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Nvidia Debuts New High-End Titan Xp Graphics Card With Mac Support
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Exactly the line that pulled me to the comments. I'm honestly not sure how far back you'd have to go to find a computer limited to 12 FLOPS of graphics compute ability. 90's?
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Sorry, you both have it wrong..
The Titan is a 7-series card
Titan X is a 9-series card (Maxwell) Edit, could ALSO be a Pascal based card
Titan Xp is a 10-series card (Pascal)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units#GeForce_900_series
Edit: There were 2 Titan X Cards?! Never mind, I learned something today. Sorry guys!
What a confusing mess
Not really sure I understand your question. The 1080 Ti is less hardware than the Titan Pascal. They removed components in the 1080 Ti that isn't needed when powering less screen, but still gave it more GPU performance in exchange. This is how the price was reduced. I'm not familiar with anyone using the Pascal GPU's in Macs. The 980 Ti was the last high end one that I saw used. But that isn't Pascal.
Those old 2009-2012 Mac Pros still have x16 PCIe slots, though. With more and more heavy processing tasks migrating to GPU, the ability to run a Pascal card with native drivers is going to extend the life of those systems at least a bit longer.
Don't ask why. I guess they made another one because the 1080 Ti was faster then the previous Pascal Titan X.
I like the way you say "HUGE" because this card is. Which Apple computer do you see this card being able to plug into?
Game developers have stopped making games for Mac because Apple refuses to keep their OpenGL current. Plus, Direct X.
Besides, a card such as this would only be available with a yet-to-be-redesigned Mac Pro, not an iMac. Is the average Apple consumer going to pay Mac Pro level prices just to get a machine that carries a gamer-level graphics card? My guess is no.
That said, the Titan Xp is really overkill for gaming. NVIDIA offers cards like the 1080 Ti that are half the price and can do roughly the same performance. You're literally paying $100 per 1% increase in performance above $600.
Probably a lot earlier, maybe the 50's or so.
I just found this, about a calculator needing 10 FLOPS, and calculators have been there long before computers.
Oh yeah.
There was the Titan X (Maxwell), then the Titan X (Pascal). People started calling the Pascal card the Titan XP to make discussions clear. How din NVIDEA respond? They released the Titan Xp ( with a lower case "p"). Clearly no one told them that the first rule of sales is don't make it hard to discuss your products.
Nope. Xp in the name. The Titan XP is an older card, as nicknamed by customers, because NVIDIA named two different products the Titan X.