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
Don't just say "Blah blah blah the 6 is bad and blah blah games run bad"
post proof or it never happened..
As it is every single game I have played with my 680 is maxed and it breezes through it like a dream..
As for 4k gaming.. Yea 1000 for the card. 5000 for the TV.. Have fun with that..
Is it that hard to understand?
The latest'n'Greatest single GPU cards of this generation debuted at $499-549, and Nvidia seem keen on distancing the Titan from the GTX nomenclature indicating that the card, like other limited editions, resides outside of the standard consumer model.
If $899 were setting a precedent, then we would already be experiencing it, since the GeForce 6800 Ultra 512MB (14 March 2005) debuted at that exact same price (and $999 for the BFG OCéd version)
If value for money and performance-per-dollar were the ultimate criteria for everyone (and just not the 99.99999% majority) then where does that leave multi-GPU, bespoke water/chiller cooling and the like ?
As a passion and hobby, I personally don't have to find justification for the expenditure. It is what it is. Firstly, I doubt whether any of the refreshed GK114/Curacao parts are going to top this card, so from a purely performance pov the only real argument would be whether spending $1k on SLI/CFX from the upcoming generation makes a convincing argument for those with the cash, and whether the 6GB framebuffer is required for the intended workload. As for perf/$ the Titan is already way down the list without taking into account the next gen since SLIéd GTX670/680 océd or CFX'd HD 7970's are guaranteed to beat it in most (if not all ) benchmarks...Hasn't stopped a slew of AMD's board partners selling HD 7990's or Sapphire hawking the ridiculously priced 6GB 7970 Toxic.
By all accounts TSMC's 20nm process could be late arriving, so I don't see any huge increases in performance from refreshes of the current parts- not unless Nvidia and AMD want to throw die size and power budget out the window.
So, okay I'm glad you state your opinion.
News flash 4k still isn't standard for anything yet game devs aren't going to tailor to the pc market and the glory days where a single piece of pc hardware is acceptably priced at $900 is long gone specially when anyone can build a better than console gaming machine for $500.
There's PC Enthusiasm and PC reality and right now reality is ports are sucking the enthusiasm right out of PC's.
Btw, they don't have to know if it's 32 or 64 bit because the survey is automatic after the user agrees to participate. They have more than 20 million active accounts and the sample they take is quite large, so we can consider it as a good representation of PC gamers. So it's about 13 million 64bit windows vs 5 million 32bit windows on Steam (win7, Vista and XP combined).
www.proshop.dk/Grafikkort/ASUS-GeForce-GTX-Titan-6GB-GDDR5-2394804.html
A quick money conversion says: 975 Euro. An EVGA GTX690 on the same site is at 990 Euro