NVIDIA Drops Surprise Unveiling of Pascal-Based GeForce GTX Titan X (hothardware.com)

MojoKid writes from a report via HotHardware: Details just emerged from NVIDIA regarding its upcoming powerful, Pascal-based Titan X graphics card, featuring a 12 billion transistor GPU, codenamed GP102. NVIDIA is obviously having a little fun with this one and at an artificial intelligence (AI) meet-up at Stanford University this evening, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang first announced, and then actually gave away a few brand-new, Pascal-based NVIDIA TITAN X GPUs. Apparently, Brian Kelleher, one of NVIDIA's top hardware engineers, made a bet with NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, that the company could squeeze 10 teraflops of computing performance out of a single chip. Jen-Hsun thought that was not doable in this generation of product, but apparently, Brian and his team pulled it off. The new Titan X is powered by NVIDIA's largest GPU -- the company says it's actually the biggest GPU ever built. The Pascal-based GP102 features 3,584 CUDA cores, clocked at 1.53GHz (the previous-gen Titan X has 3,072 CUDA cores clocked at 1.08GHz). The specifications NVIDIA has released thus far include: 12-billion transistors, 11 TFLOPs FP32 (32-bit floating point), 44 TOPS INT8 (new deep learning inferencing instructions), 3,584 CUDA cores at 1.53GHz, and 12GB of GDDR5X memory (480GB/s). The new Titan X will be available August 2nd for $1,200 direct from NVIDIA.com.

Comments

Glad to see Pascal making a comeback.

[Anonymous Coward]

I thought it had been surpassed by C++, but this is great for everyone.

Re: Glad to see Pascal making a comeback.

[infernalC]

program Woosh(input, output);
begin
   println("Woosh.")
end.

On a bet with Jen the Hsuang

[Provocateur]

So bloody fast it actually made the Kessel run in 12 parsecs.

Re:On a bet with Jen the Hsuang

[dtmos]

Yes, but it had to shoot first.

Judgment Day

[CorporalKlinger]

"By the time Skynet became self-aware it had spread into millions of computer servers across the planet. Ordinary computers in office buildings, dorm rooms; everywhere. It was software; in cyberspace. There was no system core; it could not be shutdown. The attack began at 6:18 PM, just as he said it would" ...at an artificial intelligence conference in California. Judgment day has arrived. Now we just need to perfect time travel.

Re:But...

[bev_tech_rob]

It can probably blow the fucking doors off Crysis.......