That is no surprise really. Everyone knew GK110 is a compute monster well before the Titan rumors even started.
There are certain games that are compute-heavy, Dirt: Showdown is one that comes to mind. There are others, but I don't remember what they were off the top of my head.
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As far as pure gaming goes, not really. However, if you need computing power and gaming power, this is a better deal than buying a tesla and a separate GPU. The problem with this, though, is that most of the people who need this kind of computing power have workstations at their jobs which is probably where they need this power. The niche crowd for this card are people like me who need a decent amount of computing power (FP64 at ~1 tFLOP) and like to game on that same computer.
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actually I'll probably be giving them away here at Anandtech, if I get a Titan, look for the giveaway thread shortly after.
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Is that available to people outside the US if they do the freight...LOL..Actually, I only need the 1....
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I may open it up to the brothers up North (Canada) but that's it. And of course this all depends on me actually finding and purchasing a Titan.
For me the biggest issue with Titan is that (at least according the pre-release benchmarks from Nvidia) it has about 40% better performance than the GTX 680 even though it has double the transistor count. Given the Titan's clock speeds are 80% to 85% of the 680, we should have gotten at least that much performance increase, not a piddling 40%.
The big technological selling point with Titan is the massive 7 billion transistors, and it seems like Nvidia wasted the resources at least from a gaming perspective. In other words, the card is showing its GPGPU roots. $1000 IS expensive for a graphics card, but it would have been somewhat justifiable had the performance been there. As it is we have a monster card that has not scaled in a linear manner i.e. doubling of computation units has not lead to a doubling of gaming performance, which if realized would have been a viable reason for preferring this card to something like the GTX 690 or HD 7970 Crossfire.
For the next round of gaming cards (GTX 7000 series) I do hope Nvidia design them for gaming from the ground up, rather than "slipping a mickey" as they are doing with the Titan
"If only" GK104 had a 320-bit memory bus and the additional 8 ROP's to go with the additional memory controller. That right there would have raised performance by 10-12% at the same clock speeds it is at now and the chip would still have been less than or equal to 310 mm^2.
http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/30533-geforce-gtx-titan-is-decent-overclocker
Early reports are 1100mhz and up are achievable overclocks. That is 26% over the base boost clock. If this holds true, pretty damned impressive for a chip this big and fast already. That will definitely outpace a pair of stock gtx680's in SLI.
EDIT: Folks with SLI'd GTX680's might indeed consider this if 1100-1150 is common overclocks. It might be a side-grade for the most part, but multi-monitor and/or 1440p + lots of AA will probably end up being a better experience with Titan.
Early reports are 1100mhz and up are achievable overclocks. That is 26% over the base boost clock. If this holds true, pretty damned impressive for a chip this big and fast already. That will definitely outpace a pair of stock gtx680's in SLI.
EDIT: Folks with SLI'd GTX680's might indeed consider this if 1100-1150 is common overclocks. It might be a side-grade for the most part, but multi-monitor and/or 1440p + lots of AA will probably end up being a better experience with Titan.
I'm not terribly surprised by that. I had a feeling if they allowed voltage adjustments, that it could reach 680 clocks. I'm pretty sure the only reason for the lower clocks is to keep it from going above the 250watt PCI Express power ceiling.
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This is exactly what I'm banking on, I will do some benches, before I get a Titan, and after, and see just how much better or worse it performs than my GTX 670 SLI setup, I will also focus on 'playability' as some games (with high fps) seem a bit laggy with my current setup. If I can get a 10-15% performance boost PLUS the benefits of a single GPU I will be very pleased.
having only one Titan should also help temperatures stay lower, therefore increasing OC headroom.
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Guess they managed to keep Tweaktown from getting their hands on one this time. :awe:
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Eh, to be fair, should compare OC vs OC. That said, I avoid multi-GPU like the plague because I'd rather not deal with their associated problems.
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