Quadro 6000 GP . has all correspondence and 24 GB of RAM and is not a crazy price for 20% Up. . QUADRO 6000 pascal . This could be a TITAN X pascal. Overnight standard dropped in half !, and the price jump for real 120% . Again, we were raped to take advantage of competition lack .These devils should again be sued .

 

[bug]

I have a feeling this might turn out to be like Intel vs amd... Amd can't catch up to Nvidia and they stop increasing performance...

Actually, AMD's video hardware was never bad. For HTPC use I think it was always better than Nvidia (don't quote me on that, that's what a friend that's into movies tells me). That's huge, if you look at how much more resources Nvidia has.
AMD's problem has always been their drivers. With DX12 and Vulkan, the drivers become more of a shim and the optimization becomes the burden of game developers. This could save AMD, but could also leave AMD in the gutter if developers decide to do half-assed jobs as they usually do.

 

[efikkan]

Its worth mentioning that the performance gain is more like 33-37% over GTX 1080 when benchmarked with a warm-up to eliminate the bias caused by boosting in the first few minutes.

 

[dyonoctis]

I also want to see AMD doing better, but if you look at the current benchmark, DOOM is pretty much the only game were AMD cards seems to be able to use their full compute power, and get such a massive boost (a fury X who was equal with a 970 with open gl, destroy a 1070 with vulkan). The boost in DX 12 games (ashes, hitman) is not as great. And Tomb Raider just show how it's easy to screw up with DX12.

I don't know if GCN 4.0, samsung 14 nm is expensive to make, but I wish that AMD had choose to be as aggressive with the pricing as they were with the HD 4000 era. They could have totally sold the 4870 at 500 since it was nearly equal to a 550 GTX 280. Instead they sold it at 250, less than half the price for a nearly equal perfomance. I get that AMD went greedy with the HD 7000 since they were trading blow with the GTX 600. But with the exception of a very few vulkan/DX 12 games, right now the RX 400 doesn't looks like it can measure up with the GTX 1000.

 

[bug]

I don't know if GCN 4.0, samsung 14 nm is expensive to make, but I wish that AMD had choose to be as aggressive with the pricing as they were with the HD 4000 era.

They can't afford that any more. They've been bleeding cash for ages, they need a product that can bring home the bacon. Polaris isn't it (and by the looks of it neither is Zen), maybe Vega?

 

[HisDivineOrder]

Every time a Titan product comes out, I say to myself, "Can't wait for the Ti version to see what mere mortals are going to get!" Do feel a little (and only a little) bad for those poor 1080 buyers that thought they'd have 6 months of being top billing.

 

[bug]

Every time a Titan product comes out, I say to myself, "Can't wait for the Ti version to see what mere mortals are going to get!" Do feel a little (and only a little) bad for those poor 1080 buyers that thought they'd have 6 months of being top billing.

Don't. Nvidia will wait for Vega to see if they have to beat their own GTX 1080. Because till then, it has no competition at all.

 

[PopcornMachine]

So if you've got the money to buy this card, then you may as well spend a few more bucks on a water block and whatever else you need to liquid cool this thing.

Be interesting to see what it can do then.

 

[beck24]

So if you've got the money to buy this card, then you may as well spend a few more bucks on a water block and whatever else you need to liquid cool this thing.

Exactly. What's. A few bucks more for maximum performance?

 

[Steevo]

Extremely impressive piece of silicon and engineering. I would own one if I had the money to throw at it.
Also shows how the TSMC/GloFlo foundries make a difference in power consumption as well.


Great review of an awesome piece of hardware.

 

[beck24]

Extremely impressive piece of silicon and engineering. I would own one if I had the money to throw at it.
Also shows how the TSMC/GloFlo foundries make a difference in power consumption as well.


Great review of an awesome piece of hardware.

Performance per watt bodes well for the future.

 

[phanbuey]

But can it run Crysis?

 

[cdawall]

Nice to see something that can finally pull off consistent 60+ FPS at 4k.

 

[W1zzard]

Its worth mentioning that the performance gain is more like 33-37% over GTX 1080 when benchmarked with a warm-up to eliminate the bias caused by boosting in the first few minutes.

All cards are tested in a warmed up state

 

[phanbuey]

Would be interesting to see what watercooling on one of these would do... oc'd 2Ghz permaboost?

 

[qubit]

But can it run Crysis?

No, obviously.

 

[zzzaac]

It's well beyond my needs. But what black magic does Nvidia use to get such good power consumption...Unicorn blood?

 

[Agony]

Dude, you live in Greece, grab a couple... someone in Germany can pay for them.

Germany must pay much more than this.
Let me think.... Greece gives democracy philosophy astrology architecture Olympic games and many more..... Germany gives 2 world wars ( oh and WV lol ) In my point of view all the world owes to Greece . And trust me money can't pay the debt that all the world have to Greece.
I wouldn't post that but you was off topic to ....so

 

[basco]

if i had the money then who gives a sheit for a few watts moar?
recently everybody is going crazy bout power consumption.
its nice to have both but i have moar fps for moar watts anytime.
but i think we will see this for cpu´s and gpu´s in next future - less power and even less performance.
just m2c

 

[bug]

It's well beyond my needs. But what black magic does Nvidia use to get such good power consumption...Unicorn blood?

Fewer, smarter shaders.

 

[the54thvoid]

Germany must pay much more than this.
Let me think.... Greece gives democracy philosophy astrology architecture Olympic games and many more..... Germany gives 2 world wars ( oh and WV lol ) In my point of view all the world owes to Greece . And trust me money can't pay the debt that all the world have to Greece.
I wouldn't post that but you was off topic to ....so

OT.

Way off T.

But, wtf? you've been a member for almost 12 years and that is only your second post? Are you like some sort of 'sleeper' tech nerd? Did you know we have SSD's and 10 core consumer CPU's? We don't have flying cars yet but Tesla might get us there....

None of this is meant to be offensive - I'm just bamboozled to my euclidean core that you have only 2 posts in 12 years