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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As a part of Nvidia’s (NASDAQ:NVDA) GPU Technology Conference (GTC) the company holds a parallel track of presentations and events called the emerging companies summit (ECS). The ECS for next year’s GTC 2015 is coming with an even bigger bonus with the fact that the company with the best GPU technology startup will get $100,000 on the spot at GTC 2015’s ECS.

Nvidia has always been one to promote emerging companies and to support startups in the best ways that they can. In fact, some of Nvidia’s most famous attendees of their GPU Technology conference include GAIKAI which was sold to Sony (TYO: 6758) for $380 million. Don’t forget there’s also Oculus who makes the Oculus Rift VR headset which was sold to Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) for $2 billion as well as Natural Motion who was acquired by Zynga for $527 million.

Obviously Nvidia’s GTC attracts a decent amount of successful companies that want to get involved with Nvidia and GPU technologies and there’s clearly no end in sight. This is especially true now that Nvidia’s GPU technologies have finally found their way into mobile. In fact, we spoke with Nvidia and were informed that companies utilizing either discrete or SoC GPU graphics are eligible to apply for this prize, so there’s no reason to think too narrowly of what’s possible.

Nvidia states that it is looking for seed-funded companies, which have raised no more than $1 million and use GPU technologies in areas such as computing, visualization, analytics, entertainment, automotive, cloud or mobile. But I wouldn’t necessarily limit myself to those categories if you’ve genuinely got a novel idea and think that Nvidia might find it interesting how you utilize its GPUs. If you’d like to have your company enter, just follow this application and get your application in before January 19th, 2015.

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