NVIDIA TITAN RTX
The NVIDIA TITAN RTX is a graphics card released on December 18, 2018, built on the Turing architecture. It has 4,608 shading units, 24 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 384-bit bus, 672.0 GB/s of memory bandwidth, a boost clock of 1.77 GHz and a 280 W board power rating. It scores 19,868 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 12.1, OpenGL 4.6 and CUDA compute capability 7.5.
Depth: 44 recorded fields, 12 features, 5 PassMark workloads
Specification data last verified October 1, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark, NVIDIA Developer: CUDA GPUs, NVIDIA Developer: Video Encode and Decode GPU Support Matrix and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 10 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.
Performance
The NVIDIA TITAN RTX scores 19,868 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 96.6% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #95), measured across 284 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 837.
PassMark workload tests
In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA TITAN RTX averages DirectX 9 219 fps, DirectX 10 141 fps, DirectX 11 187 fps, DirectX 12 83 fps and GPU Compute 9,523 ops/s, across 284 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.
As stated by PassMark
PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA TITAN RTX states the PCIe 3.0 x16 interface, up to 24 GB of memory, a core clock of 1350 MHz, DirectX 12.1 and OpenGL 4.6, first benchmarked on 2018-12-20. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.
Graphics processor
The NVIDIA TITAN RTX is based on the Turing architecture, uses the TU102-400-A1 graphics processor, contains 18,600 million transistors and has a die size of 754 mm².
Shader configuration
The NVIDIA TITAN RTX has 4,608 shading units, 72 streaming multiprocessors, 288 texture mapping units, 96 render output units, 72 ray tracing cores and 576 tensor cores.
The NVIDIA TITAN RTX does not use XMX engines; those are specific to Intel Arc graphics. Infinity Cache is an AMD architectural feature and does not apply to the NVIDIA TITAN RTX.
Clock speeds
The NVIDIA TITAN RTX runs at a base clock of 1.35 GHz and boosts to 1.77 GHz.
Memory
The NVIDIA TITAN RTX is equipped with 24 GB of GDDR6 memory, uses a 384-bit memory bus and delivers 672.0 GB/s of memory bandwidth.
Board and power
The NVIDIA TITAN RTX has a board power rating of 280 W and it connects over PCIe 3.0 x16.
Market
The NVIDIA TITAN RTX was released on December 18, 2018 and launched at a price of $2,499.
Benchmarks
Graphics and compute APIs
The NVIDIA TITAN RTX supports DirectX 12.1, OpenGL 4.6 and CUDA compute capability 7.5.
Feex has no recorded Vulkan version for the NVIDIA TITAN RTX. Feex has no recorded OpenCL version for the NVIDIA TITAN RTX.
Features
The NVIDIA TITAN RTX has 3 supported features recorded outside the media engine. A feature that no source mentions is shown as not listed, never as unsupported.
Rendering
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Supported: Hardware ray tracingDedicated GPU hardware that speeds up ray-traced lighting, reflections and shadows in supported games and apps.Ray tracing units: 72
Not listed (3)
No source Feex holds states whether the NVIDIA TITAN RTX supports DirectX 12 Ultimate, NVIDIA DLSS and Vulkan ray tracing. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.
The NVIDIA TITAN RTX supports Hardware ray tracing under Rendering.
Compute and AI
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Supported: CUDA Compute capability 7.5Support for NVIDIA's CUDA computing platform, used by many creative, scientific and AI applications.
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Supported: Tensor coresNVIDIA's dedicated matrix-math units used for AI workloads such as DLSS and machine-learning inference.Tensor cores: 576
Not listed (1)
No source Feex holds states whether the NVIDIA TITAN RTX supports NVLink / SLI. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.
The NVIDIA TITAN RTX supports CUDA (Compute capability 7.5) and Tensor cores under Compute and AI.
Media engine
The NVIDIA TITAN RTX provides hardware encode for H.264 (AVC) and HEVC (H.265) and hardware decode for H.264 (AVC), HEVC (H.265) and VP9. It does not support hardware encode for AV1 and decode for AV1.
| Codec | Encode | Decode |
|---|---|---|
| H.264 (AVC) | Supported4:4:4: Yes | Supported |
| HEVC (H.265) | Supported4:2:2: No; 4:4:4: Yes; 10-bit: Yes; B-frames: Yes; 8K: Yes | Supported4:4:4: Yes |
| AV1 | Not supported | Not supported |
| VP9 | Not stated by the vendor | Supported |
supported explicitly not supported not stated by the vendor
Media engines recorded for the NVIDIA TITAN RTX: NVIDIA NVENC encoder (7th Generation, encoder engines: 1) and NVIDIA NVDEC decoder (4th Generation, decoder engines: 1).
Frequently asked questions
How much VRAM does the NVIDIA TITAN RTX have?
The NVIDIA TITAN RTX has 24 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 384-bit bus. Its memory bandwidth is 672.0 GB/s.
How much power does the NVIDIA TITAN RTX use and what power supply does it need?
The NVIDIA TITAN RTX has a board power rating of 280 W.
How fast is the NVIDIA TITAN RTX?
The NVIDIA TITAN RTX scores 19,868 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 96.6% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked. Its PassMark rank is #95. In the PassMark DirectX 12 test it averages 83 fps.
Does the NVIDIA TITAN RTX support ray tracing?
Yes. The NVIDIA TITAN RTX has hardware ray tracing with 72 ray tracing cores.
Does the NVIDIA TITAN RTX support AV1 encoding?
No. Feex records AV1 hardware encoding as explicitly not supported on the NVIDIA TITAN RTX.
What is the CUDA compute capability of the NVIDIA TITAN RTX?
The NVIDIA TITAN RTX has CUDA compute capability 7.5.
What bus interface does the NVIDIA TITAN RTX use?
The NVIDIA TITAN RTX connects over PCIe 3.0 x16.
When was the NVIDIA TITAN RTX released and how much did it cost at launch?
The NVIDIA TITAN RTX was released on December 18, 2018 and launched at a price of $2,499.
Corrections to this record
After an audit, 1 empty field was filled from sources. Each change is listed with its old value, new value, rule and sources.
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- Architecture: Turing (was Not recorded). Rule: Architecture from chip codename. chip TU102 -> Turing. Sources: Wikipedia: List of Nvidia graphics processing units (revision 1377107724); Wikipedia: List of Nvidia desktop graphics processing units (revision 1375708460).
The audit log is public: all changes for this GPU, the corrections overview and the method.
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