If we are talking about satisfaction related to the power of the personal computer, there is no such thing as “too much.” That is why Nvidia has decided to introduce new graphics accelerator, Titan V, and calls it the most powerful ever created by graphics cards. Price new… hold your breath… $ 3,000. And finally to ensure that you will not be able to confuse with the other “looping” GPU, Nvidia painted cover Titan V gold paint.
In fact, if we put jokes aside, Titan V not really intended for gaming. No, of course, the map can handle them and will probably show high performance results, but the new Nvida not about the games. The graphics accelerator of new generation on the new architecture Volta was presented at the annual conference on the neural information processing systems (Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS) and according to Nvidia, designed to help scientists and researchers of artificial intelligence technologies and machine learning.
Graphics card Titan V shows a very impressive technical features, even compared to its predecessor Titan Xp worth of $ 1,200. The novelty, like the Titan Xp is equipped with 12 GB of memory. Only instead of slow GDDR5, which is used in Titan Xp Titan V is a high-performance memory standard HBM2, which have significantly increased bandwidth. According to the official data Nvidia memory bandwidth of the Titan V is 652,8 GB/s, which is about 20 percent higher than the Titan Xp (547,7 GB/s).
In addition, Titan uses 5120 CUDA cores (vs 3840 in Titan Xp), which is capable of a large number of parallel information processing. When Nvidia introduced Titan graphics accelerator Xp in April of this year, the company said that its GPU has 12 billion transistors. So within GPU Titan V of these transistors is almost two times more than 21 billion. In the end, all this allows to achieve a performance of 110 Teraflops, which is almost 9 times higher than the performance Titan Xp, and almost 18 times higher than the performance of most powerful gaming console of the current generation Xbox One X.
At the same time, Nvidia introduced the novelty of the so-called core Tensor (Tensor Cores) that is intended to address problems associated with the application AI, created on the basis of libraries for machine learning Tensorflow from Google. As a bonus, each purchaser of the graphics accelerator with a cost of $ 3,000 will receive free access to a variety of programs, machine learning and high performance computing. Just need to register the cloud-based Nvidia GPU Cloud.
Despite the fact that this video is clearly not aimed at the average fan of computer games (for most gamers the GTX 1080Ti is still more than enough choice), Titan V opens the door for the new Volta architecture and new generation graphics accelerators home segment, which we most likely will see in the next year. On assurances of the company, Volta twice as energy efficient current 10-series GPU architecture Pascal and is ready to offer “substantial” performance increase. For example, in comparison with the same Titan Xp for $ 1200 and Titan V would be about 30 percent faster with the same level of energy consumption, which is 250 watts.
However, if you simply wish to have in your computer the most powerful graphics card in the world (and the pricing issue you don’t care), Titan V can already be ordered via the official Nvidia website. Just do not spend money at once on two, as Titan V does not support SLI.
Nvidia introduced Titan V – the most powerful graphics card in the world
Nikolai Khizhnyak