No leaks, no rumours. Nothing. Nvidia has managed to pull the bag over everyone’s head and surprise us with a brand new GPU at GDC. Forget the GTX 980 as the flagship Maxwell card. There’s a new kid on the block, and his name is the Titan X.
That’s right, there’s already a Titan version of the Maxwell architecture, and it’s going to be one hell of a monster. The massive graphics card, which was revealed during Epic’s keynote at GDC, will feature an overzealous 12GB of memory and 8 billion transistors. The card is single-headedly running the extremely intensive “Thief in the Shadows” demo, with a buttery 90FPS being delivered to the Oculus Rift.
Aside from that, there’s very little else on the card. Some other folks have started piecing together rumours that were previously thought to be related to different cards, suggesting that the Titan X will feature a 386-bit wide memory bus, 336 GB/s memory bandwidth and more. Nvidia just walked on stage, lifted the curtain and left. Until they’re ready to talk, we’ll just have to wait and speculate.
That said, I wouldn’ expect something like this to be cheap. The last time Nvidia launched a card like this, the Titan Z, it retailed for $3000. Don’t expect anything less from Nvidia’s new flagship.
Last Updated: March 4, 2015
Tiaan Pat
March 5, 2015 at 07:06
Man I would love that GPU. But for that money it can stay on the shelf. Wouldn’t mind i anyone can donate it to me… it’s for a good cause!!
Ranting Raptor
March 5, 2015 at 07:52
How many kidneys you willing to sell?
Tiaan Pat
March 5, 2015 at 08:23
I am willing to give 1 and a half!!! I can live with just half a kidney!
Matthew Holliday
March 5, 2015 at 09:32
people put these on shelves?
tell me which stores put these on shelves, i need to pay them a visit.
Tiaan Pat
March 5, 2015 at 09:42
Well at the moment they are not on shelves as Nvidia just announced the card.
Matthew Holliday
March 5, 2015 at 10:16
i am willing to accept the locations of stores with the titan Z on the shelves aswell
Tiaan Pat
March 5, 2015 at 10:52
http://www.landmarkpc.co.za/store/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=titan+z&x=0&y=0
There, now stick your sarcasm where the sun don’t shine!
Matthew Holliday
March 5, 2015 at 11:07
but no shelves, warehouses are difficult to steal from :'<
Tiaan Pat
March 5, 2015 at 11:22
Um dude really? Landmarkpc is a shop in Pinelands CT, that you can walk into, not a warehouse! The trolling is real
Lothy
March 5, 2015 at 07:22
wow, that is some card! It looks like it needs a medupi to run that thing!
Ranting Raptor
March 5, 2015 at 07:52
Rather it looks like it could run Medupi!
Hammersteyn
March 5, 2015 at 07:33
That’s like 6 PS4s o_O
Ranting Raptor
March 5, 2015 at 07:50
and probably 60 times the price lol
Ranting Raptor
March 5, 2015 at 07:50
Genugtig 0_o
Ranting Raptor
March 5, 2015 at 07:51
“Nvidia just walked on stage, lifted the curtain and left.”
If there were no Michael Bay style explosions while walking off, then it was a crappy reveal…..
hogachenn
March 5, 2015 at 07:59
Reading this in 2021 and commenting: Lol – 12 GB memory and 8 Billion Transistors and they call it “one hell of a monster”
Kromas Votes LAG WCMovie Event
March 5, 2015 at 09:15
12GB memory breakdown. 2GB for onboard processing. 2GB for heat monitoring firmware. 6GB for special NSA approved spy-chip. and Finally 4GB for actually playing games.
😛
Sparrow88
March 5, 2015 at 09:37
Do you even math?
Kromas Votes LAG WCMovie Event
March 5, 2015 at 09:52
Official Nvidia statement “It is a feature but our marketing dept screwed up”
CrasH
March 5, 2015 at 09:57
3.5GB of DDR5 and the rest DDR1?
Kromas Votes LAG WCMovie Event
March 5, 2015 at 10:59
just stock SDRAM cause DDR is too expensive. 😛
Deceased
March 5, 2015 at 10:14
I can’t upvote as guest anymore 🙁
CrasH
March 5, 2015 at 09:56
Think AMD are banging their heads against a wall now…
They were likely trying to do the catch up and announce of their new flagship to counter the 980 series and now they already lagging again before even catching up…
Joe Black
March 5, 2015 at 10:47
The Titan Z cost $3000. The 295×2 blew it out of the water and they had to reduce the price to $1500.
The same will happen to the X.
NVidia smokes their supporters in that segment.
Joe Black
March 5, 2015 at 10:24
Surprise! Something nobody can afford to buy!
Silliness.
Jack
March 5, 2015 at 14:16
amd fanboy much ? 😀
Joe Black
March 5, 2015 at 15:03
Very much.