NVIDIA's New TITAN X GPU "Even More Reckless" Than The "Irresponsible" GTX 1080
The TITAN X series has received a major revision and NVIDIA boasts how utterly "reckless" it is in performance, beating out the other new kid on the block; the GTX 1080.
Based on the new Pascal GPU dark wizardry, the new Titan X has an eye-watering 3,584 CUDA cores, compared to the previous models and achieves a milestone of 11 teraflops, which is fancy tech talk for how fast a computer can process. For example, the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One have 1.84 and 1.31 teraflops respectively.
Nvidia's tech team are proud of being "even more reckless" with the new TITAN X specs, after they called the GTX 1080 as providing an "irresponsible amount of performance."
"Brian Kelleher, our top hardware engineer, bet our CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang, we could get more than 10 teraflops of computing performance from a single chip. Jen-Hsun thought that was crazy. Well, we did it. The result is crazy. And, as of today, Jen-Hsun now owes Brian a dollar."
New TITAN X highlights:
• 11 TFLOPS FP32
• 44 TOPS INT8 (new deep learning inferencing instruction)
• 12B transistors
• 3,584 CUDA cores at 1.53GHz (versus 3,072 cores at 1.08GHz in previous TITAN X)
• Up to 60% faster performance than previous TITAN X
• High performance engineering for maximum overclocking
• 12 GB of GDDR5X memory (480 GB/s)
NVIDIA TITAN X releases in North America and Europe from August 2nd, 2016.
