Yes there is a new king of the hill in the consumer video card arena, and that is the new NVIDIA TITAN X. I had expected this to take a while to come out after them releasing the new 10 series, 1080, 1070 and 1060, but it was quickly announced and is coming out August 2nd! Wow! And the specs are amazing!
GPU Engine Specs TITAN X GTX 1080
NVIDIA CUDA® Cores 3584 2560
Base Clock (MHz) 1417 1607
Boost Clock (MHz) 1531 1733
Memory Specs:
GbpsMemory Speed 10 10
GDDR5XStandard Memory Config 12 GB 8 GB
Memory Interface Width 384-bit 256 bit
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec) 480 320
Thermal and Power
Maximum GPU Temperature (in C) 94 94
Graphics Card Power (W) 250 W 180 W
Supplementary Power Connectors 8 pin and 6 pin 8 pin
That is an extra 1024 CUDA Cores for Adobe Creative Suite to play with, and an extra 4GB of faster RAM for not that much more power draw!
If you have been reading my posts, I have come to the realization that my next computer won’t be a Mac, and have been looking at custom build PC’s like Origin PC or Puget Systems. For a bit I was thinking that maybe 2 SLI GTX 1080’s would be the answer for my CUDA needs, but that would basically eat all of my PCI slots. And I likely need some sort of Black Magic Design card to kick out video at least to an HD Monitor for editing, if not an Intensity Pro 4k. And while I can get a USB 3,1 external Raid for hard drives (as I likely won’t get a ThunderBolt 3 Motherboard, unless I decide to build for myself), so I could live without a raid controller I would like need a Firefire PCI board to deal with my all my old hard drives until I can afford new enclosures.
So it looks like the new NVIDIA TITAN X would be my $1200 card of choice.