Nvidia Unleashes the Titan

A massive GPU that’ll be hard to find, and even harder to beat Today Nvidia is pulling the wraps off the GK110-based GeForce GTX Titan, a single-GPU card that is expected to easily capture the title of Baddest Ass GPU in the world when benchmarks are released this Thursday, February 21st. The Titan is Nvidia’s “Big Kepler” GPU, and has double the transistors and almost double the CUDA cores of the mid-range GK104 chip found in its flagship GeForce GTX 680 GPU. Though it runs at a lower clock speed in stock trim, it should still offer a sizable performance improvement over the already capable GTX 680. Behold the Titan, the Big Kepler GK110 GPU we've all been waiting for.  The GK110 has been in use for over a year in the super-computing world, most notably in the Tesla K20X GPUs used by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Titan supercomputer, which is currently the fastest super computer in the world. Though benchmarks for the Titan haven't been posted just yet, Nvidia tells us it should be neck-and-neck with the dual-GPU GeForce GTX 690, which is currently the fastest single card GPU in existence. In other words, the Titan should be almost fast as dual GTX 680s in SLI, but from a single GPU. Oh, and guess what? It's actually quieter than both of them, even under load (yes, we've heard it).  So let's talk specs. The GTX Titan features a whopping 2,688 CUDA cores in 14 SMX units, 6GB of GDDR5 memory running at 6GHz, a core clock speed of 836MHz with a boost