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NVIDIA to Name GK110-based Consumer Graphics Card "GeForce Titan"

A bit like it does not make sense to release a mid range card and pretend its a top of the range GPU, thats nvidia for you.

Well I've never bought this claim anyway.

GK104, I think, was always going to be the desktop GPU.

I think nVidia have just realised that they had to split the HPC chips from the desktop GPUs if they wanted to compete well with desktop GPUs, because these 550mm2 GPUs they were using for desktop chips were hideously expensive for them to produce.

The GK104 is nearly half the size of it. In fact, it's also nearly half the size of the GTX580's GPU, and only has about 15% more transistors, because they stripped the core logic down for a desktop only part.

They really needed to go with efficiency this time around because Fermi based GPUs were always going to be big, even on 28nm.


I was thinking about the performance claim of 85% of a GTX 690.

If they choose the games wisely it is easy to justify.

Just pick games that don't scale well in SLI.

Uhh yeah, and use those horrible graphs that don't start from 0 too.
 
ocuk have a system called titan dont they? They'd have a field day lol.

'The OCUK 9000i TITAN, with QUAD TITANS! contains more TITAN than the whole of the golden age combined!!!!!"

...Seriously though, Titan's a rubbish name :p
 
I understand that, but it makes no sense for a marginal speed boost over a 680.

It'd make more sense for them to just put them in compute based products, which it seems like they have done.

The Tesla cards that use these have two versions, the 20 and the 20X, one uses the full 15 blocks, and the other has one disabled.

So personally, I don't really buy that they've been stockpiling them in that fashion.

Yes it makes more sense to cascade them out to compute parts but theres more to it with tesla, etc. than just having SMs that work or not they will have to deal with things like MTBFs which potentially cores with all SPs working might still not make the grade for.
 
Outside of guys who use Cuda at home and don't want to fork out way more money for a professional version there really isn't much to talk about tbh. You could buy 2x680gtx since they launched and have more than this performance the whole time.

THe dual gpu card, wow, 4870x2 basically on launch with vastly increased value, awesome, the 3870x2 was less awesome but still good, since then the cards are taking longer, hitting that "too hot too loud" to be worth it point and so late, what the hell is the point.

A few weeks after the 4870 was available a genuine alternative with 1gb mem and cheaper than two separate cards was available, the 690/7990 and Titan are SOOO late to the game, who cares about them. You wanted SLI of xfire, you could get more performance than any of these cards, over a year ago........ If they'd at least bought them out at vastly better value than two individual cards there might be at least a slim reason to go with, louder, worse cooled, worse overclocking dual cards, but there isn't.

A single gpu vs two is preferable, but the cost, lateness, and impending new AMD/Nvidia cards, make the consumer version of GK110 just utterly worthless, unless you need Cuda/DF performance as I'm going to presume Nvidia's new cards will not include big DF performance again in a bid to save die size.

I'd also guess that, the 85% will be more geared to high res, high bandwidth needing area's where the GK104 bogs down, not that its a bad thing, for $900 you'd be mad to buy that for 1080p, however for most people who game at 1080p I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't dramatically faster than a gk104.
 
^^ I suspect for people who game at 2560x or above it might be somewhat worth it as its likely to come with the fatter memory bus of the K20 series cards unless they do something silly - which may be part of why its costly.
 
Hopefully it will be todays Gtx 480 hot loud and a beast which needs taming!!

I want a reason to watercool my gpu's again :o
 
If they are GK110s with several SMs fused off then they probably will clock like monsters on water......... if you can find a way to volt them up.
 
I remember reading an article a couple of months ago stating that the binned K20 chips which didn't cut the mustard would be kept for using in desktop cards. I didn't give this too much respect, as I thought it would never happen....

I wait with baited breath and credit card at the ready if any of these rumours are true.

Cmon Duff-Man and DrunkenMaster, give your insights please :p
 
I think the important thing here is there is not a GTX 7xx in the name, its not part of the upcoming 7 series.

I think when the 7 series launches the Titan will be obsolete.
 
I think the important thing here is there is not a GTX 7xx in the name, its not part of the upcoming 7 series.

I think when the 7 series launches the Titan will be obsolete.

I am fairly certain they will be limited edition cards and only a few available.
 
I remember reading an article a couple of months ago stating that the binned K20 chips which didn't cut the mustard would be kept for using in desktop cards. I didn't give this too much respect, as I thought it would never happen....

I wait with baited breath and credit card at the ready if any of these rumours are true.

Cmon Duff-Man and DrunkenMaster, give your insights please :p

Duff-man, yes, DrunkenMaster, not so much, I think he only thinks he knows what he's talking about. :p
 
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