Tuesday, May 23rd 2017
Could This be the NVIDIA TITAN Volta?
NVIDIA, which unveiled its faster "Volta" GPU architecture at its 2017 Graphics Technology Conference (GTC), beginning with the HPC product Tesla V100, is closer to launching the consumer graphics variant, the TITAN Volta. A curious-looking graphics card image with "TITAN" markings surfaced on Reddit. One could discount the pic for being that of a well-made cooler mod, until you take a peak at the PCB. It appears to lack SLI fingers where you'd expect them to be, and instead has NVLink fingers in positions found on the PCIe add-in card variant of the Tesla P100 HPC accelerator.
You might think "alright, it's not a fancy TITAN X Pascal cooler mod, but it could be a P100 with a cooler mod," until you notice the power connectors - it has two power inputs on top of the card (where they're typically found on NVIDIA's consumer graphics cards), and not the rear portion of the card (where the P100 has it, and where they're typically found on Tesla and Quadro series products). Whoever pulled this off has done an excellent job either way - of scoring a potential TITAN Volta sample, or modding whatever card to look very plausible of being a TITAN Volta.
Sources:
Reddit, VideoCardz
You might think "alright, it's not a fancy TITAN X Pascal cooler mod, but it could be a P100 with a cooler mod," until you notice the power connectors - it has two power inputs on top of the card (where they're typically found on NVIDIA's consumer graphics cards), and not the rear portion of the card (where the P100 has it, and where they're typically found on Tesla and Quadro series products). Whoever pulled this off has done an excellent job either way - of scoring a potential TITAN Volta sample, or modding whatever card to look very plausible of being a TITAN Volta.
57 Comments on Could This be the NVIDIA TITAN Volta?
Also can Nvidia please let go of this "Titan" moniker soon because its just getting silly.
Why not call it Tartarus because the jail holding the titans must be stronger then the titans.
Or call it Olympus where the gods who defeated the Titans reside.
Or something totally different all together.
This Titan, Titan X, Titan Black, Titan Z, Titan Pascal, its just getting...rather stupid and confusing imo, if its all called Titan it does not add anything, and with the letters its not easy to comprehend either.
Titan cards are normally black in colour.
Non Titan cards are err silver and black just like in the pic.
You actually believe vega can challenge volta?
Rofl :roll:
I'm by no means a nvidia fanboy (in fact if VEGA turns out to be decent price to performance, I'll replace my RX 480 with it), I really hope that AMD can really pull something out of the hat with VEGA than can go toe to toe with Volta, not just Pascal but AMD has over promised time and time again which makes me far too wary of the hype train and leaks for VEGA.
www.guru3d.com/news-story/radeon-rx-vega-for-consumers-might-still-be-out-a-couple-of-months.html
suggests consumer Vega might not arrive for another couple of months. If this is a Volta Titan (though more likely a GV100 in sheeps clothing) then Nvidia may have something on hand for Vega, if it beats the 1080ti or Titan Xpzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
The colours of the Tesla part are black and gold though (at least one pic i saw was).
Who cares?
1) AMD is aiming at professional market, so gaming side of things will suffer
2) Vega FE seems to be in the middle between 1080 and 1080Ti
3) Volta is Pascal refined, a bit faster, but not revolutionary
/shrug
I'll still buy Vega, if doesn't ask significantly more for perf than nVidia does.
Faster than 1080 is still plenty fast.
APU side of things looks really promising, with current insane gaming notebook pricing.
We really need competition because is not acceptable to pay 500€ here in europe for a GPU that can barely handle 1440p @144hz maxed out (GTX1080). Won´t even talk about 4k. Is too much money and is not benefical for PC gaming.
FFS, It's just one more week until Computex and more details about RX Vega will be known.
TL;DR: Its most likely a Tesla sample unit for people to see it irl, actually working, cannot play games, compute only.
The screw hole positions are the same as on the P100 PCIe version and most ref PCBs have solder pads/holes for power connector on the top and the back.
Plus it's way too early for Volta, especially a Titan, they'll release the small chips first like they did in the past.