The NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan X Review
by Ryan Smith on March 17, 2015 3:00 PM ESTSynthetics
As always we’ll also take a quick look at synthetic performance. In the case of GTX Titan X and its GM200 GPU, what we should see here is a pretty straightforward 30-40% increase in performance, owing to GM200’s evenly scaled out Maxwell 2 design.
At over 300fps even with TessMark’s most strenuous test case, the GTX Titan X is unsurprisingly the top card at tessellation performance. Designed to deliver up 24 triangles/clock, theoretical geometry throughput stands at a staggering 24B triangles/second.
Meanwhile 3DMark’s fillrate tests reiterate Maxwell’s biggest and smallest improvements over Kepler. With a decrease in ALU:TEX ratios, overall texture throughput on the GTX Titan X is very similar to the GTX 780 Ti. On the other hand thanks to improved memory compression GTX Titan X has a pixel fillrate unlike anything else. This in turn is a big part of the reason NVIDIA is pushing that GTX Titan X be paired up with 4K monitors, as it offers the kind of fillrate necessary to drive such a high resolution.
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Urizane - Monday, March 23, 2015 - link
660 and 660 Ti are different chips entirely, with 660 Ti not fully enabled.chizow - Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - link
@stun you're in for a huge upgrade either way. Makes sense to wait though, but I am not sure if 390X will change current pricing if at all. But Nvidia may also launch a cut down GM200 in that timeframe to give you another option in that $500+ range.Da W - Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - link
Usually, the last one out is the fastest.furthur - Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - link
you're an absolute idiot if you jump on this crap. grab a 290 in the mean time and a 390x on release,Michael Bay - Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - link
Maybe he doesn`t need an equivalent of a room heater in his case like you do, brah.Phartindust - Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - link
At 83c, you're not exactly making ice cubes with titan.cactusdog - Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - link
Im not convinced about this TitanX and the last titan turned out to be a bad investment for the $1,000 asking price. Last time, Titan came out (at $1,000) then a matter of weeks later , the 780TI came out with the same performance for $300 less. This time, we have the 390X soon but no doubt Nvidia have a 980TI up their sleeve, so the value of these highend $1,000 cards disappears quickly making it a bad investment. I expect a $1,000 card to hold the performance crown for at least 6-12 months not a few weeks, then get out performed by a card that costs $300 less.Laststop311 - Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - link
it wasn't weeks later it was many months laterD. Lister - Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - link
@cactusdog"Titan came out (at $1,000) then a matter of weeks later , the 780TI came out with the same performance for $300 less."
Actually the 780Ti, having a lot more CUDA cores, destroys the original Titan in gaming performance. The 780Ti equivalent was the "Titan Black", with the same amount of cores, but twice the VRAM, slightly higher default core clock, and fully unlocked compute.
Phartindust - Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - link
^This