NVIDIA Pascal GPU 1080 vs Titan X specs comparison: New GeForce GTX 1080 GPU faster and cheaper than Titan X
With NVIDIA finally unveiling the Pascal GPU 1080 a few days ago, it was inevitable that it would be compared to the Titan X, and the comparison resulted in a few surprises including the new Pascal GPU 1080 being cheaper and faster.
Making the announcement of the GeForce GTX 1080 GPU, the CEO of NVIDIA, Jen-Hsun Huang, outlined how it is faster than the Titan X. He also described it as consuming about three times less power than the Titan X, which is viewed by many as the best option from the company when it comes to consumer-focused GPUs. One of the chief areas of difference between these two cards is in speed, and websites have been pointing out that the GTX 1080 is faster than two GTX 980s that are running on SLI. However, this is just part of a statement that has been released by the company when it announced the GTX 1080 GPU in a livestream, and there are no details about the conditions or the resolution under which this particular result was achieved.
This gain in terms of speed and performance is being attributed to the fact that NVIDIA is building the GTX 1080 and 1070 GPUs using a 16 nm process and is no longer using the older 28 nm process. Added to this, PCWorld points out that the chips have a new 8 GB GDDR5X memory that can churn out speeds up to 10 Gbps.
However, it is clear that the GTX 1080 GPU running the brand-new Pascal architecture is a big improvement over the NVIDIA GTX 980, which is its predecessor and is also priced at $600. As for the price of the Titan X, it is currently pegged at $1,000 so users are going to get a lot of benefits by opting for the cheaper GTX 1080.
When it comes to power usage, the GTX 1080 consumes three times less power compared to the Titan X, which is based on the Maxwell architecture. Also, when it comes to VR rendering, NVIDIA has stated that the GTX 1080 GPU turns out to be twice as fast especially when using the multi-projection feature.