glimpse wrote:holy smokes: 12GB of vRAM!!! now that's a beast!!! =)
Hope it's going to be at least 8TFlops! (in a range of Z)
..but for less than 3000$.. - my bold Guess - 2K$ =DDD
(but I'm really worrying nVidia lifting prices..)
not long to wait =) GTC is just around the corner!
P.S. madness with those engines release for free!!!
Within about a week and a half from today, we should get confirmation of details about Nvidia’s latest top end GTX GPU - The Titan X. All of the pics that I’ve seen of it depict it as having the same size and form factor as the Titan and Titan Black - PCIe double wide. According to Anandtech [
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9049/nvid ... tx-titan-x ], it’ll have 96 ROPS, a 384-bit memory bus, 12G of Vram, 8 billion transistors, be based on the Maxwell GM200 architecture with one GPU processor, possibly be born from the TSMC 28nm manufacturing process, and launched at a very high price. Extremetech [
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/2004 ... ll-details ] adds that it’ll have either 192 or 256 (I believe that 256 is more likely) texture mapping units (TMUs), a core count of 3,072 and maybe 24 SMM blocks. Hexus. net [
http://hexus.net/tech/news/graphics/797 ... -surfaces/ ] adds that the price will likely be about $1,349 (for the base air-cooled version). Tomshardware [
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia ... 28694.html ] adds that it’ll have a green LED-lit “GeForce” label on it’s side. Legitreviews [
http://www.legitreviews.com/hands-nvidi ... ard_159519 ] adds that it’s a PCIe double wide card, appears to support 3- and 4-way SLI (having two SLI interconnects), has one 6-pin and has one 8-pin power connectors, has three DisplayPorts, one HDMI and one DVI connector and will be dark gray or black with a black fan shroud. Guru3d [
http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/nvidia ... ealed.html ] adds that it’ll have 6 GPCs, a core clock of ~988 MHz, a memory clock of 1653/1753 MHz, a memory bandwidth of 317.4 GB/s and a single precision floating performance of 6.07/7.0 TFLOPS. See, also -
http://videocardz.com/54960/nvidia-gefo ... ew-details .
If all of this pans out as indicated above, I have no regrets for last fall having purchased 6 Titan Z Hydro’s for about $150 to 250 additional for each one. The Titan Z (air cooled) has, among other things:
GTX TITAN Z GPU Engine Specs:
5760
CUDA Cores
705
Base Clock (MHz)
876
Boost Clock (MHz)
338
Texture Fill Rate (GigaTexels/sec)
GTX TITAN Z Memory Specs:
7.0 Gbps
Memory Clock
12 GB
Standard Memory Config
GDDR5
Memory Interface
768-bit (384-bit per GPU)
Memory Interface Width
672
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec)
[
http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop ... ifications ] . Moreover, the air-cooled Titan Z has:
“… the full 15 Streaming clusters, thus 2880 Shader Processing Units per GPU, enabled. That's 240 TMUs and 48 ROPs on a 384-bit memory interface of fast 6GB GDDR5 allocated
per GPU. So you can double that up. But in a nutshell the card uses two 45 mm × 45 mm 2397-pin S-FCBGA GK110b GPUs with 2880 shader/stream/CUDA processors -- thus 5760 Shader processors. This will give the GeForce Titan Z a cool 8 TeraFLOPS of performance.” [
http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/nv ... iew,1.html ] Moreover, the software that motivated and continue to motivate my main use of GPUs is Octane Render. The Maxwell GPUs for whatever reason have not yet shined more brightly than the Keplers. As of now, a GTX 980 performs in Octane Render most closely to the reference design (standard) GTX 780. I do wish, however, that my Titan Zs had 3xDisplayPorts as well as 12G Vram for each of their two GPU processors.
