Thursday, May 1st 2014
New GTX TITAN-Z Launch Details Emerge
NVIDIA's GeForce GTX TITAN-Z missed the bus on its earlier 29th April, 2014 launch date, which was confirmed to the press by several retailers, forcing some AIC partners to content with paper-launches of cards bearing their brand. It turns out that the delay is going to be by just a little over a week. The GeForce GTX TITAN-Z is now expected to be available on the 8th of May, 2014. That will be when you'll be able to buy the US $3,000 graphics card off the shelf.
A dual-GPU graphics card based on a pair of 28 nm GK110 GPUs, the GTX TITAN-Z features a total of 5,760 CUDA cores (2,880 per GPU), 480 TMUs (240 per GPU), 96 ROPs (48 per GPU), and a total of 12 GB of GDDR5 memory, spread across two 384-bit wide memory interfaces. Although each of the two GPUs is configured identical to a GTX TITAN Black, it features lower clock speeds. The core is clocked at 705 MHz (889 MHz on the GTX TITAN Black), with GPU Boost frequencies of up to 876 MHz (up to 980 MHz on the GTX TITAN Black); while the memory remains at 7.00 GHz. The card draws power from a pair of 8-pin PCIe power connectors, and its maximum power draw is rated at 375W. It will be interesting to see how it stacks up against the Radeon R9 295X2 by AMD, which costs half as much, at $1,500.
Source:
ComputerBase.de
A dual-GPU graphics card based on a pair of 28 nm GK110 GPUs, the GTX TITAN-Z features a total of 5,760 CUDA cores (2,880 per GPU), 480 TMUs (240 per GPU), 96 ROPs (48 per GPU), and a total of 12 GB of GDDR5 memory, spread across two 384-bit wide memory interfaces. Although each of the two GPUs is configured identical to a GTX TITAN Black, it features lower clock speeds. The core is clocked at 705 MHz (889 MHz on the GTX TITAN Black), with GPU Boost frequencies of up to 876 MHz (up to 980 MHz on the GTX TITAN Black); while the memory remains at 7.00 GHz. The card draws power from a pair of 8-pin PCIe power connectors, and its maximum power draw is rated at 375W. It will be interesting to see how it stacks up against the Radeon R9 295X2 by AMD, which costs half as much, at $1,500.
105 Comments on New GTX TITAN-Z Launch Details Emerge
580's at one time or another were in the rang of 400-700 for 3gb models (Give or take and depending on version or how close to release they were) while Titan costs a minimum of 1k for a feature set like the 580 had while scrapping those features on the 680 and 780/ti. Its a game of "See how much they can charge until people finally turn their noses up" which is pretty apparent with the absurd pricing of Titan-Z.
Im waiting to see what the 880 brings, if the 750ti is any indicator chances are it will be a much better render card and fix things back to the way they should have been from the beginning than that of Titan (Well this is just mere speculation).
Uping the sustained boost clock on the 780 Ti 13mhz increased temps 3c. Dual GPU card will see its temp rise faster then a single. A 50mhz increase on Titan Z will be worse than the 95c on the 290X in this graph.
It kinda pissed on their parade so hard even with that power consumption.
Twice the asking msrp doesn't justify 100w less, they cannot even play the quietness game since the 295 aio does a flawless job.
They should just make a dual GK110 (no DP) card that has the same MSRP as the 295x2, maybe a bit less considering it would perform worse, Nvidia will never pull out a 500W card imo.
www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/anton-shilov/nvidia-indefinitely-postpones-launch-of-geforce-gtx-titan-z-reports/
Maybe Titan Z will come back a few month later, with better VRM and cooling. Given that it is nVidia we are talking about, maybe we will see 4000$ price tag :lol:
If they do they also have to go the water cooling route and once you open up GK110 it zips more juice then Hawaii. Going water also kills the "CUDAsumer" market. They have to leave the Titan Z on air, "790" could go water.
Maxwell time table probably got pushed up ?
I can imagine it can't take much to surpass that 375W mark if they want to reach the 295x2 in performance. I think ATI pulled an ace this time which I would gladly support but it would be a downgrade for me.
I think they just went too bold this time out, without thinking about what the 6990 was and 295x2 could have been that time.
Dual GPUs have always been an ATI game, they can't beat them. ATI doesn't really care about power consumption as it has shown us now as well in the past.
It has bit them in the ass :)
I'm still assuming the Titan Z will make an appearance soon.
But I doubt that the VRM can keep up with 2 power hungry GK110 at that level. The story of blowed up 590 will go live again
Leaving it up to P.O.S. to do BIOS update is extremely unwise. Unless your willing to take the PR and % return hit that will go along with it.
If they made this work in a 2 slot config while improving the cooler and clocks along with a heavy price drop then it could be sold as a better alternative to adding more Ram for Cuda renders and devs.
I think a 790 would not be a good idea unless more ram is added. Shooting for 4k its already apparent there are issues with the 780ti because of the 3gb limits that are proving to be an actual problem.
Titan-Z is just going to have to go through a lot of changes to be even looked at.
Are you kidding me with that price!!!
That's a whole gaming/compute rig price that could actually include a pair of Titan blacks and a real fancy motherboard and processor! I could fit an ivy-bridge e chip, a pair of Titan blacks, a nice motherboard, 16gb of ram, and some heavy ssd storage for the price of one of those cards.
Release Date has been delayed 3 times now.
1.) When it was announced it was early April
2.) April 29
3.) May 8
4.) Who knows.
Not a smart move to go on stage and showcase an upcoming product with the price as one of the few things announced. Only to have to walk it back to due your competition having a better gaming product at half the price.
They still plan on releasing it in Q2 which is May-June-July for them.
KitGuru - Nvidia vows to make GeForce GTX Titan Z available in coming months
I'm kinda glad they can't get away with this SKU, it would have been massively retarded to witness.