Asus GTX Titan Black Edition listing spotted

[himaro]

So it looks like the Black Edition will replace the current Titan

http://hexus.net/tech/news/graphics/...etail-listing/

pricing seems to be near identical to the current titan with the 790 coming in at the pricing of 'a lot'

[Chrono Detector]

I still question the legitimacy of that listing and that article. If its true, I hope this card will at least have HDMI 2.0 because I really need a GPU that is capable of running 60Hz at 4K. If not, huge epic fail from NVIDIA.

[ZX2Slow]

The Titan is over, not sure how it slots into the lineup now that the 780ti is out. I think a 790 now would be the only reasonable possibility, but as time goes on it would be too close to a GTX 800 series launch.

[crash5s]

The Titan is over, not sure how it slots into the lineup now that the 780ti is out. I think a 790 now would be the only reasonable possibility, but as time goes on it would be too close to a GTX 800 series launch.

Not really. The titan could never be justified on price simply for gaming. However given that the 780 and the 780ti still have their GPU compute crippled and Quadro/Tesla cards still cost more than Titan it has a niche.

For a card that straddles between high end consumer and professional both on price and features, it's actually a really great value.

[zalbard]

May as well wait for Maxwell at this point.

[AliG]

May as well wait for Maxwell at this point.

Is there any official word on when it will launch?

[Dimitriman]

Nvidia must be happy, now it can charge USD 1000 for a single consumer GPU once again... yay!

[zalbard]

Is there any official word on when it will launch?

Official - no, but it's reasonable to assume that it'll happen within the next 6 months.
Blowing $1000 on a video card only to watch it become obsolete in less than half a year doesn't make much sense to me...

[iMacmatician]

Rumors so far point to Maxwell-based GTX 750 Ti and 750 next month and nothing high-end until late this year at the earliest.

[ZX2Slow]

The age of Kepler is over, I think all new releases will be Maxwell from here on out.

[kuroikenshi]

Maxwell is still based off Kepler, and its still 28nm.

[zalbard]

Maxwell is still based off Kepler, and its still 28nm.

Just the lower-end chips. There's no space for growth for high-end chips on 28nm.

[PedantOne]

Official launch time of TITAN BLACK is 02/18/2014, enjoy!

[Olivon]

Same as 750 and 750Ti ?

[PedantOne]

yes, exactly!

[crash5s]

Official - no, but it's reasonable to assume that it'll happen within the next 6 months.
Blowing $1000 on a video card only to watch it become obsolete in less than half a year doesn't make much sense to me...

How will it be obsolete? Again, the value in Titan is cheap GPU compute, not playing games.

[chispy]

Gtx 790 6gb = us$1,400

[PedantOne]

i think will be 1499!

[Splave]

yes but can it play crysis?

[Gunslinger]

So what are the differences between the original Titan and the "new" Titan Black ?

[ajaidev]

I have noticed 3GB being a barrier in multi monitor setups and in effect 4K gaming so a Titan Black might be useful in such scenarios. But then again it does have two problems one being Maxwell and the other being vfm 290X OC non reference.

[snoid_zero]

So what are the differences between the original Titan and the "new" Titan Black ?

The new Titan comes in black.
Sometimes I'm blown away by my brilliance.

More efficient cores and same clocks as the 780Ti.

[zalbard]

How will it be obsolete? Again, the value in Titan is cheap GPU compute, not playing games.

Maxwell will have almost double the FLOPS at the same TDP... And unified virtual memory support as well.

[boxleitnerb]

Maxwell will have almost double the FLOPS at the same TDP... And unified virtual memory support as well.

DP, not SP. Next card with significantly more DP performance is 1.5 years away if I had to guess. Titan came 2013 in February, so Maxwell Titan should arrive in 2015.

[lutjens]

The original Titan should have had the fully enabled GK110 and subsequent cards be harvested versions of it. NVidia has basically flipped the bird to high-end enthusiasts by doing this and will turn the same trick again with Maxwell this year. I know I won't consider the Titan Black Edition, and the performance increase will be slight at best.

I will buy a GTX 790 though, to go in my ITX gamer that I'm building...if they maintain the rumored 10GB of memory...otherwise, I'll just move my GTX 690 out of my server...