Nvidia GTX Titan X Review

 NVIDIA’S GTX TITAN X is the pinnacle of today’s graphics card technology, a position it’s likely to maintain until Pascal tips up, waving its 16nm transistors all up in the GM 200 GPU silicon face. But that doesn’t make it the best card around.At launch, the $999 price tag seemed insanely, almost offensively, high. Sure, it was the first time we’d seen the much-vaunted GM 200 GPU appear in a form we could cram into our desktop machines, and it is most definitely head and shoulders above the GTX 980 in terms of gaming performance, but it didn’t have the same feel as the original Titan. It lacked the supercomputer, double-precision capabilities for a start, and we never warmed to the black shroud of the “X,” either.

The big problem, however, is that card sitting nonchalantly to its right: the GTX 980 Ti. It was always going to happen. GPU history has taught us that much. But the release of the GTX 980 Ti has rendered the Titan X almost entirely irrelevant. The higher clock speeds of most iterations of its younger sibling made the difference between core count vanish, and often delivers the GTX 980 Ti a performance lead. And yet, the Titan X is still $200 more expensive, only buying you an extra 6GB on top of the 980 Ti’s frame buffer.By the time you need 12GB of graphics memory, the next generation of midrange GPU tech may well be making this ol’ ultra enthusiast card look tired.