If you want to have the best graphical performance possible by only using two cards, Nvidia's GTX TITAN X is still the best option.
If you read our previous review of the GTX 980 Ti in October, you may be wondering I bothered with reviewing the Titan X. While in theory, it does make more sense to get two GTX 980 Ti in SLI, the number of games that are incompatible or have issues with SLI or Crossfire is shocking. Some of the year's biggest titles including Just Cause 3, Assassin's Creed Syndicate and Fallout 4 don't work as expected with SLI. Although fixes are available for some of the games, the others still offer no increase in performance to those with multiple card configurations.
Another important thing worth noticing is that many of the popular gaming motherboards only offer two-way SLI and if you want to have the best graphical performance possible by only using two cards, Nvidia's GTX TITAN X is still the best option.
Power
The TITAN X packs a punch with 3072 CUDA cores while having a 12GB memory buffer. The card also features 192 texture units, which powered by a frequency of 1000MHz, output a texture filtering rate of a whooping 192 Gigatexels/sec. You also get 3MB of L2 cache and 96 ROPs.
People wanting to play at 4K will find this card especially appealing because of the 12GB memory buffer that allows for gaming without the worry that they will run out of memory. The base clock speed of the Titan X is 1000 Mhz and Boost Clock speed is 1075 Mhz.
The Titan X showcases Nvidia's R&D with which you can further increase the card's performance with Multi-Frame Sampled Anti-Aliasing (MFAA), a NVIDIA-exclusive anti-aliasing technique that produces an image that looks similar to high-quality Multisample Anti-Aliasing but can be 10-30% faster depending on the mode and system configuration. The best part is that the technology is automatically enabled in compatible games via GeForce Experience.
The card also features Voxel Global Illumination (VXGI), a lighting, shading, and reflection rendering system that is able to produce the kind of graphical fidelity we see in some of the best animated movies. This tech is specifically built for the capabilities of Maxwell GPUs and can hence run in real-time on a single graphics card. It's true potential can be seen in the Apollo 11 demo that debunks moon landing conspiracies.
Benchmarks
As the numbers reveal, the Nvidia GTX Titan X is a true 4K graphic card with enough horsepower to truly experience video games available in the market today to the fullest. Since many of the modern games today fail at properly utilizing the true potential of SLI, the Titan X provides a solid experience without the need for 2-way SLI or anything more. The card delivers a smooth 60-90 frames per second on all the games tested at maximum settings while at a resolution of 2560x1600. When you ramp the resolution up to 4K and throw in a recently released graphically demanding title like the Witcher 3, the card still performs pretty well with an average of 45 fps. If you happen to have a 2K monitor, the card will be able to run everything maxed out at over 60 frames per second at native resolution, which is pretty good. If you are rocking a 4K monitor, you can still get 60fps or higher at maximum settings on a lot of modern games including Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Elite: Dangerous, Alien Isolation and Thief without the need for 2-way SLI.
Verdict
The Titan X being priced between Rs 85,000 to 95,000 depending on which version of the card you get, is definitely a card meant for a very select audience. Even after just a week of using the graphic card, it is no doubt that the Titan X is the most powerful graphic card on the market and will deliver to it's users unparalleled performance on a single card. This card is great for people who expect every game to run at 60 fps or higher at 2K and most games to be able to even run 4K maxed out at 60 fps or higher. As somebody who really appreciates the design and performance this card brings to the table, I can safely say that only those who want the absolute best, will appreciate this card, that is both beauty and beast.
At a glance:
GTX TITAN X Engine Specs:
3072 CUDA Cores
1000 Base Clock (MHz)
1075 Boost Clock (MHz)
192 Texture Fill Rate
(GigaTexels/sec)
GTX TITAN X Memory Specs:
7.0 Gbps Memory Clock
12 GB Standard Memory Config
GDDR5 Memory Interface
384-bit Memory Interface Width
336.5 Memory Bandwidth
(GB/sec)
GTX TITAN X Technology Support:
4-way NVIDIA SLI Ready
NVIDIA G-Sync Ready
NVIDIA GameStream Ready
GeForce ShadowPlay
2.0 NVIDIA GPU Boost
Dynamic Super Resolution support
MFAA support
NVIDIA GameWorks support
12 API with Feature Level 12.1Microsoft DirectX support
OpenGL 4.5 support
CUDA support
PCI Express 3.0 Bus Support
Windows 8 & 8.1, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Linux, FreeBSD x86OS Certified
Display Support:
5120x3200 Maximum Digital Resolution at 60Hz with dual DisplayPort connectors
2048x1536 Maximum VGA Resolution
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2 Standard
Display Connectors
4 display Multi Monitor setup
InternalAudio Input for HDMI
HDCP support
GTX TITAN X Graphics Card Dimensions:
Height 4.376 inches
Length 10.5 inches
Width: Dual-width
Thermal and Power Specs:
91 C Maximum GPU
Tempurature (in C)
250 W Graphics Card Power (W)
600 W Minimum System Power Requirement (W)
6-pin + 8-pin Supplementary Power Connectors
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