NVIDIA Announces The New Titan X

What are you setting your power and fan speeds at to get those OCs I cannot get 175 Core and 535 Mem Stable with 120% power limit even though my max temp is not over 80C. Any ideas?

For 2063 boost I am at +215. Also have +650 memory. 120% power target and 90c temperature target and I have this prioritized. While testing the power in GPUZ says maximum I hit is 122% in metroLL and Heaven, so I would definitely need a modded bios to go much higher. My fan profile is just very basic right now 30c/30% 40c/40%, 82c/75%, 90c/100% I don't go over 75c at all in anything except for Witcher 3 which I did hit 80c, my case is pretty high airflow i have 3 180mm fans at their inaudible maximum. I will get around to tweaking this stuff more today, I was out last night so I didn't have time. I also haven't repasted my GPU yet, I may do so today to see if it changes anything with Gelid Extreme, if I'm not too lazy.
 
For 2063 boost I am at +215. Also have +650 memory. 120% power target and 90c temperature target and I have this prioritized. While testing the power in GPUZ says maximum I hit is 122% in metroLL and Heaven, so I would definitely need a modded bios to go much higher. My fan profile is just very basic right now 30c/30% 40c/40%, 82c/75%, 90c/100% I don't go over 75c at all in anything except for Witcher 3 which I did hit 80c, my case is pretty high airflow i have 3 180mm fans at their inaudible maximum. I will get around to tweaking this stuff more today, I was out last night so I didn't have time. I also haven't repasted my GPU yet, I may do so today to see if it changes anything with Gelid Extreme, if I'm not too lazy.
Thank you for the response. I must have crapped out in the silicon lottery. I am not sure if even going under water will help much as my max GPU Temp is 80C. If 80C is within operating temp specs then would getting it lower increase my chance at a higher oc?
 
Thank you for the response. I must have crapped out in the silicon lottery. I am not sure if even going under water will help much as my max GPU Temp is 80C. If 80C is within operating temp specs then would getting it lower increase my chance at a higher oc?
Its the only thing that will help other than increasing voltage which will make it hotter.
 
Thank you for the response. I must have crapped out in the silicon lottery. I am not sure if even going under water will help much as my max GPU Temp is 80C. If 80C is within operating temp specs then would getting it lower increase my chance at a higher oc?

80c it will run the lowest settings to keep it cool.. 40c is where it will run its fastest! Starts dropping mhz at around 50c and then again at around 60 and so on.

Water cooling ftw!!
 
My 980 Ti was kind of a dud. I could not even get +100 on the memory and I couldn't get beyond 1400mhz core regardless of voltage. I'm hoping my Titan X does better.
 
Mine was on my front porch today when I woke up. I wasn't expecting it until closer to 8pm.

Going to have to wait until I'm done with the IKEA run to play with it.

Fingers crossed for winning the silicon lottery!

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This is the phase I am referring to. I measured that area from the stock Titan cooler and cut it on the hybrid cooler using a dremel with a metal cutting disc and a cone shaped grinding bit.

Have you encountered any issues and what are your temps like? Thinking about doing this myself since I'm impatient and EVGA seems to be super slow rolling out hybrid kits.
 
Have you encountered any issues and what are your temps like? Thinking about doing this myself since I'm impatient and EVGA seems to be super slow rolling out hybrid kits.

I haven't encountered any performance issues. Other than the mods necessary for fitment purposes, I have no problems. As far as performance goes, my temps range from 29 - 31C idle to as high as about 60C under some gaming loads (overclocked). For the most part it runs in the mid 50's.

Also note, I run this in a Corsair Bulldog in my entertainment center stand (as shown in the pic below, in the top middle compartment)


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Routinely boosting above 2GHz with stock cooler and increased fan profile in afterburner. +200 on core and memory with 120% power. Very pleased.
 
I'm at +200 core and +400 memory so far. Runs Time Spy (latest result - i7-980x dragging overall score down, graphics score over 10k) Graphics Test 1 at 2035-2050MHz but throttling on Graphics Test 2 to under 2000 MHz. At times I'm getting PerfCap Reason of Util during that test - why would that be? VRel and Pwr are the usual reasons but during test, Util pops up consistently - is that when TDP exceeds 120%?
 
Util is utilization, meaning the card throttles because it's not being fully utilized.

Pwr is TDP.

VRel is part of voltage.
 
Util is utilization, meaning the card throttles because it's not being fully utilized.

Pwr is TDP.

VRel is part of voltage.

Ok thanks. Bumped core to +210 and saw no real improvement, anything above that and the benchmark crashes almost immediately. Got memory up to +550. Passed Fire Strike Stress Test at 99.2%. It's power/voltage limited at this point.
 
What are you guys using to overclock this beast?

I had to go to IKEA and get a new bed and desk for my stepson this weekend, so I only got around to playing with it tonight.
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He seems to love his new setup. (He's the luckiest 8 year old around, getting my hand-me-down computer parts he will never know the pain of having a severely obsolete computer, like I did at his age)


Anyway, I had EVGA's PrecisionX already installed, and it recognizes the card and allows me to adjust power target, temp target gpu offset and mem offset, but the voltage slider is greyed out. What overclocking tool seems to be working for you guys? MSI Afterburner maybe?
 
Anyway, I had EVGA's PrecisionX already installed, and it recognizes the card and allows me to adjust power target, temp target gpu offset and mem offset, but the voltage slider is greyed out. What overclocking tool seems to be working for you guys? MSI Afterburner maybe?

Just tried latest beta (4.3.0) of MSI Afterburner, but don't seem to have voltage control there either, even after going into settings and choosing "unclock voltage control", and testing all the different settings (Reference design, Standard MSI, Extended MSI and Third Party)

What are you guys using?
 
Thank you for the response. I must have crapped out in the silicon lottery. I am not sure if even going under water will help much as my max GPU Temp is 80C. If 80C is within operating temp specs then would getting it lower increase my chance at a higher oc?

Unless there is some secret way to bump up voltage I am missing, I'm thinking I bot a dud as well. My voltage slider is just greyed out no matter what I do.

The highest I can run stably on core frequency is +160, which - with Heaven benchmark running on a loop - results in a core clock of between 1987 and 2000. This is with the stock cooler and fans at 100% just to predict what I might be able to do with better cooling when I get my water block. Core temp seems to stabilize between 67C and 69C

If I push core clock to +165 the benchmark will start freezing on and off. If I push it to 175 it freezes almost instantly and it isn't long before it crashes all together.

That's kind of a bummer. Going for my first custom water loop, and i probably don't even have a GPU that is going to make the most out of it.
 
Just tried latest beta (4.3.0) of MSI Afterburner, but don't seem to have voltage control there either, even after going into settings and choosing "unclock voltage control", and testing all the different settings (Reference design, Standard MSI, Extended MSI and Third Party)

What are you guys using?

4.3.0 Beta 4 does not have voltage control, yet - so that's normal. Perhaps Precision X is a bit ahead at this point...but for me, I will never go back to that. I'm at a conservative +140 MHz core clock with a user-defined fan curve and all is great with SLI.
 
Unless there is some secret way to bump up voltage I am missing, I'm thinking I bot a dud as well. My voltage slider is just greyed out no matter what I do.

The highest I can run stably on core frequency is +160, which - with Heaven benchmark running on a loop - results in a core clock of between 1987 and 2000. This is with the stock cooler and fans at 100% just to predict what I might be able to do with better cooling when I get my water block. Core temp seems to stabilize between 67C and 69C

If I push core clock to +165 the benchmark will start freezing on and off. If I push it to 175 it freezes almost instantly and it isn't long before it crashes all together.

That's kind of a bummer. Going for my first custom water loop, and i probably don't even have a GPU that is going to make the most out of it.

The real gain I've seen going under water isn't necessarily an outrageously high clock speed, but a far better consistency of clock speed when actually gaming.

With my Franken-modded card, I'm 'only' at 2038mhz. Any higher and it'll potentially crash. But I'm at 2038mhz everywhere, all day, and sometimes more (2100mhz in Uniengine Valley, oddly enough).


Also, we should generally expect core clocks to scale negatively with core count. It's a weakest link system, you can only run as fast as the weakest core, the more cores, the greater chance of a bad core holding you back.

I've always wished we could disable specific cores on a Gcard, to nail down that dodgy core holding the whole card back, but that hasn't happen so far. Ironically we've only ever seen it go the other way. I'm sure even a driver could do it...
 
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Unless there is some secret way to bump up voltage I am missing, I'm thinking I bot a dud as well. My voltage slider is just greyed out no matter what I do.

The highest I can run stably on core frequency is +160, which - with Heaven benchmark running on a loop - results in a core clock of between 1987 and 2000. This is with the stock cooler and fans at 100% just to predict what I might be able to do with better cooling when I get my water block. Core temp seems to stabilize between 67C and 69C

If I push core clock to +165 the benchmark will start freezing on and off. If I push it to 175 it freezes almost instantly and it isn't long before it crashes all together.

That's kind of a bummer. Going for my first custom water loop, and i probably don't even have a GPU that is going to make the most out of it.
I am going to go with a Predator 360 and the prefilled block from EK (just do not have it in me to do a full custom loop, but it does sound like fun). Please let me know how yours turns out with the custom loop and I will check back in with my results from the Predator.
 
Tried out my Pascal Titan X with Elite: Dangerous and Oculus over the weekend and it is noticeably better than it was with my Maxwell Titan X. Higher settings, less lag, clearer visuals. With a HOTAS setup, it is the best VR experience yet. Highly recommend it.
 
Unless there is some secret way to bump up voltage I am missing, I'm thinking I bot a dud as well. My voltage slider is just greyed out no matter what I do.

The highest I can run stably on core frequency is +160, which - with Heaven benchmark running on a loop - results in a core clock of between 1987 and 2000. This is with the stock cooler and fans at 100% just to predict what I might be able to do with better cooling when I get my water block. Core temp seems to stabilize between 67C and 69C

If I push core clock to +165 the benchmark will start freezing on and off. If I push it to 175 it freezes almost instantly and it isn't long before it crashes all together.

That's kind of a bummer. Going for my first custom water loop, and i probably don't even have a GPU that is going to make the most out of it.
Glad to know I'm not the only one with a dud. Mine won't go past +160, either, and here we are reading about everyone going +200...
Tried out my Pascal Titan X with Elite: Dangerous and Oculus over the weekend and it is noticeably better than it was with my Maxwell Titan X. Higher settings, less lag, clearer visuals. With a HOTAS setup, it is the best VR experience yet. Highly recommend it.
One of the things I immediately noticed as well was the smoothness. The reduction and consistency in frametimes compared to Mitan is the best thing about this card.
 
Mine does +190 but will always stabilize somewhere a bit below 2GHz eventually under full load, it's definitely running into the 120% TDP limit a lot which I think is what's holding this card back.
 
Mine's definitely held back by voltage. I can tell that because it'll driver crash almost instantly just 10mhz too far, whereas with power related throttling you're just seeing the clocks drop sporadically.

I need a volt mod! And whilst there's a detailed 1080 one out there, I'd rather not risk it until I see one written specifically for the Titan. Hopefully a bios mod will come sooner rather than later. I get that the voltage is already dancing around at its max anyway, but with my 980 I could fine tune all the boost power levels and stabalise a higher overall overclock. For a $1,200 I wanna be able to fuck with my bios dammit!
 
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Mine's definitely held back by voltage. I can tell that because it'll driver crash almost instantly just 10mhz too far, whereas with power relating throttling you're just seeing the clocks drop sporadically.

I need a volt mod! And whilst there's a detailed 1080 one out there, I'd rather not risking it until I see one written specifically for the Titan. Hopefully a bios mod will come sooner rather than later. I get that the voltage is already dancing around at its max anyway, but with my 980 I could fine tune all the boost power levels and stabalise a higher overall overclock. For a $1,200 I wanna be able to fuck with my bios dammit!

Yeah, I'm hoping too.

The GPU has only been on the market for 6 days though, and in users hands for even less. Hopefully it will come sooner or later, from someone who is more adventurous than I am with their shiny new $1,200 GPU.

It's disconcerting - however - that none of the boards this generation have a bios switch. Flash a bum bios and you are fucked, it would seem.
 
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Yeah, I'm hoping too.

The GPU has only been on the market for 6 days though, and in users hands for even less. Hopefully it will come sooner or later, from someone who is more adventurous than I am wityh their shiny new $1,200 GPU.

It's disconcerting - however - that none of the boards this generation have a bios switch. Flash a bum bios and you are fucked, it would seem.

Is that a fact? Not even Gigabyte? I hadn't noticed that. I have noticed, though, that it's taking an unusually long while for a Pascal bios editor to come along, but then again, I think I've probably been blindsided by the rapid release of the entire 10 series.
 
It's disconcerting - however - that none of the boards this generation have a bios switch. Flash a bum bios and you are fucked, it would seem.

I did that on my prev Titan (hosed power tables), and what happened was that the card came up as unrecognized generic in Windows, no problems flashing again. Also, with a second card for display, you should be able to blind-flash the dud card.
 
I did that on my prev Titan (hosed power tables), and what happened was that the card came up as unrecognized generic in Windows, no problems flashing again. Also, with a second card for display, you should be able to blind-flash the dud card.

Well, that's good at least. Probably not impossible to fuck it up beyond being flashable without special tools to write to the chip, but it is good to know that they are fairly resilient to small mistakes.

I don't have an onboard GPU like many of you though, but I have an assortment of old GPU's I could pop in to do the job if I had to.
 
Just got my shipping confirmation :)

Now all I need is a shipping confirmation for my water block and i'll be all set hahahaa
 
Just got mine installed. I'm not a huge benchmarks person, but I wanted to see where the chips fell relative to my 980 Ti.

3DMark Time Spy (DirectX 12)

980 TI @ 1400MHz = 5501
Stock Titan X = 7349
Titan X @ +175/+250 (~2000mhz boost) = 8312

The actual graphics tests are between 50-70% faster with the overclocked Titan X vs the overclocked 980 Ti.

Time to play some games :)
 
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Card seems really limited by the cooler. I've recurved the fan profile to push up to 65% fan and it still is hitting 85C in a basic game like Overwatch.

Looks like I may need to slap an EK block on it.
 
Just got mine installed. I'm not a huge benchmarks person, but I wanted to see where the chips fell relative to my 980 Ti.

3DMark Time Spy (DirectX 12)

980 TI @ 1400MHz = 5501
Stock Titan X = 7349
Titan X @ +175/+250 (~2000mhz boost) = 8312

The actual graphics tests are between 50-70% faster with the overclocked Titan X vs the overclocked 980 Ti.

Time to play some games :)

That is one hell of an upgrade over the 980Ti.
 
I just got mine today and it seems to overclock pretty well. I have it at +150 and 500 mem(120% power and 90C). That nets me 2025 boost! I dont wanna push her to much just yet, besides playing with a Titan X (Pascal) at 2000 is pretty awesome! It clocks better then my 1080GTX FE!! I didnt see that one coming at all! I too am not a big bencher but I did get:
3DMark Fire Strike 22,000
3DMark 11 28,500

On a side note, i have been big on dual GPU cards for awhile now(AMD 5970, Nvidia 690, etc...). However this time I wanted as close to a 1080SLI performance from a single card as I could get. This is REAL close!!
 
Card seems really limited by the cooler. I've recurved the fan profile to push up to 65% fan and it still is hitting 85C in a basic game like Overwatch.

Looks like I may need to slap an EK block on it.

Just got my card today and while I'm now dying to rip my loop up and install it, I'm going to hold off until my pre-ordered EK waterblock arrives as well. (Kinda busy at work for the next couple of weeks anyway, so it'll be something to look forward to). Coming from a 980Ti SLI setup (both waterblocked), so I expect it'll be a small step backwards with SLI capable games, however, I'm more focused on playing in VR these days anyways, so I expect the single Titan X will nearly double what my previous 980Ti was offering in the performance dept. for VR.

Interestingly, it seems that the new EK waterblock for the Titan X is NOT compatible with Nvidia's new high bandwith SLI bridges, so those of you looking to EK waterblock a pair of them may want to go the hybrid route like nwkrep82 did instead.
 
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Card seems really limited by the cooler. I've recurved the fan profile to push up to 65% fan and it still is hitting 85C in a basic game like Overwatch.

Looks like I may need to slap an EK block on it.

That seems like you may have a problem card...mine doesn't get that hot in SLI (mild OC: +140 MHz Core Clock).
 
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