Nvidia Titan

[Bpositive]

The new Nvidia Titan has just been announced.

6 GB of ram and 2688 stream processors, with about 4.5 TFLOPS of FP32 performance. Price is $999.


There are no reviews yet, but expect these to arrive on the 21. - Until then have a look here:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6760/n...x-titan-part-1

[vlado]

I'd like to have 8 of these

Best regards,
Vlado

[Alan Iglesias]

They are positioning it as a "pro-sumer compute card". What does that mean exactly for per-core rendering speed in RT/GPU? Does full FP64 performance mean faster GPU rendering in RT/GPU? Will it render faster core-for-core than the GK104?

Bottom line is that at 999$ if it has twice the rendering speed (or more) in RT/GPU than the GTX 580 I'd be very interested..

-Alan

[vlado]

Does full FP64 performance mean faster GPU rendering in RT/GPU?

Not right now.

Will it render faster core-for-core than the GK104?

Not sure on this one; it runs at lower clock speeds, so core-for-core it's probably a bit slower. But, it has more VRAM.

Bottom line is that at 999$ if it has twice the rendering speed (or more) in RT/GPU than the GTX 580 I'd be very interested.

Yes, we'll need some actual benchmarks. I think it's expected to have about 85% of the performance of a GTX 690, but that's not official. I'm not sure how that compares to the GTX 580 either.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Alan Iglesias]

Not right now.

Interesting...thanks.

Not sure on this one; it runs at lower clock speeds, so core-for-core it's probably a bit slower. But, it has more VRAM.

Right...

Yes, we'll need some actual benchmarks. I think it's expected to have about 85% of the performance of a GTX 690, but that's not official. I'm not sure how that compares to the GTX 580 either.

Hmmm...well, as I have seen it, 85% of a 690 (essentially two 680s) will be considerably slower than two 580s. Consider that a single 680 is already ~5% slower than a single 580, double that, subtract the 15% and there you have it. Twice the money for about 75-80% of the speed. Not real exciting, render-speed wise. I imagine it will be quite interesting for folks who are building a new system and want/need more VRAM though...

They never should have given us a taste of the rendering capabilties of the dang fermi cores!

*sigh*

-Alan

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

This Titan sounds quite interesting but NVIDIA had to f@k it up. They blocked 3rd party mods meaning no 12 gb vram version The 12gb would be gone b4 any1 would even preorder them :/

[tammo]

This might be the breakthrough hardware for GPU rendering.
Its (kind of) affordable for freelancers and with 6gb RAM you can load most of the normal production scenes.
I really look forward to get this one.

[vlado]

They never should have given us a taste of the rendering capabilties of the dang fermi cores!

I hope they are taking notes for their next GPU architecture

Best regards,
Vlado

[Alan Iglesias]

I hope they are taking notes for their next GPU architecture

We can only hope...

-Alan

[alexyork]

This is all about vram. I don't really care at all if it's going to be even 50% slower than a 680. The fact that I could potentially fit some proper production scenes into vram means that I might actually be able to use RT for images, at least as part of production if not as the final renderer. Quite a big deal, this.... We need some concrete benchmark results and perhaps a brave Vray Forum user to test one out and let us know how it goes. I'm a little reluctant to drop what will probably be £1000 on this if it's going to come with issues. My main concern would be heat from long renders.

[alexyork]

While we're on the general topic of fitting scenes in vram using RT - does RT still squash all texture maps down to 512 or can we use larger maps now?

[vlado]

While we're on the general topic of fitting scenes in vram using RT - does RT still squash all texture maps down to 512 or can we use larger maps now?

There is an option to use full-res textures since about a year now

Best regards,
Vlado

[alexyork]

There is an option to use full-res textures since about a year now

Best regards,
Vlado

Fantastic! Look forward to trying this out soon. Are you planning on testing a Titan yourself soon Vlado? Would love to hear your own feedback and see some benchmarks directly from RT.

[AndresAhumada]

Hi Vkadi im new.

Which would come to be the performance of a K5000? recently bought computers have two K5000.

Greetings.

[vlado]

Fantastic! Look forward to trying this out soon. Are you planning on testing a Titan yourself soon Vlado? Would love to hear your own feedback and see some benchmarks directly from RT.

Yes, we'll try to get one as soon as possible.

Best regards,
Vlado