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<p align="center"></p><p><p>During today&rsquo;s GDC session on Epic&rsquo;s Unreal Engine, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang dropped in as a special guest to announce NVIDIA&rsquo;s next high performance video card, the GeForce GTX Titan X.</p>

<p>In order to capitalize on the large audience of the Unreal session while not spoiling too much ahead of NVIDIA&rsquo;s own event in 2 weeks &ndash; the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference &ndash; NVIDIA is playing coy with details on the product, but they have released a handful of details along with a product image.</p>

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<td align="center" colspan="6">NVIDIA Titan Specification Comparison</td>
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<td align="center" bgcolor="#016a96" class="contentwhite" width="109">&nbsp;</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#016a96" class="contentwhite" width="85">GTX Titan Black</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#016a96" class="contentwhite" width="85">GTX Titan Black</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#016a96" class="contentwhite" width="85">GTX Titan</td>
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<td align="left" bgcolor="#eeeeee"><strong>Stream Processors</strong></td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">?</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">2880</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">2688</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" bgcolor="#eeeeee"><strong>Texture Units</strong></td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">?</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">240</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">224</td>
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<td align="left" bgcolor="#eeeeee"><strong>ROPs</strong></td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">96?</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">48</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">48</td>
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<td align="left" bgcolor="#eeeeee"><strong>Core Clock</strong></td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">?</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">889MHz</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">837MHz</td>
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<tr>
<td align="left" bgcolor="#eeeeee"><strong>Boost Clock</strong></td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">?</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">980MHz</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">876MHz</td>
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<td align="left" bgcolor="#eeeeee"><strong>Memory Clock</strong></td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">?</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">7GHz GDDR5</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">6GHz GDDR5</td>
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<td align="left" bgcolor="#eeeeee"><strong>Memory Bus Width</strong></td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">384-bit?</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">384-bit</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">384-bit</td>
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<td align="left" bgcolor="#eeeeee"><strong>VRAM</strong></td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">12GB</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">6GB</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">6GB</td>
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<tr>
<td align="left" bgcolor="#eeeeee"><strong>FP64</strong></td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">?</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">1/3 FP32</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">1/3 FP32</td>
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<td align="left" bgcolor="#eeeeee"><strong>TDP</strong></td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">?</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">250W</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">250W</td>
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<td align="left" bgcolor="#eeeeee"><strong>Transistor Count</strong></td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">8B</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">7.1B</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">7.1B</td>
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<td align="left" bgcolor="#eeeeee"><strong>Architecture</strong></td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">Maxwell</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">Kepler</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">Kepler</td>
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<td align="left" bgcolor="#eeeeee"><strong>Manufacturing Process</strong></td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">TSMC 28nm?</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">TSMC 28nm</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">TSMC 28nm</td>
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<td align="left" bgcolor="#eeeeee"><strong>Launch Date</strong></td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">Soon</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">2/18/14</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">02/21/13</td>
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<td align="left" bgcolor="#eeeeee"><strong>Launch Price</strong></td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">A Large Number</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">$999</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#f7f7f7">$999</td>
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</tbody>
</table>

<p>The GPU underlying GTX Titan X is 8 billion transistors, which similar to the original GTX Titan&rsquo;s launch means we&rsquo;re almost certainly looking at Big Maxwell. NVIDIA will be pairing it with 12GB VRAM &ndash; indicating a 384-bit memory bus &ndash; and it will once again be using NVIDIA&rsquo;s excellent metal cooler and shroud, originally introduced on the original GTX Titan.</p>

<p>No further details are being provided at this time, and we&rsquo;re expecting to hear more about it at GTC. Meanwhile Epic&rsquo;s master engine programmer Tim Sweeney was gifted the first GTX Titan X card, in recognition of NVIDIA and Epic&rsquo;s long development partnership and the fact that Epic guys are always looking for more powerful video cards to push the envelope on Unreal Engine 4.</p>
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