Nvidia’s ridiculously expensive, astonishingly powerful Titan V graphics card certainly turned a few heads when it was released before the weekend. $2999 is a lot of money though, and is this a graphics card purely aimed at the workstation market? Well, the first performance benchmarks are out, courtesy of a Reddit user by the name of 'MrOmgWtfHaxor'.

Unsurprisingly, the Titan V has got the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti well and truly beaten in both gaming and synthetic benchmarks. When it costs more than four times as much as the $699 GTX 1080 Ti, that’s probably the least you’d expect.

The Nvidia Titan V clocked at 1.8GHz holds a commanding lead over a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti overclocked to 2.5GHz (using liquid nitrogen) in both Rise of the Tomb Raider and Ashes of the Singularity at 1080p, pulling in frame rates that are 27% and 26% higher respectively.

In synthetic tests, the Titan V also reigns supreme. It scored 35,991 in 3DMark FireStrike, while a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti can be expected to get around 23,500. In Unigine’s Superposition 1080p Extreme benchmark the Titan V destroyed the 1080 Ti with an 87% higher FPS, while it also ran 30% faster in the Superposition 8K optimised benchmark.

Overall, the Titan V has got the better of the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, from both a gaming and synthetic performance perspective. In terms of price though, this is a no-brainer; the performance boost gained from a Titan V while gaming isn’t worth the price difference. If you’ve got that sort of cash to spare, a SLI GTX 1080 Ti configuration can be had for half the price.

Would you consider dropping this sort of cash for a Titan V? Does this hold any particular clues as to how Nvidia plans to price its next generation of GPUs? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!