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Preparing for the upcoming launch of AMD's Radeon HD 8000 series, which will presumably kick off with a single-GPU flagship leading the charge, Nvidia is reportedly hoping to steal some of its rival's thunder by releasing a new card that will exist between today's GeForce GTX 680 and the dual-GPU GTX 690.
According to several sources speaking with SweClockers, Nvidia's newcomer will appear late next month for $899 as the GeForce Titan -- a neat reference to the Titan supercomputer built by Cray at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which is comprised of 18,688 nodes equipped with Nvidia's Tesla K20X GPU.
Instead of using the GTX 600 series' GK104 GPU, the Titan will be armed with the GK110, which powers Nvidia's enterprise-class Tesla range, though the Titan's chip will have at least one SMX unit disabled from the top configuration, leaving it with 2688 CUDA cores (still over a thousand more than the GTX 680 has).
It's also said that the Titan will have a clock rate of 732MHz (200 to 300MHz lower than the GTX 680 and 690), while its 6GB of GDDR5 VRAM will run at 5.2GHz and have 384-bit bus (50% wider than the GK104 offers. All told, the card will supposedly be 15% slower and at least 10% cheaper than the GTX 690.
Assuming those figures are accurate, such a value discrepancy would probably be justifiable when you consider the fact that the GTX 690 has a 300W TDP, while the Titan should consume less given that the Tesla K20X is rated at 235W -- not to mention the reduced hassle of not dealing with a SLI-based card.
Update: As noted by dividebyzero in the comments, the specs striked above are for the Tesla K20X, while the GeForce Titan's configuration hasn't been revealed yet unfortunately. For whatever it's worth, the estimate about the new card being roughly 15% slower than the GTX 690 still seems to be relevant.
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Don't forget, highest SLI possible with a 690 is two. So 4x this GPU, and it will be ~240% faster than a single 690.
Correct about 2x sli and 4x however SLI scaling is not 100% so I doubt it would be 240% faster. Secondly 2 690 would already be crazy expensive. This new card is $900 who is going to spend $3600 on a 4x Sli setup? And in doing so you are going to back micro stutter land which the single card setup has over the 690!
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PC nerd said:
I don't understand why this GPU exists.
Is it meant to be a budget compute graphics card?
Or an overpriced gaming card?
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Correct about 2x sli and 4x however SLI scaling is not 100% so I doubt it would be 240% faster. Secondly 2 690 would already be crazy expensive. This new card is $900 who is going to spend $3600 on a 4x Sli setup? And in doing so you are going to back micro stutter land which the single card setup has over the 690!
Yup, that's very true, but it's something to consider about this "Titan." It might not even scale well at all, but I'm hoping it should.
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WCCF have a purported pic of the PCB layout of the Titan.
8+2 phase power delivery, 8 pin+6 pin power connectors (300W max.).
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WCCF have a purported pic of the PCB layout of the Titan.
8+2 phase power delivery, 8 pin+6 pin power connectors (300W max.).
Why the censor?
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Two possible reasons:
1. The board partners logo is embossed into the display connector mountings, or,
2. The card is actually a Tesla K20 -which has no display out functionality- although afaia, Tesla and Quadro PCB's are almost always green, while the GeForce is black.
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I won't get excited from that until the primary source comes from a site that's English lol.
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Shouldn't be too far away. Both Tech Report and PC Perspective have Titan samples on hand- presumably since both sites are now intensively conducting graphics testing based upon frame latency rather than the frames-per-second model that other review sites use.
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How in the world have you acquired this information?
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It was mentioned on a few forums a while back (James Prior at Rage3D for example)
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I admire your dedication.
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Pictures of the GTX Titan at Egypthardware and elsewhere today
Relevant specs:
14 SMX , 2688 cores, 224 TMU, 48 ROP
Base clock : 837 MHz, Boost: 876 MHz, Memory clock: 6008 MHz effective
6 GB GDDR5
Pixel fillrate : 40176 MPixel/s ( 42048 MPixel/s @ boost)
Texture fillrate: 187488 MTexel/s ( 192224 MTexel/s @ boost)
Bandwidth: 288.38 GB/sec
Floating point : FP32 : 4488.7 GFLOPS (4720 GFLOPS @ boost).
EVGA and Asus likely to be the only AIB's selling the card. The Asus apparently has a base clock of 915 MHz
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Actually saw that a few minutes ago lol.
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Very nice aesthetic. Makes me wonder with the second rear power pin-out location (along with the lack of integrated heatspreader) how much kinship the Titan actually has with the Tesla K20X , since both features are present on each card along with the 8+6 pin power.
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PC nerd said:
Why the blower cooler? Yuck
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LNCPapa said:
That is an incredibly sexy card (especially if that's some sort of metal and not all plastic)... too bad it's gonna be just out of my price range. My next rig is almost definitely going to have 3 cards in it but I'm hoping for a total GPU investment of about $1500. No way I can stretch that to $2700 so I'm hoping there's a lower model GK110 coming soon after release or something interesting from the RED side.
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