[News] NVIDIA Announces TITAN V "Volta" Graphics Card

[StyM]

https://www.techpowerup.com/239516/n...-graphics-card

NVIDIA in a shock move, announced its new flagship graphics card, the TITAN V. This card implements the "Volta" GV100 graphics processor, the same one which drives the company's Tesla V100 HPC accelerator. The GV100 is a multi-chip module, with the GPU die and three HBM2 memory stacks sharing a package. The card features 12 GB of HBM2 memory across a 3072-bit wide memory interface. The GPU die has been built on the 12 nm FinFET+ process by TSMC. NVIDIA TITAN V maxes out the GV100 silicon, if not its memory interface, featuring a whopping 5,120 CUDA cores, 640 Tensor cores (specialized units that accelerate neural-net building/training). The CUDA cores are spread across 80 streaming multiprocessors (64 CUDA cores per SM), spread across 6 graphics processing clusters (GPCs). The TMU count is 320.

The GPU core is clocked at 1200 MHz, with a GPU Boost frequency of 1455 MHz, and an HBM2 memory clock of 850 MHz, translating into 652.8 GB/s memory bandwidth (1.70 Gbps stacks). The card draws power from a combination of 6-pin and 8-pin PCIe power connectors. Display outputs include three DP and one HDMI connectors. With a wallet-scorching price of USD $2,999, and available exclusively through NVIDIA store, the TITAN V is evidence that with Intel deciding to sell client-segment processors for $2,000, it was a matter of time before GPU makers seek out that price-band. At $3k, the GV100's margins are probably more than made up for.

[EternityZX9]

This pricing is worse than I thought. So what's next $2000 for the Volta Ti? $1000 for the 2080 (base model)?

[Kain665]

Will it run crysis?

[Tim]

Oh wow, did not see this coming this quickly!

This pricing is worse than I thought. So what's next $2000 for the Volta Ti? $1000 for the 2080 (base model)?

Seems like it's being pushed more for compute, in which case the pricing makes a little bit more sense? Still a helluva lot of money. I suppose researchers and scientists are being funded pretty well. But what a monster.

[iddqd]

Will it run crysis?

You're joking, but the original Crysis still runs like garbage. A 1080ti manages only like 80-ish FPS on average.

Anyway...
This is the first Titan card where I don't expect there will be a Ti version of it ever. It's got all these FP64 units, and also tensor cores; you don't need any of this stuff for doing graphics. Titans in the past have been quite popular in academia - they're reasonably good for machine learning research, while being much more affordable than the Tesla cards. I guess that's the market they're going after now.

[zanzabar]

This pricing is worse than I thought. So what's next $2000 for the Volta Ti? $1000 for the 2080 (base model)?

assuming this is full speed HBM2 that is like $1200 worth of ram, and has the tensor cores enabled. this is basically a pci-e version of a $5-10k card with the restriction of not being able to team them up for machine learning.

[drmrlordx]

Will it run crysis?

Forget that, it is a crisis.

[Chrono Detector]

Outrageous pricing, though I wonder how much faster this card compares to the 1080 Ti and the Titan Xp.

[kromosto]

I believe these are not for gamers and we will see gamer models (no tensor and maybe no hbm with higher base and boost clocks) with reasonable prices...

[EternityZX9]

Yeah, reading more about this nvidia is billing this as a "prosumer" card - made for the professional market. Doesn't mean people won't use it for gaming. But it's one reason how they can justify the price.

[Tim]

assuming this is full speed HBM2 that is like $1200 worth of ram, and has the tensor cores enabled. this is basically a pci-e version of a $5-10k card with the restriction of not being able to team them up for machine learning.

Outrageous pricing, though I wonder how much faster this card compares to the 1080 Ti and the Titan Xp.

Please see zanzabar comment above. Wait for gamer models.

[StyM]

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[Kain665]

Forget that, it is a crisis.

When I saw the price tag I had a crisis...

[Buckeye]

This is a workstation/server card.
Yeah gamers can use but I bet a 1080 Ti will be very close to it in performance.

[StAndrew]

How many years do you think we are from having true "AI" where to game uses tensor cores for "learning" and adapts as you play the game?

[iddqd]

There are already some people training neural nets to play games. https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/11/1...n-ai-elon-musk

Edit: you likely won't need tensor cores, by the way. Once you're done training it, you can just program regular GPU cores to do inference only.

[zanzabar]

There are already some people training neural nets to play games. https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/11/1...n-ai-elon-musk

Edit: you likely won't need tensor cores, by the way. Once you're done training it, you can just program regular GPU cores to do inference only.

you mean like g-assist? it is too bad they delayed it with no new date

[StyM]

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