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    NVIDIA TITAN V

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by hmscott, Dec 7, 2017.

  1. hmscott

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    NVIDIA TITAN V
    Published on Dec 7, 2017
    NVIDIA TITAN V is the most powerful graphics card ever created for the PC, driven by the world’s most advanced architecture—NVIDIA Volta. NVIDIA’s supercomputing GPU architecture is now here for your PC, and fueling breakthroughs in every industry. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/titan/titan-v/

    Volta Arrives: nVidia Announces Titan V Graphics Card
    https://www.gamersnexus.net/news-pc/3165-volta-arrives-nvidia-titan-v-graphics-card
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    The card is available at $3000 for direct purchase. It should go without saying, of course, that you shouldn’t buy this for gaming – it won’t be very good at it, as the card is built to lead in machine learning and scientific development.

    Volta Arrives in $3000 Titan V NVIDIA GPU

    NVIDIA Announces “NVIDIA Titan V" Video Card: GV100 for $3000, On Sale Now
    by Ryan Smith & Nate Oh on December 7, 2017 11:45 PM EST
    https://www.anandtech.com/show/1213...dia-titan-v-video-card-gv100-for-3000-dollars

    Nvidia CEO reveals the company's latest GPU at A.I. conference

    Nvidia's Titan V desktop for PCs is specifically aimed at artificial intelligence, an area where the company has made gains in recent years.
    Nvidia says the new graphics card provides nine times the performance of its predecessor.
    https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/07/nvidia-ceo-unveils-titan-v-gpu-at-nips.html

    NVIDIA Announces Monstrous TITAN V With Volta GV100 GPU, 12GB HBM2, 110 TFLOPs Deep Learning Compute
    https://hothardware.com/news/nvidia-volta-titan-v-12gb-hbm2-110-tflops
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    "“Our vision for Volta was to push the outer limits of high performance computing and AI. We broke new ground with its new processor architecture, instructions, numerical formats, memory architecture and processor links,” said NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang. “With TITAN V, we are putting Volta into the hands of researchers and scientists all over the world. I can’t wait to see their breakthrough discoveries.”

    As you might expect, the TITAN V will be added to the NVIDIA GPU Cloud, which provides quick access to a fully optimized deep learning software stack to advance artificial intelligence (AI) development."
     
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    Nice! I'll be putting two of these in my 2019 monster desktop when they cost like $800 each :D

    It's not even the full chip, 5120 cores vs full chip of 5376 cores
     
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    Dang, 3000 dollars. I wonder when we will see the 2080/1180 and at what price?


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    "Titan V does not support SLI or NV Link"....if this will change down the road, we will have to wait and see.
     
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    Does the gold and black color provide any perf. gain? (nvidia).
    I reckon nobody in prosumer area will look at color and buy a GPU admiring the color instead of their work.
    Next time they will have a pink color to bring Barbie fans.
     
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    It supports NVLink I thought, but yeah no SLI.
     
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    Aww man, what else am I going to do with this spare $6000?
     
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    Buy one for yourself and buy me one ;)
     
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    Earlier reports were incorrect; the Titan V doesn't support either SLI or NVLink:

    NVIDIA TITAN V Lacks SLI or NVLink Support: https://www.techpowerup.com/239519/nvidia-titan-v-lacks-sli-or-nvlink-support
    NVIDIA Titan V will not support NVLINK and does not support SLI: http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/nv...-support-nvlink-and-does-not-support-sli.html
    I mean, why should we even bother buying one now? :p
     
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    The future is here
     
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    A pink coloured Quartz edition? I'd say less Barbie, more Steven Universe fans lol
     
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    Mine shipped today. Interested to play with it.
     
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    I'm so jealous of the people that bought pascal laptops as Vega isn't that much better. So in short you got one heck of a deal. 3 years of max settings is unheard of in pc gaming history
     
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    But, the PRICE. O. M. G.
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    I don't think so. Too retarded for words, especially since it is crippled without SLI support. So... not... worth... it. But, I guess if someone is silly enough to pay retail price for this, buying Titan V at the current price would merely be confirmation that it really is true that no company ever went broke underestimating the foolishness of consumers with gobs of money, or those with credit cards that are not maxed out yet.
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    You could pay what the card costed you afterwards with cryptocurrency (if you used one of your credit cards) :D
    NVIDIA TITAN V Crypto Mining Performance Tested By BitsBeTrippin | Spoiler: It’s A MONSTER
     
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    NVIDIA Titan V Tear-Down: First Look at $3000 Volta

    Live VLOG #75 - nVidia Titan V - But can it mine cryptocurrency? Unboxing, Install, Testing Live!

    TITAN V Gaming Benchmarks Surface.. HUGE NUMBERS!
     
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    Well I guess nvidia are being aggressive in all ways. The biggest gpu yet with the smallest process. 3000 dollars and it works for gaming. People have always been willing to shell out inasne ammounts of money for the top card. SLI is great in most cases but random lack of support in games, input lag variance, removal of features like double aa detail from sli ect... this all gives incentives to have the best single card. And there is a market for people who will spend anything just to have the identitiy of the guy who has the best graphics card.

    The titan cards were the first step. But is 3000 dollars too much? Will the new titan / ti be more powerful for gaming? If it is they could actally put off some buyers who would dish out 1000 or so for the top card. Now that you can't have the top performance for 1000 is it really worth it? Better just get an 1180 or even a 1170 and be happy with performance/price ratio.

    But its ok nvidia is smart so heres how it will work: the new top gaming volta will be slightly better. But you will have to wait. The excuse for getting people to pay 3000 is well its really meant to be a compute card. So they get the ultimate price profiling system. Incentives to buy at every price up to 3000 for gaming performance.
     
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    I have to agree. It's just ridiculous
     
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    It's not a gaming card.... Unless you have other GPU needs, I don't know why anyone would even consider this for gaming.
     
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    Titan V Gaming Benchmarks: Accelerating Async Performance in Dx12 & Vulkan
    By Steve Burke Published December 12, 2017 at 9:33 am
    https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/3170-titan-v-gaming-benchmarks-async-future-is-bright-for-volta
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    (more graphs and results on the article web site!!)

    " Conclusion: What the Titan V Teaches Us
    We’re entering territory of informed speculation. Please be aware that, from this point forward, we’re using our data to fuel conjecture on possible outcomes for Volta.

    Purely observationally, based on the data we have presently collected, it would appear that the Titan V has two primary behaviors: (1) Applications which are built atop low-level APIs and asynchronous computational pipelines appear to process more efficiently on the Titan V; (2) the Titan V appears to host more cores than some of these applications (namely D3D11 titles) can meaningfully use, and that is demonstrated fully upon overclocking.

    Given that overclocks in D3D11 applications produce performance uplift of ~20% (in some instances), it would appear that the high core count becomes more of a burden than a benefit. The GPU needs the faster clocks, and can’t access or leverage its high core count in a meaningful way. The result is that the Titan V begins to tie with the Titan Xp, and that the 1080 Ti closes-in on the Titan V. In lower-level API games, however, the Titan V pulls away by large margins – 27% to 40%, in some cases. The gains are big enough that we retested numerous times on numerous cards, but they remained. Our present analysis is that these applications are better able to spin-off multiple, simultaneous, in-flight render jobs across the high core count, whereas the tested Dx11 titles may function more synchronously.

    As for the Titan V specifically, it can certainly be used for games -- but only in the context of, "I bought this thing for work, and sometimes I play games." If you're just gaming, clearly, this isn't the right purchase. Even for those users who have non-scientific uses for their scientific cards, the Titan V does appear to have some frame pacing problems that need to be worked out. We are not yet informed enough on the Volta architecture to root-cause these behaviors, and would suggest that it's either drivers or related specifically to the Titan V.

    That’s what we think right now, anyway, and that may change. This is still early in Volta.

    More soon.
    Editorial, Testing: Steve Burke
    Video: Andrew Coleman"
    Titan V Gaming Benchmarks: An Async Future for nVidia
    Published on Dec 12, 2017
    Benchmarking the nVidia Titan V in gaming to determine how Volta vs. Pascal will play out, featuring the Titan Xp, 1080 Ti, and Vega 64.
     
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    Nvidia Titan V - Classic Unboxing
     
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    Live: Titan V - Attempting World Record Overclock (Top 10)

    TITAN V Hybrid Mod Build: Liquid Cooling a $3000 GPU

    Titan V GPU Core vs. Memory Overclocking Benchmarks

    Titan V Clocks & Power: Should $3K Get A Good Cooler?

    Titan V Gaming Benchmarks: An Async Future for nVidia

    NVIDIA Titan V Tear-Down: First Look at $3000 Volta

    Volta Arrives in $3000 Titan V NVIDIA GPU


    Gamers Nexus really went all out to get full value from their $3000 Volta Titan V :)
     
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    Almost all will not. But if you have alot of money, it can game better than every other card out there with some exceptions like 0.1% low frame times which are closed to tied for the best and may be cpu or driver related.
     
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    Finally Found the Limit of PCIe x16 vs. x8 (Dual Titan Vs)

    NVidia's 16-Phase Titan V VRM Analysis & Shunt Mod Guide
     
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    I love Gamers Nexus!!

    They really dig into the products they have on there and are not just paid shills espousing everything that comes across their desk as the greatest thing since sliced bread; looking at you HardwareCanucks, BitWit, Paul's Hardware, etc...
     
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    Volta in laptops? Nope. Not even a Max-BBQ 1080ti in laptops. Oh desktop owners, I envy you'll! :tears:
     
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    They might have something in their books. Even Pascal is 50% faster than Maxwell, so I guess we'll have Volta Max QQ or something.
     
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    Volta *Max-BBQ* thanks but no thanks. At that point I'll spend my money on a desktop build with a full TDP Volta ti. :swoon:
     
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    Well, Alienware, MSI, Clevos will be getting full Volta GPUs. Even I had enough of BGA-LGA and thinking of going full LGA Ryzen/Intel with Nvidia/AMD GPUs. Whether its Clevo or MSI barebone, though I incline to Clevos for prema bios.
     
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    Ask GN 66: Did You Make ROI on Titan V? Buy or Wait Ryzen+?
    11:07 – Rapta: “ #askgn-questions @steve Burke Why does the performance of Nvidia cards scale with core count when looking within the same architecture, but doesn't for AMD cards?”

    13:50 - Dayne_ofStarfall: “ #askgn-questions In your Titan V video where you test the limit of PCIe you said that Rise of the Tomb Raider is not a good benchmark title. This is strange to me as I see the game on almost every GPU/CPU benchmark out there. Can you explain why you think Rise of the Tomb Raider is not a good benchmarking title?”

    17:21 – NorySS: “@Steve Burke GN covers performance, engineering and stability characteristics. But what about Warranty/Support? IE what happens when that memory stick goes bad? Which of the Manufactures/Vendors truly stands behind their products, or is the easiest to deal with?”

    19:43 – Soupa: “@Steve Burke #askgn-questions In your review of the Fractal Define R6, while discussing the GPU temperatures in the vertical orientation, you stated "The vertical GPU mount caused a huge temperature increase, as usual..." Can you explain why vertical-mounted GPUs tend to run hotter ("as usual")?”

    21:49 - SerpentXSF: “@Steve Burke, what was your first ever graphics card? Why did you get into the computer industry and reviews of computer components? Do you have any I.T. certifications?”

    23:51 – Karl: “ #askGN Can I use the GN Anti-Static ModMat as an oversized mousepad? Is it spill resistant?”
     
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    Where did you get that info
     
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    They will have same core count with reduced Boost Clocks like pascal Mobile and throttling firmware and not to forget UltraMAX Q.
     
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    Gimme me a link to an article.
     
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    No link, I'm just saying based on previous market trends of nvidia.
    Who knows Volta GPUs will be priced close to iphone X?
     
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    Man, even if they do release a crippled (MQ) Volta GPU for laptops that performs like an overclocked 1080 and sell it with a hefty price tag, it doesn't make sense. :vbconfused:
     
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    isnt it obvious they will be releasing full volta for laptops?

    980-1060-1070-1080 then what 2080m makes no sense...why would you need proof
     
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    2080 TI would likely be not on the same die as TITAN V.
     
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    I would eat my shoe if it is.
     
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    2x Power Draw: GPU Shunt Shorting Mod (Titan V)
     
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