Nvidia cards based on the Pascal architecture did significantly much better than corresponding AMD counterparts in terms of sales and performance power. The GeForce GTX 1080TI was almost neck-to-neck with the Titan Xp, much to the annoyance of Titan Xp owners, as Nvidia charges a premium to ensure that Titan cards remain on top of…
Nvidia cards based on the Pascal architecture did significantly much better than corresponding AMD counterparts in terms of sales and performance power. The GeForce GTX 1080TI was almost neck-to-neck with the Titan Xp, much to the annoyance of Titan Xp owners, as Nvidia charges a premium to ensure that Titan cards remain on top of the performance chart. Nvidia also hinted at the release of their next generation of cards based on a newer Volta architecture sometime in 2019. Apparently, the hardware was too advanced for the generation and was left as a fail-safe for the future.
Seemingly out of the blue, Nvidia now announced the release of the Nvidia Titan V, the first ever card based on the Volta architecture. The card is primarily designed for AI and machine learning applications, with easy access to NVIDIA Deep Learning SDK libraries such as cuDNN, NCCL, and TensorRT. The card is by no means designed for gamers and we’d be genuinely interested how it holds up against modern AAA titles. The primary audience of the card will be professionals who want to test the waters and are reluctant to buy Nvidia’s Tesla range of cards, which are priced much higher.
Now, lets take a peek at the spec sheet and what the Titan V brings to the table. The Titan V has 5120 CUDA cores, much higher than the 3840 on the Titan Xp. Along with the CUDA cores, it also has 640 Tensor cores which are designed for extreme workloads involving AI and neural mapping. The 12GB of VRAM uses HBM2 memory and can attain transfer speeds of up to 653GB/s. The card is clocked at 1200MHz base and can the boost frequency can go up to 1,455MHz. The CUDA cores are rated for operation at 13.8 TeraFLOPS, while the Tensor cores can go as high as 110 TeraFLOPS. The TDP of the card is 250W and can fit in all standard PCIe slots.
The Titan V comes with 3xdisplay ports and 1xHDMI port and requires a standard 8-pin and a 6-pin power supply connector. Retailing at $2,999 it’s by no means an affordable or recommended solution for gamers unless you’re building an overkill PC just for the sake of it. We’re hyped to see Volta in action and would look forward to put the card to the test.
