ORIGIN PC announced today the availability of the NVIDIA GeForce TITAN X graphics card on their award-winning line of CHRONOS, MILLENNIUM and GENESIS desktops for gamers, artists, enthusiasts and professionals. The GeForce GTX TITAN X was designed for the most demanding gaming enthusiast. It combines the latest technologies and extreme performance of the new NVIDIA Maxwell architecture in the fastest, most advanced graphics card on the planet engineered to run all of the latest PC titles at stunning 4K resolutions. Featuring 3,072 cores, 12 GB of GDDR5 memory, and support for ORIGIN PC's professional GPU overclocking, TITAN X is easily the best performing single gaming GPU ever produced by NVIDIA for hardcore gamers and professionals all over the world.

TITAN X is the only single GPU that can actually take on 4K gaming at high settings and deliver gorgeously smooth framerates. It works seamlessly with GeForce Experience, which lets you access the latest drivers and optimize game settings with a single click. You can even record your greatest gaming moments with NVIDIA ShadowPlay to share with friends. Dominate the competition using the power of the new NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X graphics card inside your next ORIGIN PC GENESIS, MILLENNIUM or CHRONOS desktop today!

NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan X from ORIGIN PC Features:
* 3,072 NVIDIA CUDA cores with 12GB GDDR5 Memory
* ORIGIN PC Professional GPU Overclocking
* Up to 4-WAY NVIDIA SLI
* NVIDIA GameStream and SHIELD ready technology
* ORIGIN PC Cryogenic Liquid Cooling Support

Clearly and without a doubt, the GeForce GTX Titan X is now the world's fastest, single-GPU graphics card for PC gaming. With a combination of 3072 CUDA cores, 12GB of memory and impressive efficiency, the Titan X will be able to handle any game at 2560x1440, 3440x1440 and is clearly the best option for 4K gaming on a single GPU. Compare this new flagship product to NVIDIA's own GTX 980, our performance increases range from 25-50% with a good average floating in the 30-35% range, especially in those pixel dense 4K scores. That is a pretty wide delta for real-world gaming results though I imagine many of our readers expected a bit more when you saw the specifications increase by 50% across the board. But keep in mind that the clock speed of the GM200 GPU in this case is running 10-12% lower (at stock) than the GM204 used in the GTX 980, so that explains a lack of perfect scaling.

AMD's competition has two different options. First, the Radeon R9 290X based on the aging Hawaii GPU is, on average, 40-45% slower than the new GTX Titan X card. We actually measured a couple of 50%+ differences (Bioshock Infinite at 4K, Unigine Heaven) as well, giving NVIDIA's new flagship GPU a measurable, and sizeable, advantage over the best single GPU that AMD can offer.

The R9 295X2 is interesting as well - by combining two of those Hawaii GPUs on a single, very power hungry graphics card, AMD can still make the claim of the fastest graphics card. In our testing, the 295X2 produces average frame rates around 25-30% faster than the GTX Titan X. But of course that comes with all the complications associated with multi-GPU system and gaming. You have to worry about CrossFire profile updates for newer games (which are admittedly slower to appear than with NVIDIA's drivers) and you need to be concerned with frame time consistency and the ability for two GPUs to run as smoothly as possible. AMD has done a lot of work in the last two years to help improve the CrossFire experience in this area, but it will never be perfect and we saw several instances of higher frame time variance (Battlefield 4, Metro: Last Light).

Also, take note that, for gaming today, 12GB of memory is decidedly overkill. You might be able to use as much as 6-7GB based on what NVIDIA's testing has shown before the Titan X release, and they claim this makes the GPU extra "future proof" but really...12GB is just a bragging point!

Obviously the one caveat to this is that price tag - $999 is a lot to spend on a GPU that offers "only" 35% better gaming performance than the $550 GTX 980. But, much like the Intel Extreme Edition processors that continue to be released, refreshed and sold, the market proves that these parts sell enough to warrant the cost.