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After probably months of wait, the GK110 chip is finally arriving for the consumers tomorrow with the launch of NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX Titan GPU. The GeForce GTX Titan would feature unprecedented power output with the much great power efficiency of NVIDIA’s Kepler architecture. The first pictures have finally arrived by our friends from Chinese Forums and Egypt Hardware so without further ado, i bring to you the glorious and much power single chip GeForce GTX Titan GPU:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan – The Technical Specifications

First of all, let’s take a look at the specifications the GeForce GTX Titan boasts. The all powerful GeForce Kepler 110 core features a core count of 2688 Cudas which means that 14 SMX units are enabled out of the total 15.

Clocks are maintained at 837 MHz core and 878 MHz boost which are quite good considering the Tesla K20X which is the workstation equivalent of the GeForce GTX Titan is clocked at a lower 732 MHz. The memory is an absolute phenomenal boost over the GeForce GTX 680 with the GeForce GTX Titan boasting a 6 GB GDDR5 memory running along a higher 384-bit interface and clocked at the reference 6 GHz frequency. This would give a much needed boost for users running high resolutions/ 3D-Vision setups.
Furthermore, if one card is not enough for your needs (which it will indeed) than you can always add three more Titans to your rig since the GeForce GTX Titan support Quad Way SLI support. A 6+2 phase VRM powers the chip and memory which are powered by an 6 + 8 Pin connectors. The most notable thing to spot over the GeForce GTX Titan board is that there’s a further space for a 8-Pin connector. This could point to only one thing and that would be custom models by AIB partners. Initially, we were told that the card would be locked by NVIDIA in the same manner the GeForce GTX 690 was allowing no voltage control or custom models from AIB but if NVIDIA does allows it with their GeForce GTX Titan than enthusiasts could be in for a great treat. A voltage regulation unit is situated on the front side of the PCB reallocated from the backside where it was spotted on the GeForce GTX 680
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan – The Heatsink and Cooler


Breaking down the heatsink which is made up of magnesium alloy metal, same as the GeForce GTX 690 we get a large vapor chamber with aluminum fins running along in parallel direction to each other. The heatsink is cooled off through a single 90mm blower type fan which may get a bit noisy if running SLI configurations. Overall, in looks the GeForce GTX Titan reminds me of its bigger brother, aka the GeForce GTX 690. I don’t even know if i should call the 690 bigger since both cards would equally match in terms of performance. Nevertheless, a great and sexy design scheme.
The side has a huge GeForce GTX logo which might glow in the color green, might not? I guess we should wait for reviews tomorrow to confirm this. As for the card it would paper launch at the previously mentioned price point of $899 tomorrow at 13:00. Check out the complete gallery of the Titan in the following pictures:







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which means that 14 SMX units are enabled out of the total 15.

So the 780 titan ultra must still come with all 15 units enabled :p
 
seems like this could cost as much as R9000 more or less, bit much don't ya'll think?
 
seems like this could cost as much as R9000 more or less, bit much don't ya'll think?

It would likely cost far more than that once it hits our shores. Considering the price and performance of a GTX690 I would say >9000 (over 9000!?) is a fair price. Also keep in mind that it's a super limited edition card, so like the ARES and MARS series this exclusivity comes at a hefty premium.
 
Expect prices of over $1k, so R13k or so here.

This. Also don't expect there to be many of these cards, as far as I can tell only 10000 will be produced world wide, so it wouldn't surprise me if the total allocation we get in SA is less than 10 cards.
 
I'm confused, since the Geforce Titan is only coming out now, is there going to be a GTX7xx series this year?

This might just be the first year I ACTUALLY go crossfire with what I currently have if there's nothing affordable new coming out this year.
 
I'm confused, since the Geforce Titan is only coming out now, is there going to be a GTX7xx series this year?

This might just be the first year I ACTUALLY go crossfire with what I currently have if there's nothing affordable new coming out this year.

Thats exactly my question? So this is not 700 series?
 
Thats exactly my question? So this is not 700 series?

Correct, think of the Titan as a "special edition" card. The GTX 780 will come later this year.

So to recap : Geforce GTX Titan is NOT the GTX 780 or 7xx series, that's a seperate release later.

The Titan is basically the perfect form of Fermi/Kepler (basically what a 480 could have been if perfected).
 
This doesnt make any sense.. So the titan is priced at around R13k? Two 680s can do just about the same job at a couple of k less?
 
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Maybe, maybe not... And good luck getting quad Titan performance out of GTX 680s :p
 
Maybe, maybe not... And good luck getting quad Titan performance out of GTX 680s :p

Not at the price of a second mortgage on a house....again whats the point of making titans quad sli compatable if its limited edition cards, crazy expensive and its complete overkill for current games..
 
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What's the point of those stupid Ferrari's when my tazz can also get me from A to B? :p

You seem to forget that there's quite a lot people out there with more money than sense. So why not test your engineering skills by building a crazy over-the-top product for those people and get good PR along the way. Companies do this all the time, just look at every car manufacturer in the world.
 
This is NVIDIA saying, "Look what we can do. We can give you next year's performance right now - and this time, we'll let you, the customer, experience it instead of it being a one-off prototype... Provided your pockets are deep enough."

This card will be (is) crazy fast, but it's not aimed at your casual gamer. If you're running 1080p or lower you're not going to see its full potential - when we move into the land of 2560x1440x120Hz or 5760x1080/3240x1080/7680x1440/whatever crazy resolution you want while playing something like Skyrim with a Hi-Def texture pack and several other mods you'll quickly find that 3 GB/4 GB VRAM isn't enough - and VRAM shortage isn't an issue SLI can fix. This card is for people who've already spent R20k buying their 3D Surround monitors, and a further R25k buying their CPU, motherboard and RAM, and now need something to power the graphics side of things.

Lower TDP than GTX 690? Check.
No need to worry about SLI but still get performance far greater than any other single GPU? Check.
Honour of owning the craziest card out there? Check.
6 GB VRAM for insane resolutions? Check.
Ability to pair it up with four similar cards and obliterate any benchmark you can throw at it? Check.
Better performance than the GTX 690? :)
 
At only 10000? Made of them they will be sold before the first one gets to SA, its called CUD.
I personally know someone that sold his only car for CUD.
Oj0 how is Titan with GPGPU?
 
People wanted to max crysis 3 now they can :p

7970 only get 40 fps avg on ultra high , on 1920x1080 , you need this beast to max crysis 3 :p
 
So its not the 700 generation, it is going to very expensive probably more now that the US dollar is collapsing more. When these finally come if they do not only will our Rand have collapsed a few more points to the dollar, good luck picking this up for anything that requires less than a withdrawal against your house mortgage. Really stupid timing slap bang before a global recession.
 
I just want to throw this one in before getting to the main part of my post:

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So when the X7107 was "leaked" and I showed X5183, guess who was right? :p

Yes, and how long did it take for the 7970 to match the 680, never mind beat it? The drivers are still very premature, and concentrating on 1920x1200 as it's closest to the most popular resolution. look at some of these:

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Far Cry 3
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition: 52 FPS
GeForce GTX 680: 55 FPS
GeForce GTX Titan: 75 FPS
GeForce GTX Titan vs Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition: +23 FPS, 44 % faster
GeForce GTX Titan vs GeForce GTX 680: +20 FPS, 36 % faster

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Medal of Honor: Warfighter
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition: 65 FPS
GeForce GTX 680: 57 FPS
GeForce GTX Titan: 89 FPS
GeForce GTX Titan vs Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition: +24 FPS, 37 % faster
GeForce GTX Titan vs GeForce GTX 680: +32 FPS, 56 % faster

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Metro 2033 - The Last Refuge
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition: 49 FPS
GeForce GTX 680: 39 FPS
GeForce GTX Titan: 63 FPS
GeForce GTX Titan vs Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition: +14 FPS, 29 % faster
GeForce GTX Titan vs GeForce GTX 680: +24 FPS, 62 % faster
Note that in this game, Titan edged past the GeForce GTX 690 at 2560x1600

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Anno 2070
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition: 90 FPS
GeForce GTX 680: 87 FPS
GeForce GTX Titan: 122 FPS
GeForce GTX Titan vs Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition: +32 FPS, 36 % faster
GeForce GTX Titan vs GeForce GTX 680: +35 FPS, 40 % faster

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Hitman Absolution
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition: 58 FPS
GeForce GTX 680: 49 FPS
GeForce GTX Titan: 67 FPS
GeForce GTX Titan vs Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition: +9 FPS, 15 % faster
GeForce GTX Titan vs GeForce GTX 680: +18 FPS, 37 % faster
Note that in this game, Titan edged past the GeForce GTX 690 at 2560x1600

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Battlefield 3
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition: 65 FPS
GeForce GTX 680: 57 FPS
GeForce GTX Titan: 88 FPS
GeForce GTX Titan vs Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition: +23 FPS, 35 % faster
GeForce GTX Titan vs GeForce GTX 680: +31 FPS, 54 % faster

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Crysis 2
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition: 66 FPS
GeForce GTX 680: 63 FPS
GeForce GTX Titan: 97 FPS
GeForce GTX Titan vs Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition: +31 FPS, 47 % faster
GeForce GTX Titan vs GeForce GTX 680: +34 FPS, 54 % faster
Note that in this game, Titan edged past the GeForce GTX 690 at at resolutions up to and including 1920x1200

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Alien vs Predator
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition: 70 FPS
GeForce GTX 680: 52 FPS
GeForce GTX Titan: 80 FPS
GeForce GTX Titan vs Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition: +10 FPS, 14 % faster
GeForce GTX Titan vs GeForce GTX 680: +28 FPS, 54 % faster

That's an average increase of 49 % over the GeForce GTX 680 and sometimes matching or beating the GTX 690 - and that's with very premature drivers.
 
I'm not sure if what you guys make of this review, but i really enjoy the new measure of gaming experience that they attempt.
They take the time in milliseconds to make one frame instead of averaging out maximum and minimum fps's. In this way they measure frame time consistency which is a method that measures how consistent a single frame is rendered in milliseconds. If there is large variation there will be stuttering, if minimal the rendering will be smooth. So basically if frame 15 was rendered at 30ms and the time to render frame 16 is 50 ms, there is a 20ms time frame between rendering frames. If this 20ms time frame is maintained consistently across the benchmark, then the gaming experience will be smoother. So even if a gpu can average a 60fps, if the frame time between frames is highly inconsistent then there might be stutter. I have increasingly come to notice that even though I can maintain a happy 60fps in most titles(namely bf3) I still notice that some of the time there is stuttering that I can barely notice but its markedly there.

Back to the GPU: great GPU, terrible price. If this was priced at $700-$800 it really would have shattered expectations. But when there are only 10 000 and you know that ALL 10 000 will be sold, charging $999 for one instead of a more competitive ~$750 is some evil logic, but logic nonetheless.

Edit: Just realised that this methodology of testing is nearly the same thing you linked Oj0 :p
 
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I agree it one fast card but really not worth the money. 7970 cf is cheaper than one of these cards and also faster. Microstutter can be resolved through using radeon pro. The claims made does not come close to what it is delivering and here in good old SA we will be killed with the price

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