Nvidia just launched a new, top-end GPU to replace the six-month old Titan X. The new Titan Xp is faster, bigger, and meaner than its predecessor.
When Nvidia launched the GTX 1080 Ti at the end of February, it short-circuited its own highest-end product, the 6-month old Nvidia Titan X, thanks to higher clocks and a much lower price tag ($700, compared with $1,200). Now, Nvidia is rectifying that issue with a full-fat GP102 part — the Titan Xp.
The Titan Xp sports 3840 cores, 240 texture units, and 96 ROPS, compared with the 1080 Ti’s 3584:224:88 configuration. We don’t know the card’s base clock yet, but Nvidia’s press release claims 3840 CUDA cores running at 1.6GHz. It’s not clear if that refers to the base clock — if so, the Titan Xp would be clocked significantly higher than any other GP102 on the market today. We know it packs an eye-popping 547GB/s of memory bandwidth and a 12GB frame buffer.
The purpose of a card like this is simple: At $1,200, it isn’t meant to represent a particularly great deal; it’s meant to serve as a halo product for those particularly discerning and well-heeled customers who want something just a little faster, a little nicer, than everything else on the market.
