Geforce Titan - GK110 will be a consumer part

[vitchilo]

http://news.softpedia.com/news/First...d-330173.shtml

Speaking of which, the GeForce GTX Titan doesn't have a full-coverage IHS (internal heat spreader), only a support brace.

This lets overclockers apply their TIM (thermal interface material) right on the chip die, enhancing cooling.

While the reference cooler is sufficient for normal operation, the high-end adapter is still, in the end, an enthusiast-grade piece of equipment, likely to be divested in favor of something better. In such cases, the chance to apply TIM directly to the GPU die is welcome.

Other overclocking assets are the tantalum capacitors, slimline chokes, and driver-MOSFETs (VRM with a 6+2 phase design).

Furthermore, NVIDIA tossed in a 2-pin LED logo power output (software-controllable) and a 4-pin PWM fan power output.

As for specifications, the high-end adapter, which some believe will be mightier than the GTX 690 despite having just one GPU instead of two, has enough horsepower that it needs 6-pin and 8-pin PCIe power connectors to work.

Twenty four 2 Gbit GDDR5 memory chips provide a total of 6 GB VRAM, for example, and the Kepler GK110 GPU has 48 ROPs, 224 TMUs and a 384-bit memory interface. The clock speeds are of 837 / 878 MHz (GPU / GPU Boost) and 6,008 MHz (memory).

Finally, NVIDIA GeForce Titan gets two SLI bridge fingers (Quad-SLI), two dual-link DVI, an HDMI port, and a DisplayPort.

[mmorpgfocus]

I am running 2x GTX680 SLI in 5760x1200 for a year. I would like the extra VRAM and muscle of TITAN SLI to push maximum settings in surround on all games.

HOWEVER - Still using an old 32nm 6-core 980x and 12gb ddr3, also using pci express 2.0. Am I going to have any bottlenecks?

Games just don't seem to challenge the cpu/memory/pci at 5760x1200..

I really want to build a new PC from the ground up but there is literally NO point from me to change from a good 32nm 4.0Ghz 24/7 980X.

I used to build a new PC ground up from scratch every year - that 980x has lasted me longer than ANY CPU IN HISTORY - way back to the days of cherry picking Opterons, and AMD spanking Intel!!!

Anyway - any thoughts on getting 2 TITANS at launch today? Has anyone heard this limited to only 10,000 made? Is that true? 10,000 is NOTHING. I would expect Nvidia will need to make a lot more to meet demand.

Think how many CAD and render jockies on a budget are going to buy this over K20!!

[Mungri]

I still can't see the point in upgrading from X58. At the most, the only noticable difference with CPUs happens with tri SLI, and / or when FPS are already over 100.

[boxleitnerb]

[Handrox]

Review

[boxleitnerb]

Preview...this "review" is all speculation and not based on actual measurements.
It says "nVIDIA GeForce TITAN Performance Vorhersage" and Vorhersage in German is "prediction" in English.

[Handrox]

aaahhh thanks for clarifying, excuse the confusion.

[Alex-Ro]

That is fictional....

[boxleitnerb]

No problem. I was like "WTF?!" when I read it a couple of days ago

[SKYMTL]

uuuuuuuuuuu.. big deal he doesnt even know how to play with a 6GB gpu

guys remember how he bashed 7970 6GB ?

What are you talking about? I've never even reviewed a HD 7970 6GB.....

Plus, you need a stupidly powerful GPU to take advantage of massive bandwidth and the Tahiti core (unless heavily overclocked) just can't unless you throw ridiculous in-game oddities at it.

[boxleitnerb]

I would presume you could do it with Titan SLI (or 3-way or 4-way )
3840x2160 (native or via downsampling) + MSAA + texture mods + vram hungry game.

[PedantOne]

Tomorrow testers will be allowed to post specs and pictures, reviews will be allowed on the 21st:
http://www.nordichardware.se/Grafik/...-februari.html

i told you 2x few days ago and yesterday

[boxleitnerb]

You said 18th

[paulbagz]

Review

So all of those graphs are pure speculation? :S

-PB

[Handrox]

LINK

[NapalmV5]

What are you talking about? I've never even reviewed a HD 7970 6GB.....

Plus, you need a stupidly powerful GPU to take advantage of massive bandwidth and the Tahiti core (unless heavily overclocked) just can't unless you throw ridiculous in-game oddities at it.

dont think you can play both sides of the coin with me.. like youre doing to others..

dont try so hard to sound/come off that smart cause it aint working.. dumbarses have been saying that for a long time.. yah according to you even this is not a powerful gpu sure they all crap all the time sure according to you we dont have the ability to add another gpu a 3rd or a 4th nah nope because that pretty much sums how much you know about video cards games etc.. sure its ridiculous ingame oddities when you dont know what the fook youre doing

[Tha Last Meal]

woooooooooooooooow yeah boy

[cx-ray]

25-30% faster than GTX 680

[hurleybird]

If that performance slide is legit, that looks incredibly underwhelming.

[chispy]

Impressive tri-sli performance , cannot wait for actual propper reviews

[Olivon]

http://www.egypthardware.com/?p=7804

[nossy23]

Not impressed by the Crysis 3 performance, which is probably already some kind of 'best case scenario'

[hurleybird]

http://www.egypthardware.com/?p=7804

Fake. The middle watermark is behind the bar graph. Or is this supposed to be their own results, not an official graph?

[paulbagz]

If that performance slide is legit, that looks incredibly underwhelming.

How/why?

Imo this is probably the card the 680 was always meant to be.

-PB

[SKYMTL]

Not impressed by the Crysis 3 performance, which is probably already some kind of 'best case scenario'

I don't see any Crysis 3 Benchmarks. The Egypt Hardware results say Crysis 2.