Monday, February 18th 2013
NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan Graphics Card Pictured in Full
Here it is, folks; the first pictures of NVIDIA's newest pixel crunching dreadnought, the GeForce GTX Titan. Pictures leaked by various sources east of the Greenwich Median reveal a reference board design that's similar in many ways to that of the GeForce GTX 690, thanks to the magnesium alloy cooler shroud, a clear acrylic window letting you peep into the aluminum fin stack, and a large lateral blower. The card features a glowy "GeForce GTX" logo much like the GTX 690, draws power from a combination of 6-pin and 8-pin PCIe power connectors, and features two SLI bridge fingers letting you pair four of them to run 3DMark Fire Strike as if it were a console port from last decade.
The GeForce GTX Titan PCB reveals that NVIDIA isn't using a full-coverage IHS on the GK110 ASIC, rather just a support brace. This allows enthusiasts to apply TIM directly on the chip's die. The GPU is wired to a total of twenty four 2 Gbit GDDR5 memory chips, twelve on each side of the PCB. The card's VRM appears to consist of a 6+2 phase design which uses tantalum capacitors, slimline chokes, and driver-MOSFETs. The PCB features a 4-pin PWM fan power output, and a 2-pin LED logo power output that's software controllable.
Given the rumored specifications of the GTX Titan, the card could be overkill for even 2560 x 1600, and as such could be designed for 3DVision Surround (3 display) setups. Display outputs include two dual-link DVI, an HDMI, and a DisplayPort.
According to most sources, the card's specifications look something like this:
Sources:
Egypt Hardware, VideoCardz
Given the rumored specifications of the GTX Titan, the card could be overkill for even 2560 x 1600, and as such could be designed for 3DVision Surround (3 display) setups. Display outputs include two dual-link DVI, an HDMI, and a DisplayPort.
According to most sources, the card's specifications look something like this:
- 28 nm GK110-based ASIC
- 2,688 CUDA cores ("Kepler" micro-architecture)
- 224 TMUs, 48 ROPs
- 384-bit GDDR5 memory interface
- 6 GB memory
- Clocks:
o 837 MHz core
o 878 MHz maximum GPU Boost
o 6008 MHz memory - 250W board power
118 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan Graphics Card Pictured in Full
Cheers.
Read more: http://wccftech.com/nvidia-officially-unleashes-geforce-gtx-titan-gk110-gpu-decimates-single-chip-gpus/#ixzz2LGZM014A"
Nice, unlocked voltage
and you can use four of them....
mother of god, this is one fast card
this is as much of a war between Titan and HD7970 as a war between a man and a mosquito...
If you max up all graphic options in Serious Sam 3 in a mere 1920x1080, you will find yourself in need of up to 3GB vram. Proof in the screens:
It's going to hurt 690 sales if anything (or boost them). Given Nvidia's excellent track record at sli scaling and given the pricing rumours, I'd rather pay less for a higher performing 690 than a Titan card.
This is Nvidia's phallic symbol. They don't even need to sell it - just make it say - look what we can do - up yours AMD and Intel.
If it's over the cost of a 690, it is not a good proposition. Not at all. The 690 is one of the best cards ever made (IMO). The Titan is the biggest die ever made (especially considering process size). Titan stands alone as a tech achievement.
Also, referring to your man versus mosquito quote - bad call, mosquitos 'carry' malaria which kills around 3/4 million people a year. ;)
Oh lord, what a turd. Not only is this card over a year late and $400 overpriced, but Nshittia could not even give us an extreme end card that is fully functional (14/15 SMX units? Get the fuck out of here Nvidia, you might as well have called it "GK110 Fail Edition"). The lazy bastards could not even be bothered to make a custom logo for it at the top, (they must have had several crates full of GTX 690 salvaged parts, which they decided to recycle on this card).
If shit stays this overpriced on the green side, I will be going back to AMD next year, even though I can easily afford 2 of these (and was actually considering buying 1 if it had all 2880 fully functional cores, for best consumer end compute performance if nothing else). I'm just waiting for the 8970 to repeat the days of the HD 4870 and rape this turd with 85%-90% performance at less than half the price (can't be that hard, judging by the image above, even with just a die shrink).
What's even MORE hilarious, were the rumours that there are "only 10,000" of these broken turds for sale...yeah and 100,000+ more to come. Good one Nshittia -- already trying to drum up demand for a card nobody wants or gives a flying shit about.I couldn't agree more.
As such, this card is for:
1) Someone who really doesn't like the idea of multiple GPUs but who needs that type of performance.
2) Someone wanting to spend ~$2k on a pair of them in SLI for a setup way more awesome than anything currently available.
Like it stands I can build an entire gaming rig plus monitor etc.. for the price of this Frankenstein :shadedshu
TBH for that kind of money it doesnt look good to me at all!!
I've seen some benchmarks, and this card is around 70% faster than a single 680 in best case scenarios, but that number can improve with better driver support, still, it would seem that, barring some cases, a dual 680 setup or perhaps even a single 690 may be able to beat Titan in most instances, at least in properly SLI supported games (which is the vast majority of current games)
But let's not be hasty and jump to conclusions, remember there were rumors that the 680 was gonna be priced at $699 before it came out, and we all know how that turned out, if nVidia can price this card in the right slot, they may have a winner in their hands :)
Titan 100% = 100fps
7970 74% = 74fps
therefore 100-74 = 26fps difference = 26/74 = 35(%).
The price performance though still sucks. If it's twice the price of a 7970GHz, it's losing big time. IMO, 680's should have dropped in price to match 7970's and that would let Titan roll in about 50% more expensive.
But we don't know all for sure yet......
Companies place products at every price point they think they can make money at. Why that does that seem to upset people so.
The advantage to this card is it's the first non sli based single slot card that might be able to handle 1440-1600p without issues. I am rocking twin GTX 670s, and there are just some games that do not optimize for SLI at all.
I bet both the Titan and the 7970 would be close at 800x600
Also, 680/7970 +35% performance isn't going to change the 1440/1600p landscape all that much. Dual card configs will still be preferable by far for anyone wanting to push 60fps at max settings in all the most demanding games.
Where I can see this card having value is SLI for triple-monitor.
Cases in point- any tri/quad gaming GPU setup, a $1600 Asus Ares II, sub-zero/refrigerated/bespoke water cooling etc., etc...
But my big ?? is when the Titan comes out and then the GTX 780 is the 780 supposed to be faster or slower than the Titan? If it's slower than we don't have much to look forward too, but if its going to be faster than that will be sweet.
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EDIT: Same info that tastegw linked to, tho' EH seems to be the original source material for WCCF (quelle surprise)
Yeah, me too, except I took into account that it's an nVidia slide, which is bound to make the Titan look relatively good. They aren't using a representative bunch of benchmarks, they're using those that make the Titan look good. So, I decided to take the scoring that makes it look the least good off that slide, given its bias, in an un-scientific attempt to un-bias things.
It's all guesswork at this point anyway, right?
So I stand by my 25% number, with the annotation that it provides 25% more FPS. Doesn't mean that the card is only 25% faster, though.
I doubt it will do so for MOST games. Some, sure, but not most. Still need 2 of 'em.
Unless you are one of those people still using 60hz dinosaur-monitors. :D