GeForce Titan coming end of February

[Black Octagon]

Yeah, no way people in China are the overwhelming buyers of discrete graphics cards, I'm just not believing it.

Stop thinking in terms of people. Think in terms of BUSINESS CLIENTS (i.e., Chinese companies who buy NVIDIA parts for laptops, ready-to-sell desktops etc.)

 

[boxleitnerb]

How on earth will Titan be so close to the 690 with those results???
This rather looks like 33% (4 GPUs vs 3 GPUs) and more only when the 690 is vram bottlenecked. And the Crysis 3 results are a complete joke. 20%??? WTF Nvidia?

 

[VulgarDisplay]

More news and slides:

http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/graphics-cards/1297972/nvidia-gtx-titan-graphics-card-announced

Amazing, $900(msrp good luck getting one for less than $1500) and you still don't get even 50fps in Crysis 3....

 

[blackened23]

How on earth will Titan be so close to the 690 with those results???
This rather looks like 33% (4 GPUs vs 3 GPUs) and more only when the 690 is vram bottlenecked. And the Crysis 3 results are a complete joke. 20%??? WTF Nvidia?

Yeah whoever made that slide should have considered a different benchmark. But, we don't know all the facts yet. It could be that Crysis 3 isn't completely optimized, and we know that crysis 3 is a pig with regards to MSAA.

Anyone heard anything about this new temp target and GPUB voltage? Sounds very interesting. Hopefully that means it is more versatile than the old voltage locked keplers.

 

[wand3r3r]

There's more to the sales chart than that.

As if 23 million people buy 27% of NVidias products, it's obviously OEM companies or PC manufacturers or something to that effect.

I'd imagine 300 million people buy 6% and 23 million buy 27%.

The PCs manufactured in China and Taiwan ultimately go everywhere. The 6-7% in US/EU are probably directly to retailers there.

 

[wand3r3r]

More news and slides:
...

Wow, all of that for only $900.

 

[VulgarDisplay]

Wow, all of that for only $900.

Good luck getting one for $900. I'll be hitting F5 on newegg all day to buy a few and sell them back to lucky gotta have it guys for twice the price.

 

[boxleitnerb]

The article is offline already. I copied it just in time:

Nvidia has detailed its latest high end graphics card, the GTX Titan, confirming its existence with some impressive numbers that should cement its position as the world's fastest GPU.

Built around the GK110 Tesla technology first used in the Titan supercomputer - hence the name - the GTX Titan is Nvidia's most powerful graphics card to date, with a whopping 2,688 CUDA cores and 7.1 billion transistors, which produce 4,500 Gigaflops of processing power. Each card comes with 6GB of GDDR5 RAM, running along a 384-bit interface which should be more than sufficient for playing the latest games at above HD resolution. It's DirextX 11.1 compatible, so should support all the latest graphics tweaks such as tessellation, and Nvidia's own PhysX physics effects.

Designed as a single-GPU replacement for the current top-end GTX 690, which is actually two GTX 680 cores bolted to one PCB, the GTX Titan promises improved performance while using less power and producing less heat. A redesigned cooler with an extended aluminium heat stack dissipates heat faster than Nvidia's current design, while the 90mm fan is tied to both RPM and voltage control to more accurately determine when to kick in. With a TDP of 250w, you'll certainly need it.

SLI is fully supported, so if you have a capable power supply and bottomless pockets you could potentially run multiple Titans for high frame rates even at multi-monitor resolutions. Although Nvidia has yet to share exact benchmark results, some rough figures suggest games like Crysis 3, Far Cry 3 and Max Payne 3 can expect roughly twice the performance over a GTX690 setup.

Perhaps more exciting news is the addition of GPU Boost 2.0, an evolution of the software introduced with Nvidia's 600-series graphics cards. Built into the video driver, GPU Boost 2.0 will let Titan owners overclock and olvervolt their cards, with higher limits than with previous cards and optimisations for water-cooling setups.

It will also allow you to "overclock" your display, running it at a faster sync rate than it officially supports to squeeze out some extra frames per second. As an example, a monitor rated for 60Hz refresh only could run at up to 80Hz, meaning twenty extra frames per second are being displayed.

The one sticking price will almost certainly be the price - Nvidia would only confirm RRP pricing with us today, as it will be up to its hardware partners to set their own prices when the cards launch later this week, but you'll easily be paying over £800 per card. We'll have to wait until then to see whether the benchmark scores can back up Nvidia's claims that the Titan is the fastest card around, but the early indications look promising.

http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/graphics-cards/1297972/nvidia-gtx-titan-graphics-card-announced

 

[Black Octagon]

Amazing, $900(msrp good luck getting one for less than $1500) and you still don't get even 50fps in Crysis 3....

That would be Crytek's fault, IMHO

 

[Lepton87]

I certainly hope that is some sort of Texan wit/sarcasm. NVIDIA is a company. Business is not blindly patriotic (at least, successful business isn't)

Unfortunately many people in the US think that they are the most important in the world, that they are the pinnacle of civilization, the apex of humanity... etc. Realistically I don't think that the US accounts for more than 20% of GF sales.

 

[Black Octagon]

Thanks boxleitnerb!

Now, can someone please explain to me how a GPU can 'overclock' the monitor? A 60Hz screen is only going to refresh 60 times per second, unless the actual monitor PCB is overclocked via an EDID override. On the face of it, this sounds like marketing BS, but nonetheless, I'm curious

 

[wand3r3r]

That would be Crytek's fault, IMHO

Well it's only 25% faster in that slide vs. the 680, you can't make an excuse for that . Pretty weak!!! Especially when selling for double in price.

 

[SirPauly]

The article is offline already. I copied it just in time:



http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/graphics-cards/1297972/nvidia-gtx-titan-graphics-card-announced

Thanks, hope someone copied in time. Good news on over volts -- GPU Boost 2.0

 

[Black Octagon]

Unfortunately many people in the US think that they are the most important in the world, that they are the pinnacle of civilization, the apex of humanity... etc.

Such an attitude may have been understandable (just)...nearly 60 years ago, that is!

 

[blackened23]

Perhaps more exciting news is the addition of GPU Boost 2.0, an evolution of the software introduced with Nvidia's 600-series graphics cards. Built into the video driver, GPU Boost 2.0 will let Titan owners overclock and overvolt their cards, with higher limits than with previous cards and optimisations for water-cooling setups.

Oh baby!

 

[notty22]

The revenue probably reflects vga card makers that are out of China, they technically get sold the gpu/memory packages that are built in to the video card. Asus, MSI, Gigabyte. Some of the products might be sold to American based businesses, EVGA? PNY? Though I think they both have business relations in China also.

 

[wand3r3r]

And away we go.

NOTE* Quad SLI vs TRI SLI

5760x1080

BF3
3 Titans only == 4 680's ~ 25% faster

Crysis 3
3 Titans == 1.8 * 4 680's ~ % faster

Max Payne 3
3 Titans == 2 * 4 680's

Skyrim
3 Titans == 1.3 * 4 680's

Far Cry 3
3 Titans == 1.9 * 4 680's

Borderlands 2
3 Titans = 1.1 * 4 680's

Batman
3 Titans = 1.1 * 4 680's

Based on that it's about 30-60% faster.. What a joke at that price.

What's insane about this is that the 690x2 costs $2000 and the Titanicx3 costs $3000.

In 3 out of 7 there is no tangible benefit!

 

[Elfear]

How on earth will Titan be so close to the 690 with those results???
This rather looks like 33% (4 GPUs vs 3 GPUs) and more only when the 690 is vram bottlenecked. And the Crysis 3 results are a complete joke. 20%??? WTF Nvidia?

And those are supposedly Nvidia-produced slides too which generally show their products in the best possible light (just like every other company's marketing slides). I hope Titan is faster than that.

By the way, it looks more like a 29-30% increase for Crysis 3. From what I can tell ~37fps for the 680 and ~48fps for the Titan.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

Any time cherry picked slides like that are "leaked" then that means the card is fail.

 

[HurleyBird]

yeah, they post BS charts on their site.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/citizenship-report-economic-impact.html

What's likely happening is that if they sell chips to a graphics card manufacturer in Taiwan or China that's where they count the revenue from, despite the fact that those cards are shipped across the globe. Doesn't really prove your point.

 

[HurleyBird]

And the Crysis 3 results are a complete joke. 20%??? WTF Nvidia?

Indeed. If that's all that Titan can do, Nvidia can shove it -- they aren't getting my money. 7970 will probably be faster in the long run anyway with every single next gen game targeting GCN specifically.

Let's hope this slide is wrong or misleading

 

[Dedox]

Can't wait to buy this bad boy! Getting pretty tired of my gtx 590.

 

[Grooveriding]

The tri vs quad SLI is meaningless and rather disappointing as well. The Crysis 3 single GPU Titan vs 680 is the most important. That bench is a failure. How only 25% faster in what is a best case official nvidia slide ? With all the girth of GK110 ? Would mean Titan is terribly inefficient.

Will have to wait for official reviews. Hopefully this is not a case of 25% more performance and some shiny aluminumn bling for 80% more money. The suggested MSRP of 800 € is about $1100 as well, well over $900...

 

[Black Octagon]

Real figures on number of GeForce cards sold each year by country would likely have to come from market research companies (who get the figures directly from retailers and only disclose them to their clients at a price). That's how it is in many consumer goods industries, meaning that you're unlikely to find reliable figures in the public domain for free

 

[brandon888]

where did you got that screens guys ? give me link of that site please



i hope in's not only 25% faster then 680 .... ;/ if so 900$ toooooooooooooooooooooooooo overpriced ... ;/