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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joeh4384 - Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - link
Old news.joeh4384 - Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - link
I bet if you overclock the crap out of this, its TDP shoots north of 300 watts.cmdrdredd - Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - link
People buying this don't care about TDP.Kutark - Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - link
Which means even with OC it would still be at or under a 290x. I'm failing to see the problem here.TDP is really only super important for compute cards that will be running for hours on end at 100% load.
FlushedBubblyJock - Thursday, April 2, 2015 - link
I didn't care either, my $800 FX9590 loved 320 watts and my "uber" two niner zeroX loved double dipping that 320 watts, so I converted my carbon arc Linclon 220 welder to handle the AMD juice load and my DVD/RW/DL/LS melted tight to my CM heavy tower and dripped bubbling fire plastic drops through my liquid AMD loop... bye bye overclockshing3232 - Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - link
It does not make anything, because 290x is a old CardStuka87 - Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - link
You can't take those numbers seriously though, as they are wrong. Anandtech is *STILL* using reference cards for these tests. You have not been able to buy reference cards for over a year now. The current cards are run MUCH cooler, MUCH quieter, use less power, and have better performance.Stuka87 - Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - link
Quick edit, it seems XFX is still selling a reference 290X. No clue why, but they are. You can get custom cooled AIB cards for less. Could just be leftover stock though I suppose.Ryan Smith - Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - link
Using reference cards is consistent with our long-standing policy to use them. Aside from the immediate definition of reference, I believe that it is very important not to cherry pick results. The results you in our reviews should be equal to or lower than the results you will get with a retail card - we specifically want to avoid publishing results higher than what the buyer can get.* We don't want to overstate the performance of a card.* Using the same testbed hardware as us of course.
beginner99 - Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - link
Still it shows the 290(x) in a way poorer light than is actually true. At least that should be stated but better would be to add a AIB card to the reviews,