Reviews - NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN

[watercooled]

@CAT: On that subject, has anyone looked into benchmarking with the increased DP performance driver switch on/off, for relevant compute apps obviously?

@Willzzz: Yield can cause capacity problems though. Nvidia were apparently complaining about yield even with the 680's die, and yield decreases significantly with increased die size, we're looking at a die about twice the size here. It makes you wonder what they're doing with presumably a ton of silicon that didn't make the grade for 14SMX.

[Terbinator]

On that subject, has anyone looked into benchmarking with the increased DP performance driver switch on/off, for relevant compute apps obviously?

Only thing i've seen remotely close.

[watercooled]

I can't see any mention of whether they used the driver tweak though.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I presume they have limited quantities of silicon. It may be a capacity issue rather than a yield issue. Mind you maybe we will see cheaper versions with fewer SMXs sometime down the line.

The elephant in the room is the GTX780?? Unless Nvidia do a cunning thing and sell the GTX780 with a binned GK110!!

[brasco]

Its a shame this is not priced more like a GTX580 3GB,but OTH for your rendering work this will work out well, even in regards to value!

Yeah definitely a shame about the price, but they know the pro market will lap it up. Will be getting better power consumption than the 580 classy I have, which is ridiculous for power. They realised pretty quickly that the 580 was a massive threat to their pro-lineup in FLOPS/£. I am, overall, chuffed that they allow a full unlock of the compute power on the Titan, I've had some benches done on a K20x and they were ludicrously fast compared to my 580.

I'll do some benches when I get a Titan (or 2x depending on the scaling) into the CUDA based things I use, and some OpenCL tests when they have a working driver.

I presume they have limited quantities of silicon. It may be a capacity issue rather than a yield issue. Mind you maybe we will see cheaper versions with fewer SMXs sometime down the line.

They've said this isn't a limited product so hopefully they can keep up with the demand, my very uneducated guess is that these are GK110 chips that didn't quite make it into the K20X.

[simonpreston]

Although it's pricing seems a little extortionate, I have to say it's performance gains over their current top single-GPU is pretty damn impressive. Especially with such a low power draw. A good indicator as to what we'll see in the 7xx series.

[Finners]

The elephant in the room is the GTX780?? Unless Nvidia do a cunning thing and sell the GTX780 with a binned GK110!!

Interesting. You would expect the 780 to have better performance then this. just think it will have less than 6gb of memory

[Terbinator]

I can't see any mention of whether they used the driver tweak though.

Ah, i guess.

I was just going off that the Titan sees a pretty uniform drop from SP -> DP whereas the 580/680 take a massive beating.

[kingkongr]

too early i guess their maxwell or 700 series would be better in handling power and sea island for the ati or 8000 series

[kingkongr]

4 stars? never, at £800+ for what is fairly poor performance for the price, this is a 3 star job all day long. And OPS 2 as a benchmark in your reviews? who suggested you bench that? Nvidia...lol

Sorry Hexus but you have lost some credibility rating this 4 stars.

haha if you see the sli bridge it may get another star DDDD only for the bridge if they include that in review just saying

[Jimbo75]

PCGH did more boost testing - this is a scam tbh.

http://translate.google.com/translat...1056659%2F4%2F

There is a clear 10%+ advantage being gained from boost 2.0, which is non-representative of an actual gaming experience. The first boost was helping by very small amounts but this is huge and seems to be nothing more than a benchmark increasing tool.

[watercooled]

Yeah definitely a shame about the price, but they know the pro market will lap it up. Will be getting better power consumption than the 580 classy I have, which is ridiculous for power. They realised pretty quickly that the 580 was a massive threat to their pro-lineup in FLOPS/£. I am, overall, chuffed that they allow a full unlock of the compute power on the Titan, I've had some benches done on a K20x and they were ludicrously fast compared to my 580.

They don't - you can either have full clocks, or full SP: DP ratio, not both.

Although it's pricing seems a little extortionate, I have to say it's performance gains over their current top single-GPU is pretty damn impressive. Especially with such a low power draw. A good indicator as to what we'll see in the 7xx series.

Not necessarily, unless Nvidia radically change their line-up, the 780 will likely use a smaller die again and as has been said already, it will likely have less memory. Bus may remain at 256-bit considering 700 is a refresh rather than a new uArch. GK110 uses the same uArch as 680.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

PCGH did more boost testing - this is a scam tbh.

http://translate.google.com/translat...1056659%2F4%2F

There is a clear 10%+ advantage being gained from boost 2.0, which is non-representative of an actual gaming experience. The first boost was helping by very small amounts but this is huge and seems to be nothing more than a benchmark increasing tool.

Thats a second site. So basically,the GPU needs to be kept very cool and in a well ventilated case at least.

[brasco]

They don't - you can either have full clocks, or full SP: DP ratio, not both.

Sure, I was referring to unlocking the same ratio as the K20x, the clock lock is to keep the Teslas protected from us minions

[watercooled]

Ah, thought you meant you could have a fully enabled/clocked card.

[j.o.s.h.1408]

Although it's pricing seems a little extortionate, I have to say it's performance gains over their current top single-GPU is pretty damn impressive. Especially with such a low power draw. A good indicator as to what we'll see in the 7xx series.

i hope the price is not a indication of what we'll see too