Nvidia Just Released a New Card: Titan Xp -- Full 3840 Cuda Cores Chip for $1200 --Yes for Real!

[alcoholbob]

With the wide variance of OCs even on water (some pascal cards can't do anything above 1925MHz--my launch 1080 would artifact above this--some can hit the 2180MHz range, which is a 13+% performance variance), the Titan Xp seems a hard sell since the 1080 Ti is barely cut down compared to it (only 7% more cores), and it's well within normal variance for a random 1080 Ti to be faster than a random Titan Xp that you could buy.

I bought a 1080 Ti reference card for a secondary setup, and it runs at 2166MHz on air, running 10% above my 1970 MHz Hybrid Titan X Pascal (non-Xp). I can imagine someone with a poorly overclocking Titan Xp getting beaten by an above average 1080 Ti, which seems kind of sad.

 

[Carfax83]

^ Very nice. Have you ever water cooled? Water cooled rigs look nice and clean, unless you are like me and run hose all over the place because you're too cheap to get swivel fittings =)

Nope, never water cooled before. Always seemed too risky to me, and too inconvenient. That said, I am actually pleasantly surprised at how efficient and quiet the improved reference cooler is on the Titan Xp. Even at 60% it's very hard to hear over my system fans. I haven't run a stock cooler in years, but now I can see the appeal of them. With my Zotac Amp Extreme, after several hours of gaming the main exhaust fan in my case would be blowing out warm air. But now the air remains very cool, which is obviously due to the fact that the Titan Xp is blowing the hot air directly out of the case rather than into the case like before.

That said, I have a separator bracket that is partially blocking the exhaust air from the cooler. I think tomorrow I will get a dremel or bolt cutter and cut it off

 

[Rubycon]

The reference blower will get loud under heavy load. If you're using the cards for compute and value silence or close to it you must water cool them. You do get benefits though - a proper block and liquid temp at ambient results in full 24/7 OC load < 40°C temps! And your cpu benefits greatly as well. If you swap parts/upgrade frequently it sure can be a lot of work though.

 

[Carfax83]

With the wide variance of OCs even on water (some pascal cards can't do anything above 1925MHz--my launch 1080 would artifact above this--some can hit the 2180MHz range, which is a 13+% performance variance), the Titan Xp seems a hard sell since the 1080 Ti is barely cut down compared to it (only 7% more cores),

Yeah, I must say I agree with you. The Titan Xp is a tough sell, and the main reasons why I bought one was because I always wanted to own a Titan class GPU, and also because it has the full fat die. If it didn't have the full GP102 die, then I never would have bought it.

and it's well within normal variance for a random 1080 Ti to be faster than a random Titan Xp that you could buy.

I'm assuming you're talking about the original Titan XP and not the full fat die Titan Xp? The full fat die Titan Xp is going to be faster than the 1080 Ti, probably by about 10%-15% on average.

I bought a 1080 Ti reference card for a secondary setup, and it runs at 2166MHz on air, running 10% above my 1970 MHz Hybrid Titan X Pascal (non-Xp). I can imagine someone with a poorly overclocking Titan Xp getting beaten by an above average 1080 Ti, which seems kind of sad.

Silicon lottery, the luck of the draw. I haven't even bothered trying to overclock mine yet, as I'm just testing the limits of the stock cooler for now. From what I've read though, a GTX 1080 Ti is probably going to need roughly a 150mhz advantage to match the Titan Xp, and that doesn't consider the games which are going to be more bandwidth heavy.

 

[ddogg]

With the wide variance of OCs even on water (some pascal cards can't do anything above 1925MHz--my launch 1080 would artifact above this--some can hit the 2180MHz range, which is a 13+% performance variance), the Titan Xp seems a hard sell since the 1080 Ti is barely cut down compared to it (only 7% more cores), and it's well within normal variance for a random 1080 Ti to be faster than a random Titan Xp that you could buy.

I bought a 1080 Ti reference card for a secondary setup, and it runs at 2166MHz on air, running 10% above my 1970 MHz Hybrid Titan X Pascal (non-Xp). I can imagine someone with a poorly overclocking Titan Xp getting beaten by an above average 1080 Ti, which seems kind of sad.

2166 on air??? Damn. That's the highest I've seen anyone get on air. Do you get any sort of throttling?

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[ddogg]

^ Very nice. Have you ever water cooled? Water cooled rigs look nice and clean, unless you are like me and run hose all over the place because you're too cheap to get swivel fittings =)

You mean like this?
This pic is a little old and I've since gone to a blue pastel instead of white, added a monoblock etc but yes watercooling builds can be extremely clean if done right. Risk is very low however it is inconvenient when it comes time to upgrade.

 

[Carfax83]

I hacked off the PCIe separation bracket on the back of my case that was slightly blocking the exhaust of the Titan Xp, so now the heat can be expelled without hitting any obstacles.

My idle temps dropped by 3c, and my load temps by 6c. Not bad for 2 minutes of work