Nvidia the Santa Clara, California chip manufacturer has formally announced their latest and greatest graphics card the GeForce GTX Titan X. It is in their absolute top-of-the-line consumer product series.
The new graphic card is the 1st Titan series card that is based on their current-generation Maxwell architecture. This new technology reduces power consumption while boosting performance. The GeForce GTX Titan X replaces the GeForce GTX 980 as Nvidia's highest-performance consumer GPU.
The GeForce GTX Titan X reference card is now the fastest single-GPU graphics card in the world. The card will be outfitted with a whopping 12GB of GDDR5 RAM. Codenamed GM200 it has 3,072 shader units and a 384-bit-wide memory bus, the GeForce GTX 980 only has 2,048 processors and 256-bit bus. The peak power consumption is rated at 250W.
Graphics cards based on the latest GPU is priced at $999 and are already available in the US.
