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
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57 Comments on Could This be the NVIDIA TITAN Volta?

#51
Slizzo
Not surprising. Still wouldn't expect to see anything for regular consumers until next year; of course one reason being that RX Vega isn't here yet, and Vega Frontier Edition isn't really anything to go nuts about.
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#52
Fluffmeister
Definitely, and whilst it is only a small numbered that have been sampled, it bodes well that such a large and complex chip is already in the hands of researchers.

But then deep learning and AI is big business these days, and as you say Pascal is still waiting for the competition to turn up.
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#53
jabbadap
Well the color scheme is the same but that volta V100 pcie is shorter, passive and theres no Titan wrote on it.
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#54
Slizzo
jabbadapWell the color scheme is the same but that volta V100 pcie is shorter, passive and theres no Titan wrote on it.
Few things to note, this is NOT a GPU, it's an accelerator unit. All headers for video output are absent from this card.
Second, this card uses HBM, so PCB length can be shortened due to not needing to provide space for the memory on the board.
Third, as for passive cooling, it's designed to go into a server chassis that blows air directly over the chip and back out the case.
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#55
cdawall
where the hell are my stars
SlizzoFew things to note, this is NOT a GPU, it's an accelerator unit. All headers for video output are absent from this card.
Second, this card uses HBM, so PCB length can be shortened due to not needing to provide space for the memory on the board.
Third, as for passive cooling, it's designed to go into a server chassis that blows air directly over the chip and back out the case.
Typically in push pull now a days. Server grade fan mounted on the rear external of the chassis to pull air out of the cards and internal pushers, to well push through them. I was really hoping to see lower costing mining cards configured like this, but alas I want too much it seems
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#56
jabbadap
SlizzoFew things to note, this is NOT a GPU, it's an accelerator unit. All headers for video output are absent from this card.
Second, this card uses HBM, so PCB length can be shortened due to not needing to provide space for the memory on the board.
Third, as for passive cooling, it's designed to go into a server chassis that blows air directly over the chip and back out the case.
Well all you say is of course true, but I just chimed in that it ain't the same card which was in the article's pic:

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#57
Slizzo
jabbadapWell all you say is of course true, but I just chimed in that it ain't the same card which was in the article's pic:

Ah, I see what you're looking at now.

Unfortunately in the recent pic you can't see that side of the card. You can tell something is definitely there, but unable to make it out.
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