Nvidia geforce gtx titan x: 12 GB vram is 10 years old 91 comments today
10 years ago, on March 4, 2015, Nvidia introduced the GeForce GTX Titan X. The graphics card was the fastest single-GPU model of its time, but the biggest novelty was the memory expansion. For the first time, there was 12 GB of VRAM on a gaming graphics card. The anniversary of this day is not without a certain irony.
Nvidia Maxwell in full expansion
In the fall of 2014, the first large Maxwell graphics cards, the GeForce GTX 980 and GTX 970 (test) made a good leap in terms of performance and, above all, efficiency, but it remained with 4 GB of graphics memory for the time being. Up to the GTX 980 Ti (test) with 6 GB, it should take a few more months, which set the stage for a new titanium at the GDC in March 2015. The full GM200 601 mm² extension made its debut in the GEForce GTX Titan X (test) not only in Chic Black and the highest Menter of GPU performance, but also with the same Whopping 12 GB Gb Gb 5-Bit Performance, but also with the same Whopping 12 GB GB GB5 PERSONAL PROCESSORS FOR GPU, but also with the same Whopping 12 GB GB GB 5. interface. This amount of VRAM had not yet existed on a gaming graphics card; GTX Titan and Titan Black “only” came to 6 GB.
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Technically, it was essentially a 50% GEForce GTX 980: Instead of 16 streaming multiprocessors, there were 24 pieces, which gave the GeForce GTX Titan X a computing power of 7.1 tflops at the boost clock. From today’s perspective, this is a little ridiculous, even a GeForce RTX 4060 (test) with 24 SMS at 2460 MHz achieves more than twice as many operations per second – and there are not even any significant improvements to the architecture for graphics applications. In spring 2015, however, it was enough to end up in the then exotic UHD resolution by at least 40 to 50 percent before the two strongest GPU models so far. Overall, the GTX Titan X was the only graphics card with two GPU chips apart from the AMD Radeon R9 295×2 (test) with which current games such as Battlefield 4, Metro: Last Light or the Tomb-Raider Reboot in UHD and with full graphic details could be played at least a little smoothly. DLSSS-Upscaling would have helped here, but it was still a long time coming for three and a half years to start the market of the GTX Titan X.
The differences to the GeForce GTX 980 were particularly significant if they fell on the limits of their memory expansion in special tests with high resolution and solid edge smoothing. For example, this was the case in the Assassin’s Creed unit or Middle-earth: Mordors Shadow, where the GTX Titan X, which normally runs 40%, could sometimes become 100%. Then 7 GB or even 10 GB of VRAM were occupied. In most cases, however, there was no problem with the 6GB of the GTX Titan Black or GTX 980 Ti.
10 years ago, 12GB was the future
The massive memory expansion of 12 GB, which was massive ten years ago, promised buyers of the 1,149 Euro GeForce top model, above all. If you have accessed here, the GTX Titan X has obtained the enthusiastic certainty that the graphics card will never compete with the FPS even in new games and high resolutions because the graphics memory overflows – but only when the GPU itself is at the end.
A whole decade has passed since then, but today with the GeForce RTX 5070, a new NVIDIA graphics card with 12 GB VRAM has to prove itself. Since this time the test is about future security, the test clarifies this afternoon.
GTX Titan X Specs Compared GTX Titan x RTX 5070 Architecture Kepler Maxwell Blackwell GPU GM200 GM200 GB205 TSMC 4N Transistors 7.1 billion 8.0 billion 31.1 billion KI-KERNE-192, 6th generation Boost Clock 876 MHz 1.075 MHz 2.512 MHz FP32 Performance 4.7 Tflop Throughput 6 Gbps 28 Gbps -Interface 384 Bit -bandwidth 288 GB/s 336 GB/s Slot Connection PCIe 3.0 × 16 PCIe 5.0 × 16 TDP 250 WATT START START February 2013 MARCH 2015 MARCH
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