The newest 2016 Nvidia Titan X reportedly came into fruition after a bet between Nvidia's top hardware engineer Brian Kelleher and the company's CEO Jen-Hsun Huang. The bet, which the CEO thought was "crazy," was to create a single chip with "more than 10 teraflops of computing performance" but Kelleher was able to prove the skeptics wrong.
Considered as the largest GPU ever built, the newest 2016 Nvidia Titan X was based on the company's new Pascal GPU architecture. Launched on Thursday, Jul. 21, the Nvidia Titan X was equipped with 3,584 CUDA cores.
2016 Nvidia Titan X Release Date And Price
With the amazingly crazy and reckless specifications of the 2016 Nvidia Titan X, many tech buffs are definitely curious as to when they can get a hold of this product. Well, good news! The Titan X will is set to be released on Aug. 2 for the price of $1,200 and will be available in Europe and North America through nvidia.com, PC Advisor notes.
2016 Nvidia Titan X Specs
Nvidia's new graphics card, 2016 Titan X, is equipped with notably extraordinary specs that even put the powerful GTX 1080 behind its shadows. Listed below are its numbers as revealed on Nvidia's blogpost. But for a spec comparison on all Titan X model, check out AnandTech.
- 11 TFLOPS FP32
- 44 TOPS INT8 (new deep learning inferencing instruction)
- 12B transistors
- 3,584 CUDA cores at 1.53GHz
- Up to 60 percent faster performance compared to other TITAN X predecessors particularly the Maxwell-based Titan X
- High performance engineering for maximum overclocking with 10 Gbps memory clock, 1417MHz core clock and 1531MHz boost clock
- 12 GB of GDDR5X memory (480 GB/s)
2016 Nvidia Titan X: A Luxury?
With a price at over a grand, the 2016 Nvidia Titan X appears to be luxury for regular tech buffs. However, the product is reportedly worth it if one is interested in "what the future of 4K or greater realtime 3D rendering looks like circa 2016," Time reports.
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