GPU showdown

Nvidia GTX Titan X Not winning this clash of cards  NVIDIA’S GTX TITAN X is the pinnacle of today’s graphics card technology, a position it’s likely to maintain until Pascal tips up, waving its 16nm transistors all up in the GM 200 GPU’s silicon face. But that doesn’t make it the best card around. At launch, the £800 price tag seemed insanely, almost offensively, high. Sure, it was the first time we’d seen the much-vaunted GM 200 GPU appear in a form we could jam into our desktop machines, and it is most definitely head and shoulders above the GTX 980 in terms of gaming performance, but it didn’t have the same feel as the original Titan. It lacked the supercomputer, double-precision capabilities for a start, and we never warmed…

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