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GeForce GTX Titan Black Edition and GTX 790 Specs Leaked

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The specifications of the GTX Titan Black Edition and the GTX 790 have been leaked.

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A report from VideoCardz.com indicates that Nvidia might be bringing out two new high-end graphics cards in the not-so-distant future. The cards in question are rumored to be the GTX Titan Black Edition along with the GTX 790. All of the following information is purely based on rumors though, so be sure to take it all with a grain of salt.

The specifications that are rumored for the GTX Titan Black Edition aren't particularly surprising. After the release of the GTX 780 Ti, where Nvidia brought us a fully-enabled GK110 GPU, it was just a matter of time before the GTX Titan would get a successor that would also have a fully-enabled GK110 GPU. VideoCardz.com predicts that the card will feature 2880 CUDA cores, 6 GB of GDDR5 graphics memory that will run over a 384-bit wide memory interface, and all with the same old TDP of 250 W.

The GTX 790 is a bit more surprising though. It is expected to be a dual-GPU graphics card, and is rumored to carry two GK110 GPUs. The GPUs would not be fully enabled, as Nvidia would want to keep its TDP below 300 W. VideoCardz.com expects each GPU aboard the card to have 2496 enabled CUDA cores, making a total of 4992 CUDA cores. Each GPU is also expected to be able to address 5 GB of GDDR5 graphics memory that would run over a 320-bit wide memory interface.

According to the report, the GTX Titan Black Edition is expected to cost $999 and will be released sometime next month. The GTX 790 is expected to cost more than $999 and may launch sometime in March, though a February launch is possible.

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    CaedenV , January 23, 2014 2:33 PM
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    Hmm, a GTX 790 or a used car... decisions, decisions...
    Well the 790 of course! Getting a car would only force you to get a job to feed and insure it. The 790 would help to better keep you occupied on a game and away from the issues of the real world.
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    iknowhowtofixit , January 23, 2014 2:29 PM
    Hmm, a GTX 790 or a used car... decisions, decisions...
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    Mousemonkey , January 23, 2014 3:26 PM
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    790 or two 780Ti's? Now that is conundrum.


    Not really, two 780Ti's win hands down.
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  • 31 Hide
    iknowhowtofixit , January 23, 2014 2:29 PM
    Hmm, a GTX 790 or a used car... decisions, decisions...
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    CaedenV , January 23, 2014 2:33 PM
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    Hmm, a GTX 790 or a used car... decisions, decisions...
    Well the 790 of course! Getting a car would only force you to get a job to feed and insure it. The 790 would help to better keep you occupied on a game and away from the issues of the real world.
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    jimmysmitty , January 23, 2014 2:33 PM
    Interesting that they are pushing a new Titan out when Maxwell is supposed to be out this year. Wonder if there might be a delay, if so I would imagine it on TSMCs side as it is supposed to be on a newer process.I so have to say the black looks nice. I think they would need to do more color options. Not like iPod but you know the normal Black, Red etc.
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    soldier44 , January 23, 2014 2:40 PM
    GTX 790 or pay house and truck notes for March..more decisions...
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    tolham , January 23, 2014 2:44 PM
    so probably no price drop for the 780ti then....
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    hrhuffnpuff , January 23, 2014 2:45 PM
    790 or two 780Ti's? Now that is conundrum.
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    west7 , January 23, 2014 2:49 PM
    it will cost a fortune
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    Mousemonkey , January 23, 2014 3:26 PM
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    790 or two 780Ti's? Now that is conundrum.


    Not really, two 780Ti's win hands down.
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    vmem , January 23, 2014 3:32 PM
    FYI, I would use a blacked out GTX690 as a placeholder for the 790 :p 
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    n00dl3 , January 23, 2014 3:53 PM


    The Titan seems like a disappointment from this report. Especially with the 780ti classified and the kingpin edition coming.
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    HeyyScott , January 23, 2014 4:01 PM
    HMMM... 790 or pay my bills.
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    zfreak280 , January 23, 2014 4:01 PM
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    GTX 790 or pay house and truck notes for March..more decisions...
    Hmm, GTX 790 or pay for new, sub-par healthcare and not face jail time... even more decisions...
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    dragonsqrrl , January 23, 2014 4:09 PM
    Excited about the new Titan, except that I won't be able to afford it, again. I'm actually curious as to why there hasn't been more discussion on the topic of enabling full fp64 performance on the 780/780 Ti. Does anyone have any information on this?

    As far as I know the fp64 cores are all there, they aren't fused off. What limits performance in the 780's is an aggressive underclock that brings fp64 performance down to 1/8 what it would normally be in the Titan or a GK110 Quadro/Tesla, or 1/24 fp32. So I would think it possible to re-enable that performance with a custom BIOS, or something like that, but I haven't seen any discussion on the topic.
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    yyk71200 , January 23, 2014 4:17 PM
    I don't see much point releasing such card when 20nm are at the door.
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    Narcissistic_Martyr , January 23, 2014 4:22 PM
    dragonsqrrl,It's all all about the Benjamins. Nvidea sells the fully enabled GPUs as professional GPUs at a significant mark up. By disabling or hindering these functions on the Titan and 780 Ti the are able to sell them to gamers at a decent (ish) price without overly cannibalizing sales of the much more profitable professional cards.
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    dragonsqrrl , January 23, 2014 4:38 PM
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    The Titan seems like a disappointment from this report. Especially with the 780ti classified and the kingpin edition coming.
    I'm not really sure how they compete. They target two completely different use cases. One's a 3rd party solution for extreme overclockers, the other is a prosumer DP compute card with twice the frame buffer.
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    dragonsqrrl , January 23, 2014 5:00 PM
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    dragonsqrrl,It's all all about the Benjamins. Nvidea sells the fully enabled GPUs as professional GPUs at a significant mark up. By disabling or hindering these functions on the Titan and 780 Ti the are able to sell them to gamers at a decent (ish) price without overly cannibalizing sales of the much more profitable professional cards.
    I'm not sure what you mean by 'fully enabled', or what question you're responding to, but since I referred strictly to fp64 performance in my previous comment I'm assuming you think the Titan has limited fp64 performance like the 780 Ti, which isn't the case. Clearly there's some misunderstanding, so to reiterate I'm asking if anyone knows anything or has any information about unlocking fp64 performance on the 780's. If you've seen any discussion about it, if anyone else thinks it's strange there's such a lack of discussion about it, that sort of thing.
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    dragonsqrrl , January 23, 2014 6:03 PM
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    dragonsqrrl,It's all all about the Benjamins. Nvidea sells the fully enabled GPUs as professional GPUs at a significant mark up. By disabling or hindering these functions on the Titan and 780 Ti the are able to sell them to gamers at a decent (ish) price without overly cannibalizing sales of the much more profitable professional cards.
    I'm not sure what you mean by 'fully enabled', or what question you're responding to, but since I referred strictly to fp64 performance in my previous comment I'm assuming you think that the Titan has limited fp64 performance like the 780 Ti, which isn't the case. Clearly there's some misunderstanding, so to reiterate I'm asking if anyone knows anything or has any information about unlocking fp64 performance on the 780's. If you've seen any discussion about it, if anyone else thinks it's strange there's such a lack of discussion about it, that sort of thing.

    This thread speculates that the feature is hardware locked and will most likely be impossible to hack: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1799150. And even if it could be unlocked, it is still a 3GB card vs a 6GB card which does give it an advantage although I do not know if that affects the DF FP64 performance?


    That's interesting because every 780/780 Ti article I've seen that mentions capped fp64 performance says it's a clock limitation and not fused off hardware. Basically the same way they limit Titan's fp64 performance to 1/24 unless you select the driver option. Can clocks be capped in hardware?

    Not sure about the framebuffer, but I don't think it would have any inherent impact on fp64 performance, and if it did it would also affect fp32.

    Thanks for the link.
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    XGrabMyY , January 23, 2014 6:35 PM
    VideoCardZ has been talking about a "Black edition" 780ti since the ti was announced. Seems a little far fetched.
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    somebodyspecial , January 23, 2014 6:37 PM
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    790 or two 780Ti's? Now that is conundrum.


    Not really, two 780Ti's win hands down.


    True but for some, the extra $400 and a few hundred more watts and pumping out more heat means a 300w $1000 card is pretty dang good. I can't think of much this couldn't run at 1600p maxed out. Which is perfect for me as I have no intention of trying to push 4K for gaming on 28nm. I'll be surprised if a 20nm Maxwell single would beat this dual either so again 4K to me (since it's against my religion to turn ANY setting down), is a 14nm affair most likely. I like installing a game, and just checking every box or option to max things out and see it as they intended from the get go with no worries.

    Also I don't think I could run two 780ti's in AZ without driving myself out of the room in an hour. The rest of the house is 72 all day right now (this is AZ's idea of winter...ROFL), but my PC room is 78 even NOT gaming. I really hope Maxwell+Broadwell combo will get me down to the temps of the rest of the house at least while sitting here browsing the web...LOL. If I game I quickly go above 80 and that isn't too comfortable to me. The ducts have already been altered to shove more into this room from two others and I still can't defeat the heat while gaming. If I had two 780ti's (or probably even the 790) I think I'd need a shower after every gaming session :(  It probably doesn't help that I have 4 HD's inside too...ROFL. I've also lowered the volts on my cpu (1.01v on a pretty awesome xeon model) and memory as low as I can run prime95 without crashing. It would help if I could get the PC into a room where the sun isn't on the window from 8-4pm also (UGH!). But I can't do much about that other than the thermal blinds which help quite a bit but not nearly enough. If you forget and have the blinds up, holy crap who turned on the OVEN in here...LOL

    Can't wait for someone to figure out how to die shrink my whole PC...ROFL. This is a great way to save all the GK110's that either won't run full clock or have defective parts in them though. I could easily see buying one for the pro stuff on top of gaming if I was in a colder state ;)  What an awesome deal at a grand when just 9 months ago it came for a grand with ONE chip (and still costs that). These aren't going to be full speed but surely you can crank up to full or near it yourself without blowing out the watts/heat/noise as we already know they run cool and quiet. Newegg shows the old one for $999 but out of stock, so clearly they've cleared the shelves as best as possible before this announcement while piling up enough bad chips to pull this card off. I think they will sell like hotcakes. People were willing to buy out 100K in days of the first one at $999 and the new one will probably be a good 60-70% faster as I doubt they'll cut the clocks more than 10-15% on each. That's a lot of bang for buck. It's also coming with another 4GB of memory if I'm understanding this right (5GB per chip?). It ends up being 1GB less in reality but you don't even need more than 3GB yet for games, so 5GB is pretty future proof. I wonder if it's a die shrink on the memory or something that allows them to do this without adding to the price.

    If you thought Titan was expensive surely upping the power this much for the same price is a win all around. That's knocking pretty much $5200 off the pro cards (2x$2600 savings as GK110 K20 costs $3100 at newegg with 2.6ghz memory) and probably comes with faster ram than the pro cards. A smoking deal for broke pro users with a penchant for gaming.
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