There really isn’t anything overly exciting about this card, it’s still based off GK110 architecture like the standard Titan but his time it is fully enabled, unlocking all 15 SMX units for a total of 2,880 CUDA cores.

On paper the GTX Titan Black looks and should perform very similar to the GTX 780 Ti as far as gaming goes but the 6GB of RAM makes it more appealing to developers and those using it for workstation based tasks. It comes clocked at 889 MHz with a boost of 980 MHz, 384-bit memory interface, an effective memory speed of 7.0 GHz and a total TDP of 250W.

One interesting note though is that contrary to initial rumors and some leaked images, the Titan Black isn’t actually black. The housing still boasts the same silver design as the standard Titan but now only says Titan instead of GTX Titan and used black lettering to distinguish itself. This is set to retail for $999 and should be available very soon. What do you guys think of it’s release? Does the 6GB sound appealing to anyone? Let us know in the comments section below.

Source: Tom’s Hardware

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So for $800, how does a pair of GTX 770s stack up in SLI? Kick back, relex and enjoy the video review after the break, or if you’re on a limited bandwidth connection, we also have the benchmark charts included for your convenience.

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GTX 770 2-Way SLI Performance Charts

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Many gamers speculated that the new GTX 780 was what the GTX 680 was actually supposed to be and that NVIDIA may have held back due to AMD’s lack of competition, which in that past kept NVIDIA’s hand on the wheel 24/7, but as of late AMD has competed more with gaming bundles than outright performance and this has given NVIDIA a chance to breathe and rethink strategy. Regardless of rumor or speculation though, NVIDIA now comes back to the table with a product that I must say impressed the hell out of my team and myself.  NVIDIA must really want to put the squeeze on AMD this quarter and this card will do just that.

With the GeForce GTX 690 and Titan at priced around a $1,000.00 a piece, that leaves a huge consumer base hanging out to dry because many gamers, flat out cannot afford those cards even if they ate Top Ramen for a month and because of that, it leaves a large gap between the GTX 680 and the afore mentioned cards. The GTX 780, which looks to solve that problem, is priced at $649.99 which although is higher priced than the standard GTX 680, is still more affordable than its big brother cards and places it right smack dab in the middle of the high-end graphics cards market from NVIDIA.  I know that lots of fans worldwide are looking forward to this launch, so lets jump in and see what the card is all about and how it fares against the competition from both AMD and NVIDIA themselves. NVIDIA wants the user to feel like not only are they buying a video card, but they are also buying the entire NVIDIA gaming experience from automatic smart overclocking via GPU Boost 2.0 and also not only keep their drivers up to date, but also get the most out of their games through their refreshed NVIDIA Experience.

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NVIDIA’s new Titan is the Crème De La Crème of single card solutions and the only drawback to getting one is the fact you have to sell a kidney just to afford one. AMD’s current king of the ring is the HD 7970 GHz 6GB Edition, which is priced at around $600.00 US and priced about $300.00 less than the Titan and that has to be taken into consideration in the end game. We used the Sapphire Toxic Edition HD 7970 GHz 6GB card that is one of the best cards in the 7970 lineup against the Titan, as they resembled each other the most as far as price and features are concerned. The only 7970 more expensive are the Ares II cards, which are near impossible to get now, as stock was low initially with a 1,000 piece limit.

Since I have built my Red Dawn Extreme system, we have been using it as our test bench and the Dual E5-2660 2.2GHz Xeon’s seem to actually cause a slight bottleneck in performance when compared to my i7 -3960 system which seems to get about 15 FPS more than the Red Dawn. Right now we are really just waiting for Haswell to come out before we switch test stations again and since we are running all the cards again on the Xeon system the scores will all be correct as far as comparison values go. I was surprised to see that the Xeons actually did cause a bottleneck, but the CPUs are geared more for the Workstation environment so its not mind blowing to see.  Some games like Far Cry 3 will not work with dual Xeons and give an error when trying to play the game. One thing of note though, the Sapphire 7970 card ran a lot cooler than the Titan under load and is the one area it wins.

You can perceive from the tests that the NVIDIA Titan does indeed beat the paint off the Sapphire Toxic Edition in every test across the board, but I really did not expect the results to be anything except what they were due to the Titan being new and the 7970 is aging. We ran all the tests a minimum of 3 times and then balanced the scores for accuracy, which although is very time oriented is still necessary. So far we have tested the Titan against the GTX 690, a pair of GTX 680s and now the HD 7970 Ghz Edition with only the GTX 690 being able to come up with a better score and then again that card being a dual GPU solution. NVIDIA keeps updating the drivers every few weeks with improvements in performance and we should see even more being squeezed out of it as they drivers further mature. At this point a driver will not make the HD 7970 GHz faster than the Titan, but next week we will see what a pair of GHz cards can do in another Head-to-Head battle versus the Titan and see where the scores are for that battle. In any case you can clearly see who the victor is in this round of tests and the winner is clearly the Titan. Thanks for reading and being a part of our audience. Like always your thoughts and comments matter so please let me hear them below.

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GTX Titan

• Core Clock - 876MHz
• Boost Clock – 928MHz
• Cuda Cores – 2,688
• Memory Clock – 6,008MHz (effective)
• Memory Size – 6GB
• Memory Interface – 384-bit

GTX 690

• Core Clock - 915MHz
• Boost Clock – 1,019MHz
• Cuda Cores – 3,072
• Memory Clock – 6,008MHz (effective)
• Memory Size – 4GB
• Memory Interface – 512-bit

 Gaming Benchmarks

3DMark Firestrike

Temperature

So as you can see, as expected the GTX 690 outperforms the GTX Titan in almost every single benchmark, except Crysis 3 which was a little strange but NVIDIA did claim a 30% performance increase with the latest Titan beta drivers, which shows optimization really is key. Let us know in the comments which video card you’d like to see head to head against the GTX Titan and we’ll leave you with a gallery to drool over!

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Resident Evil 6 initially wasn’t going to be part of our testing but while downloading NVIDIA’s latest Titan drivers, we saw that the benchmark was fairly new (released in February 2013) and while it’s only DX9, it’s a free download so you guys can download it as well and share your results with us or compare it to the GTX Titan. We’ll be testing Crysis 3, Battlefield 3, Batman Arkham City and much more over the weekend, comparing results of the GTX Titan against the GTX 690 in a head to head battle to determine exactly how fast NVIDIA’s new beast is. For now we leave you with a sneak peak with Resident Evil 6 comparisons at high settings on both 2560 x 1600 and 1920 x 1080 resolutions. If you missed the video, we’ll have the embedded right below the benchmark chart below. Enjoy!

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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.

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