We are not worthy: Nvidia GTX Titan -- Now with added 700 series news

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neema_t
Well, it's certainly a thing.

2,688 CUDA cores, 4.5 teraflops, 384-bit memory at 6Gbps: 288GB/s of bandwidth. It's got a Kepler GK110 GPU (the 680 used a GK104). £827, releases on the 25th of this month. Oh and it's got 6GB VRAM.

http://www.nvidia.com/titan-graphics-card

I think I'll pick up a couple... HAH.

Apparently it's named after the supercomputer it came from, the Cray Titan, where it was known as the Tesla K20. Costing $3,500 and working in parallel with 18,687 cards like it, that tech has now trickled down into 'consumer' grade (ha, ha) graphics cards. I hope this reveal was timed to coincide with the supposed PS4 unveiling tomorrow night because that would be hilarious.

Kaz Hirai: "So this is the PS4 ... We've got a groundbreaking new 2GB AMD GPU..."
Nvidia rep in the audience: *scoffs*
 
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Luminis
Too bad it's a bit pricey :lol:
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That's what I was thinking, but recently I've been considering upgrading my 680 to a pair of 4GB 680s so I can run a higher triple monitor resolution... Although I wouldn't be able to do it in stages, I think this might be cheaper. I have no idea how much the 4GB 680s cost, though, or how two of them would perform compared to one of these. The higher memory bandwidth is an appealing number, though, when you consider that the 680 was said to be hamstrung by it's relatively low bandwidth.

A guy can dream, anyway... I wonder if this is what would've been called the 780, or if it's a different super-high-end line of it's own?
 
neema_t
That's what I was thinking, but recently I've been considering upgrading my 680 to a pair of 4GB 680s so I can run a higher triple monitor resolution... Although I wouldn't be able to do it in stages, I think this might be cheaper. I have no idea how much the 4GB 680s cost, though, or how two of them would perform compared to one of these. The higher memory bandwidth is an appealing number, though, when you consider that the 680 was said to be hamstrung by it's relatively low bandwidth.

A guy can dream, anyway... I wonder if this is what would've been called the 780, or if it's a different super-high-end line of it's own?
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Fair point 👍

I'm on the fence about what to do, too. Looking at a second 680 - or should I just wait for the next Nvidia cards to be released? They can't be that far off. A pair of 780s would be awesome - and might be on par/better than the Titan. Who knows...
 
Just read this from here:

"But the point is that it looks like NVIDIA is doing just fine and has no plans to squeeze out a real-world replacement for the GeForce 600 series any time soon. AMD’s recent revelation, then, is very likely a response to that.

If you’re wondering about NVIDIA’s new GeForce Titan, that’s easy. It’s the long awaited desktop version on NVIDIA’s mystical GK110 chip. It’s been on sale for a while as a Tesla board for industrial compute applications and it’s completely bonkers.

Bonkers as in seven billion transistors or double the number of transistors of the GK104 GPU found in the GeForce GTX 680. It’s easy to be blase about the march of technology, but just ponder that for a moment. Seven billion.

Despite that, it’s not twice as fast as a 680. A fair few of those transistors are expended on compute-related rather than graphics specific functionality.

Consequently, GK110 and thus Titan doesn’t have double the 1,536 shader count of the 680 and makes do with a mere 2,688 functional shaders. It doesn’t clock as high as a 680, either, so the net result is more in the region of 50 to 60 per cent more performance than a 680.

Still fugging quick, you say? Yup, but you’ll pay for it to the tune of 1,000 bucks. Factor in the VAT man’s pound of flesh in Blighty and you’re looking at over £800.

In my book, that makes it irrelevant, much as I’m pleased to see GK110 finally make its way into PCs. In fact, it’s not really part of the usual GPU cycle. NVIDIA confirms that the replacement for the GTX 680 won’t be faster than the Titan. It’s not part of the conventional product line up.

And thus the good news that comes out of all this is that now is a great time to buy a new graphics card. You can be confident it won’t be immediately usurped by something with added spangliness. AMD isn’t planning anything soon. GeForce Titan is a one off."

So the Titan isn't the 680 replacement, nor will there be a series of GK110-based baby Titans to match the rest of the 600 series. It's stand-alone and the 700 series is yet to come.


Then just underneath that is a quick word about this beast:

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Mmmmm. Wide screen is wide. That's 29 inches, 21:9 aspect ratio, 2560x1080px and it's called the Dell Ultrasharp U2913WM.
 
Wait, so it's like a Limited edition card?

My god, if I had a rig that actually backs this monster (plus more than one monitor), i'd buy this in a heartbeat.

Alas, I wouldn't even push the card (maybe not even 50% load) with one single monitor so it really wouldn't be a cost effective item for me :(

Then again, I always buy the silliest, unnecessary stuff so maybe I should buy it. 💡
 
I'm really losing the mood to save up for a new PC. Once I have finally bought something it will be outdated. I really wish PC hardware manufacturers would slow down their pace a bit.
 
G.T.Ace
I'm really losing the mood to save up for a new PC. Once I have finally bought something it will be outdated. I really wish PC hardware manufacturers would slow down their pace a bit.
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That article actually started out by saying that they have! I would've posted that but it was off topic so I decided not to, but AMD aren't releasing any new cards until the very end of the year and Nvidia aren't either. In any case, unless you always need to have all of the graphics you'll be alright with whatever you choose for a long time thanks to consoles being the lead platform these days. Some people still use Nvidia 8800s these days, that's four generations old now, and I have a 4870 in my Mac which is still quite capable. Of course for something like Crysis 3 and Arma 3 on high settings you'll need something high-end that's less than a year old.
 
It will flawlessly render an HD simulation of you cooking an omelette on three screens.
 
Why would you buy a titan when a 690 is still giving more performance on benchmark I've seen ?

They are around the same price as well, with the 690 beeing maybe 50 dollars cheaper in my country.
 
RX-7_FD3S
Why would you buy a titan when a 690 is still giving more performance on benchmark I've seen ?

They are around the same price as well, with the 690 beeing maybe 50 dollars cheaper in my country.
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It's a single GPU as compared to a dual GPU like the 690. This will help alot in many games. From what I hear the 690 runs as sli and many games have truoble with this. iRacing is one that has trouble sometimes with sli and crossfire setups, and so did far cry 3, crysis 3 at first, almost all games run smoother with a single card until game and driver patches are done which sometimes take months to get everything smoothed out for multiple cards.

I have sli 670s and would have much rather have bought the titan instead of those. I'm really wanting to hear how the titan does in iRacing but haven't seen anyything about it yet. Pcars is another example of where the titan would be the best card for that game. It's only in Alpha but it doesn't supprt sli or crossfire but the Titan would probably work great.

Another thing about the titan is that you could go sli in the future and have 6GB for triple screens and push any game at any resolution and probably even max it on triples without running out of Vram. It is probably the closest thing to future proof there is right now and really the only card that in a few years you could sli and it be worth doing. Most cards are so oudated in 2 or 3 years adding another one isn't worth it, but the Titan looks like it will still be by then.

The main reason though is all that power without running sli. I would ove to have one and would if i didn't buy my 670s a few months ago.
 
Sorry but what do they mean by has more consistent render times ?

Also I'm not sure to understand the logic, they say that the titan has 11% average less fps than the 690 and only 3.6 % of render times higher than a 690 yet they still says the titan is better. I'm a bit confused here ?

Is render time really that important ? It's the first time I've seen a benchmark with this render time.

Do you really have a lot of trouble with your sli ?
 
RX-7_FD3S
Sorry but what do they mean by has more consistent render times ?

Also I'm not sure to understand the logic, they say that the titan has 11% average less fps than the 690 and only 3.6 % of render times higher than a 690 yet they still says the titan is better. I'm a bit confused here ?

Is render time really that important ? It's the first time I've seen a benchmark with this render time.

Do you really have a lot of trouble with your sli ?
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I have had problems with sli. Far Cry 3 was a pain at first and stuttered really bad with sli setups. iRacing works much better with single card setups but after tinkering can be made to work well with sli. Most games I have ever played work better with a single card at launch. SLI might give you much better FPS, but usually a single card will run smoother as long as you can get a high enough FPS with it. You may not be able to turn on all the highest AA settings with any single card in a new game(excpet the Titan) but they generaly do run smoother and do not run into the problems with needing to use sli profiles if they are made yet with Nvidia inspector.

I wouldn't get rid of my sli 670s and go to one 670. I will deal with the problems because I run triple screens and need the extra power to run them. I would though rather have that power in one card even if it's 14% less power at the same price as 2X 4gb 670s.

With that said, if you are gaming at 1080p then the 690 and Titan are overkill anyway. When these cards are worth buying is when you run super high resolution like i do with triple screens.
 
RX-7_FD3S
Why would you buy a titan when a 690 is still giving more performance on benchmark I've seen ?

They are around the same price as well, with the 690 beeing maybe 50 dollars cheaper in my country.
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Yes, what bevo said, and...... The single Titan consumes less power than the 690 does. The Titan will also overclock better if you can manage to keep the heat under control. Overclocking dual GPU cards are a disappointment at best.
 
One thing I wondered about when reading the test: if you stick four Titans in SLI, won't you be maxing out the CPU rather than the GPUs? E.g. you will get similar framerates because the GPU is not the bottleneck?
 
Well, found this, a little demo showing what the Titan is capable of.



Now, that's next gern, right there, right now :lol:
 
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And actual Titans aren't even full builds, 1 of 15 SMX units is disabled.
 
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