Pascal Titan-X Launch

[spiralz]

Damn my lack of willpower, second card ordered.

Best

Wulf

ha 2! Nice one..... took me about 2 mins to buckle and somehow decide a TX was a good idea....

 

[Gerard]

If folks aren't brave enough to do a custom loop, evga are working on a hybrid cooler for this titan too:

http://forums.evga.com/Petion-for-EVGA-TITAN-X-HYBRID-m2518532.aspx#2520221

From a week ago.

With a bit of luck these get into production much quicker than their last hybrid coolers. The titan x (original) and 980 ti ones took forever to show up and even then it was in tiny amounts.

 

[fantasticCG]

Is there a bigger card still to come in the pascal series?

 

[N19h7m4r3]

ha 2! Nice one..... took me about 2 mins to buckle and somehow decide a TX was a good idea....

I was too close to doing that; mostly because I'm still on a 6670. Decided to wait for that little Powercolor 480 to keep me busy until Full Fat Pascal, and Vega arrive.

The restraint is hurting me

 

[spiralz]

EKWB blocks be end of august i think wonder if WC will help much with the boost clocks?

 

[drunkenmaster]

I agree it's disappointing to see such a small top end card, but I have no idea what you're talking about with regards to memory. Lack of HBM is not what is holding anything back. :/ HBM2 would be nice, but 12GB of 10Gb/s GDDR5X is not going to be posing any meaningful bandwidth limitations.

And given the efficiency of Pascal, calling it a power limitation where HBM2 would somehow 'make the difference' also seems quite weird.

You really don't understand it do you, it's already rated at 250W, it's a 384bit bus and a small core, to go bigger on the core, more shaders... requires more bandwidth. It's already 250W, so add another 25W for memory bandwidth and another 25W for more shaders and it's a 300W part and it's become 550mm^2.

Replace the gddr5x with HBM2 and you've got lets say 630GB/s bandwidth, you've saved 30mm^2 of die space, you've dropped power down to 200W. Now add in 100mm^2 of shaders/rops/tmus and you're back at 250W and you have more than enough bandwidth to feed it.

384bit bus is limited by the power they wanted to use, the shader count is limited by the power they wanted to use and the available bandwidth as well. HBM2 alleviates both issues, bandwidth and reduces power significantly allowing for more power for the GPU.

 

[smilertoo]

I will keep holding out for 1080 to hit £350, it will get there eventually.

 

[spiralz]

I was too close to doing that; mostly because I'm still on a 6670. Decided to wait for that little Powercolor 480 to keep me busy until Full Fat Pascal, and Vega arrive.

The restraint is hurting me

Yeah its totally Samsung's fault if there damn 4k TV didn't look so good for gaming I wouldn't have needed it.

perfectly happy with 1080 for ultra wide

 

[nashathedog]

My (Maxwell) Titan X's do run like a dream in SLI.

Tssk, they're so last year

 

[Combat Fighter]

EKWB blocks be end of august i think wonder if WC will help much with the boost clocks?

I hope so. @2Ghz+ I'll be happy with that.

The silence will also be welcome as well.

 

[N19h7m4r3]

Yeah its totally Samsung's fault if there damn 4k TV didn't look so good for gaming I wouldn't have needed it.

perfectly happy with 1080 for ultra wide

Let's hope AMD's Vega is decent enough to warrant a full fat Pascal chip, and drives down some prices.

I'd like to have a single very powerful GPU after 980Ti SLI since their release, but the new TX price is just horrific. Still temping though for that performance

 

[Gerard]

I'm amazed that jayz2cents guy doesn't seem to have got one, considering NVidia sent him 4 titan x (2015) cards for his personal system.

Tom Logan also appears not to have got one, that's despite his videos being nothing but a NVidia advertisement in the background.

 

[VEGACORTEZ]

Already owning a GTX 1080 overclocked for 4k which is great but these seem mighty tempting for extra fps but £1100 extra after a few months, perhaps not.

In the end as my monitor is 32" I mucked around with custom resolutions & 3248 x 1827p gives me a 1:1 27" exact screen size, then I just pulled my monitor closer & now I have those extra fps, about 10 or so extra per game without needing to spend any cash.

 

[Griffildur]

wow, I've just seen the price and happy days. I expected it to come in at around £1050 and I wasn't far off at all. Hopefully we get to see a 1080 TI around £800 at some point this or next year

 

[tyler_jrb]

EKWB blocks be end of august i think wonder if WC will help much with the boost clocks?

They are already in the works yeah. Nvidia selling only and I won't take the risk of the card blowing or developing a fault. Then be left with an expensive paper weight.

That's why I won't be buying the pascal TX. £1099 ain't bad though, I'm suprised at that at least.

 

[Combat Fighter]

Nice one EK!

 

[Besty]

Is there a bigger card still to come in the pascal series?

Yep. One more.

 

[MooMoo444]

Is there a bigger card still to come in the pascal series?

Maybe, maybe not. We don't know.

We do know that some of the cores are disabled on the new TX though. If Nvidia can get the full chip working efficiently, then I guess we will see one.

 

[Vore]

Nice one EK!

Ooh that is great news, quicker than I expected.

 

[Glanza]

That's not too long a wait. No doubt be £90-£100 for the block.