Calculate the TPS of the GeForce GTX TITAN X on local AI models

NVIDIA 12 GB GDDR5 337 GB/s March 2015

Every model in our catalogue assessed against this card at the context length and minimum quality you choose. Speed is an estimate for a single request, calculated from this card's memory bandwidth and the size of each model once compressed.

Calculated for this card

411 models it can run

721 models in our catalogue altogether

Largest model it holds

ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B

21B · Q3_K_M · 86.5 tok/s

Fastest model

Gemma 3 QAT 1B

121 tok/s · 1B

Which AI models can run on a GeForce GTX TITAN X?

Set the inputs, read the answer

More context means more memory for the conversation cache. Speed is for a fresh conversation and does not change with this setting.

Hides models that would only fit by being compressed below this point.

411 models match

Calculating
Quantisation Fit
121 tok/s

42–242 · low confidence

Gemma 3 1B 1B Mar 2025 1.8 GB 33k tokens Q8_0 Comfortable
121 tok/s

42–242 · low confidence

Gemma 3 QAT 1B 1B Apr 2025 1.8 GB 33k tokens Q8_0 Comfortable
121 tok/s

42–242 · low confidence

HGRN 1B (WT 103) 1B Nov 2023 1.8 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
121 tok/s

42–242 · low confidence

LLama 3..2 Typhoon 2 1B 1B Dec 2024 1.8 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
121 tok/s

42–242 · low confidence

OLMo-1B 1B Feb 2024 1.8 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
121 tok/s

42–242 · low confidence

Pythia-1b 1B Apr 2023 1.8 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
112 tok/s

39–224 · low confidence

OpenELM-1.1B 1.1B May 2024 1.9 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
110 tok/s

39–220 · low confidence

DeciCoder-1B 1.1B Aug 2023 1.9 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
110 tok/s

39–220 · low confidence

SantaCoder 1.1B Jan 2023 1.9 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
110 tok/s

39–220 · low confidence

TinyLlama-1.1B (1T token checkpoint) 1.1B Oct 2023 1.9 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
110 tok/s

39–220 · low confidence

TinyLlama-1.1B (3T token checkpoint) 1.1B Oct 2023 1.9 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
101 tok/s

35–202 · low confidence

EXAONE 4.0 (1.2B) 1.2B Jul 2025 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
101 tok/s

35–202 · low confidence

LFM2-1.2B 1.2B Jul 2025 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
101 tok/s

35–202 · low confidence

MinerU2.5 1.2B Sep 2025 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
101 tok/s

35–202 · low confidence

Pleias 1.0 1.2B 1.2B Dec 2024 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
101 tok/s

35–202 · low confidence

Pleias-RAG-1B 1.2B Apr 2025 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
98.5 tok/s

34–197 · low confidence

Llama 3.2 1B 1.2B Sep 2024 2.2 GB 131k tokens Q8_0 Comfortable
97.1 tok/s

34–194 · low confidence

DeepSeekMoE-16B 16B Jan 2024 10.0 GB 4k tokens Q4_K_M Tight
97.1 tok/s

34–194 · low confidence

MiniCPM-1.2B 1.2B Jun 2024 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
93.2 tok/s

33–186 · low confidence

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B 1.3B Jan 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
93.2 tok/s

33–186 · low confidence

DeepSeek-VL-1.3B 1.3B Mar 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
93.2 tok/s

33–186 · low confidence

DigiRL 1.3B Jun 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
93.2 tok/s

33–186 · low confidence

GLA Transformer 1.3B 1.3B Aug 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
93.2 tok/s

33–186 · low confidence

Janus 1.3B 1.3B Oct 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
93.2 tok/s

33–186 · low confidence

Kosmos-2.5 1.3B Aug 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable

Speeds are estimates for a single request — one conversation at a time — calculated from memory bandwidth, model size and quantisation. Real throughput varies with the inference runtime and its version. Figures published by hardware vendors measure many simultaneous requests and are much higher.

On record

GeForce GTX TITAN X full specification

Everything on record for this board, ordered by how much it bears on running a language model rather than by how a spec sheet would list it. Memory comes first because it decides the outcome; the rest is context.

Memory

The two specifications that decide what this card can run and how quickly. Capacity sets which models fit; bandwidth sets how many tokens per second they produce once they do.

Memory size
12 GB
Memory bandwidth
337 GB/s
Memory type
GDDR5
Memory bus width
384 bit
Memory clock
1.75 GHz

The chip

Which processor is on the board and how it was manufactured. A smaller process size generally means more performance for the same power.

Graphics processor
GM200
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Generation
GeForce 900
Foundry
TSMC
Process size
28 nm
Transistors
8 billion
Transistor density
13,300 K/mm²
Die size
601 mm²
Package
BGA-2152
Released
17 March 2015

Clock speeds

How fast the processor runs. Worth far less here than on a gaming benchmark: generating text is limited by memory bandwidth, so a higher clock barely moves the result.

Base clock
1 GHz
Boost clock
1.09 GHz

Processing units

What the chip contains. These drive graphics performance and matter mainly for processing a long prompt rather than for producing the answer.

Shading units
3,072
Texture mapping units
192
Render output units
96
Streaming multiprocessors
24
L1 cache
48 KB
L2 cache
3 MB

Theoretical performance

Peak arithmetic rates published for the board. These are ceilings that no real workload reaches, and generating text reaches a small fraction of them because it is limited by memory rather than arithmetic.

Single precision (FP32)
6.7 TFLOPS
Double precision (FP64)
209.1 GFLOPS
Pixel rate
105 GPixel/s
Texture rate
209 GTexel/s

The board

What it takes to physically install and power the card — the practical constraints that decide whether it fits the machine you already own.

Power draw (TDP)
250 W
Suggested power supply
600 W
Power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Bus interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Slot width
Dual-slot
Dimensions
267 mm × 38 mm
Display outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2

Software support

Which graphics and compute interfaces the card supports. CUDA compute capability is the one that bears on inference: below 7.0 there are no tensor cores, and modern inference software falls back to slower code paths.

CUDA compute capability
5.2
DirectX
12.1
OpenGL
4.6
Vulkan
1.4
OpenCL
3.0
Shader model
6.8

Listings

Where to buy a GeForce GTX TITAN X

No vendor is currently listing this card. Listings come from vendors who publish them here directly — browse the vendor directory to see who is selling what.

What the numbers mean

What the memory subsystem means for AI

Memory

12 GB

Bandwidth

337 GB/s

Largest model

ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B

GeForce GTX TITAN X carries 12 GB of GDDR5. That reaches comfortably into small and mid-sized models, though the largest stay out of reach without splitting them. Driver overhead leaves roughly 10.8 GB.

Memory bandwidth reaches 337 GB/s across a bus of 384 bits. That is the number governing generation speed — arithmetic per byte read is small enough that the bus, not the cores, is what everything waits on.

Bandwidth is clock times bus width, and this card clocks its memory at 1.75 GHz. Widening the bus and raising the clock are the two levers a manufacturer has, which is why a card with unremarkable cores can still generate quickly.

The biggest thing it holds is ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B, 21B, compressed to Q3_K_M and generating around 86.5 tokens per second.

The chip and how it was built

GeForce GTX TITAN X is built on the graphics processor GM200, using the architecture Maxwell 2.0 from NVIDIA, as part of the generation GeForce 900.

The chip is manufactured by TSMC, on a process of 28 nm, with a die measuring 601 mm², holding 8 billion transistors. A smaller process generally means more performance for the same power, though for language models it matters far less than the memory subsystem.

It was released in March 2015, roughly 11.495043327884 years ago. Inference software support tends to follow hardware by a year or two, so a card of this age generally has mature, well-optimised code paths available to it.

Compute throughput, and why it matters less than it looks

FP64

209.1 GFLOPS

Double-precision throughput reaches 209.1 GFLOPS. It has no bearing on running a language model — no inference runtime uses it — but it separates datacentre parts from consumer ones, since the latter deliberately restrict it.

Clocks run from a base of 1 GHz to a boost of 1.09 GHz. Worth far less here than on a gaming benchmark: raising the clock speeds up the arithmetic, and the arithmetic is not what generation is waiting on.

Cache and processing units

GeForce GTX TITAN X has an L1 cache of 48 KB, backed by an L2 cache of 3 MB. Cache absorbs a share of the memory traffic that would otherwise hit the main bus, which is the one place on this page where a number other than bandwidth quietly affects generation speed — a large L2 lets more of the working set stay close to the cores.

There are 3,072 shading units, 192 texture mapping units, and 96 render output units. These drive graphics workloads and contribute to prompt processing, but they sit idle for much of the time a model spends generating a reply.

Power, size and installation

Power draw

250 W

GeForce GTX TITAN X is rated at 250 W, and the suggested system power supply is 600 W. Running a language model keeps a card busy in bursts rather than continuously — it draws hard while generating and idles between requests — so sustained draw over a working day is usually well below the rated figure.

The board occupies dual-slot, measuring 267 mm long, and needs 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin. Worth checking against the case and power supply already in the machine, since the largest cards need considerably more of both than a typical desktop provides.

It connects over PCIe 3.0 x16. The interface governs how quickly a model is loaded from disk into the card, not how fast it runs once there, so a narrower link costs a few seconds at startup and nothing thereafter.

The extremes

The largest AI models that run on a GeForce GTX TITAN X

The biggest open-weight models that fit on this card, newest first. Each is shown at the best compression the card can hold.

  1. 01 ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B 21B · Q3_K_M · Jun 2025 86.5 tok/s
  2. 02 GigaChat Lite (GigaChat-20B-A3B) 20B · Q3_K_M · Dec 2024 90.8 tok/s
  3. 03 InternLM2.5 20B · Q3_K_M · Aug 2024 16.4 tok/s
  4. 04 Granite 20B 20B · Q3_K_M · May 2024 16.4 tok/s
  5. 05 InternLM2-20B 20B · Q3_K_M · Jan 2024 16.4 tok/s
  6. 06 CogAgent 18B · IQ4_XS · Dec 2023 16.5 tok/s
  7. 07 SPHINX (Llama 2 13B) 19.9B · Q3_K_M · Nov 2023 16.4 tok/s
  8. 08 CogVLM-17B 17B · IQ4_XS · Nov 2023 17.5 tok/s
  9. 09 Flan UL2 19.5B · Q3_K_M · Mar 2023 16.8 tok/s
  10. 10 Palmyra Large 20B 20B · Q3_K_M · Mar 2023 16.4 tok/s

The fastest AI models on a GeForce GTX TITAN X

Where this card produces tokens quickest. Smaller models dominate here, because generating each token means reading the whole model out of memory once.

  1. 01 Gemma 3 QAT 1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 121 tok/s
  2. 02 Gemma 3 1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 121 tok/s
  3. 03 LLama 3..2 Typhoon 2 1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 121 tok/s
  4. 04 OLMo-1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 121 tok/s
  5. 05 HGRN 1B (WT 103) 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 121 tok/s
  6. 06 Pythia-1b 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 121 tok/s
  7. 07 OpenELM-1.1B 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 112 tok/s
  8. 08 TinyLlama-1.1B (1T token checkpoint) 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 110 tok/s
  9. 09 TinyLlama-1.1B (3T token checkpoint) 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 110 tok/s
  10. 10 DeciCoder-1B 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 110 tok/s

Step by step

How to work out the tokens per second of a GeForce GTX TITAN X

You do not have to calculate anything by hand — the gputps.com calculator on this page has already worked it out for every model this card can hold. Reading off the answer takes six steps.

  1. 01

    Start with the model, not the specification

    The table lists 411 models this card runs. Search narrows the list by name or by size.

  2. 02

    Decide how long your conversations run

    Drag the slider to the conversation length you plan to work at. The cache grows with the conversation, and against a card holding 12 GB that is frequently the difference between a model fitting and not.

  3. 03

    Pin the comparison to one quality level

    By default the table picks the least-compressed copy that fits. Setting a floor removes models that only qualify through heavy compression.

  4. 04

    Look at the range, not just the number

    The figures are calculated, not measured. The fastest result on this card is 121 tok/s on Gemma 3 QAT 1B. The same card and model vary by thirty to fifty per cent between inference runtimes.

  5. 05

    Read the fit verdict last

    Tight means it works today; comfortable means it still works when the conversation grows. Compare what each model needs against an available 12 GB.

  6. 06

    Cross-check against other hardware

    Each model page repeats this calculation for the whole catalogue. Worth a look before deciding: it shows what else runs the same model, alongside GeForce GTX TITAN X.

Answers

GeForce GTX TITAN X — common questions

01

GeForce GTX TITAN X— how much cache does it have?

The L1 cache is 48 KB, and the L2 cache is 3 MB. Cache absorbs part of the memory traffic that would otherwise reach the main bus, so a larger L2 gives a modest lift to generation speed beyond what bandwidth alone predicts.

02

GeForce GTX TITAN X— does it support CUDA?

Yes. It reports CUDA compute capability 5.2, which predates tensor cores. Capability 7.0 and above has tensor cores, which modern inference software uses; below that it falls back to slower code paths for quantised models.

03

GeForce GTX TITAN X— what bus interface does it use?

It uses PCIe 3.0 x16. This governs how fast a model is loaded onto the card rather than how fast it runs once loaded, so it costs a few seconds at startup and nothing during generation.

04

GeForce GTX TITAN X— is it good for running local AI models?

Its memory covers small and mid-sized models, though the largest are out of reach though its bandwidth means generation will feel slow on larger models. In total it runs 411 of the models we track. Whether that is enough depends entirely on which model you want — the table above answers that directly.

05

GeForce GTX TITAN X— can it run a model that does not fit in its memory?

Offloading past the card's 12 GB sit in system memory and run at a fraction of the speed, so a mostly-offloaded model is rarely worth using. Every figure here assumes it is fully resident on the card.

06

Would two GeForce GTX TITAN X cards be twice as fast?

No. A second card doubles the memory to 24 GB of combined memory, at roughly the same generation speed as one.

07

GeForce GTX TITAN X— which AI models can it run?

411 of the 721 open-weight language models we track fit on this card and can be run locally. The table on this page lists every one, with the memory it needs, the quantisation it runs at and an estimated generation speed.

08

GeForce GTX TITAN X— what is the largest AI model it can run?

The largest model in our catalogue that fits is ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B at 21B parameters, compressed to Q3_K_M. It generates roughly 86.5 tokens per second and needs about 10.1 GB of the card's memory.

09

GeForce GTX TITAN X— how many tokens per second does it produce?

It depends on the model. The fastest model we track here is Gemma 3 QAT 1B at about 121 tokens per second, while larger models run proportionally slower because each token requires reading the whole model out of memory once. Speeds are estimates for a single conversation at a time.

10

GeForce GTX TITAN X— can it run 7B models?

Yes. For example it runs Gemma 4 E4B at Q8_0, using about 9.8 GB of memory and generating around 26.9 tokens per second.

11

GeForce GTX TITAN X— can it run 13B models?

Yes. For example it runs DeepSeekMoE-16B at Q4_K_M, using about 10.0 GB of memory and generating around 97.1 tokens per second.

12

GeForce GTX TITAN X— how much memory does it have?

This card has 12 GB of GDDR5. Around a tenth is reserved by the inference runtime and the driver, leaving roughly 10.8 GB available for a model and its conversation.

13

GeForce GTX TITAN X— what is its memory bandwidth?

Memory bandwidth reaches 337 GB/s across a bus of 384 bits. This is the single best predictor of how fast it generates text, because producing each token means reading the entire model out of memory once.

14

GeForce GTX TITAN X— what type of memory does it use?

It uses GDDR5 clocked at 1.75 GHz. HBM types are found on datacentre accelerators and carry far more bandwidth than the GDDR used on desktop cards, which is why they generate tokens considerably faster at the same capacity.

15

GeForce GTX TITAN X— who makes it?

This is a product of NVIDIA, with the chip manufactured by TSMC, on a process of 28 nm.

16

GeForce GTX TITAN X— when was it released?

It was released in March 2015.

17

GeForce GTX TITAN X— how much power does it use?

Rated board power is 250 W, and the suggested system power supply is 600 W. Generating text draws hard in bursts and idles between requests, so average consumption over a working session is normally well below the rated figure.

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