NVIDIA CEO Talks Titan X, Next-Gen Pascal, Deep Learning And Elon Musk At GTC 2015
In case you missed out on our full review, we have all of the GeForce GTX Titan X’s juicy details chronicled for you all right here. The card is based on NVIDIA’s 8 Billion transistor, Maxwell-based GM200 GPU, and is packing 3072 CUDA cores and a whopping 12GB of memory. As you’d probably expect, performance is exceptional; the Titan X put up the highest, single-GPU scores we have seen from a graphics card yet.

NVIDIA Pascal Will Have 3X The Memory Bandwidth Versus Previous Gen Maxwell Arch.
In addition to having up to 32GB of memory, or 2.7X more than the GeForce GTX TITAN X, Pascal will feature mixed-precision computing capabilities, in addition to its 3D-stacked memory, which alone can result in up to 5X improvement in deep learning applications according to NVIDIA. Pascal will also feature support for NVIDIA’s high-speed interconnect dubbed NVLink, which links together multiple GPUs and can push performance up to a 10X improvement in deep learning with over twice as much bandwidth than the previous generation.
We caught some of the keynote highlights here but we're going to follow-up with some additional coverage of Jen-Hsun's chat with a very special guest. In the meantime, hit play to catch some footage from the floor of GTC 2015...
Another notable that Jen-Hsun took time to break out the dog and pony for was the company's new Digits DevBox. This is a beast of a machine with a quad-GeForce GTX Titan X setup that is, according to Huang, "optimized in every way to wring out every last FLOP" from their GPU architecture. The DevBox is architected specifically for the task of "deep learning" in neural networks. Reportedly, the DevBox comes "preinstalled with all the software data scientists and researchers require to develop their own deep neural networks. This includes the DIGITS software package, the most popular deep learning frameworks – Caffe, Theano and Torch – and cuDNN 2.0, NVIDIA’s robust GPU-accelerated deep learning library. "
And then things got even more interesting as Jen-Hsung invited Tesla CEO, Elon Musk to the stage for a discussion of machine learning, autonomous vehicles and machine vision.
We'll have more detail on Musk's talk with NVIDIA's Jen-Hsun Huang in a bit of video footage that we'll load up shortly. In the meantime, speaking of cars and because NVIDIA's CEO is so fond of the HOT wheels in general, of course the company had a few Tegra-enabled vehicles on hand to showcase their infotainment and car automation chops. Feast...