Tuesday, February 19th 2013
NVIDIA Announces GeForce GTX Titan, The Fastest GPU in the World
NVIDIA today introduced the new GeForce GTX TITAN, powered by the fastest GPU on the planet and designed to unleash the world's fastest gaming PCs including personal gaming supercomputers and svelte, quiet, small form-factor PCs.
"GeForce GTX TITAN is a beast of a GPU -- and the only one in the world powerful enough to play any game at any resolution at any time," said Scott Herkelman, general manager of the GeForce business unit at NVIDIA. "And yet, all of this immense power is housed in a sleek, sexy design, so gamers can also build beautifully-designed PC gaming machines about the size of a gaming console, yet magnitudes more powerful and always upgradeable."GTX TITAN is built with the same NVIDIA Kepler architecture that powers Oak Ridge National Laboratory's newly launched Titan supercomputer, which is number 1 in the list of the Top500 supercomputers in the world.
By harnessing the power of 3 GeForce GTX TITAN GPUs simultaneously in 3-way SLI mode, gamers can max out every visual setting without fear of a meltdown while playing any of the most demanding PC gaming titles.
Designed with unsurpassed craftsmanship, GeForce GTX TITAN features an array of innovative technologies complemented by sleek materials that contribute to the exotic design of the card, including a high-quality exterior aluminum frame and high efficiency vapor chamber cooling. Overall, GeForce GTX TITAN's aesthetic design evokes the spirit of a supercomputer and the enormous capability within: a blistering-fast GPU and astonishing graphics horsepower that is delivered with the power efficiency that only Kepler-class GPUs can provide.
With its advanced thermal and acoustic characteristics, GeForce GTX TITAN is also perfect for powering the new wave of small form-factor gaming PCs. So gamers no longer have to make the choice between performance and size -- they can have both at the same time.
"GeForce GTX TITAN will allow us to create the nearly-impossible product our customers have wanted for years: a ridiculously fast, tiny system that you barely know is running," said Kelt Reeves, CEO of Falcon Northwest.
The GeForce GTX TITAN:
GeForce GTX TITAN will also be sold in fully configured systems from leading U.S.-based system builders, including AVADirect, Cyberpower, Digital Storm, Falcon Northwest, Geekbox, IBUYPOWER, Maingear, Origin PC, Puget Systems, V3 Gaming, Velocity Micro, and other system integrators outside North America.
"GeForce GTX TITAN is a beast of a GPU -- and the only one in the world powerful enough to play any game at any resolution at any time," said Scott Herkelman, general manager of the GeForce business unit at NVIDIA. "And yet, all of this immense power is housed in a sleek, sexy design, so gamers can also build beautifully-designed PC gaming machines about the size of a gaming console, yet magnitudes more powerful and always upgradeable."GTX TITAN is built with the same NVIDIA Kepler architecture that powers Oak Ridge National Laboratory's newly launched Titan supercomputer, which is number 1 in the list of the Top500 supercomputers in the world.
By harnessing the power of 3 GeForce GTX TITAN GPUs simultaneously in 3-way SLI mode, gamers can max out every visual setting without fear of a meltdown while playing any of the most demanding PC gaming titles.
Designed with unsurpassed craftsmanship, GeForce GTX TITAN features an array of innovative technologies complemented by sleek materials that contribute to the exotic design of the card, including a high-quality exterior aluminum frame and high efficiency vapor chamber cooling. Overall, GeForce GTX TITAN's aesthetic design evokes the spirit of a supercomputer and the enormous capability within: a blistering-fast GPU and astonishing graphics horsepower that is delivered with the power efficiency that only Kepler-class GPUs can provide.
With its advanced thermal and acoustic characteristics, GeForce GTX TITAN is also perfect for powering the new wave of small form-factor gaming PCs. So gamers no longer have to make the choice between performance and size -- they can have both at the same time.
"GeForce GTX TITAN will allow us to create the nearly-impossible product our customers have wanted for years: a ridiculously fast, tiny system that you barely know is running," said Kelt Reeves, CEO of Falcon Northwest.
The GeForce GTX TITAN:
- Contains 7 billion transistors
- Has 2,668 GPU cores -- 75% more than the Company's NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 GPU
- Delivers 4.5 Teraflops of single precision and 1.3 Teraflops of double precision processing power
- Supports new GPU Boost 2.0 technology which automatically boosts graphics performance and supports unlocked voltage and advanced controls for even more gaming control and overclocking customization
- Can be combined with additional GTX TITANs in SLI mode for even more performance
GeForce GTX TITAN will also be sold in fully configured systems from leading U.S.-based system builders, including AVADirect, Cyberpower, Digital Storm, Falcon Northwest, Geekbox, IBUYPOWER, Maingear, Origin PC, Puget Systems, V3 Gaming, Velocity Micro, and other system integrators outside North America.
123 Comments on NVIDIA Announces GeForce GTX Titan, The Fastest GPU in the World
* Heise are reporting that the notebook equivalent (GTX 780M) is around 30% faster than its predecessor (GTX 680M): Undoubtedly, but when the card launched in September 2009, its MSRP was $US399
When the 5870 launched, it was slower than the 295, btw. A better card, but slower.
Wasnt 295 dual gpu , ,both co's aren't above the fastest Card pr angle eh.
In any case, if Nvidia lowered the price of their GK110 products, they'd just sell out. They're struggling to meet demand from compute clients as it is. So they can chose between selling as many as they can make at a high price, or selling as many as they can make at a lower price.
It's not like anyone's going to suffer from the lack of GK110, anyway. We don't have a divine right to flagship GPUs at mainstream prices, that's just something to be greatful for when competition is good enough to allow for it.
IMHO THIS GEN NVIDIA ARE TO EXPENSIVE.
Anyway, please tone down the aggression. We can at least pretend to be having a sensible, mature, intelligent conversation.
For me its not good enough, I understand your point but disagree as I will not pay more than I think a thing is worth and this isn't worth what they want for it imho simples.
- A vintage wine is not 20 times as good as a 10-year-old wine.
- A Ferrari is not 10 times as good as a brand new Golf GTI.
- A 3960X is not twice as good as a 3930K.
- 4K HD screens are not 40 times as good as 1080p screens.
High-end goods have lower volumes and higher R&D costs, so price/perf has to suffer. Yeah, of course you don't pay more than you value for something. That's why you don't buy gold jewellery every day, right? But that's not a reason for Nvidia to lower their price - if the extra sales they'd get would be worth lowering their price, they'd do it. But there are enough people atm for whom Titan is worth $1000 for that to be the optimal price. I imagine for Nvidia with GK110 atm, the optimal price is the highest price at which they can sell as many as TSMC can make.This card Will be three hundred notes at some point in time as tec de values to its true value re production costs , but its unimportant re what I think its worth
And thats ppint 2 in a nutshell, you're arguing from an angle of nvidias profits like you work there, I couldn't care less about nvidia maxing profit Im the consumer I care only about performance cost ratio and my perceived value of it and its a fail on both those metrics
Ps mass spectrometers scalw linear in price v spec as do football teams, hdds , ssds, mobos , psus ??
As for production costs being the true value, that's rubbish. You think R&D is free? Even if it was, and they sold it at production costs, they'd quickly be a market for used cards selling at higher prices (as they'd run out of new ones), so what does that tell you? Yeah, so you shouldn't buy it! But you shouldn't criticise Nvidia either - you're clearly not the target market for this product, and they're just doing what's best for them just like you're doing what's best for you.
Do you complain about every profit-making product you can't afford?
Im not negative on nvidia just there priceing and they rape the r n d cost from the corporate sector in the cost of pro cards and backup. Im starting to think the sun shines out of nv's ass onto you.
Give it up im gona. I cant change your mind it seems meh. You won't change mine.
theoneandonlymrk: Nvidia's stuff is overpriced
blibba: That's because of economics
Both are correct, no matter how many posts we make. Now can we please go back to topic? :D
The 580, 480, 280 would have all cost 1k. I guess I did. I just dont see how the economics have changed then you implied Titan is a "luxury" item. Which I agree that Nvidia made a new segment for itself with Titan but it hasnt altered how economics have worked in the past for those companies.
Nvidia tried to be cleaver and make a new catagory for Titan by not lumping it in to the 600 series but its still under the gaming series. Its just categorizing itself differently and thus being able to charge more with less of a back-lash if it retained the 600 numeroligy.
See post #103 for the relevant link (or translated here) The Titan owners thread is up to 190 pages at OCN. Uptake of the card seems pretty good for a high dollar item. Your argument is largely invalid at this point.
When did I even imply such things. You need to stop smoking that stuff :pimp:
BTW I like your analogy
If 190 pages of anything equals success we are in deep trouble.:shadedshu
This is the internet after all :D
Taking into account a reasonable level of image quality and resolution dependent, the GTX 680 lags by about 35-70% behind the Titan(mouse over the graph bars for baseline comparison)- if you concentrate on compute heavy gaming or apps, the difference becomes somewhat greater. Unlikely that a GTX 780 would equal a Titan unless it were fundamentally redesigned.
The second argument is somewhat more pragmatic. Titan is here, GK114 is not. If you're waiting for the next best thing then you would be forever waiting. With the staggered release cycles that AMD and Nvidia seem to a reached, you're never going to be more than a few months removed from a new series.