10 years of NVIDIA TITAN X (Pascal), the GP102-era GeForce Titan
NVIDIA TITAN X (Pascal) reaches its 10-year mark in mid-2026, counting from its February 8th, 20216 on-sale date. It sat at the top of NVIDIA’s GeForce stack at the time and targeted users who wanted one-card 4K gaming headroom plus CUDA-heavy workloads on a desktop tower.
The “Pascal” label matters because NVIDIA reused the TITAN X name. The company had already shipped a GeForce GTX Titan X in March 2015 based on the Maxwell GM200 GPU, with 3,072 CUDA cores and a $999 launch price. Reviewers and buyers quickly started appending “Maxwell” and “Pascal” to separate the two cards.
Source: NVIDIA
“Pascal” itself refers to NVIDIA’s Pascal GPU microarchitecture, which followed Maxwell in the company’s naming sequence. NVIDIA’s architecture names in that era used scientist and mathematician surnames, with Pascal referencing Blaise Pascal and Maxwell referencing James Clerk Maxwell.
NVIDIA priced the card at $1,200, and that number reads differently in 2026. Today we don’t even get new TITANS, which were seemingly replace by x090/x090Ti class GPUs.
TITAN X (Pascal) specs
- GP102 GPU on 16nm FinFET, about 12 billion transistors
- 3,584 CUDA cores
- 1,417 MHz base clock, 1,531 MHz boost clock
- 12GB GDDR5X on a 384-bit bus at 10 Gbps effective, about 480 GB/s bandwidth
- 250W power envelope, with one 6-pin and one 8-pin PCIe power connector
On the design side, TITAN X (Pascal) was the first Titan to adopt the angular, tessellated Founders Edition shroud used across the GeForce GTX 10-series era. It was not the first product to use that polygonal Founders Edition design language, since NVIDIA had already introduced the same construction approach on the GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition earlier in 2016, and reviewers later noted the TITAN X (Pascal) used the same style of blower-based assembly.
NVIDIA launches many TITAN cards in that era. As mentioned, TITAN X Pascal is often mistaken with TITAN X Maxwell or the Xp variant which launched later with a full GP102 GPU.
NVIDIA apparently did have plans for TITAN ADA, but such plans were dropped. There’s a new chatter that the company might revisit the plans for the new TITAN for the Blackwell series, but so far there’s nothing official.
| NVIDIA TITAN Series | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VideoCardz | Name | Launch Date | Architecture | GPU | Memory | TDP |
 | TITAN Ada | Cancelled | Ada Lovelace | AD102 | 48GB G6 | 800W |
 | TITAN RTX | 2018 | Turing | TU102 | 24GB G6 | 280W |
 | TITAN V | 2018 | Volta | GV100 | 16GB HBM2 32GB HBM2 (CEO Edition) | 250W |
 | TITAN Xp | 2017 | Pascal | GP102 | 12GB G5X | 250W |
 | NVIDIA TITAN Xp Collector’s Edition Star Wars Galactic Empire | 2017 | Pascal | GP102 | 12GB G5X | 250W |
 | NVIDIA TITAN Xp Collector’s Edition Star Wars Jedi Order | 2017 | Pascal | GP102 | 12GB G5X | 250W |
| | TITAN X (Pascal) | 2016 | Pascal | GP102 | 12GB G5X | 250W |
 | TITAN X | 2015 | Maxwell | GM200 | 12GB G5 | 250W |
 | TITAN Z | 2014 | Kepler | 2x GK110 | 12GB G5 | 300W |
 | TITAN Black | 2014 | Kepler | GK110 | 6GB G5 | 250W |
 | TITAN | 2013 | Kepler | GK110 | 6GB G5 | 250W |
