Friday, December 8th 2017
NVIDIA Announces TITAN V "Volta" Graphics Card
NVIDIA in a shock move, announced its new flagship graphics card, the TITAN V. This card implements the "Volta" GV100 graphics processor, the same one which drives the company's Tesla V100 HPC accelerator. The GV100 is a multi-chip module, with the GPU die and three HBM2 memory stacks sharing a package. The card features 12 GB of HBM2 memory across a 3072-bit wide memory interface. The GPU die has been built on the 12 nm FinFET+ process by TSMC. NVIDIA TITAN V maxes out the GV100 silicon, if not its memory interface, featuring a whopping 5,120 CUDA cores, 640 Tensor cores (specialized units that accelerate neural-net building/training). The CUDA cores are spread across 80 streaming multiprocessors (64 CUDA cores per SM), spread across 6 graphics processing clusters (GPCs). The TMU count is 320.
The GPU core is clocked at 1200 MHz, with a GPU Boost frequency of 1455 MHz, and an HBM2 memory clock of 850 MHz, translating into 652.8 GB/s memory bandwidth (1.70 Gbps stacks). The card draws power from a combination of 6-pin and 8-pin PCIe power connectors. Display outputs include three DP and one HDMI connectors. With a wallet-scorching price of USD $2,999, and available exclusively through NVIDIA store, the TITAN V is evidence that with Intel deciding to sell client-segment processors for $2,000, it was a matter of time before GPU makers seek out that price-band. At $3k, the GV100's margins are probably more than made up for.
The GPU core is clocked at 1200 MHz, with a GPU Boost frequency of 1455 MHz, and an HBM2 memory clock of 850 MHz, translating into 652.8 GB/s memory bandwidth (1.70 Gbps stacks). The card draws power from a combination of 6-pin and 8-pin PCIe power connectors. Display outputs include three DP and one HDMI connectors. With a wallet-scorching price of USD $2,999, and available exclusively through NVIDIA store, the TITAN V is evidence that with Intel deciding to sell client-segment processors for $2,000, it was a matter of time before GPU makers seek out that price-band. At $3k, the GV100's margins are probably more than made up for.
135 Comments on NVIDIA Announces TITAN V "Volta" Graphics Card
I did a small table a while ago from one of TPU's GTX 1080 Ti review by adding certain percentages to the results in order to predict future performance. Hopefully someone finds these useful. Numbers are in AVG FPS at 1440p max settings.
Btw i got the name right (Titan V) but i doubt it will be 50% faster than 1080Ti. More likely 25% faster. Atleast at stock speeds. Overclocking may get it to 40% perhaps as OC generally adds 10-15%.
Not sure how that translates to GV102 tho..
Seriously, now they're taking the pi$$!
A GPU is just a chip capable of processing in parallel. What you do with it, and more importantly, what it DOES BEST defines what kind of purpose its made for. It really isn't rocket science
Multiply first column value by 2,25 to verify.
No worries, I think it's useful if you read it right.
Nvidia themselves dropped the GeForce moniker from Titans some time ago, making it official even they're not sure what Titans are. Besides expensive :DIf people buy this thinking they'll get 3x the FPS of mere mortals that "only" pay $1,000 for their video cards, then yes. But if someone has (a lot of) disposable cash and wants to see what the latest architecture to hit the consumer space can do, I don't see where the problem is or why they'd be dumb to do it.
Presumably they could drop a GV104 or GV102 tomorrow if they wanted. At least some enthusiasts will have a new toy to play with!