![]() ![]() I’ll freely admit to being a bit giddy once I started to process the FCAT numbers but with the card staring me in the face, I’m forced to put myself into a buyer’s shoes. A lot of money too given the $1200 price tag and the fact this is the most expensive single GPU card in living memory. When reviewing this kind of product it is quite easy to get caught up in the excitement of a free sample and massive benchmark numbers while forgetting about the fact something like the TITAN X costs real money. Let me say that again: the Pascal-based TITAN X has the somewhat unfortunate capability to become processor-limited at 1440P with absolutely maxed-out settings. If it wasn’t for the heavily overclocked processor beating at the heart of my system I’m positive many of the games would have encountered a CPU bottleneck at 1440P. However, in terms of gaming there’s plenty to talk about since this thing isn’t a barn burner in terms of achievable framerates, it’s a fully-fledged thermonuclear attack. In the coming days I’ll be addressing what NVIDIA’s new flagship has to offer for professionals interested in more compute-oriented tasks. It is hugely capable yet will prove to be a bridge too far for the vast majority of buyers.įor the sole purposes of this review I’m looking at the TITAN X from a pure and unadulterated gaming standpoint. The reason for this is quite simple actually: the TITAN X stands completely alone in its own little self-made Never Never Land of performance, price, power consumption and future potential. Unlike many of the other conclusions I’ve written in the last few months, this one is actually going to cut right to the chase and leave it at that. It runs hot but I’m positive anyone who puts it under water will realize some unreal performance. There’s also the nature of this direct-sale, reference-only card it will never be available with a custom heatsink and that’s quite disappointing since the stock cooler isn’t meant to hold the fort when the TITAN X is pushed above its predetermined limits. In my conversations with them, there were some vague rumblings of potential over-voltage tools in the future but no promises they would ever materialize. There are however a few limits we need to be aware of.įirst and foremost NVIDIA hasn’t allowed for any software-based voltage unlocking, at least for the time being. Talking to a few other members of the press and lucky system builders who have been testing it, I’m not alone either. Why? Well from a percentage-based perspective it actually has the highest amount of overclocking headroom I’ve seen from any Pascal-based GPU. After spending just two days with this thing I can say that NVIDIA was actually a bit conservative with their out-of-box clock speeds. So if you’ve reached this part of the review you’ll likely know the TITAN X is ridiculously fast but that’s not to infer there’s no room left in its boundless tank of performance. ![]()
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