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Get NVIDIA’s Star Wars TITAN Xp Collector’s Edition For Only $11.38 If Strong, You Are, In The Force

It’s the time of year when everyone begins looking intently at online stores and begins considering the logistics of camping outside of physical ones. Cowering in fear from emails telling them items on Steam are discounted and browsing their Amazon Wishlist just in case that gadget or gizmo they couldn’t possibly purchase just so happens to go down in price. After all then you’d just have to buy it. Only makes sense. You’d be saving money!

As you may have noticed there’s been more than a few announcements related to the Black Friday sales on VRFocus, and there’s still plenty of deals to come, no doubt. The latest, however, comes from tech giant NVIDIA and is not so much a deal but more a social media competition taking place over the Black Friday sales weekend to get you a deal.

It was two weeks ago that NVIDIA first revealed the revealed the Star Wars TITAN Xp Collector’s Edition, special versions of the TITAN Xp, NVIDIA’s top of the range graphics card which launched earlier this year. The Star Wars collectors edition coming in two separate flavours of Force allegiance, a green illuminated Jedi version and red lit Sith version; both of which have different design stylings depending on whether you side with the Republic or the Empire.

Normally these would retail for $1200 (USD), however with the holiday season on the horizon – as well as the release of Star Wars VII: The Last Jedi in cinemas – NVIDIA are giving away vouchers to fans to reduce the price all the way down to a mere $11.38.

From now until Monday, fans are being asked to share on Twitter and Facebook moments from the Star Wars universe of films, games, comics and books where the number 1138 is used and tag their post with the hashtag #StarWarsGPU1138. NVIDIA will then pick their favourites and who knows you may receive a discount voucher.

nvidia-geforce-titan-xp-star-wars-collectors-edition-jedi-order-photo-001Star Wars fans, and more specifically fans of George Lucas’ work in general will be aware of the significance of the number 1138, which began with his first film THX-1138 and continued on. Not just to the THX subsidiary of LucasFilm, but the film name and number 1138 subsequently appears frequently throughout his movies at various points and subsequently the spin-off media as well.

Interested parties can find more information here on the NVIDIA GeForce website. VRFocus will bring you more news on deals and other money off opportunities throughout the week to come.

 

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NVIDIA Announce Star Wars TITAN Xp Collector’s Edition

Last week VRFocus reported on NVIDIA releasing a teasing video for a new TITAN Xp Collectors Edition model. Today, the company has now officially unveiled the new graphics card and there’s actually two versions, both modeled on Star Wars. 

Paying homage to the light side-dark side dichotomy, the two new cards contain hints of the Star Wars galaxy, such as the hilt of Luke Skywalker’s lightsaber, and the light panels reminiscent of the Death Star.

So the Jedi Order GPU has battle-worn wear and tear, with a die cast aluminum cover having the look of extensive, corrosive salt spray. While the Galactic Empire GPU features simple, clean lines, emulating the high-end, orderly nature of the resource-rich Empire.

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The Star Wars NVIDIA TITAN Xp Collector’s Edition GPUs use the NVIDIA Pascal-based GP102 GPU, each with 3,840 CUDA cores running at 1.6GHz, and 12GB of GDDR5X memory running at 11.4Gbps, with 12TFLOPs of processing power. These specifications are exactly the same as the standard TITAN Xp which launched earlier this year, becoming NVIDIA’s new top-of-the-range consumer graphics card.

GeForce Experience users in the US, United Kingdom, France and Germany will receive exclusive pre-order access to purchase the Star Wars NVIDIA TITAN Xp Collector’s Edition graphics cards starting at 6am PT/2pm GMT, on 8th November. The cards will then go on general sale from 17th November, priced at $1,200.00 USD – exactly the same as the standard model, just looking a lot more fancy.

Because they are a Collectors Edition model the retail box packaging for the Jedi Order edition is bathed in white, and the Galactic Empire edition comes in black. Each edition also includes a collectible electroformed metal badge containing the insignia of the customers preferred alliance.

For Star Wars fans who want the best out of the virtual reality (VR) headsets, the new Star Wars TITAN Xp Collector’s Edition certainly does pack an impressive punch. VRFocus will continue its coverage of NVIDIA, reporting back with its latest product releases and announcements, or check out one of our GPU guides.

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NVIDIA Tease GeForce Titan X Collector’s Edition

NVIDIA has today published a new video tease for an unnamed new product. However, within the video it’s clear to see the GPU with the name ‘Titan X Collector’s Edition’ emblazed upon it, as seen in the image above.

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The NVIDIA GeForce Titan X originally launched back in August 2016, and since then NVIDIA has made regular efforts to continually update their range of available graphics cards. The GeForce Titan X Collector’s Edition has no information currently available – indeed, the PR e-mail addressing the tease simply stated ‘…it’s coming’ – but the current suggestion is that the GPU will perform similarly to the existing GeForce Titan X.

The GeForce Titan X range was most recently expanded with the NVIDIA GeForce Titan Xp, which launched in April 2017. It’s highly possible that this new ‘collector’s edition’ could in fact be a remodelling of the GeForce Titan Xp, opposed to the original GeForce Titan X, as the GeForce Titan Xp excels in performance over the GeForce Titan X significantly.

You can see the teaser trailer for the NVIDIA GeForce Titan X Collector’s Edition below, and for comparison sake VRFocus has included the specifications of the GeForce Titan X and GeForce Titan Xp. You can find a more comprehensive guide to NVIDIA’s GPU range in the comparison guide for NVIDIA’s New Titan X, 1080, 1070 and 1060 Graphics Cards.

TITAN X TITAN Xp GTX 1080 Ti
Technique 16 nm FinFET 16 nm FinFET 16 nm FinFET
GPU GP102 GP102 GP102
Architecture Pascal Pascal Pascal
Calculating Power 11 TFLOPs 12 TFLOPs 11.3 TFLOPS
Boost clock 1531 MHz 1582MHz 1582MHz
Base clock 1417 MHz 1481MHz? 1481MHz
Bus 384-bit 384-bit 352-bit
CUDA cores 3584 3840 3584
Memory 12 GB GDDR5X 12 GB GDDR5X 11 GB GDDR5X
Memory Speed 10 Gbps 11.4 Gbps 11 Gbps
TDP 250W 250W 250W
Transistors 12 Billion 12 Billion 12 Billion
Price (SRP) $1,200 USD $1,200 USD $699.00 USD
Release Date Available Now Available Now Available Now
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TITAN X vs TITAN Xp Comparison Guide

If you’re into top-of-the-line PC gaming with a penchant for NVIDIA GPU’s, these last 12 months have seen the company release an incredibly powerful selection of products using its new Pascal architecture. The true giants have only surfaced this year though, with the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti arriving last month, surpassing the heavyweight performance of the TITAN X. So naturally NVIDIA had to bring out something new to head the lineup, coming in the form of the TITAN Xp. So how much more do you get? Well VRFocus has created a handy spec comparison guide to show you.

While the focus is on the TITAN X and the TITAN Xp graphic cards, with the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti providing the performance that it does – and at nearly half the price – it was worth including the card in this summary.

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Comparing the two TITAN’s there’s a fairly reasonable improvement in performance in the eight months since the ‘X’ launched, with more CUDA cores and TFLOPS providing plenty of muscle for any virtual reality (VR) content thrown at it.

The new TITAN Xp card will also work in SLI when using NVIDIA’s bridge, although most VR content – and gamers – aren’t likely to need anywhere near that much power.

But comparing the TITAN’s together is one thing, when looking at the TITAN Xp and the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti on the other hand those specifications are even closer. And while the TITAN Xp is certainly improving those numbers, they might not impress enough users to fork out the extra cash for the flagship model.

TITAN X TITAN Xp GTX 1080 Ti
Technique 16 nm FinFET 16 nm FinFET 16 nm FinFET
GPU GP102 GP102 GP102
Architecture Pascal Pascal Pascal
Calculating Power 11 TFLOPs 12 TFLOPs 11.3 TFLOPS
Boost clock 1531 MHz 1582MHz 1582MHz
Base clock 1417 MHz 1481MHz? 1481MHz
Bus 384-bit 384-bit 352-bit
CUDA cores 3584 3840 3584
Memory 12 GB GDDR5X 12 GB GDDR5X 11 GB GDDR5X
Memory Speed 10 Gbps 11.4 Gbps 11 Gbps
TDP 250W 250W 250W
Transistors 12 Billion 12 Billion 12 Billion
Price (SRP) $1,200 USD $1,200 USD $699.00 USD
Release Date Available Now Available Now Available Now

 

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$1,200 NVIDIA TITAN Xp Now Available

At the Game Developer Conference (GDC) 2017 last month graphics card manufacturer NVIDIA announced the arrival of the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, a $699 USD consumer level card that was more powerful than the range topping TITAN X. Unsurprisingly, NVIDIA has now replaced the former behemoth with a new top-of-the-line product, the TITAN Xp.

As you might expect, the TITAN Xp has more of everything. The Pascal powered card features more  cores, faster clocks, faster memory and more TFLOPS than its predecessor, the 2016 Pascal-powered TITAN X.

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NVIDIA hasn’t gone into massive detail about the specs simply revealing the following:

  • 12GB of GDDR5X memory running at 11.4 Gbps
  • 3,840 CUDA cores running at 1.6GHz
  • 12 TFLOPs of brute force
  • Boost Clock 1582 MHz

That should be be more than enough for most virtual reality (VR) experiences that are available today.

Additionally, NVIDIA will be opening the new TITAN Xp to the Mac community with new Pascal drivers, set to arrive this month. This will be the first time Mac users get access to the company’s Pascal-powered GPUs.

If you want to get your hands on one there’s no shopping around just yet, and as it’s a TITAN it’s not cheap. The TITAN Xp can be purchased directly through NVIDIA.com for $1200 USD.

VRFocus will continue its coverage of NVIDIA, reporting back with the latest announcements.