The newest version of the Titan X, debuted by NVIDIA last week, is nothing short of spectacular. This high-end graphics card boasts 12GB of GDDR5X memory and 3,584 cores running at 1.53 GHz. I’ll pause to let those numbers sink in for a moment. These impressive specs yield an outrageous 11 teraflops of performance, which blows every graphics card that came before it right out of the water. But before you go throwing that GTX 1080 out the window, keep in mind that the new Titan X will set you back exactly twice what you paid for the GTX 1080 just two months ago. So what exactly are you forking over all that dough for? (aside from the obvious mind-blowing performance). The Titan X is based on NVIDIA’s new Pascal P102 GPU and hosts 12 billion transistors. It runs at 250W, meaning that it burns roughly 40 percent more power than the GTX 1080. Additionally, it includes a DisplayPort 1.4, HDMI 2.0b, and DL-DVI ports – more than enough for any avid gamer.
Just to put things into a little more perspective, consider this – in 2014, just two short years ago, NVIDIA’s GTX 980 was the most premium video card in its collection. Flash forward to 2016, and their budget graphics card is now outperforming what used to be their shining star. Technology – ain’t it grand?