At the time of release it was the fastest single-chip video card
The authors of PC Games Hardware decided to test the GeForce GTX Titan video card — the first generation of the Titan line, which came out 11 years ago.
At the time of its release, it was quite an impressive solution with a price tag of $1000. The card was equipped with a GK110 GPU with 2688 CUDA cores and 6 GB of memory. By comparison, the sister GTX 780 had 3GB of memory and 2,304 CUDA cores. Back then, the GTX Titan was the fastest single-chip video card, although at that time both Nvidia and AMD were still releasing dual-chip adapters, so the GTX 690 and Radeon HD 7990 were even faster.
But all this was a very, very long time ago. It may seem to some that 11 years — not a particularly long period, because you can often hear that the performance increase between generations of video cards is supposedly not very large. However, in fact, the GTX Titan, monstrous for its time, can now compete only with the budget modern desktop 3D cards themselves. Without overclocking, the GTX Titan is often inferior to even the highest budget Radeon RX 6400 with a TDP of 53 W and a 96-bit bus!
Thus, today the first «Titan» — This is a solution that barely outperforms the best iGPUs and is only conditionally suitable for modern games.