NVIDIA Announces Titan V Super GPU
The V is for Volta
Today at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NVidia CEO Jensen Huang announced the availability of Titan V, NVIDIA’s latest, most powerful GPU. TITAN V is an absolute beast when it comes to technical specifications, pushing 110 teraflops of raw horsepower through its 21.1 billion transistors, making it nine times more powerful than the previous generation Pascal GPU’s peak performance. Consumers with three thousand dollars US dollars to spare can actually purchase a Titan V directly from NVidia right now, meaning that NVIDIA does indeed have a new GPU ready for consumers this Christmas, even if the consumers happen to be limited to those with gigantic wallets. Fabricated on a new TSMC 12-nanometer FFN high-performance manufacturing process customized for NVIDIA, TITAN V also incorporates Voltas highly tuned 12GB HBM2 memory subsystem for advanced memory bandwidth utilization.
Our vision for Volta was to push the outer limits of high performance computing and AI. We broke new ground with its new processor architecture, instructions, numerical formats, memory architecture and processor links, said Huang. With TITAN V, we are putting Volta into the hands of researchers and scientists all over the world. I cant wait to see their breakthrough discoveries.”
Volta has been anticipated for quite some time and I am glad that NVIDIA has chosen to finally release it to the public. With the introduction of Volta to the high end consumer market, now, it’s only a matter of time before the technology trickles down and we see new consumer cards from NVIDIA featuring Volta. In reality, it’s the lack of competition from AMD that has let NVIDIA sit on the Volta architecture this long and ride on Pascal. With Titan V available, NVIDIA is set to widen the performance gap with their competition by an even wider margin.
Do you have the $3,000 budget to get a Titan V and want to have bragging rights to the most powerful GPU on the market? Let us know what you think about Titan V and its $3,000 price point. It’s like they say, if you wanna be the boss, you gotta pay the cost.