The NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X 12GB GM200 Review

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With the release of the GeForce GTX 980 back in September of 2014, NVIDIA took the lead in performance with single GPU graphics cards. The GTX 980 and GTX 970 were both impressive options, offering performance better than the R9 290 (GTX 970) and the R9 290X (GTX 980) and did so while running at lower power consumption and including new features like DX12 feature level support, HDMI 2.0 and MFAA (multi-frame antialiasing). Because of those factors the GTX 980 and GTX 970 were fantastic sellers, helping to push NVIDIA’s market share over 75% as of the 4th quarter of 2014.

But in the back of our mind, and in the minds of many NVIDIA fans, we knew that the company had another GPU it was hold on to, the bigger, badder version of Maxwell. The only question was going to be WHEN the company would release it and sell us a new flagship GeForce card. In most instances this decision is based on the competitive landscape, when AMD might be finally updating its Radeon R9 290X Hawaii family of products with the rumored R9 390X. Either NVIDIA got tired of waiting or the strategy is to launch soon before Fiji GPUs make their debut, but NVIDIA officially took the wraps off of the new GeForce GTX TITAN X two weeks ago at the Game Developers Conference.

At the session hosted by Epic Games’ Tim Sweeney, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang came up front when Tim lamented about needing more GPU horsepower for its new UE4 engine. In his hands he had the first TITAN X GPU and talked about only a couple of specifications: the card would have 12GB of memory and would be based on a GPU with 8 billion transistors.

Since that day you’ve likely seen picture after picture, rumor after rumor, about specifications, pricing and performance. Wait no longer, the GeForce GTX TITAN X is here. With a $999 price tag and a GPU with 3072 CUDA cores, we clearly have a new king of the court.