Nvidia said to be readying $899 GK110-based GeForce Titan card

[dividebyzero]

I'd like more info on that please, I'd love to read an article on that if possible.

About what? There are three aspects in my quote you referenced. Two already graphically addressed, one easily interpreted from the spec sheet + PR bumpf + any quick Google of the two architectures
The compute functionality AMD jammed into the games? Why not try AMD's own benchmark guides
The compute functionality of the GK110 in relation to the GK104 ? Well, all the compute functionality culled from GK104 to prioritize general gaming, die size, thermal/power usage that Nvidia didn't spotlight with the GK104 launch, is pretty much front and centre in Nvidia's GK110 marketing : "Nvidia believes that traditional graphic APIs such as directx and OpenGL have stalled, which opens the way to new techniques and post-processing shader graph running on GPGPU APIs like CUDA, DirectCompute (part of DirectX 11 and above) and OpenCL as deferred shading techniques, global and interactive illumination, indirect illumination (octres and voxels) used in the game Battlefield 3 and Unreal Engine 3"
About the lack of compute functionality in GK104 ? Well, if you had problems parsing the previous chart- and the TS review it obviously came from, I'm not sure if showing you a heap of others is going to make things clearer- but as Ray Lewis said; I'll take a stab at it.

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Note the relationship in the chart between the GTX 680 and the card it replaced in the product stack. I'd suggest reading through the review, as well as any others that utilize benchmarks which require compute shader input.

 

[Lionvibez]

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!

 

[PC nerd]

I don't understand why this GPU exists.

Is it meant to be a budget compute graphics card?

Or an overpriced gaming card?

 

[Zeromus]

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.

 

[dividebyzero]

Scandinavian's jump the gun

 

[dividebyzero]

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.).

 

[Zeromus]

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?

 

[dividebyzero]

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.

 

[Zeromus]

I won't get excited from that until the primary source comes from a site that's English lol.

 

[dividebyzero]

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.

 

[Zeromus]

How in the world have you acquired this information?

 

[dividebyzero]

It was mentioned on a few forums a while back (James Prior at Rage3D for example)

 

[Zeromus]

I admire your dedication.

 

[dividebyzero]

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

 

[Zeromus]

Actually saw that a few minutes ago lol.

 

[dividebyzero]

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.

 

[PC nerd]

Why the blower cooler? Yuck

 

[LNCPapa]

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.