NVIDIA's Latest Titan V GPU Benchmarked, Shows Impressive Performance

[londiste]

Interesting conclusions from GN:

Gamersnexus' conclusions seem pretty baseless. All the talk about Async and DX12 will get them clicks but actual results do not show anything of the sort.

Their claims are mostly based on two games - Doom and Sniper Elite 4:
- Doom and its engine (especially with Vulkan) is technically awesome and scales extremely well (provided that 200fps cap is not reached which does get problematic even at high resolutions with ultra-highend).
- Sniper Elite 4 is so far the only DX12 game that gets clear benefit from the lower level API across the board and it does not hurt that it also scales extremely well.

Now look at other tests they did:
- AOTS (DX12 and Async technical showcase) scales badly, even once they use something else beyond their usual High settings that are CPU limited. This, by the way, speaks directly against their DX12/Async claims.
- Hellblade scales well despite being Unreal Engine game using DX11.
- Wildlands, For Honor, Destiny are likely limited by something else (Destiny highest settings graphs show that well enough).

From my own experience, even 1080Ti gets CPU limited often enough at 1440p with highest settings. Titan V is around 40% faster which roughly matches the additional horsepower UHD needs compared to 1440p. CPU limitations are real and often enough engine or game themselves prove to be limiting.

In some cases, Titan V actually is too fast for now.

 

[medi01]

Jeez, and you guys then get offended, when told your titles are biased.


PS
Why is it compared to 1080Ti and not Titan X (Pascal)?

45% improvement

45% eh?

And where it is faster, this lovely drop in min frame rate over STOCK Titan Pascal:

It isn't even "no compromise better product" let alone that it is more that 2 times more expensive.
Even GN could not twist it enough.

 

[londiste]

Why is it compared to 1080Ti and not Titan X (Pascal)?

When it comes to gaming, 1080Ti tends to be faster than Titan Xp, especially overclocked. And, well, it is half the price which is probably helpful for reviewers keeping the card around

It isn't even "no compromise better product" let alone that it is more that 2 times more expensive.

Time will tell what the problema with 0.1%/1% results is, I would not rule out early driver issues.
But, Titan V is a no compromise product... only not (primarily) for gaming. Fully unlocked, all the FP16, FP64, Tensor cores - this is a real compute monster.
Honestly, I am somewhat surprised about how well it does in games, I would have expected a larger performance hit for extra logic in the GPU that is largely if not completely useless for games.

 

[EarthDog]

Boost 3.0 largely negates the OC ability of NVIDIA cards as it already tries to run at the highest clocks it is able to while staying withing the power and temp targets.

I don't think it negates it. Renders it redundant seems like a more appropriate description.

it does lop off a bit, surely, however there is still headroom to overclock.

 

[bug]

it does lop off a bit, surely, however there is still headroom to overclock.

True, but unless into you're into more exotic overclocking, you can just up the TDP and the drivers will raise the clocks for you. I like that.

 

[nem..]

 

[EarthDog]

True, but unless into you're into more exotic overclocking, you can just up the TDP and the drivers will raise the clocks for you. I like that.

The only way that works is if you are hitting the temperature or power limit, otherwise, the boost may go up a bin or two and will hit its max and stay. You can get another 100 Mhz or so (not much) on top of any boost, typically.

 

[Fluffmeister]

Time Spy Extreme: OC'ed Titan V (1.8Ghz) vs OC'ed GTX 1080 TI (2.1Ghz):

https://www.3dmark.com/compare/spy/2920134/spy/2920319

Does OK on Luxmark 3 too:

https://www.hardwareluxx.de/index.p...volta-architektur-im-gaming-test.html?start=6

 

[dinicthis]

I double dog dare ye to beat this one.
Overclocking is one thing.
Omegaclocking is quite another.
Strangely, system does Gray Screen of You Have to Turn the Power off at the Power Supply Death if I try it on Extreme.

 

[Freez]

Not for Gaming, not for serious Workload. WTF is this... ?!! NVidia Titan Frontier Edition?

 

[avenger001]

c'est too much

 

[rtwjunkie]

IMPRESSIVE PERFORMANCE? SOMEONE SHOULD BEAT THIS PEOPLE WHO WRITE SUCH THINGS.
45% IMPROVEMENT FROM 1200$ TO 3000$ IMPRESIVE.
THAT'S IMPRESSIVE DONKEY EARS FOR ANYONE WHO SAY THAT.
Are you blind, are you normal at all. 45% improvement or 50% or 55% after 18 months over graphic card worth 1200$ to charge 3000$?
I don't see nothing impressive there, only diagnose.
For this price I could buy new Kawasaki 2018 multipurpose or Off road.
And next year or for 5 years no one will launch 50% better model, are you aware of that.
One word- F A I L!
I expected to NVIDIA show up with some 16GB HBM model at least 60-70% stronger than TITAN XP, to match with TITAN XP SLI and replace him with price. This, buyers should be jelous for people who resist for this and ask help from doctor.
This is school example of Asian robbery like people earn 1K dollars for 5 days.
Even with so good job you need to work like horse 15 days to pay him and you have 10 days to earn for food and everything else.
Impressive win over 2 years old model with three time more expensive graphic card. Success, pure success.

Wow, did someone get spoiled by the very abnormal HUGE jump in performance from Maxwell to Pascal?

 

[bug]

Wow, did someone get spoiled by the very abnormal HUGE jump in performance from Maxwell to Pascal?

I don't think he's spoiled as much as he doesn't get what a halo product is.
I'm betting he's willing to lash out at Mercedes also because a Maybach isn't twice as fast as an S Classe, despite being at least twice as expensive. I mean, seriously, I can't think of a single line of products where the top end costs proportionally more than mainstream. And Titans are barely worthy of the "line of products" designation, they're basically a no show in any video card statistic, that's how low their numbers are.

 

[Manoa]

Not for Gaming, not for serious Workload. WTF is this... ?!! NVidia Titan Frontier Edition?

nvidea titan F: get F**** in the *** by 3000$ xD
I wanne kawasaki insted, he give realy speed so mutch bether

 

[Midland Dog]

If there's a storm could in there, it's the AotS score. Since this doesn't beat the 1080Ti as conclusively, it could be a sign that Nvidia still uses their hybrid approach to async compute. It's not certain (AotS may simply be tailored around AMD's hardware for example), but I think it's possible.

soz for reviving a dead thread (drunk decisions make up %50 of my life) but volta has a hardware scheduler if you read the white paper

 

[bug]

soz for reviving a dead thread (drunk decisions make up %50 of my life) but volta has a hardware scheduler if you read the white paper

Ha, so now we also have "proper" async. Didn't know that, thanks for pointing it out.

 

[64K]

What Titan Volta isn't:

Like the past two generation of Titans (gaming cards with more VRAM)
A gaming card
Referred to as a GeForce card by Nvidia themselves



What Volta Titan is:

A GPU with Tensor Cores that makes it great for AI and some other work applications
A cheaper alternative to A $10,000 Tesla card though a bit inferior


We may get something for gaming out of Volta but the Titan is not it. Most likely Nvidia will strip the Tensor Cores out and bring a gaming GPU and probably call it Ampere.

 

[jaggerwild]

Why is TPU even bench marking this card?

 

[64K]

Why is TPU even bench marking this card?

They didn't know what the Titan Volta was. Like many, they assumed it was like the previous Titans.

 

[bug]

Why is TPU even bench marking this card?

Because they're a tech site, maybe? As in, not a gaming-only site.

You could argue that a different suite of tests would have been more relevant, but as far as offering a first peek into Volta, I believe TPU did a great job.

 

[64K]

Because they're a tech site, maybe? As in, not a gaming-only site.

You could argue that a different suite of tests would have been more relevant, but as far as offering a first peek into Volta, I believe TPU did a great job.

Do you know what Titan Volta is?

 

[bug]

Do you know what Titan Volta is?

Not even Nvidia knows for sure. It's not supposed to be a gaming card, hence dropping GeForce from its name, but it doesn't run on professional drivers either. To me Titans have always been proofs of concept. Very expensive proofs of concept.