- Nvidia's (NASDAQ:NVDA) new Titan X flagship GPU, unveiled at the company's GPU Technology Conference, contains a whopping 12GB of GDDR5 video RAM - twice that of the prior-gen Titan/Titan Black. The number of CUDA GPU cores has been increased to 3,072 from the Titan Black's 2,880, and the core and boost clock speeds respectively hiked to 1GHz. and 1.075GHz. from 889MHz. and 980MHz.
- Not surprisingly, the Titan X is based on Nviida's Maxwell GPU architecture - Titan/Titan Black are based on the older Kepler architecture. Like its predecessors, it's priced at a steep $999, and aimed at a gaming enthusiast market that has been very good to Nvidia lately; GPU sales for gaming PCs rose 38% Y/Y in FQ4.
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Benchmarks show the Titan X soundly outperforming existing Nvidia and AMD GPUs; only dual-GPU setups manage to beat it. AnandTech: "[T]he competitive landscape right now will greatly favor NVIDIA. With AMD’s high-end having last been refreshed in 2013 and with the GM204 GTX 980 already ahead of the Radeon 290X, GTX Titan X further builds on NVIDIA’s lead."
- Nvidia has also launched Drive PX, a $10K self-driving car development platform featuring two Tegra X1 processors said to be powerful enough to "weave together data streaming in from 12 camera inputs and enable a wide range of advanced driver assistance features to run simultaneously." Elon Musk appeared on stage to praise Nvidia's efforts; the infotainment system within Tesla's Model S runs on a Tegra.
- Also: 1) Nvidia has launched Digits DevBox, a small $15K supercomputer sporting 4 Titan X GPUs and aimed at deep learning/A.I. researchers; Nvidia asserts Titan X was optimized for neural networking tasks. 2) More details have been shared about the next-gen Pascal GPU architecture (arrives next year, first detailed a year ago). It supports up to 32GB of memory, and is said to deliver much-improved floating point performance through the use of technique known as mixed-precision computing.
- Nvidia rose 1.2% today to $23.25, leaving it just $0.05 away from its 52-week high.