Nvidia is known for making incredibly indulgent, top-of-the-line graphics cards for PC gaming. During this month's Epic's Game Developers Conference, the company's CEO Jen-Hsun Huan announced the new GeForce Titan X, calling it “the most advanced GPU the world has ever seen”. It's true. The new Titan X is, to no surprise, designed exclusively for high-end gaming, and is comparable to Nvidia's GTX 980 performance-wise, the current single-GPU king.

Based on Nvidia's all-new 28nm GM200 processor, the Titan X has 3072 CUDA cores (more than any Titan so far), 12GB of GGDR5 memory running at 7Gbps (double previous Titans), and an amazing 8 billion transistors. It will deliver 6600 GFLOPS single precision, and 206 GFLOPS double precision processing power (Tech Spot). You'd think that huge amount of memory would mean the Titan X would be dual-GPU, but it's a single.

The 10.5-inch black aluminum card contains 3 DisplayPort connections, an HDMI 2.0 port, a dual-link DVI, and its 8-pin and 6-pin connections can draw 275 watts of power (PC World). Nvidia reports how the Titan X's lack of backplate facilitates better airflow:

“A copper vapor chamber is used to cool TITAN X’s GM200 GPU. This vapor chamber is combined with a large, dual-slot aluminum heatsink to dissipate heat off the chip. A blower-style fan then exhausts this hot air through the back of the graphics card and outside the PC’s chassis.”

The crazy-high $999 price tag isn't for casual gamers, but for those serious about the high-end graphics the Titan X provides. PC Gamer ranks the Nvidia GeForce Tixan X at a 90, then again, there's really no single-GPU comparison at its level on the market thus far. But that's probably why it's ranked so high.