Inno3D Announces Its Black Series GeForce GTX Titan
Inno3D announces its hybrid liquid/air cooled GTX Titan, with the cooling solution based on Arctic's Accelero Hybrid cooler.
Inno3D has released a semi-custom version of the GTX Titan, this one sporting Arctic's Accelero Hybrid cooler. It is called the GeForce GTX Titan iChill Black Series. While Nvidia doesn't allow manufacturers to make any changes to the reference PCB design, apparently, manufacturers can still choose to use a different cooler or change the clock speeds.
Arctic's Accelero Hybrid is a cooler that shares the idea from Asus' ARES II card, which has a liquid cooler for the GPU and a fan on the shroud to cool the other components, such as the RAM and the VRM; hence, it's called a hybrid cooler. The unit is also closed-loop and thus maintenance free.
Beyond the custom cooler, the GPU's core speed has been changed. What used to be 837 MHz base and 876 MHz boost is now 837 MHz base and 980 MHz boost. The memory clock speed has remained the same, at 6 GHz, as well as the 2688 CUDA cores, 224 TMUs, 48 ROPs, and the 384-bit memory bus. Since Inno3D can't make any changes to the PCB design, the card also still draws power from a combination of a 6-pin and 8-pin PCIe power connector. Display outputs are also still two DVI ports, HDMI and a DisplayPort.
Just realized I might be wrong on GPU Boost 2 as it may be, from what I have read, that the cards managing software will allow it to run faster if you keep temps low enough or is this more controlled by power consumption???... Anyone know more???
Well typically these pre-built things are made for those people who have a ton of money but still don't know anything about hardware.
Erm n/m, I don't have a point because a person who would buy this would already have to be a computer enthusiast and would also need to have a ton of money.
This thing is probably like $1300US. That's the same cost as some peoples i7 rigs. Ri...di...cu...lous...
Now to start booting up the ENIAC in my basement...
I believe card will allow a 6% increase in power consumption(over it's rated 250 watts) if kept cool; so 265 watts. With the end result being a nice overclock. When benchmarking the reference design a few weeks ago, Tom's mentioned they got a cold Titan to 1.1 GHz.
However for realistic test results, they kept their lab at 23 degrees celsius. And at that temperature, they reported clock speeds were around 990 Mhz.
I believe card will allow a 6% increase in power consumption(over it's rated 250 watts) if kept cool; so 265 watts. With the end result being a nice overclock. When benchmarking the reference design a few weeks ago, Tom's mentioned they got a cold Titan to 1.1 GHz.
However for realistic test results, they kept their lab at 23 degrees celsius. And at that temperature, they reported clock speeds were around 990 Mhz.
Yes yes yes, a GTX680 can get numbers too. But does it gain performance from such an OC?
Because the GTX680 does not, the numbers appear better, but GPU Boost di not allow better ACTUAL performance.
Quoting doesn't seem to be working, but I think he's saying it should be cheaper since you're buying a video card and two coolers as opposed to the same card with just one.
You could argue that because of the extra work on the user's end, some might want to pay a bit more for the Titan with the Arctic cooler already on it. But I'd guess anyone interested probably enjoy's the process of doing it themselves anyway, so I think it should cost the same as the Titan + Artic Cooler if not minus the cost of the original cooler. but it probably won't
Why would it be cheaper? It saves you more than an hour required for installation/drying of adhesive, you won't void the warranty and you don't pay for separate S&H for the cooler.
This is very subjective. "So quiet" means different things to different people, I've heard some "quiet rigs" from across the room, and that may not be good enough for many people.
Not necessarily. It depends on the warranty policy of the company that you buy it from and/or that produced it. Some of the graphics card partners for AMD and Nvidia allow after market coolers to not void warranty so long as you don't damage the card through improper cooler installation.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. The very low end graphics markets have slowed performance improvement greatly compared to the high end since Voodoo was around. Titan and even some much slower cards might be faster than any car's on-board computer until we no longer have cars unless we find a reason to need more performance for that job.
For example, most of our lowest end graphics are still using the fairly old Radeon 5000 VLIW5 architecture or Nvidia's Fermi architecture and many even still use the same GPUs from the Ati Radeon 5000 series and Nvidia GTX 400 series. Then we look at a lot of the more mobile SoCs that are around and even weaker, yet these are what we see in more and more use in stuff such as cars. It seems that low power consumption and/or cost is a bigger driving force (with good reason) than higher performance.
I wouldn't be surprised to see stuff such as phones, tablets, and other low-power devices where performance is at least a little more important get like what you said, but even then, chances are that such devices will become more like thin clients for most people well before they reach Titan's performance.