The Nvidia GTX Titan X costs $999

On Tuesday, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang delivered the keynote address at Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference, and during his talk he revealed the price of the new GeForce GTX Titan X: $999. The first GTX Titan launched in February 2013 for $1000.

The GTX Titan X is based on Nvidia's latest GM200 GPU with eight billion transistors. The GTX 980, its most recent top-end card, has 5.2 billion. AMD's current top GPU, Hawaii XT, has 6.2 billion by contrast.

We'll be back with more info on the Titan X, and our review, shortly. Meanwhile, check out our Best Graphics Cards guide for more hot GPU talk.

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