A few weeks ago NVIDIA has finally launched the GTX 1080 Ti graphics card. This card was supposed to be the new flagship model. The GTX 1080 Ti is faster than a reference TITAN X Pascal. However after just a few weeks, NVIDIA is now introducing another card that doesn't belong to the GTX-series.


We didn't expect any new high-end graphics card from NVIDIA and this news is quite a surprise for us. This new pixel accelerator is based on the GP102 Pascal chip, which is the same that can also be found on the NVIDIA TITAN X Pascal and GTX 1080 Ti. According to the latest information there is a 384-bit memory interface in combination with GDDR5X memory. The memory speed is higher than the GTX 1080 Ti and the theoretical bandwidth is 547.7 GB/s. As it's been with all the TITAN cards before, also the TITAN Xp is only available in reference design, which means this card features the same cooler as the GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition.

Browsing the specifications of the GP102 chip we find a whopping 3840 CUDA cores and 240 TMUs. For comparison reasons, the TITAN X Pascal and the GTX 1080 Ti feature 3584 CUDA cores and 224 TMUs. This means that, compared to the fastest card in the NVIDIA line-up the new TITAN Xp features 7% more CUDA cores and TMUs. Looking at clock speeds NVIDIA is mentioning 1'582 MHz regarding boost clock, which is exactly the same like the GTX 1080 Ti.

If we were to guess the performance of this card we would say that it’s maybe about 10% quicker than a reference GeForce GTX 1080 Ti. Usually the additional CUDA cores have a linear effect on performance, which would bring a 7% gain to the table. The difference in memory bandwidth might account for another 2 to 3% performance gain, thus we’d be ending up at about 10%. Please remember that this is guess work and future tests will have to confirm or disprove it.

The new TITAN Xp is already available for sale on the NVIDIA website for 1200 USD. Therefore the price is the same it was with the “old” Titan X (Pascal).

	NVIDIA Titan X (Pascal)	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti	NVIDIA Titan Xp
Chip	GP102-400A1 Pascal	GP102-400A1 Pascal	GP102
Process	16 nm	16 nm	16 nm
GPU clock	1'417 MHz	1'584 MHz	1'582 MHz
Memory	12 GB	11 GB	12 GB
Memory clock	1'251 (10'008) MHz	1'375 (7'012) MHz	1'425 (11'400) MHz
Memory interface	384 Bit	352 Bit	384 Bit
Memory bandwidth	480 GB/s	484'000 MB/s	547'700 MB/s
Shader Cores	3584	3584	3840
TMUs	224	224	240
ROPs	96	88	88
TDP	250 Watt	220 Watt	220 Watt
PCB Type	Reference Design	Reference Design	Reference Design
Slots	2	2	2
Cooler	NVIDIA Reference	NVIDIA Reference	NVIDIA Reference
Launch Price	$1199	$699	$1200

Source: Videocardz