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so we've only just peeled our protective plastic off the new GTX 1080s and revealed the fact that we had the baddest graphics card on the block when BAM Nvidia hits us upside the freaking head with its new flagship the Pascal based Titan X like a salmon that suddenly flies out the river and just smack see right in the face indeed the timing of the release was so soon after that 1080 that so many of us were surprised but we were able to get our hands on one just before I could swim away so let's put it through its paces and see just what kind of a beast we're dealing with Intel skull Canyon nook features a 6th generation Core i7 processor and Thunderbolt 3 learn more at the link in the video description so the Titan XP is loaded with awesome new features including USB 2.0 support the ability to burn things onto a CD and full y2k compliance wait what ok well not really but many people have decided to call the new Titan X the XP with P standing for Pascal to distinguish it from the older Titan X which was based on the Maxwell architecture I'm not exactly sure why Nvidia recycled the name maybe they decided that the letter X was just too good of a hype train for them to get off of I mean I understand that that's not the only similarity to the Maxwell Titan X as the two cards look quite alike with their black cooler shroud however the Titan XP does have a bit of an updated aesthetic carrying over the angular look from the rest of the geforce 10 series as well as a smoother plastic finish and the full Titan X name proudly displayed on the left side you also get a metal finish on both the heatsink fins and the center of the blower style fan instead of black as well as a backplate which was absent on the original overall I think the card has a slightly more premium look than its predecessor but of course that's a matter of taste for connectivity you get one HDMI 2.0 B port one dual link DVI i3 DisplayPort 1.4 connectors meaning you can output an 8k 60 Hertz signal if you've got something like a multi 4k set up then there's also an SLI connector which supports the new high bandwidth SLI bridges you'll need one eight pin and one six pin power connector to power said Titan XP as well but let's talk about the heart of this monster the GP 102 GPU which continues with the geforce ten theme of lower numbered GPUs being more powerful although the Titan X's GP 102 runs at a slightly lower boost clock than a 1080 it makes up for this with a whopping 3584 CUDA cores over a thousand more than the 1080 perhaps a little surprisingly this still isn't even the final form for the GP 102 as the Titan XP has some of the GP 102 s CUDA cores disabled you'll need to pick up the new Quadro P 6000 if you want the full fat GP 102 experience but of course that isn't going to matter much unless you're doing something like rendering the sequel to James Cameron's Avatar as the Titan XP is an insanely powerful card in its own right like the Maxwell Titan X you get 12 gigabytes of vram but this is the faster gddr5 X with a bandwidth of 480 gigabytes per second we still don't have HBM - but this V Ram configuration makes this card firmly aimed at GPU computing more specifically nvidia is marketing the titan XP as a deep learning card in case you're unaware deep learning is somewhat of a recent buzzword for using artificial neural networks to solve complex problems using lots of virtual nodes that perform calculations in layers loosely modeled on how our brains work kind of sort of highly parallelized chips like the GP 102 that contained tons of compute cores are quite good for this type of work which has applications and everything from language and facial recognition to the life sciences to helping driverless cars learn how to deal with obstacles and hazards on the road which nvidia perhaps not coincidentally also are working on now I know most of you aren't developing bioinformatics algorithms at home so let's talk about game performance instead the Titan XP beats out the gtx 1080 by about 10 FPS or even more in every game that we tested firmly establishing it as the new heavyweight champ but with a couple of caveats this still can't get always 60fps in 4k in every scenario with the settings completely cranked so if you've got a bunch of money burning a hole in your pocket for no apparent reason and you want to push that many frames to your 4k monitor at those unnecessary settings you might be better off with two gtx 1080s in sli especially as 12 hundred US dollars the Titan X fees new retail price is exactly about twice the price of a 1080 now that's going to be give or take depending on your region but still it isn't the best bang for the buck card in terms of frame rates and I don't think anyone expected it to be with the name of Titan that isn't to say that the Titan XP doesn't have its place if you're more of a prosumer who does GPGPU stuff at home or you want the extra vram for your ridiculous monitor setup that would require that the Titan XP is definitely worth a look but if you just want extra gaming performance you'll almost certainly be better off waiting for the potential GT X 1080 Ti in the previous generation the 980 TI offered frame rates very close to the original Titan X for a much lower price so if Vidia does roll out a 1080 TI somewhat soon it will likely be the Green Teams top-end card of choice for nearly all PC gamers that want to spend a whack ton of money but if you have the money in your budget the Titan XP would be an incredible addition to your arsenal and would look even more impressive in your battle station than that bliss wallpaper that came with Windows XP if you liked this video like it and get subscribed and if you dislike it stop the ever living crap out of the dislike button just like repeatedly press it a lot until you really tired and then I think your point we'll probably get across by then if you want to buy some stuff that you saw in this video go to Amazon and do that if you want to get a shirt you can also click a link in the video description down below like the Amazon one that is down there somewhere and you can buy one of those if you want to talk about things you can go on the forum and dock your heart away instead of clicking the dislike button for like six hours you could ratatatatata about your feelings as well also if you want to see another video check out this one it's our DT X 1080 review a card that is probably much more value than the GTX or the Titan X even though it's still really expensive so if you just got to spend a bunch of money you can pick one of these