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Nvidia box artwork is effective, yet simple.
The card is protected inside thick foam and an anti static covering.
Inside the box is a little nvidia branded folder containing a ‘quick start' and ‘support guide' on the card.
The Titan X looks very similar to other Titan branded cards from previous generations. Obviously it is black and not silver like some of the earlier models, but Nvidia haven't broke with the mould and added another fan for instance.
Nvidia haven't suddenly adopted RGB lighting either – but the ‘Geforce GTX' wording seen above, lights up in green when powered on.
The card measures 10.5 inches and it fits perfectly into a dual slot form factor. Discussing Nvidia reference coolers can often end up in a heated debate. I have used Nvidia reference coolers with SLI configurations for years now, and generally tie them in with MSI Afterburner, raising the temperature profile to slightly increase performance further.
Two way SLI is supported and we recommend you pick up one of the new Nvidia SLI adapters to ensure you are running at full performance. More information on this over HERE.
The Titan X takes power from a single 6 pin and an 8 pin power connector. Nvidia claim the power demand has increased from 180 watts on the GTX 1080 Founders Edition to 250 watts on the Titan X.
A single dual link DVI port sits above three DisplayPort and a single HDMI connector. The Titan X is DisplayPort 1.2 certified, DisplayPort 1.3 and 1.4 ready enabling support for 4K display at 120hz, 5K displays at 60hz and 8k Displays at 60hz (with two cables).
The GP102 die is large. 12GB of GDDR5x memory populates the positions around the GPU core. There will only ever be one version of the Titan X – Nvidia partners are not allowed to release their own custom versions of this card.
I may be inclined to getting two 1080’s before I ever get a Titan. o,O
Clocks on your overclock seem a bit conservative – I’ve managed to hold a stable +235 core / 675 memory on both cards, giving me a base clock of 1655 and boost to 1770, with a memory clock of 1420, giving me 11300 effective.
Final boost with their boost 3.0 puts me in the 2150-2180 core clock range. Can’t wait to stick waterblocks on them.
and take the wife for supper , damn! 😉
the joys of the silicon lottery I am afraid. I have recently got another Titan X, and it overclocks quite a bit higher.
Yeah it seems I’ve gotten lucky – really lucky in fact, over the last few years. These tx-p’s of mine both top out near 2200 core / 11500 mem, my previous tx-maxwell’s could boost to a shade over 1550 core, and my 5960x can sustain 5.1ghz across all cores @ 1.42v, and I can push a single core to 5.6GHz. Feels like I get danmed lucky, a lot.
Waterblocks for the tx-p’s have become a more complicated problem though – I was planning on going with EKWB for the setup, but it seems the nvidia HB sli bridge the pascal cards use won’t fit with their pascal blocks, so I’ll need another solution there.
It’s kind of crazy to think that if you notice, it took in most cases until the Pascal Titan X and in others the 1080 to beat the 295×2 in a lot of benchmarks. Kind of neat that even if you bought the 295×2 at full retail of $1500USD (in the states) in took two years, a node shrink from 28nm to 16nm, and a Video Card costing $1200 to beat it in a lot of cases.
Are they not benchmarking Doom in Vulkan?
It’s neat that a single card with only around 70% of the shader cores can be equal in performance and consume half the power.
The 295×2 was fast no doubt about it, but by no means was it particularly impressive. Hot as hell, and needed a beastly power supply to feed it. And thats without overclocking.