Nvidia Titan X announced (1200$, 12GB of GDDR5X memory, 11 teraflops)

[JEMC]

vivster said:

JEMC said:

There are so many odd things with this Titan card, starting with Nvidia using the same name as the last Titan again.

Then there's the specs:

Not only is Nvidia using the same GDDR5X of the 1080 instead of HBM 2.0, but it doesn't even have 50% more cores and the frequencies are much lower.

I'm not a fan of SLI/X-fire, but you'll get more performance buying two 1080 and SLI them, and for about the same money.

Is this any different from the last Titan X? People will wait for the 1080ti with the same power but less expensive.

Also I'm not sure why people are so crazy about HBM. GDDR5X is a good enough step up from GDDR5 and is absolutely sufficient for 4k.

People want HBM2.0 because if you spend $1,200 on the top of the range/fastest card in the world, you want to have all the high-end stuff. And HBM2.0 is exactly that.

As for the 1080Ti, I guess they still have room left for it: Titan X_3584 cores - 1080Ti_3072? cores - 1080_2560 cores. But what about the VRAM?

One of the selling points of the Titan cards has always been its huge amount of memory. The last time, the Titan X (2015) had twice the amount of VRAM than the 980Ti, and both had more than the 980. But this time around, the new Titan X "only" has 12GB on a 384-bit bus, and that creates a problem for the 1080Ti becuase, given that they'd share the same GP102 chip, it will either come with the same 12GB of VRAM, or with half that number, which would be quite strange given that this would be less than what the regular 1080 has.