NVIDIA Pascal Titan X release date, specs: Company unleashes fastest gaming card for $1,200

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NVIDIA recently made the Pascal Titan X available on the market. They have unleashed their US$1,200 high-end video graphics card aimed at gaming enthusiasts and professionals alike. It is now the fastest gaming card in the world.

VideoCardz reported that that the company decided not to offer sample models to reviewers unlike the previously launched models. There is nothing to expect with regards how the Pascal-based Titan X performs with several benchmark tests in the open, at least for the next few days. However, just a few hours before it was officially launched, a 3DMark Fire Strike Performance and Fire Strike Ultra results surfaced on the Internet. The score was shooting through the roof.

The NVIDIA Titan X gained a score of 26,660 for Performance and 6,532 for Ultra. The GTX 1080 (over-clocked) has only 23,982 and 5,708, while the stock gave scores of 21,603 and 5,043. The GTX 1070 made 17,937 and 4,180, while the GTX 1060 (over-clocked) have 14,232 and 3,260, respectively.

The publication also mentioned that the GPU 's boosted speed comes out as 1.8 GHz in 3D Mark.

NVIDIA claims that Titan X can offer up to 60 percent better performance when compared to the Maxwell-based GTX Titan X. WCCFTech stated that this could be true since it is already 30 percent faster than the GTX 1080, which is already 30 percent faster than the older GTX Titan X.

The Titan X is one of the latest offerings coming from the GPU manufacturing giant. It adopts the Pascal GPU architecture, which makes it the ultimate graphics card, with its GP 102 GPU that contains 12 billion transistors, 3584 CUDA cores and 12GB of GDDR5X RAM. It has a base clock of 1,417 MHz, boost clock of 1,531 MHz, a 10 Gbps memory speed and 384-bit memory interface. It also produces 11 TeraFLOPS performance and consumes 250 W of power.

NVIDIA Pascal Titan X is now available for US$1,200, but it is listed as out of stock on the manufacturer's website.

Fans can expect more performance test results within the next few days.