NVIDIA TITAN Xp – Redeeming the TITAN X brand with 3840 CUDA cores and a hefty $1,200 price tag

By Mithun Mohandas | Updated on 13-Jun-2017

13-Jun-2017

HIGHLIGHTS

Using the complete GP102 Pascal, the NVIDIA TITAN Xp takes the crown from the GTX 1080 Ti

With barely three weeks past NVIDIA’s GTX 1080 Ti launch, NVIDIA announced another “fastest graphics card” in the form of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Xp. So you now have two TITAN X graphics cards based off the Pascal Architecture, the one launched earlier last year was colloquially known as the ‘TITAN XP’ since there had been a TITAN X before it. And now, NVIDIA has used the same moniker for the newly released TITAN Xp (the ‘p’ is lowercase now). This new NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Xp is based off the GP102 GPU which has been used in the GTX 1080 Ti, previous Pascal-based TITAN XP and the newly announced NVIDIA GTX TITAN Xp. The difference here is that this is the complete GP102 and thus, the TITAN Xp has 3840 CUDA cores with a boost clock of 1582 MHz. Like the GTX 1080 Ti replaced the GTX 1080 in the pricing segment, the TITAN Xp does the same with the previous TITAN XP and is priced at $1,200. Official Indian pricing is not out yet but we expect it to be priced around Rs.1,20,000.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Xp Specifications

A full GP102 would mean that instead of 28 active SMs, the TITAN Xp has all 30 SMs active. We have no official confirmation of most of the specs and we’ve derived these based on the partial set of specs that were released. We suspect the NVIDIA GTX TITAN Xp to have the same base clock as the GTX 1080 Ti as they’ve mentioned the Boost clock to be the same 1582 MHz.

	TITAN Xp	TITAN X P	GTX 1080 Ti	GTX 1080
CUDA Cores	3840	3584	3584	2560
Texture Units	240	224	224	160
ROPs	96	96	88	64
Core Clock	1480 MHz??	1417 MHz	1480 MHz	1607 MHz
Boost Clock	1582 MHz	1531 MHz	1582 MHz	1733 MHz
TFLOPs (FMA) (Core)	12 TFLOPs	10 TFLOPs	11.3 TFLOPs	8.2 TFLOPs
Memory Data Rate	11.4 Gbps	10 Gbps	11 Gbps	10 Gbps
Memory Type	GDDR5X	GDDR5X	GDDR5X	GDDR5X
Memory Bus Width	384-bit	384-bit	352-bit	256-bit
VRAM	12GB	12GB	11GB	8GB
TDP	250W	250W	250W	180W
GPU	GP102	GP102	GP102	GP104
Transistor Count	12B	12B	12B	7.2B
Die Size (mm2)	471	471	471	314
Manufacturing Process	TSMC 16nm	TSMC 16nm	TSMC 16nm	TSMC 16nm
Launch Price	$1,200	$1,200	$699	$699

The Memory has been overclocked further than the GTX 1080 Ti which had a data rate of 11 Gbps, so the TITAN Xp can do 11.4 Gbps allowing more headroom for the 2 extra SMs to squeeze their data in.

Why release a new TITAN Xp?

When NVIDIA released the GTX 1080 Ti, it scored more than the TITAN X Pascal – priced at $1,200 – in a few benchmarks making it the best gaming graphics card for roughly half the price at $699. And the TITAN X Pascal had better specs on paper except for the memory and GPU clocks. This made the TITAN X look really bad. So NVIDIA needed to reclaim the TITAN X brand image of being the top of the line by coming out with this new GTX TITAN Xp.

Mithun Mohandas

Mithun Mohandas is an Indian technology journalist with 10 years of experience covering consumer technology. He is currently employed at Digit in the capacity of a Managing Editor. Mithun has a background in Computer Engineering and was an active member of the IEEE during his college days. He has a penchant for digging deep into unravelling what makes a device tick. If there's a transistor in it, Mithun's probably going to rip it apart till he finds it. At Digit, he covers processors, graphics cards, storage media, displays and networking devices aside from anything developer related. As an avid PC gamer, he prefers RTS and FPS titles, and can be quite competitive in a race to the finish line. He only gets consoles for the exclusives. He can be seen playing Valorant, World of Tanks, HITMAN and the occasional Age of Empires or being the voice behind hundreds of Digit videos. View Full Profile