NVIDIA Announces Titan RTX: Business Up Front, Party in Back!

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Today, NVIDIA has announced its latest release using the Turing architecture with its Titan RTX. This follows the heels of the Quadro RTX that was announced in August. NVIDIA positions the card more for the prosumer than a consumer/gaming card but will still manage to be the fastest card that doesn’t use the Quadro naming (and a lot more expensive). The Titan RTX will cost $2499 and will be available later this month.

If we take a look at the specifications, the Titan RTX looks like like a combination of RTX 2080 Ti, and RTX 6000 from the Quadro line. The new GPU is based on the TU102 GPU (same as 2080 Ti), but uses the full implementation of the silicon whereas the 2080 Ti is the cut down version.

Titan RTX Specifications
	Titan RTX	RTX 2080 Ti FE	Titan V
CUDA Cores	4608	4352	5120
Tensor Cores	576	544	640
RT Cores	36	36	N/A
GPU Base Clock	1350MHz		1200MHz
GPU Boost Clock	1770MHz	1635MHz	1455MHz
VRAM	24GB	11GB	12GB
Memory Interface	384-bit	352-bit	3072-bit
Memory Clock (Data Rate)	14Gbps GDDR6		1.7Gbps HBM2
Memory Bandwidth	672GB/s	616GB/s	653GB/s
Singe Precision	16.3 TFLOPS	14.2 TFLOPS	13.8 TFLOPS
Double Precision	0.51 TFLOPS	0.44 TFLOPS	6.9 TFLOPS
Tensor Performance (FP16 w/FP32 accel.)	130 TFLOPS	57 TFLOPS	110 TFLOPS
Transistor Count	18.6B		21.1B
L2 Cache Size	6MB	5.5MB	4.5MB
TDP (Watts)	280W	260W	250W
Price	$2499	$1199	$2999

One of the major differences between the 2080 Ti and the Titan RTX (outside of its gold “make no mistake about it” color scheme) is the memory capacity, a whopping 24 GB, up from 11 GB on the 2080 Ti. The larger memory buffer will allow for much larger datasets for compute users and data scientists. For gamers, much of it would be left unused.

The tensor cores are the meat and potatoes of these cards which rides its success from the AI and neural networking areas with the Geforce based cards having them, but limitations were put in place. In GF cards, using the FP16 mode, the Turing architecture is able to accumulate at FP32 for higher precision but is limited to half-speed throughput. That limitation is gone for the Titan RTX which is capable of FP32 accumulation throughput on its tensor cores.

The new Titan RTX, or T-Rex as NVIDIA adoringly calls it, will be available sometime this month.

Joe Shields (Earthdog)

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Alaric

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#1 Dec 03, 2018

Nice! Do you get to review one? I'm trying to imagine a guy in Taiwan shipping out $2500 VGAs for people to beat up and criticize. LOL

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Robert17

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#2 Dec 03, 2018

I'm trying to imagine only getting a dozen or so.....wait, uh, I mean sharing one with 10 of my closest friends.

#3 Dec 03, 2018

There's an idea, ED. You could lease review samples on a monthly, rotating basis for OCF members. Where do I sign up? :clap:

EarthDog

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#4 Dec 03, 2018

NOt sure. I have reached out to NVIDIA, but, we don't really have the proper testing for it... It would just be games... which, this isn't really for gamers (but it can be used without worry as its on the Geforce driver stack).

Culbrelai

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#5 Dec 03, 2018

Oh man I’m laughing extra hard at all of the morons who claimed the 2080ti is as overpriced as it is because it replaced the Titan.

AMD we neeeeed youuuuu!

#6 Dec 03, 2018

I would be upset too if it was cheaper than the previous generation Titan (Titan V - $3K) and performed better (outside of Double Precision) than it. Though DP is just borked here, but as I am reading, it doesn't seem that much will utilize it in the prosumer space (some physics calcs etc...) and those that can, are likely enterprise and better served with Quadros and their support anyway.

The tensor and RT cores just take things to a different level and have affected pricing. That and nothing in the high-end space from AMD

Scu84St3v3420

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#7 Dec 04, 2018

I would be upset too if it was cheaper than the previous generation Titan (Titan V - $3K) and performed better (outside of Double Precision) than it. Though DP is just borked here, but as I am reading, it doesn't seem that much will utilize it in the prosumer space (some physics calcs etc...) and those that can, are likely enterprise and better served with Quadros and their support anyway.
The tensor and RT cores just take things to a different level and have affected pricing. That and nothing in the high-end space from AMD

I hope AMD is able to step to the plate this round of GPUs, particularly in the high-end landscape. I currently can't justify purchasing a 2080Ti as there are no other comparisons from AMD and they are sure to be releasing new products with in the next year and with the benefit of already knowing what the competition has to bring to the table for probably the next 2+ years. The RTX Titan's existence does make me laugh a little, as many claimed the 2080Ti's high price was due to it replacing the Titan series cards this round.

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