GTX Titan Black Launched, but is it even relevant?

[WYP]

Today Nvidia has just announce and released the GTX Titan Black, the new flagship for Nvidia's single core consumer GPUs... or is it?

The Titan Black is hardly anything new, it is essentially a GTX 780Ti with additionnal computational features unlocked and an extremely large 6GB frame buffer.

While this sounds good, with Nvidia claiming that the Titan Black is the "Ultimate Weapon for the Gamer" it doesn't really offer any benefits over the 780Ti, unless you can use an extra 3GB of VRAM.

The Titan Black is better for users who do computational work on their PC's, more specifically work requiring FP64 performance, a place where the Titan cards destroy other Nvidia cards when it comes to performance.

Games do not benefit from the extra 64-Bit performance of the Titans, which makes the Titan cards better suited to a workstation card more-so than a gaming card.

In conclusion, the Titan Black is a mixed bag, for those who buy it to access its 960 double precision (FP64) CUDA cores it is good value, if you don't know what a double precision CUDA core is, a 780Ti is a better choice.

The Titan Black comes to us here in the UK at the price of £785 (price from Scan.co.uk).

Source - Nvidia

 

[Zoot]

The only review of it I can find up as of now is this one:
http://uk.hardware.info/reviews/5231/nvidia-geforce-gtx-titan-black-4-way-sli-review

It gets a big meh from me as regards its performance. I'd still take one if I got it for nothing though. ^_^

 

[Mysterae]

I guess this answers my question on if there was ever going to be a 6GB 780ti.

Too expensive Nvidia, too expensive. Should be £650 to £700 max, and I see the usual inflated prices at overgougers.co.uk. Will probably still sell at those prices too.

I'd be more interested in a review by Tom of this card than the 750ti . What does it truly provide in games over the 780ti?

 

[WillSK]

I guess this answers my question on if there was ever going to be a 6GB 780ti.

Too expensive Nvidia, too expensive. Should be £650 to £700 max, and I see the usual inflated prices at overgougers.co.uk. Will probably still sell at those prices too.

I'd be more interested in a review by Tom of this card than the 750ti . What does it truly provide in games over the 780ti?

I think we've all agreed in older threads that this is far more of a computing/benchers card than a gamers choice. Why anyone would choose this over a 780Ti seems silly for me unless money really is no object

 

[WYP]

I'd be more interested in a review by Tom of this card than the 750ti . What does it truly provide in games over the 780ti?

I'm afraid i disagree with you there, i find the 750Ti review much more interesting.

The 750Ti is a taste of things to come, The Titan Black is the same old story as the 780 Titan story of last year with the words Ti and Black added.

 

[SieB]

This card offers nothing over the 780Ti apart from more Vram and more compute power. For gaming it it pointless over a normal 780Ti, for something where the extra Vram and Compute power is needed then it is worth it.

 

[Mysterae]

I'm afraid i disagree with you there, i find the 750Ti review much more interesting.

The 750Ti is a taste of things to come, The Titan Black is the same old story as the 780 Titan story of last year with the words Ti and Black added.

I know what you mean and I agree to an extent. My view was a purely selfish one - I'm very unlikely to buy a 750ti, but a Titan Black....perhaps if the price were to come to down, but even then the 780ti is the better bet. However, six months or more the higher end stuff comes out again and the waters muddy.

 

[Edge]

Can't wait to see some Titan vs 780Ti vs Titan Black benchmarks at 4k res. Is the memory bandwidth any better than the 780Ti to actually get use out of the 6GB in a gaming environment?

 

[Boonstick]

Found this if anyones interested.

http://uk.hardware.info/reviews/5231/nvidia-geforce-gtx-titan-black-4-way-sli-review

 

[Shaw]

Dat e-peen.

 

[Kaapstad]

I know what you mean and I agree to an extent. My view was a purely selfish one - I'm very unlikely to buy a 750ti, but a Titan Black....perhaps if the price were to come to down, but even then the 780ti is the better bet. However, six months or more the higher end stuff comes out again and the waters muddy.

You should never consider a card like the Titan or Titan black if you are looking for a single card.

The whole point of these cards in a gaming context is to use them in 3 or 4 way setups at very high resolutions to use that 6gb of vram.

If you want a single card grab a 780ti.

Can't wait to see some Titan vs 780Ti vs Titan Black benchmarks at 4k res. Is the memory bandwidth any better than the 780Ti to actually get use out of the 6GB in a gaming environment?

If they do it properly (not likely) with 4 way sli, the 780ti will get thrashed in some of the games (maxed) where it will run out of vram.

One of the guys on another forum measured Crysis 3 maxed @4k using 4.6gb of VRAM.

 

[VerocityRequiem]

As the saying goes: Fool me once shame on you! Fool me twice shame on me..

Anyone who buys this Card for gaming is really stupid or they have to much money and are petty enough to want it for bragging rights.. that's just my opinion.

Especially since TITAN owners pretty much got completely scammed when Nvidia brang out the GTX 780 and then followed by the GTX 780T a few months later. The only time you'd want a Titan as a gaming option is if you want a Single Card solution that can output Resolution greater than 1440p+

I expect that it will be the same story with the Titan Black, people will buy it then Nvidia will probably release the GTX 800 series in August-September and there'll be lots of people wishing they'd have contained themselves an saved themselves the money if only they could have waited until then. I know no one knows for sure when the GTX 800 series is being released but my bet is it' be it's going to be Q3 2014.

Also I would expect some form of Big Maxwell announcements at GTC in 4 weeks time.

 

[Kaapstad]

As the saying goes: Fool me once shame on you! Fool me twice shame on me..

Anyone who buys this Card for gaming is really stupid or they have to much money and are petty enough to want it for bragging rights.. that's just my opinion.

Especially since TITAN owners pretty much got completely scammed when Nvidia brang out the GTX 780 and then followed by the GTX 780T a few months later. The only time you'd want a Titan as a gaming option is if you want a Single Card solution that can output Resolution greater than 1440p+

I expect that it will be the same story with the Titan Black, people will buy it then Nvidia will probably release the GTX 800 series in August-September and there'll be lots of people wishing they'd have contained themselves an saved themselves the money if only they could have waited until then. I know no one knows for sure when the GTX 800 series is being released but my bet is it' be it's going to be Q3 2014.

Also I would expect some form of Big Maxwell announcements at GTC in 4 weeks time.

You only buy Titans if you are going to use them at high resolutions and 3 or 4 together so you can max the settings and actually use the 6gb of vram.

If someone buys a single Titan for gaming then I think they are very unwise as there are better faster options available.

If someone bought the Titan a year ago and play at high resolution with several of them they will get their moneys worth out of them as the cards will still be going strong long after the 780ti's and 290Xs are history. When using 4K with max settings even the 4gb on the 290X is not enough in a few games now let alone in a years time.

Having said that, single Titan @1080p = very bad value.

 

[cooperman]

Apparently paying $200 more than a GTX 780TI gets you 2fps so...

 

[Seb.F]

As a standalone card I can see the attraction of the Ti, but for watercooling setups, get a normal Titan for god's sake!

The 780Ti/Titan Black are voltage locked, wheras the 780/Titan are NOT.

I run my Titans at almost 1300MHz @ 1.28v all day long, gaming temps never above 50-55 degrees underwater. Why would I want a voltage locked 1.212v Titan Black that sure clock for clock might be a little better but it will hit a wall as soon as you think of moving to water.