NVIDIA TITAN X Pascal

NVIDIA TITAN X Pascal

About GPU

The NVIDIA TITAN X Pascal GPU is a powerhouse graphics card that delivers exceptional performance for desktop gaming and professional applications. With a base clock of 1417MHz and a boost clock of 1531MHz, this GPU is capable of handling the most demanding games and tasks with ease. The 12GB of GDDR5X memory and a memory clock of 1251MHz ensure smooth and fluid gameplay, even at high resolutions and detail settings. Its 3584 shading units and 3MB of L2 cache contribute to its impressive performance, making it suitable for demanding tasks such as 3D rendering and video editing. With a TDP of 250W, the TITAN X Pascal GPU is a power-hungry card, but the performance it delivers more than justifies the power consumption. Its theoretical performance of 10.97 TFLOPS makes it one of the most powerful GPUs on the market, and its impressive 3DMark Time Spy score of 9589 and high frame rates in games like GTA 5 (188 fps at 1080p) and Shadow of the Tomb Raider (128 fps at 1080p) cement its status as a top-tier graphics card. Overall, the NVIDIA TITAN X Pascal GPU is an excellent choice for enthusiasts and professionals who demand uncompromising performance from their graphics card. Whether you're a hardcore gamer or a content creator, this GPU has the power and capabilities to meet your needs and then some.

Basic

Label Name
NVIDIA
Platform
Desktop
Launch Date
August 2016
Model Name
TITAN X Pascal
Generation
GeForce 10
Base Clock
1417MHz
Boost Clock
1531MHz
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Transistors
11,800 million
TMUs
?
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) serve as components of the GPU, which are capable of rotating, scaling, and distorting binary images, and then placing them as textures onto any plane of a given 3D model. This process is called texture mapping.
224
Foundry
TSMC
Process Size
16 nm
Architecture
Pascal

Memory Specifications

Memory Size
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR5X
Memory Bus
?
The memory bus width refers to the number of bits of data that the video memory can transfer within a single clock cycle. The larger the bus width, the greater the amount of data that can be transmitted instantaneously, making it one of the crucial parameters of video memory. The memory bandwidth is calculated as: Memory Bandwidth = Memory Frequency x Memory Bus Width / 8. Therefore, when the memory frequencies are similar, the memory bus width will determine the size of the memory bandwidth.
384bit
Memory Clock
1251MHz
Bandwidth
?
Memory bandwidth refers to the data transfer rate between the graphics chip and the video memory. It is measured in bytes per second, and the formula to calculate it is: memory bandwidth = working frequency × memory bus width / 8 bits.
480.4 GB/s

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
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Pixel fill rate refers to the number of pixels a graphics processing unit (GPU) can render per second, measured in MPixels/s (million pixels per second) or GPixels/s (billion pixels per second). It is the most commonly used metric to evaluate the pixel processing performance of a graphics card.
147.0 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
?
Texture fill rate refers to the number of texture map elements (texels) that a GPU can map to pixels in a single second.
342.9 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
?
An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy.
171.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
?
An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy, while single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.
342.9 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
?
An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.
11.189 TFLOPS

Miscellaneous

SM Count
?
Multiple Streaming Processors (SPs), along with other resources, form a Streaming Multiprocessor (SM), which is also referred to as a GPU's major core. These additional resources include components such as warp schedulers, registers, and shared memory. The SM can be considered the heart of the GPU, similar to a CPU core, with registers and shared memory being scarce resources within the SM.
28
Shading Units
?
The most fundamental processing unit is the Streaming Processor (SP), where specific instructions and tasks are executed. GPUs perform parallel computing, which means multiple SPs work simultaneously to process tasks.
3584
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
3MB
TDP
250W
Vulkan Version
?
Vulkan is a cross-platform graphics and compute API by Khronos Group, offering high performance and low CPU overhead. It lets developers control the GPU directly, reduces rendering overhead, and supports multi-threading and multi-core processors.
1.3
OpenCL Version
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
DirectX
12 (12_1)
CUDA
6.1
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Shader Model
6.4
ROPs
?
The Raster Operations Pipeline (ROPs) is primarily responsible for handling lighting and reflection calculations in games, as well as managing effects like anti-aliasing (AA), high resolution, smoke, and fire. The more demanding the anti-aliasing and lighting effects in a game, the higher the performance requirements for the ROPs; otherwise, it may result in a sharp drop in frame rate.
96
Suggested PSU
600W

Benchmarks

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
Score
41 fps
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
Score
80 fps
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
Score
125 fps
GTA 5 2160p
Score
96 fps
GTA 5 1440p
Score
106 fps
GTA 5 1080p
Score
184 fps
FP32 (float)
Score
11.189 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Score
9397
Vulkan
Score
77928
OpenCL
Score
62379

Compared to Other GPU

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p / fps
17 -58.5%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p / fps
159 +98.8%
107 +33.8%
63 -21.3%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p / fps
296 +136.8%
174 +39.2%
97 -22.4%
GTA 5 2160p / fps
174 +81.3%
100 +4.2%
GTA 5 1440p / fps
191 +80.2%
73 -31.1%
GTA 5 1080p / fps
231 +25.5%
156 -15.2%
141 -23.4%
86 -53.3%
FP32 (float) / TFLOPS
12.377 +10.6%
11.907 +6.4%
10.849 -3%
10.547 -5.7%
3DMark Time Spy
18152 +93.2%
7479 -20.4%
Vulkan
196188 +151.8%
49235 -36.8%
24807 -68.2%
OpenCL
128527 +106%
82889 +32.9%
38630 -38.1%
20836 -66.6%