Nvidia’s (NASDAQ: NVDA) upcoming GeForce Titan X is shrouded in secrecy until its official launch later this month at the GPU Technology Conference.

But with any product like this there are always leaks. Videocardz has published benchmarks on how the card stacks up to the competition.

Based on these benchmarks, the Titan X appears to have 3,072 CUDA cores, 192 TMUs, 96 ROPs, 1,002MHz core clockspeed (boost is unknown, and the core could be subject to change) and a 1,750MHz memory clock. The memory bus is 384-bit, resulting in 336 GB/s of available bandwidth. We already know that the card will ship with 12GB of VRAM.

Here’s a breakdown of the results:

• 22903 points in 3DMark 11 Performance. A 34.8% boost over a reference GeForce GTX 980
• 7427 points in 3DMark 11 Extreme. A 39.9% boost over a reference GeForce GTX 980
• 17470 points in 3DMark FireStrike. A 36% boost over a reference GTX 980.

The important thing to remember is that this performance is subject to change. The card’s drivers are likely not yet finalized, thus these numbers from synthetic benchmarks are not representative of the final performance of the card.

The card’s exact availability will be announced at GTC later this month. The big sticking point for the card will be its pricing. A competitively priced card will make it a force to be reckoned with.

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Last week at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco,  Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) gave us the first glimpse at its upcoming Titan X card.

Not much is known about the card as the exact specs will be revealed during its launch at the upcoming Nvidia GPU Technology Conference taking place later this month. We do know, however, that its GPU will feature 12GB VRAM, the transistor count will be upped from 7 billion to 8 billion, and the memory bus interface is set to 384-bit.

Maximum PC was able to get its hands on the Titan X and posted a few close-up pictures of it. While the magazine wasn’t able to reveal anything more due to an NDA, we do see that the card has both 8-pin and 6-pin power connectors as well as a bevy of output ports: three DisplayPorts, one HDMI, and one DVI.
As the Titan X will be based on Nvidia’s Maxwell architecture, many are looking forward to seeing the card in benchmarking action. With specs that are sure to be much more impressive than anything the competition can offer, the card should be able to easily chew through 4K and VR gaming — both are very high-intensity applications.

Nvidia’s last attempt at a Titan, the Titan Z, was riddled with problems. Originally announced the the GTC 2014 conference, the card was long delayed. When it eventually came out it was not competitive against the Radeon R9 295 X2 on a price or performance basis. While it was really intended for CUDA programming as opposed to gaming, the Titan Z did eventually find a win inside Alienware’s Aurora gaming rig.

More details including pricing and availability will be available March 17-20 at the GPU Technology Conference.

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During Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4 session at the Game Developers Conference, Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) CEO Jen-Hsun Huang announced the vendor’s latest GPU in the Titan family, the Titan X. Huang hasn’t shared hardware details of the card, but what we do know is that the GPU will feature 12GB VRAM, twice as high as what was seen on the first-generation Titan.

Also revealed was the transistor count, which sees an increase from 7 billion to 8 billion. The memory bus interface is at 384-bit, the same as the earlier iterations in the Titan series. TDP figures were not mentioned as well, although considering that the card is based on the Maxwell architecture, it is likely we’ll see significant improvements in power draw. Nvidia is retaining the metal cooler and shroud, with the manufacturing process of the card also set to remain at 28nm.

The idea behind unveiling the Titan X during GDC was to highlight the graphic capabilities of the card, which was used to drive Weta Digital’s (the studio behind The Hobbit films) “Thief in the Shadows” VR demo running on Oculus’ VR headset.  Nvidia will reveal all the features on offer with the Titan X at its GPU Technology Conference, which is being held later this month in San Jose.

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