Is It Worth the $999 Asking Price?

Now that the results are in, one matter is clear: the GTX Titan X is encarmine fast, though this isn't surprising given its specifications. The GTX 980 was already a beast, and so with 50% more cores and memory bandwidth at its disposal, the Titan X was destined to exist a solid performer.

Given that the Titan X is clocked ~12% lower than the GTX 980 at stock, we were hoping for effectually a 40% performance crash-land and thankfully that's close to reality as the Titan X was 37% faster than the GTX 980 at 2560x1600 and 36% faster at 4K UHD.

The Titan Ten was besides 47% faster than the R9 290X on average at 2560x1600 while it was just 36% faster at 3840x2160.

At 2560x1600 the Titan Ten'southward results were relatively competitive with AMD'southward dual-GPU R9 295X2 mainly due to poor scaling. In some instances, drivers could be to arraign, but there were situations where the R9 295X was conspicuously CPU limited.

While the Titan X was just viii% slower than the R9 295X2 at 2560x1600, it was 22% slower at 3840x2160. Information technology's not completely fair to compare the Titan Ten to a water-cooled dual-GPU card, nonetheless the peak-terminate Radeon remains a serious contender for hardcore gamers at $700+.

Now, at $999, the Titan X is aiming at the no-compromise gamer. It'due south ~80% more expensive than the GTX 980 while delivering 40% more than performance, then prospective buyers are set to pay a massive premium. Meanwhile, the new Titan is 47% faster than the R9 290X at 2560x1600, but that hardly justifies spending near three times as much.

The R9 295X2 tin exist had for as fiddling as $700, which is a heck of a deal considering the cooling it comes with, though with the headaches that ofttimes arise from multi-GPU gaming, we could run into someone spending more on what is technically a slower albeit painless and more straightforward solution. Meanwhile, AMD's R9 290X is all the same the best option for those wanting the best value flagship.

There'south no denying that the Titan Ten delivers remarkable performance and despite already witnessing first-hand merely how efficient Maxwell is, we still idea this carte du jour would be more ability hungry than it turned out to be. It's prissy to be repeatedly impressed on this front.

Ultimately the Titan X delivers. It's not a not bad value, but if information technology sells out like the original Titan did then it doesn't need to be.

Pros: Fast, efficient, overclocks well, runs quiet.

Cons: Expensive, gets somewhat hot under load.