{"id":99764,"date":"2016-07-26T07:59:09","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T05:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=99764"},"modified":"2016-07-26T08:00:14","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T06:00:14","slug":"nvidias-powerful-new-pascal-titan-x-is-not-for-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/99764-nvidias-powerful-new-pascal-titan-x-is-not-for-gaming","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia&#8217;s powerful new Pascal Titan X is not for gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although Nvidia&#8217;s new Pascal version of the Titan X GPU is powerful, it is\u00a0not built for gaming.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being labelled as &#8220;the world&#8217;s most powerful graphics card&#8221; on the GeForce website, the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/99448-nvidia-reveals-monstrously-powerful-pascal-titan-x.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pascal Titan X<\/a><\/strong> is primarily aimed at FP32 and INT8 compute, not gaming, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anandtech.com\/show\/10510\/nvidia-announces-nvidia-titan-x-video-card-1200-available-august-2nd\" target=\"_blank\">AnandTech <\/a><\/strong>reports.<\/p>\n<p>The graphics card is aimed at the &#8220;prosumer&#8221; market, although it still features a record-breaking amount of graphics processing power.<\/p>\n<p>The card features a massive <strong>12GB<\/strong> of <strong>GDDR5X<\/strong> memory and <strong>3,584<\/strong> stream processors at <strong>1.53GHz<\/strong>, delivering a quoted<strong> 11 TFLOPS<\/strong>\u00a0of peak compute performance.<\/p>\n<p>This does not mean that gaming is impossible on the Nvidia Titan X, as the graphics card is still set to deliver a major boost in gaming performance over the GeForce GTX 1080.<\/p>\n<p>It is important to note that Nvidia may decide to release a GeForce-branded GP102 graphics card in the future, delivering similar gaming performance to the Titan X while lowering its INT8 compute capabilities in order to sell the product at a more reasonable price.<\/p>\n<p>The new Nvidia Titan X is priced at <strong>$1,200<\/strong> and is set to release on<strong> 2 August 2016<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y02kptTItj8\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to How much RAM really costs in South Africa and where to buy it\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/99004-how-much-ram-really-costs-in-south-africa-and-where-to-buy-it.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How much RAM really costs in South Africa and where to buy it<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to 5 ultra-rare and powerful Pokemon you can catch in Pokemon GO\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/nintendo\/99014-5-ultra-rare-and-powerful-pokemon-you-can-catch-in-pokemon-go.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">5 ultra-rare and powerful Pokemon you can catch in Pokemon GO<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Best games you can play this week \u2013 hackers and heads\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/99658-best-games-you-can-play-this-week-hackers-and-heads.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Best games you can play this week \u2013 hackers and heads<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is why Nvidia&#8217;s new Pascal version of the Titan X GPU isn&#8217;t for gaming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":99456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[31,19161,18199,2420,47,7702,19539,45,14875,13978,20718,10053,17817],"class_list":["post-99764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-architecture","tag-card","tag-geforce","tag-gpu","tag-graphics","tag-new","tag-nvidia","tag-pascal","tag-performance","tag-prosumer","tag-titan","tag-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99770,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99764\/revisions\/99770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}