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Based on their Pascal architecture, NVIDIA has announced their top-end GPU the 'TITAN Xp' and it's an absolute monster of a card. NVIDIA only announced their 1080 Ti back in March, so I was wondering if they would do another TITAN.
It has 3840 cuda cores with a memory speed of 11.4 Gbps and a massive 12 GB GDDR5X with an impressive memory bandwidth of 547.7 GB/s. It supports a max resolution of 7680x4320 at 60Hz, for those high definition display you're all hoarding.
You can find the full specification and more info here. It will cost a small fortune at £1,159.00 so you might want to sell a few limbs.
Would you be looking to buy one? I can only imagine the performance levels with something like that.
My 980ti is sounding a little old right now, but I still personally want to move to an AMD GPU to take advantage of the open source Mesa drivers. Still, I can't help feeling excited by how GPUs have progressed in recent years to be able to get a behemoth like this. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
It has 3840 cuda cores with a memory speed of 11.4 Gbps and a massive 12 GB GDDR5X with an impressive memory bandwidth of 547.7 GB/s. It supports a max resolution of 7680x4320 at 60Hz, for those high definition display you're all hoarding.
Would you be looking to buy one? I can only imagine the performance levels with something like that.
My 980ti is sounding a little old right now, but I still personally want to move to an AMD GPU to take advantage of the open source Mesa drivers. Still, I can't help feeling excited by how GPUs have progressed in recent years to be able to get a behemoth like this. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Quoting: inlinuxdudeQuoting: scaineI don't get who/what these cards are aimed at? This behemoth will likely retail for well over a grand, given that the plain 1080s are still around the £500-600 mark and the TI edition is £800-900. I mean, there's top-end gaming, and then there's just flushing money out the window!
IBM has worked with NVidia to incorporate their GPU's into high performance computing servers. This could well fit into some supercomputer type applications (and could also explain the initial limit of 2 per customer?)..
Cards used for that purpose are different.This is customer targeted.
2 per user limit exist because of the targeted audience is so small ; this card is probably manufactured very few. So there is a possibility that someone can buy all these limited edition cards and start blackmarketing with crazy prices to some enthusiastics.
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Quoting: inlinuxdudeQuoting: scaineI don't get who/what these cards are aimed at? This behemoth will likely retail for well over a grand, given that the plain 1080s are still around the £500-600 mark and the TI edition is £800-900. I mean, there's top-end gaming, and then there's just flushing money out the window!
IBM has worked with NVidia to incorporate their GPU's into high performance computing servers. This could well fit into some supercomputer type applications (and could also explain the initial limit of 2 per customer?)..
If your supercomputer connection is true, that suggests they would actually have to do good Linux drivers since most supercomputers run Linux.
Thinking of graphics and drivers in Linux . . . this is not directly gaming-related, but has anyone else noticed that Canonical is apparently dumping the Unity desktop and going back to Gnome? And so the thing is, that suggests to me that maybe they're dumping Mir as well, since Gnome are heavy into Wayland. And that would mean the absurd situation of the Linux desktop using two competing stacks for certain graphics stuff would be going away, and I think that would be good for Linux gaming.
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I'd like to support open-source and MESA but it's just impossible to ignore all these awesome GPUs full of performance that Nvidia is rolling out :P
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Quoting: meggermanQuoting: razing32How much you want to bet the lack of (proper) Linux drivers will bring it down like a rock tied to its neck
You made me login for this one, well done :P
The Nvidia Linux driver is a binary version of the windows 10 driver, bundled up for Linux. Any performance differences between windows and Linux on Nvidia is more down to the quality of the: OpenGL port, OpenGL itself, Middleware, Lack of developer investment/knowlage, Engine inefficiencies between platforms etc..
I doubt the Linux driver will "bring it down like a rock" because you can apply the same theory to the windows driver by that logic.
Well , my comment was a half joke at some driver issues with Nvidia on Linux.
But the following you mentioned : " OpenGL port, OpenGL itself, Middleware, Lack of developer investment/knowlage, Engine inefficiencies between platforms etc.." pretty much mean you can't milk this thing properly if the people making the games and tech behind them don't give you a good milking machine ;)
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ProfessorKaos64 Apr 6, 2017
I just got a GTX 1080 FTW :( lol it will power a lot.lf games for me for a while at nice visuals. Always something around the corner with GPUs.
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They probably put it out, to look better when Vega will come out. But it's hard for them to compete on price. I'm getting a Vega GPU as soon as kernel / Mesa will be in shape to support it. Seems like there will be a delay with that, because DC code wasn't merged yet.
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I'll take 2 and let it run in SLI ... *rofl* ... no way!
I wait for the Vega Cards, too - because I hope for a nice price cutting of the AMD rx480. :D
QuoteMy 980ti is sounding a little old right now, but I still personally want to move to an AMD GPU to take advantage of the open source Mesa drivers. Still, I can't help feeling excited by how GPUs have progressed in recent years to be able to get a behemoth like this.Wait for the Vega Cards. Nearly the same power for 1/2 the price of the NVidia-GPU (that's my expectation).
I wait for the Vega Cards, too - because I hope for a nice price cutting of the AMD rx480. :D
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Quoting: scaineI don't get who/what these cards are aimed at?
My old workplace (an engineering company) used to use a Titan for this modelling software they used. It required a really hard core PC. For them, installing the Titan cut their simulation time down by a matter of hours.
I remember putting that baby in there myself, knowing it was probably the closest I'm ever going to get to one :(
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Ive been toying with the idea of getting a 1070 or 1080 solely down to the drivers just working in most games on Linux. But I do want to continue to support AMD and I know open source is going to be better in the long run.
But seriously not interested by these Titans... Just money grabbing nonsense.
But seriously not interested by these Titans... Just money grabbing nonsense.
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