NVIDIA's TITAN series has always been about delivering the highest possible performance to both gamers and developers but the new TITAN X does things a bit differently. While it is still a processing powerhouse with roots firmly planted in the CUDA developer field, the goals this time around are distinctively more gamer-centric.

When the GTX 980 and its GM204 core was introduced to widen their lead against AMD's Hawaii, everyone knew that the Maxwell architecture had so much more to offer. The GM204 was and will always be NVIDIA's mid-tier core that parades around in an enthusiast graphics card due to a lack of pressure from the Radeon lineup. With that in mind, NVIDIA was able to hold onto their larger cores until inventory built up and yields improved. Why prematurely launch something if there's nothing for it to compete against, right? Hence TITAN X has been born with a fully enabled GM200 core and it represents a ?catch me if you can? challenge for AMD who now know exactly what it's going to take to challenge the Maxwell in its current form.