Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan Black Has Fully-enabled GK110 Core
Nvidia's Titan Black has been announced, finally giving us a Titan with a fully-enabled GK110 core.
Nvidia has launched its GTX Titan Black graphics card. The GTX Titan Black is a GK110-based graphics card, similar to the original GTX Titan, but rather with a fully-enabled GK110 core.
The fully-enabled GK110 core features all 15 SMX units enabled, making for a CUDA core count of 2880 cores.
Nvidia has equipped the card with a base GPU clock speed of 889 MHz, while it has a Boost 2.0 frequency of 980 MHz. On the card users will find 6 GB of GDDR5 memory, accessed over a 384-bit wide memory interface, and running at an effective speed of 7.0 GHz. The card will still carry the same 250 W TDP.
The specifications of the card might appear to resemble the GTX 780 Ti, however, the Titan cards carry double the amount of graphics memory, and have a much higher double-point precision performance. This makes the card more interesting to developers rather than gamers, as for gamers there would be little-to-no benefit, while it will cost more. Therefore, Nvidia has also not sent out units for reviewing, as gaming results would be almost identical to that of the GTX 780 Ti.
Cooling of the card is achieved by Nvidia's NVTTM cooler, but rather than the text showing GTX 780 Ti, it will simply read TITAN. To distinguish the GTX Titan Black from the original GTX Titan, you'll have to look for the black lettering as well as the black fin array under the Plexiglas cover.
The card will come to shelves soon, and will carry an MSRP price of $999.
no. this will replace the original titan directly.
I mentioned this in a previous thread, but I'm really surprised there hasn't been more discussion about unlocking the 780/780 Ti using custom firmware.
Not sure how a 690 would be flashed to a K5000
I mentioned this in a previous thread, but I'm really surprised there hasn't been more discussion about unlocking the 780/780 Ti using custom firmware.
Not sure how a 690 would be flashed to a K5000
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And how can the 780's support double-point-precision? Is that a firmware or hardware feature?
Thanks for the link.
It's a hardware feature. The 780's already support double precision, the performance is just greatly reduced compared to their single precision. The key is the method Nvidia uses to cap the performance, and to my knowledge the FP64 cores aren't fused off in the 780's. They're functional, it's the clocks that are limited to 1/8 that of their FP32 cores, resulting in 1/24 FP32 performance. So I would think some custom firmware could enable full FP64 in the drivers (trick the drivers into thinking it's a Titan).
I think anyone looking to upgrade to a top level card should wait for the high end Maxwell in the next few months and see how it fares (personally I like the small fry intros first and then working up to the bigger and better..like working up to a climax). Looking to replace my 680s for a next level single card solution and eventually get two of those for 4K, but would not even think about buying this card without seeing what's coming with the flagship Maxwell.
I think anyone looking to upgrade to a top level card should wait for the high end Maxwell in the next few months and see how it fares (personally I like the small fry intros first and then working up to the bigger and better..like working up to a climax). Looking to replace my 680s for a next level single card solution and eventually get two of those for 4K, but would not even think about buying this card without seeing what's coming with the flagship Maxwell.
with it's intended price and how nvidia did not send any review unit to reviewer (since gaming performance is the same as GTX780 Ti) it is clear nvidia target with this card is not gamer although boutique system will still take the card to integrate with their system. so for gamer cards like titan make zero sense to them.