Nvidia Unveils powerful Titan Xp, Mac Support for Pascal GPUs

Nvidia recently announced what it calls the world's most powerful GPU the Titan XP. The Pascal-powered Titan XP comes with more cores, faster clock speeds, faster memory and more number of TFLOPS than last year's Titan X. It has also been mentioned that these might soon come to Apple Mac devices.

The company says that this year, it is making the Titan XP available to the Mac community with new Pascal beta drivers. The drivers will be made available this month itself.

we are also making the new Titan XP open to the Mac community with new Pascal drivers, coming this month. For the first time, this gives Mac users access to the immense horsepower delivered by our award-winning Pascal-powered GPUs, said Matt Wuebbling, global head of digital marketing at Nvidia .

The new Titan XP is priced at $1,200 and includes 12GB of GDDR5X memory running at 11.4 Gbps, 3,840 CUDA cores running at 1.6GHz and 12 TFLOPS of brute force. The GPU comes with VR support and G-Sync Ready support. It uses vapour chamber cooling technology for heat dissipation and is claimed to have a "powerful combination of brilliant efficiency, stunning design and industry-leading performance."

The arrival of new Titan XP GPU and its support for Mac comes days after Apple announced its intentions of refreshing the Mac Pro series with a new design. So it shouldn't come as a surprise if upcoming Mac Pro devices support the GPU.

Apple recently admitted that the design of its Mac Pro wasn't exactly the best . The company also talked about its future plans regarding its desktop computer.

Apple's vice-president of hardware engineering John Ternus said that the triangular design of Mac Pro's thermal core limited the company from upgrading it. Since all three sides were designed to balance heat equally, Mac Pro was not capable of supporting a single, powerful GPU configuration, which would've resulted in increased thermal levels on just one side of the Mac Pro. The company said the new Macs could arrive next year.

 For Mac users who don't need the Titan Xp's flagship performance, Nvidia said the new drivers will also enable support for all Pascal GPUs, including the GTX 1080 Ti, which is several hundred dollars cheaper.

In addition to buying the new card from Nvidia which has a limit of two per customer customers will also be able to order systems with a Titan Xp pre-installed; Nvidia says those PCs will be on the market soon.