NVIDIA to launch their new GeForce GTX Titan GPU on February 18

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  1. Doxy
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    We have some good news for you, NVIDIA are set to unleash their latest GPU, the GeForce GTX Titan on February 18. This is just days away, so if you had any cash saved from not buying Valentine's Day presents, you should look at getting one of these puppies.

    Now, before you get too excited - this isn't the GTX 800 series, nor is it a refresh, nor is it the Maxwell-based GPUs we should expect later this year. According to TechPowerUp's database, this is what we should expect:

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    What should we expect performance-wise from the GeForce GTX Titan? Well, we should expect 2688 stream processors, 224 texture units, and 48 raster operating units. The Titan should slam its hammer down with 6GB of GDDR5 memory running at 6GHz on a 384-bit bus. This is the GK110 chip, folks, featuring over 7 billion transistors laid down on a 521mm2 of space and will have clock speeds pumping at 875MHz.

    Word on the street is that less than 10,000 of the Titan's were made and that we should expect to only see them from ASUS and EVGA for now. We should expect some pre-built systems to feature the Titan, which we should hopefully see unleashed next week. Until then, we'll have to wait.
     
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    Is this confirmed because everything I've been hearing is smoke and mirrors? Link? Not that I want one though.
     
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    Confirmed by 100th of tech sites.
    Altho there is often a "paper release" term floating around
     
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    I have been wishing that Nvidia would have gone with 56 ROP's instead, it would be a bit more balanced. No reason to have 224 TMU's and massive memory only to be bottlenecked on high resolution. Also, the pixel fill rate numbers dont add up. In order for it to have 49Gpixel/s the core clock would have to be 1020MHz. Which is entirely possible with boost clock, so maybe the calculation is going off of that. But still, to list core speed as one thing but calculate another spec by the boost seems strange to me
     
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    Im betting they are saving that for 780 series cards, with the new gk114 chip.
     
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    It's a GK110: The big Tesla GPU compute chip that they're slapping into a consumer card. It's built for HPC applications not gaming. Double-precision floating point power and things. Frankly, I don't know where it'll benchmark but I can't see how it'd be much of a revolution considering what it's likely to cost.
    It's also probably going to use quite a bit more power for the performance it gives with all the extra transistors.

    EDIT: Just for some comparison, the die for GK110 is roughly 2x bigger by area than a GK104 (680, 670 ect.) That's $$$$$.
     
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    I read that it will out-perform a 690, but will also cost $899 :(
     
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    church.. this really is getting out of hand.
     
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    isnt this the new 700 GTX card?
     
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    Nope. Completely different ball game.
    There is a thought circling around, that this is nvidias test project and we're gonna be guinea pigs.
    Cause as it was stated, this is gonna be a limited release video card. 10k units only.
     
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    Still cheaper than the $1000 690. Not surprising it is priced similarly to it since it will outperform it. I'm looking forward to seeing what EVGA and ASUS come up with for coolers on this thing. I hope EVGA puts waterblocks on some like they did with the top end 680s.
     
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    Entirely all reference design using a cooler similar to the 690's. No customizations from Asus or EVGA.
     
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    It'd only test to see who's a sucker for paying too much for a video card.
    The tech, the chip, GK110 is what they put in the Tesla K20 just fused off a bit differently. I figure they've probably got a lot of chips that failed to test to k20 standards but still functional.

    It doesn't seem like it'll outperform a 690 to me, maybe about equal depending on the application. This Titan has a lower clock speed and few cores over all and it's based on the same architecture and process that that should be a pretty good indicator. It has...more memory.
     
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    Looks a bit disappointing to me.
     
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    That's kinda what I expected.

    Now throw some protein folding at it and I'd expect it to do much better.
     
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    Until we know how far the Titan can overclock, it looks like people who do overclocking with their 6xx series card wont be tempted to upgrade. Stock for stock the titan may be better than the 680, but the current gen cards can overclock really high and that brings the performance up substantially.
     
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    Card will be released on Feb. 25th with aprice tag 999$.[​IMG]
    It can be OCed from 875 up to 1175Mhz from the info i gathered.
    Will be picking this bad boy up on 25th hopefully =]
     
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    Some info I came across:

     
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    So is this going to be better then the 700 GTX series or totally different style of card
     
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    As pointed out Nvidia made a statement no company can alter the cards they can only slap there stickers/ name on it and I think they are going to do the same to the new 700 GTX series to