Nvidia’s Volta GPU architecture is finally coming to PCs in the Titan V, a graphics card designed for deep learning.
Nvidia’s cutting-edge Volta GPU architecture has finally come to desktops. Late Thursday night, Nvidia launched the monstrous, golden Titan V, a $3,000 graphics card with 12GB of HBM2 memory and over a thousand more CUDA cores than the game-slaying Titan Xp. But this beast isn’t made for gaming—though it’d no doubt be very good at it.
Instead, Nvidia says this card “transforms the PC into an AI supercomputer.” While the still-available Titan Xp was theoretically a compute card but better suited as a best-in-class gaming card, the Titan V doubles down on data crunching. Nvidia is giving Titan V owners free access to AI, deep-learning, and high-performance computing software via the Nvidia GPU cloud, and to boost the hardware’s machine learning capabilities, the card is equipped with the same “tensor cores” found in the Volta-packing Tesla V100 that launched in May.
In fact, the Titan V’s core specs are very similar to the Tesla V100’s configuration, but the desktop card has 4GB less HBM2 that runs slightly slower. Nvidia says the Titan V delivers up to 110 teraflops of power in AI calculations, “9x that of its predecessor,” thanks to the introduction of the tensor cores.
Considering how massive the Tesla V100’s GPU/HBM combo wound up being, it’s very impressive indeed that Nvidia managed to cram this much power into a dual-slot desktop graphics card. To see how the new Volta GPU architecture compares to the Pascal architecture used by current Nvidia consumer cards like the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, head over to our explainer on what PC gamers need to know about Volta.
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