The Asus Poseidon Platinum GTX 980 Ti is a Hybrid cooling GPU that features a Direct CU H20 water Cooling under a huge dual fan air cooling system. The same GPU core that drives the Titan X is featured on the Poseidon Platinum GTX 980 Ti. It's a slightly modified core placing it between the GTX 980 and the Titan X but leaning heavily to the Titan X side of the family. The core itself is a GM200 A1 which is nothing less than a slightly clipped GM200 Titan X core pushing data across a 384-Bit bus to a luxurious 6 GB of GDDR5. Based on a 28nm Fab packing 8 Billion Transistors and 2816 Shaders the three largest differences between Titan X and the Asus Poseidon Platinum GTX 980 Ti are, Shaders, Memory and Price. The Asus Poseidon GTX 980 Ti has 2816 Shaders 256 less than Titan X and while the Poseidon GTX 980 Ti has 6GB of GDDR5 the Titan X gets 12 GB. The pricing for Titan X runs in the $1150 Range while GTX 980 Ti runs $650 to $700 depending on model.