Nvidia Unleashes Titan: GeForce GTX Graphics Cards Formally Launched

From X-bit Labs: Nvidia Corp. on Tuesday formally introduced its long-awaited GeForce GTX Titan graphics card, which combines the power of the supercomputing GK110 GPU with 6GB of ultra-fast memory to enable the highest-performing single-chip graphics solution ever developed. The graphics card will be extremely rare and extremely expensive member of the Kepler family and will shortly become the desire of performance enthusiasts worldwide.

"GeForce GTX Titan is a beast of a GPU – and the only one in the world powerful enough to play any game at any resolution at any time. And yet, all of this immense power is housed in a sleek, sexy design, so gamers can also build beautifully-designed PC gaming machines about the size of a gaming console, yet magnitudes more powerful and always upgradeable," said Scott Herkelman, general manager of the GeForce business unit at Nvidia.

The GeForce GTX Titan does not belong to any formal product series since it will a limited edition product that will be in many ways unique since it is based on the chip designed with high-performance computing, not just graphics in mind.

The GeForce GTX Titan is powered by Nvidia GK110 processor containing 7.1 billion of transistors. The chip has active 2688 stream processors, 224 texture units, 48 raster operating as well as 384-bit memory bus. The monstrous graphics processor is clocked at 837MHz and can boost its speed to 876MHz, which is a result of the extremely high number of transistors. The graphics card comes with 6GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 6GHz.

Up to three Titans can be installed into one personal computer to extreme graphics performance thanks to 3-way SLI multi-GPU technology. According to Nvidia, systems powered by GeForce GTX Titan generally deliver 30% - 40% higher graphics performance compared to similar PCs powered by AMD Radeon HD 7970 or GeForce GTX 680, respectively. Nvidia’s own benchmarks also imply that 3-way GeForce GTX Titan-based gaming systems deliver equal or better performance than two GeForce GTX 690 graphics cards in 4-way SLI (quad-SLI) mode.

Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan graphics card not only sports the world’s fastest graphics processor, but is also features an array of innovative technologies complemented by sleek materials that contribute to the exotic design of the card, including a high-quality exterior aluminum frame and high efficiency vapor chamber cooling. According to Nvidia, GeForce GTX Titan has thermal design power of 250W, which means quite moderate power consumption by today’s standards.

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