NVIDIA TITAN Xp

The NVIDIA TITAN Xp is a Pascal-generation card from NVIDIA's GeForce 10 era, built on TSMC's 16 nm process with 11,800 million transistors on a 471 mm² die. The specification record lists 3,840 shading units, 240 TMUs, and 96 ROPs, 12 GB of GDDR5X on a 384-bit bus, and 547.6 GB/s of memory bandwidth. Base and boost clocks are 1405 MHz and 1582 MHz, with memory at 1426 MHz / 11.4 Gbps effective. The aggregate benchmark score is 19,184, placing it at the 61st percentile of all GPUs, and all listed nearest rivals sit within 0.5% to 0.9%. The card was released on 2017-04-05, sits between GeForce 900 and GeForce 20 in lineage, and is marked end-of-life.

Who Should Consider It

The aggregate score of 19,184 is the anchor for any usage recommendation. At the 61st percentile, the TITAN Xp sits ahead of most database entries but behind a large upper tail. The 12 GB frame buffer and 547.6 GB/s bandwidth point to high-resolution texture workloads; a user with such workloads can draw on substantial memory capacity and memory bandwidth. The pixel rate of 151.9 GPixel/s and texture rate of 379.7 GTexel/s give it strong conventional fill-rate characteristics.

But the benchmark profile is uneven. The Passmark DirectX 12 score is 69, while DirectX 11 is 152 and DirectX 9 is 226. This means users whose applications are DX12-centric will see the card at its weakest relative point. Conversely, the Vulkan score of 87,243 and OpenGL 4.6 support provide pathways for workloads that can use those APIs. The FP32 throughput of 12.15 TFLOPS is substantial for general compute, but the FP16 figure of 189.8 GFLOPS at a 1:64 ratio indicates half-precision workloads are not a target.

In practical terms, the data suggests a card suited to high-detail, high-resolution settings with enough memory capacity and bandwidth for texture-heavy scenes; at the upper end of resolution scaling, users should expect to adjust settings because the aggregate percentile is midrange and the DX12 score is the lowest in the Passmark suite. For users with legacy DX11/DX9 workloads, the card is better positioned, as the Passmark scores show. Because the listed nearest rivals are all within 0.9% in aggregate, the deciding factors should be API support, form factor, and memory capacity rather than raw score separation.

Ray Tracing and Feature Set

The specification record does not include RT core or tensor core counts; the card is therefore not listed with dedicated ray tracing or tensor hardware. The exposed API surface is DirectX 12 (12_1), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4. DirectX 12 (12_1) provides feature level 12_1 support, while OpenGL 4.6 and Vulkan 1.4 cover the non-DirectX path. The display output stage includes 1x HDMI 2.0 and 3x DisplayPort 1.4a. The card uses a PCIe 3.0 x16 bus interface and a dual-slot design. Its dimensions are 267 mm by 112 mm by 40 mm, with 1x 6-pin and 1x 8-pin power connectors and a 600 W suggested PSU. The lack of tensor core data means features that depend on tensor hardware cannot be assumed to be present. The 250 W TDP is part of the power specification.

Benchmark Performance

The aggregate average benchmark score is 19,184. Against NVIDIA Quadro K6000, the delta is 0.5%; against AMD Radeon 780M, the delta is 0.7%; against NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile, the delta is 0.7%; against NVIDIA Tesla K20m, the delta is 0.9%. These deltas are tiny, so the listed rivals are effectively equivalent in aggregate terms. In the 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 test, the TITAN Xp returns 2,372; this is the synthetic DX12 result in the record. Geekbench OpenCL and Vulkan scores are 72,596 and 87,243 respectively; both are considerably larger than the Passmark G3D score of 18,750. The Passmark suite shows a clear API hierarchy: DirectX 9 scores 226, DirectX 10 scores 119, DirectX 11 scores 152, and DirectX 12 scores 69. This is an inversion where the newest API shows the weakest result. The G3D score of 18,750 is close to the overall average of 19,184, while the G2D score of 883 is a minor part of the total. In compute, the GPU compute score of 9,430, FP32 throughput of 12.15 TFLOPS, and FP16 throughput of 189.8 GFLOPS show the card's FP32-dominated design. The 1:64 FP16 ratio is a strong indicator that half-precision tasks are not a target workload. With 240 TMUs and 96 ROPs, texture rate is 379.7 GTexel/s and pixel rate is 151.9 GPixel/s; these rates support the idea that the card is better suited to conventional rasterization than to API-heavy modern pipelines.

How It Compares

NVIDIA Quadro K6000 is the closest rival, with an average score of 19,090 and a delta of 0.5% against the TITAN Xp's 19,184. The gap is within the range of run-to-run variation for database entries, so the cards should be considered equivalent in aggregate performance.

AMD Radeon 780M scores 19,057, 0.7% behind. The delta is identical to that of the next rival, which reinforces the grouping at the top of the nearest-rival list. The aggregate data does not separate these cards by any meaningful margin.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile scores 19,049, also 0.7% behind. Despite the different product category implied by its name, the aggregate score is almost the same as the AMD part above. Mobile-oriented positioning does not change the numerical outcome.

NVIDIA Tesla K20m scores 19,011, 0.9% behind, the largest delta in the nearest-rival set. Even this largest gap remains a small fraction of the aggregate score, so the TITAN Xp's advantage is not substantial enough to dominate the Tesla part.

FAQ

Q: What is the aggregate performance position of the NVIDIA TITAN Xp?

A: The average benchmark score is 19,184, which puts it at the 61st percentile of all GPUs. The nearest rival, NVIDIA Quadro K6000, is 0.5% behind at 19,090.

Q: Does the TITAN Xp include dedicated ray tracing or tensor cores?

A: No RT core or tensor core counts are present in the specification record. The supported APIs are DirectX 12 (12_1), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4, so feature behavior is limited to those APIs.

Q: What is the memory configuration?

A: It is 12 GB of GDDR5X on a 384-bit bus, with a memory clock of 1426 MHz / 11.4 Gbps effective and 547.6 GB/s bandwidth.

Q: How does the DirectX 12 score compare to older DirectX scores?

A: In Passmark, DirectX 9 is 226, DirectX 10 is 119, DirectX 11 is 152, and DirectX 12 is 69. The DirectX 12 result is the lowest of the listed DirectX results.

Q: What form factor and power connectors does the card use?

A: The card is dual-slot, 267 mm long, 112 mm high, and 40 mm wide. Power is supplied through 1x 6-pin and 1x 8-pin connectors, with a 600 W suggested PSU.

Q: What compute rates are listed?

A: FP32 is listed at 12.15 TFLOPS, while FP16 is 189.8 GFLOPS at a 1:64 ratio. The GPU compute Passmark score is 9,430.