Nvidia quietly launches £1,160 Titan Xp graphics card with 3,840 CUDA to replace Titan X

The graphics card for people who want the very best?

Nvidia has quietly replaced its top-of-the-range PC graphics card, the 2016 Titan X, which hasn't even been out for a year, with an even more powerful flagship, the Titan Xp.

Based on the company's latest Pascal architecture, the Titan Xp will cost £1,159 direct from Nvidia, or $1,200 in dollars.

The Titan Xp features a no-nonsense Pascal GP102 GPU, clocked at 1.582GHz, with all 3,840 of its CUDA cores unlocked.

Before today's announcement, only the Nvidia Quadro P6000 card incorporated the GP102 with all cores unlocked, but that costs more than four thousand pounds (£4,198.66, to be precise) and was intended for high-end workstations rather than gamers looking for maximum frame rates.

The Titan Xp comes with 12GB of GDDR5X RAM, and a 384-bit memory bus capable of shifting 547.7GB per second.

The Titan Xp will almost certainly supplant the Titan X, which itself was viciously undercut by the GTX 1080Ti, which offered similar performance for half the price - Nvidia no doubt felt it ought to offer something a bit more at the top-end of the consumer graphics card market.

The card supports DirectX 12, Vulkan API, OpenGL 4.5 and offers a maximum resolution of 7,680 by 4,320 at 60Hz. Overall, it should be around 10 per cent faster than the ‘old' Titan X and about seven per cent faster than the 1080Ti. It will, though, draw 250 watts and will require a PC with a recommended system power of 600 watts.

Physically, it comes in at 10.5in long or 27.5cm.

At the same time, Nvidia has promised to release Pascal drivers for the Mac this months, which means that Apple will soon have an opportunity to start playing catch-up on virtual reality. It also comes as AMD is almost certainly about to release a slew of its next-generation Vega-based GPUs and graphics cards, intended to compete against Nvidia's Pascal-based line-up.