NVIDIA GTX Titan Graphics Card Announced! (Specs & Features)

Updated: February 18, 2013

This morning, I awoke to a flooded inbox of a questions regarding the NVIDIA GTX Titan launch. ExpertReviews released an article (which has since been pulled) showing the announcement specs of NVIDIA’s latest video card. The original rumors stated the card would be clocked at an amazing 1019MHz, but today’s leak reveals the GTX Titan is packed with a core clock of 837MHz and a boost clock of 876 MHz. The card will boast 6GB of GDDR5 memory, use a 384-Bit memory controller and if one assumes that the memory runs at 6008 MHz, the card will have a texture fill rate of 288 GT/s and a total computing power of 4.5 Gigaflops (single precision) 1.3 (Double Precision).

Quoted from Expert Review:

“Designed as a single-GPU replacement for the current top-end GTX 690, which is actually two GTX 680 cores bolted to one PCB, the GTX Titan promises improved performance while using less power and producing less heat. A redesigned cooler with an extended aluminium heat stack dissipates heat faster than Nvidia’s current design, while the 90mm fan is tied to both RPM and voltage control to more accurately determine when to kick in. With a TDP of 250w, you’ll certainly need it.

SLI is fully supported, so if you have a capable power supply and bottomless pockets you could potentially run multiple Titans for high frame rates even at multi-monitor resolutions. Although Nvidia has yet to share exact benchmark results, some rough figures suggest games like Crysis 3, Far Cry 3 and Max Payne 3 can expect roughly twice the performance over a GTX690 setup.

Perhaps more exciting news is the addition of GPU Boost 2.0, an evolution of the software introduced with Nvidia’s 600-series graphics cards. Built into the video driver, GPU Boost 2.0 will let Titan owners overclock and olvervolt their cards, with higher limits than with previous cards and optimisations for water-cooling setups.

It will also allow you to “overclock” your display, running it at a faster sync rate than it officially supports to squeeze out some extra frames per second. As an example, a monitor rated for 60Hz refresh only could run at up to 80Hz, meaning twenty extra frames per second are being displayed.
The one sticking price will almost certainly be the price – Nvidia would only confirm RRP pricing with us today, as it will be up to its hardware partners to set their own prices when the cards launch later this week, but you’ll easily be paying over £800 per card. We’ll have to wait until then to see whether the benchmark scores can back up Nvidia’s claims that the Titan is the fastest card around, but the early indications look promising.”

It has been reported that the card will have 2688 CUDA Cores, 48 ROPs, and 224 TMUs with 14 of the cores being used as SMX units. The Titan will have both a six-pin and eight-pin connector and have a TDP of 250w, which will require some serious cooling. In the past the GTX 690 although a solid performer ran a bit hot and loud and having a better cooling solution would be an optimal change of pace.

NVIDIA is also trying something different with the cooling this time. Around the unit as they claim they are using a new technology for cooling involving using aluminum alloy and a vapor chamber for heat transfers, which could make the cards run cooler and quieter than previous gen cards. Some of the biggest news however is the fact that NVIDIA will now allow users the options to overclock and overvolt their cards with GPU Boost 2.0 so Titan owners will have a feature available to them a feature not seen in over a year. You will also be able to overclock your display with the ability to run faster refresh rates than the monitors officially support.

GPU Boost 2.0 and Vsync, which we will have to assume is a new version of their adaptive Vsync technology. You will also see that the GTX Titan can outmatch the GTX 690 in SLI as Two 690’s equaling Quad-SLI can be beaten by a 3-Way SLI using the new GTX Titan. The benchmarks we are showing you today are not validated by us in any way, but only a reposting of what another site has claimed, but according to those charts it clearly show the Titan kicking ass and taking names. NVIDIA fans have been waiting a refresh for quite some time and if everything we se here today is true NVIDIA may be coming back again, this time for vengeance.

For now all we can do is wait until the official NVIDIA announcement takes place and with these cards supposedly hitting the shelves soon, we can hopefully get our hands on one and see how they really perform. If anything changes we’ll be sure to update you so stay peeled to the website as the week goes on. Let us know what you good folks think about this new development? Are you excited to see NVIDIA make the leapfrog again into the lead? Let me know your thoughts on the subject as your voice counts on Tech Of Tomorrow.