Monday, February 18th 2013
NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan Graphics Card Pictured in Full
Here it is, folks; the first pictures of NVIDIA's newest pixel crunching dreadnought, the GeForce GTX Titan. Pictures leaked by various sources east of the Greenwich Median reveal a reference board design that's similar in many ways to that of the GeForce GTX 690, thanks to the magnesium alloy cooler shroud, a clear acrylic window letting you peep into the aluminum fin stack, and a large lateral blower. The card features a glowy "GeForce GTX" logo much like the GTX 690, draws power from a combination of 6-pin and 8-pin PCIe power connectors, and features two SLI bridge fingers letting you pair four of them to run 3DMark Fire Strike as if it were a console port from last decade.
The GeForce GTX Titan PCB reveals that NVIDIA isn't using a full-coverage IHS on the GK110 ASIC, rather just a support brace. This allows enthusiasts to apply TIM directly on the chip's die. The GPU is wired to a total of twenty four 2 Gbit GDDR5 memory chips, twelve on each side of the PCB. The card's VRM appears to consist of a 6+2 phase design which uses tantalum capacitors, slimline chokes, and driver-MOSFETs. The PCB features a 4-pin PWM fan power output, and a 2-pin LED logo power output that's software controllable.
Given the rumored specifications of the GTX Titan, the card could be overkill for even 2560 x 1600, and as such could be designed for 3DVision Surround (3 display) setups. Display outputs include two dual-link DVI, an HDMI, and a DisplayPort.
According to most sources, the card's specifications look something like this:
Sources:
Egypt Hardware, VideoCardz
Given the rumored specifications of the GTX Titan, the card could be overkill for even 2560 x 1600, and as such could be designed for 3DVision Surround (3 display) setups. Display outputs include two dual-link DVI, an HDMI, and a DisplayPort.
According to most sources, the card's specifications look something like this:
- 28 nm GK110-based ASIC
- 2,688 CUDA cores ("Kepler" micro-architecture)
- 224 TMUs, 48 ROPs
- 384-bit GDDR5 memory interface
- 6 GB memory
- Clocks:
o 837 MHz core
o 878 MHz maximum GPU Boost
o 6008 MHz memory - 250W board power
118 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan Graphics Card Pictured in Full
somehow reminds me of robocop theme, with silver and black :laugh:
..an XBOX 720 and a PS4.
www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/1996/NVIDIA_GeForce_GTX_Titan.html
if the pic stil llooks like the color die refresh the page
Although I admit I copped my GTX 680 second hand for $400 3 months after launch because I didn't want to pay $550+ like I did with my GTX 580.
But at the time, the performance of the GTX 680 compared to a 580 was 1.5 to 1.8. And liked it or not, it was the fastest single GPU Nvidia card.
I mean if we lived in a fair wonderful utopia, then the Titan card will "only" be $500. But we live in reality and in reality there is a thing called Business. And for Nvidia's Business it dictates the card's price/performance will be in the neighborhood of $800+
wccftech.com/nvidia-officially-unleashes-geforce-gtx-titan-gk110-gpu-decimates-single-chip-gpus/
I make that 37 fps to the 680, 48 to Titan = about 11-12 fps difference = only 30% faster than a 680 on this specific game.
Although there was a bug in the beta in which TXAA made foliage look like crap.
But yeah most other games are barely hitting 1GB of VRAM, so I don't know what the other guy is talking about either.