NVIDIA’s Black Edition Titan & GTX 790 Coming Soon?

Updated: January 21, 2014

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NVIDIA’s Black Edition Titan & GTX 790 Coming Soon?

The NVIDIA rumor mill is running full force at the moment. We just reported that NVIDIA may be releasing it’s first Maxwell based video card next month and now word on the street is that NVIDIA is gear to release two high end video cards shortly as well. These two alleged cards are the new Black Edition Titan and Black Edition GTX 790 gaming cards, cards that are sure to make NVIDIA fans pee themselves in excitement of their arrival. The Black Titan will still feature 6GB of GDDR5 memory and will have a black cooling shroud so it should look really cool.

Once again we must stress that the Titan however is not the GTX 780 Ti replacement as the Titan sites in the middle ground between gamer and game developer being a Quadro/GeForce model, where the GTX 780 Ti is priced and aimed mainly at the gamer. The GTX Titan Black Edition will contain 2880 CUDA cores, 240 TMUs, and 48 ROPs with an attached price of around the $1000.00 level. The exact launch date has not been specified, but I would expect to see this happen by Q2 of 2014. NVIDIA however is reaching the roof of how much they can get out of this chipset. NVIDIA however can still release a dual GPU card for the 700 series. I am sure NVIDIA has even more surprises up their sleeves, but for now this is good news :-).

The proposed GTX 790 would be the first dual card in the 700 series and that will be a very interesting product from team green. The GTX 790 will not feature the full GK110 cores, but may instead have two 2496 CUDA cores with a total of 4992 CUDA cores. Some other tricky spec revelations are that the GTX 790 will not have a dual 384-bit interface, but will have 320 instead.

This will also equate to not having 2X 6GB of memory, but 2X 5GB for a combined total of 10GB. NVIDIA is making these changes to keep the card in the 300W TDP zone, which means cutting down a bit on performance. Hopefully the GTX 790 will be out by the end of February or early March and I for one will be anticipating seeing that beast in action. This should be a good year for gamers with NVIDIA and AMD going head to head to get you excited about their products as we “The Gamers” always benefit from their trials. Thanks for reading Tech Of Tomorrow. So what say you oh gamer and enthusiasts friends of mine, are you excited about this launch?

Source: VideoCardz.com

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black titan looks like more or less GTX 780 ti with 6GB DDR5 by the specs. am I right??
- Seth Hoke
  
  Yes, BUT its for devs. mostly, same as the Titan. Hence the price tag.
WhiteSkyMage

That is good news only for developers. For gamers – GTX 790 NOT WORTH the performance/money – You can get better performance for same price if you have 2 GTX 780Tis in SLI. Really I don’t see who will actually buy that GTX 790… Also, GTX 780Ti is enough good card to be gaming at 1080p and 1440p at ultra (for now).

The best news would be if Nvidia releases the specs for the first Maxwell cards so that rumors stop for next generation stop… However, I wonder if there will be 1440p 3D gaming monitors coming this year with Maxwell…I really want one! Do you as well Elric?
- Achaz Mowatt
  
  The new thing is 4k gaming. Some games already support 4k and the larger frame buffer on the GTX790 will be greatly beneficial to such high resolutions.
- Serpent of Darkness
  
  The only benefits I can see from a GTX 790 is the SLI Scaling will be “a little bit” better than 2-way SLI GTX 780 Ti to 1 4k monitor or TV, and the +2 GBs VRam increase. The bigger framebuffer would only be ideal if you’re running 1 4K monitor to 1 GTX 790 at higher settings, and the 2nd GPU will scale better with the 4K resolution. Ya you can run a 4K monitors, 1 monitor to 1 GTX 780 Ti, but I bet the performance isn’t as great as the AMD R9-290x in the same situation. If you compare a CrossFireX 290x to 1 4k monitor, the scaling on the 290x is 2x the FPS in most cases. The AMD solution scales a lot better at 4K. Compare it with a 2way SLI GTX 780 Ti to 1 4K monitor, and the scaling becomes less then 2x, and that is probably going to be the hidden perk of having a GTX 790 for another premium price. Also, take into account, the Hawaii GPU isn’t a fully-open “Hawaii GPU.” It actually has 10% of it’s SP off. It wouldn’t surprise me if AMD has a R9-290x R2 cards come out with the full 3072 SP cores running with the crappy air-cool heatsink. That and you know Vesuvius (2816 SP x2 R9-290x Graphic Card) won’t be held back on the Streaming Processor Count–still using that crappy air-cooled heatsink. Vesuvius will be the successor to the AMD 7990 unless NVidia comes out with a full 2886×2 at what, 700 MHz, dual-graphic card…
  - WhiteSkyMage
    
    One of the reasons I didn’t want to buy an AMD GPU is cuz I know they will lock cores and I want full unlocked – crippled cards – NO TY! It’s another reason I thought about getting the GTX780Ti and not the GTX 780, is cuz it has the full GK110, whereas GTX 780 is crippled just like R9-290x. Also look at the price tag for a 4K monitor. I would rather demand strongly for a 1440p 3D monitor (since I love 3D gaming) and buy one rather than 4K…$2k for a 4K monitor is just high, I know it’s new but really, it’s just too high, I would wait for the price to go down…I heard about that $750 4K one from Asus, but who would play without G-Sync? And I guess it’s a crappy one as well whereas I want the best quality one.
    
    So, in the end, I found out that Kepler will not in anyway be able to keep 60FPS on every single game including ACIV BF at 3D vision 2 ON at 1440p resolution, so I decided to keep waiting for Maxwell. I don’t expect Maxwell to manage either, but at least I will be in the range of 40-60 FPS in most demanding games. Asus has started designing 1440p gaming monitors at 120Hz, so I expect a 3D one soon.
    Also you were talking about SLI and Crossfire X, so really to tell you, I don’t like it. It will hardly offer me x2 the performance of a single GPU without giving it the temps it wants and probably OC it. And with those blower fans there will be just horrible temperatures inside my case even if I have huge airflow through it as I am planning to. If I go for SLI, I would rather get a full custom water cooling loop and be sure that temperatures are OK. But really, I am not as experienced builder so I don’t wanna risk – I know people have gotten their systems screwed by leaks, so really water cooling isn’t for me at the moment. I would simply put a closed loop for my CPU (Haswell-E 8-core) and leave a big airflow through my case for my single GPU and everything else.
- greenguy
  
  What if the person only has 1 GPU slot on their motherboard and want more power.
fergus

if any one feels like giving me $1000+ I would be raving about this but sadly that’s unlikely to happen so mild curiosity is where I’m at….
Jason Brody

hmm.. I have :

i7 4770k
Asus Maximus VI Formula G.skill Sniper 8 gigs
Asus Geforce Gtx 780 Ti
Corsair Tx650 v2 psu
NZXT Kraklin x60
NZXT Phantom 820 case
Seagate 250 gigs HHD
Samsung 840 Evo 120 gigs SSH

I am gaming at 1600p and playing crysis 3 with 40-70 fps and happy with it .
I don’t really think of getting the Gtx 790 unless there will be 1660p 3D gaming.
- JasonBRody
  
  will ULTRA setting min 35 fps max 72 fps
  Also love FARCRY 3 min 45 fps – max 90 fps .
  - JasonBrody.
    
    with*
    - JasonBRody
      
      and SSD
      - WHATAREYOUDRINKING
        
        Ok enough stroking your dik. Nobody cares about your bragging
Dani Ansari

Absolutely a BEAST
Bogdan Caramalac

Waiting for this one just to get 690 cheaper.