Tuesday, February 11th 2014
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GeForce GTX TITAN Black Pictured, Isn't Strictly Black
Here's the first alleged picture of NVIDIA's GeForce GTX TITAN Black, a high-end SKU NVIDIA is working on, to restore the competitiveness of the $999 price-point it commands. Although referred to as "TITAN Black," the card is nowhere close to looking like the CGI renders that surfaced last November. The board looks identical to the original GTX TITAN, except its "TITAN" etching on the cooler shroud is painted in black. The GTX TITAN Black maxes out the 28 nm GK110 silicon, featuring 2,880 CUDA cores, 240 TMUs, 48 ROPs, and a 384-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, holding 6 GB of memory. It also features full DPFP for the GK110 silicon, which is exclusive to the GTX TITAN, within the GeForce range. NVIDIA is expected to give the GTX TITAN Black a low-key launch some time next week.
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32 Comments on GeForce GTX TITAN Black Pictured, Isn't Strictly Black
Atleast, now we know why we didn't get 780 Ti 6 GB variant.
The 'Titan' chip was released over 14 months ago in the form of the Tesla K20 and yet we are still talking about another 6-12 months before we will see anything new in the high end!
I miss having Matrox, 3DFX, PowerVR, S3, 3DLabs and the others around!
I also want to see again a videocard like Voodoo 5 with 4 GPUs on it and external power source brick. And for 599$ =)))
We're constantly up against power and thermal limits now, which has massively reduced the extra performance one can get out of a commercial GPU. Same goes for CPUs.
It's no longer possible just to produce a chip at a certain performance level and deal with the power and heat issues, because there's just too much. The massive number of transistors required (7 billion or so) is also an issue, since it seriously impacts yields.
Besides you are comparing ATI design with nVidia design....
And yes, AMD card's default cooler is pure garbage since...forever; including actual cards.
They used to bring out chips each generation that really were new and so performance increases came from that, now all they do is either overclock it, make the same architecture bigger or rebrand and price cut, then just wait for a die shrink.
In other words, Nvidia is giving you another chance to bend over the table in case you missed the Titan.
IBM was playing with the idea of using imbedded tubes to allow coolant to run through the actual chip itself and there are some interesting papers out on that. Or perhaps sealing the die in a liquid filled chamber.
ssd-rd.web.cern.ch/ssd-rd/seminar/transparencies/03-01-20-ssd-HGardeniers-pt1.pdf
Maybe... Kidding!
Plus, nVidia is just getting their lineup complete again. Doesn't hurt you that they're making this $1000 card as you're not going to buy it anyway. In reality the Titan cards were more for professionals that didn't want to pay $3000 for a video card but also game on the same PC. For those that bought it for this purpose it has done well for them. For the others... well they probably mostly wasted $1000.
The whole industry has lost the art of thinking outside the box and bringing something revolutionary to the table and it's purely down to competition, there is none!
AMD and nVidia normally only seem to fight on price and recently power usage.
Intel has no competition in the CPU market anymore and you can see that from how tiny the performance jumps are each generation. If you remember back when AMD had the lead for a year or two suddenly Intel managed to miraculously find 40% performance increase in one generation, they regained the lead and now it's back to 3% here, 5% there.
ARM is competitive with many big players and the performance jumps are massive each year, yes it's a young architecture but companies still need to invest to attain these performance leaps, that is driven by competition.
The final threads and countless... OMG it's $1000, I can't believe nVidia are forcing me to spend money, and of course the bastard isn't even black... are upon us already.
The king is dead, long live the king.