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The latest Pascal driven Titan X is a truly remarkable GPU and it is the first graphics card that we have tested that can deliver a consistent 60 frames per second in many of the leading engines at Ultra HD 4K resolutions with the eye candy cranked. Not even the mighty GTX 1080 could lay claim to this title.
At 4k it would be fair to say that the Titan X is unequalled and is clearly 20%+ faster than any custom, overclocked GTX1080 we have tested to date. You could argue that Nvidia can charge whatever they want for these products but until AMD are in a position to issue some kind of credible challenge in the high end, we can't see Nvidia wanting to drive prices down -as they simply have no competition.
2016 UK market pricing is as high as we have ever seen with Intel and Nvidia charging fortunes for their high end processors and graphics cards. It is amazing to think that the Titan X isn't even a full implementation of the GP102 die – perhaps that is coming before the end of the year.
For those of you with deeper pockets and a new shiny 4K screen, then the Titan X will surely be at the top of your ‘want list'. If you don't like relying on SLI profiles with two GTX 1080 cards, then the Titan X is incredibly capable. It is the first time we have seen a single GPU able to sustain consistent 60+ frame rates at 4k with the image quality settings at the limit.
The Nvidia reference cooler is never going to win any awards for cooling proficiency, but I have owned many SLI oriented systems using these coolers in the past and have never had any problems. I do like how they push all the hot air outside the back of the case whereas many custom third party coolers will be expelling all their heat internally … subsequently rising upwards towards the processor. If you can afford the £2,200 needed to SLI two of these Pascal Titan X cards, then I take my hat off to you. Most of us can only dream of such a system.
Of course there is a large audience waiting on the GTX 1080 Ti to arrive, although we have no indication of a time frame yet. We would imagine that when the GTX 1080 ti surfaces it will likely cost around the £800 mark. This would be £150-£200 more than many GTX 1080 already available, and around £300 less than the Titan X.
You can buy the Titan X (Pascal) direct from Nvidia for £1,099.99 inc vat HERE.
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Pros:
- the first true 4K capable card.
- no coil whine.
- looks great, especially in SLi.
- core seems to have plenty of headroom available, especially if watercooling.
- two in SLi ? yes please.
Cons:
- the cooler struggles a little to cope under load.
- fans don't disable when idle or under low load.
- it is rather expensive.
- temp limit should be increased a little to improve performance.
Kitguru says: The Pascal Nvidia Titan X is a showcase of Nvidia engineering. If you can afford the £1,099.00 asking price it is the ultimate single GPU solution to partner up with a new 4K monitor. There is no competition for this card right now.
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.