Tuesday, February 5th 2013
6 GB Standard Memory Amount for GeForce Titan
NVIDIA's next high-end graphics card, the GeForce "Titan" 780, is shaping up to be a dreadnought of sorts. It reportedly ships with 6 GB of GDDR5 memory as its standard amount. It's known from GK110 block diagrams released alongside the Tesla K20X GPU compute accelerator, that the chip features a 384-bit wide memory interface. With 4 Gbit memory chips still eluding the mainstream, it's quite likely that NVIDIA could cram twenty four 2 Gbit chips to total up 6,144 MB, and hence the chips could be spread on either sides of the PCB, and the back-plate could make a comeback on NVIDIA's single-GPU lineup.
On its Radeon HD 7900 series single-GPU graphics cards based on the "Tahiti" silicon (which features the same memory bus width), AMD used 3 GB as the standard amount; while 2 GB is standard for the GeForce GTX 680; although non-reference design 4 GB and 6 GB variants of the GTX 680 and HD 7970, respectively, are quite common. SweClockers also learned that NVIDIA preparing to price the new card in the neighborhood of $899.
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On its Radeon HD 7900 series single-GPU graphics cards based on the "Tahiti" silicon (which features the same memory bus width), AMD used 3 GB as the standard amount; while 2 GB is standard for the GeForce GTX 680; although non-reference design 4 GB and 6 GB variants of the GTX 680 and HD 7970, respectively, are quite common. SweClockers also learned that NVIDIA preparing to price the new card in the neighborhood of $899.
106 Comments on 6 GB Standard Memory Amount for GeForce Titan
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I will also be keeping my 7970 for I hope the next 2 gens. Its a great card and more than I need right now before being overclocked.
So I will stick with AMD.
Even if it costs 800$
:cool:
Last card I had was a GTX 560 Ti, before that HD 5870 - i.e gaming cards. GTX 680 = gaming card. GK110 just doesnt make sense to me as a gaming card. Like GTX 480/580 this would obviously consume much more power. For HPC yes these gpu will do a job but for gaming I think its not the best / optimum solution.
Yes I understand people want the best of the best but at that alleged price point its ridiculous. However thats not to say I'm not excited about this. Unless AMD does miracles with GCN then performance crown would almost certainly be, without arguments, with Nvidia. However if AMD's pricing is very competitive, combined with great gaming bundles then who knows how the market will turn out. YAY gpu wars.
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