NVIDIA
GeForce GTX TITAN
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Hardware Profile
Overview
The GeForce GTX TITAN was NVIDIA's original prosumer flagship, launched in February 2013 as a Kepler-architecture card that bridged the gap between consumer gaming and professional compute workloads. It sat above the GTX 680 in the product stack and commanded a premium price reflecting its dual-purpose positioning.
The GTX TITAN features 6GB of GDDR5 memory on a wide 384-bit memory bus, combined with a full GK110 die carrying 2,688 CUDA cores and a TDP of 250W. Its double-precision compute throughput was notably high for a consumer card, making it attractive for researchers and compute-heavy workloads alongside gaming. It predates hardware ray tracing, Tensor cores, and DLSS by several GPU generations.
The GTX TITAN targeted power users who needed both gaming performance and GPU compute capability without purchasing a dedicated workstation card. At $999 it was priced well above the mainstream but below professional Quadro/Tesla hardware, carving out a niche for developers, researchers, and enthusiasts who valued the compute headroom.
Technical Specifications
Architecture & Cores
- Architecture
- Kepler
- Process Node
- TSMC 28nm
- CUDA Cores
- 2,688
Clock Speeds
- Base Clock
- 837 MHz
- Boost Clock
- 876 MHz
Memory
- VRAM Capacity
- 6 GB
- Memory Type
- GDDR5
- Memory Bus
- 384-bit
- Memory Speed
- 6 Gbps
- Bandwidth
- 288.4 GB/s
Connectivity & Power
- Interface
- PCIe 3.0 x16
- TDP
- 230 W
- Power Connectors
- 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
- Released
- Feb 21, 2013