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January 31st, 2013

GeForce Titan 3DMark11 Performance Revealed

GeForce Titan 3DMark11 Performance Revealed geforce titan

It seems that the rumors about a new NVIDIA flagship model are true after all. The GeForce Titan should now be considered as the fastest Single-GPU graphics card ever made.

PCONLINE posted a screenshot of the 3DMark11 benchmark result. While the name of the card is not yet clear at the moment, since it’s hidden, we can clearly see that the performance shown on the allegedly valid picture are far beyond the range of all other consumer graphics cards currently on the market.

The GeForce Titan would apparently score X7107 points in 3DMark11 Extreme preset. Long story short, this is a new world record beaten by 600 points. In comparison to the GeForce GTX 680, Titan’s score is over double (GTX 680 has around X3300), it’s also faster than GTX 690 by 1300 points.

The question to be asked is: how is that possible? Is this card the real deal or are those pictures made up? First off, it’s possible, since the higher SMX count and wider bandwidth truly uncaps the performance of Kepler and allows the architecture to stretch its legs. It’s quite shocking that this cards beats SLI GTX 680s and even the $1000 GTX 690. However, I have no confirmation that this card even exists, there is a chance that this is not a real product. On the other hand, multiple sources (which leaked a few other cards weeks before the launch) are now quite certain that the development of this card is at the final stage.

As said in other reports, this new GeForce is not named after the 700 series. What this screenshot reveals though is that it will still use the GTX naming (since there’s a letter G). So there are a few possibilities: it’s a GeForce Titan, it’s GeForce GTX 685 or 695. That’s if the picture shows a finished product, not an engineering sample, then it could just be an error in card identification with 3DMark.

GeForce Titan, GeForce GTX Titan, GeForce GTX 685… Specification

The new flagship model from NVIDIA would be based on the iteration of the Kepler GK110 GPU. This would not be a full chip, since it has been said it will be missing one SMX cluster (192 CUDA Cores), which makes Titan a 2688 core powered card. The card is said to feature 6GB of GDDR5 memory, which would actually be clocked lower than current Kepler cards. There’s very little information about the actual clocks, but if what was said earlier is true, then we are expecting a 732 MHz clock (with no Boost Clock mentioned as of yet, but one should be expected as with all Kepler based GPUs). If the card is throwing numbers this strong at such low clock speeds, imagine what it will do when overclocked. Especially if the card can hit clock speeds similar to the rest of the Kepler family, with 1GHz Core clocks and 7GHz VRAM. However what will the temperatures be like and at what TDP?

  • Kepler GK110-XXX GPU with 2688 CUDA Cores (75% more than the 680)
  • 6GB GDDR5 memory
  • Core Clock: 732 MHz
  • Memory Clock: 5200 MHz
  • MSRP: 899 USD
 GeForce GTX 680GeForce GTX 690GeForce TITAN
GPCs488
SMXs81614
CUDA Cores 15363072 2688
Texture Units 128256224
ROPs 3264 48
Core Clock 1006 MHz915 MHz 732 MHz
Boost Clock 1058 MHz1019 MHz?
Memory Clock 6008 MHz6008 MHz 5200 MHz
Memory TypeGDDR5GDDR5GDDR5
Memory Bus Width 256-bit512-bit384-bit
Memory Bandwidth192 GB/s384 GB/s247 GB/s
Pixel Fillrate128 GT/s234 GT/s175 GT/s
Texture Fillrate32 GP/s58 GP/s35 GP/s
VRAM 2GB4 GB 6 GB
TDP 195 W300 W ?
Transistor Count 3.54 B7.08 B 7.1 B
Manufacturing Process TSMC 28nm TSMC 28nm TSMC 28nm
Launch Price $499$999 $899

According to multiple sources the Titan would arrive in late February for a price of $900.

So what you guys think about this card? Should we treat this post with a grain of salt or actually a bag of it?

PCONLINE via WCCFTech

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Edited By: Keith H

  • Kenchan

    Well if that’s true then the graphics world is about to get interesting

  • Shadow

    So… you can run four of these in SLI? (Not that you would need to.)

  • BestJinjo

    I am thinking to hit that score the card would need clocks far higher than 732mhz, at least 900mhz OC. Very impressive score if true. Hopefully this level of performance directly translates into games.

  • phobos

    100% fake

  • Louis-Charles Desjardins

    Maybe this card is coming but this 3Dmark score is fake there is no way it will be that poweful…

  • skr13

    I´ve done some search, using the usual methods and seems that this
    3Dmark 11 picture is real, if it is fake, the author did a fantastic
    job.

    Anyway, I´m confused, because don´t know where this card means to fit, it´s too good for a GTX 780.

    But in the other hand, looking at the score, is only a small performance
    improvement for a dual-gpu Kepler refresh, when compared with GTX 690.

    Maybe this time Nvidia decided to launch dual-gpu first, named as Titan.

  • Sena

    Yup, screen is not fake, i did some comparison.

  • HelloKitty

    You know someone will buy 4 just to run the benchies.

  • Jerome

    Samaritan Demo 3X GTX 580= 1x GTX 680!

  • Jerome

    What research have you done and why do you think that this photo is legit??

  • Jerome

    So the GK110 has twice the die size as the GK104? Even then there is no way it can be done at those clock speeds, I wonder how much total bandwidth this card can pump out at stock? The 7970 can do 288GB/s, Titan being twice as fast as the 690 I wonder could it be bandwidth starved?

  • BestJinjo

    3DMark11 spits out useless scores from time to time. Just compare GTX580 to GTX680. 3DMark 11 showed GTX680 beating 580 by something like 58% but in real world it’s only 35% faster. Also, GTX680 is faster than HD7970GE in 3DMark11 but it doesn’t at all translate into any real world gaming advantage:

    http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/graphics/display/gigabyte-geforce-gtx-680-super-overclock-windforce-5x_6.html#sect1

    In theory I don’t see how GK110 can be more than 2x faster than GTX680 SLI since in 3DMark11 the SLI scaling is actually very high. I am going to wait until gaming benchmarks.

  • BestJinjo

    How can you be certain it’s real? A stock GTX680 gets 3400 points. You would need to more than double all of its resources to reach a score of 7100 points:

    http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/graphics/display/evga-geforce-gtx-680-superclocked-signature-2_7.html#sect1

    A stock GTX680 uses 180-190W of power. How do you know that’s not GTX680 SLI Overclocked?

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  • skr13

    I say it seems like, I didn´t say I´m sure about it.
    I didn´t found any suspect detail, where usually edited pictures are susceptible. And of course web search helps to.
    Remember when I´ve found Obr fake picture about GK110 PCB some months ago?
    Yes, it can be a GTX 680 OC SLI, but why you think is not real, Nvidia had many time to prepare such powerfull card.

  • BestJinjo

    Because it doesn’t make logical sense. A 1058mhz GTX680 scores just X3400 points. So you need to more than double every GTX680′s resource to get > 7000 points. K20X is just a 2688 part at 732mhz with a 5.2Ghz GDDR5 and its TDP is already at 235W.

    Let’s assume it’s a full 15 SMX part. To double the shading power alone you need 2880 SPs @ 1130mhz vs. 1536 SPs @ 1058mhz on the 680. But then you run into an impossible scenario since to double memory bandwidth from 192GB/sec to 384GB/sec, you need GDDR5 8000mhz. There is no such memory. Even if leave the memory clocks completely alone, 2880 SPs @ 1130mhz is 65% more shading power than K20X with a 235W TDP. Unless NV is raising TDP to 300W and shipping this card with an Ares 2 style radiator, how do you propose they double the performance of a single GTX680 on the same 28nm node when the GTX680 itself already uses 180-186W of power?
    http://tpucdn.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_680/images/power_peak.gif

    To get a score of X7000 points, right now you’d need 2 heavily overclocked GTX680s that will use 400W of power together. Did NV somehow overcame the laws of physics and managed to get this level of performance in a 250W TDP envelope on the same node? I don’t believe it. If the rumored said the Titan is a dual GK114 part, then I’d believe it.

  • skr13

    I don´t believe either in the scenario that you describe above, full 15 SMX units(2880SP) @ 1130 MHz. That will murder the sales, because consumers are more power consumption conscienced, the card would run to hot, and maybe only a liquid cooling solution could solve.

    But if you read my 1st post, I put the hypothesis that Titan may be just a dual-gpu card with a small margin of performance increase over GTX 690, and that is the more plausible option.

    I never affirmed that the score is from a single card…LOL

    But looking at the number X7107 is “easy” for SLI setup but almost impossible to imagine a Single GPU score that high, meeting a reasonable TDP, in 28nm process.

    I believe GTX 780 will be just a small increase over GTX 680, like happened with GTX 580 vs GTX 480, that´s more logical, but also raise the GPGPU performance vs GTX 600.

    And maybe later they will launch a GTX 785… remember GTX 8800 series?

    If you look at Intel Haswell preliminary CPU scores, you will see that computer technology innovation tendency is to decrease(ignoring iGPU increase over Ivy), and in graphics card sector I think is the same.

    GTX 700 and HD 8000 is expected to be just a small refresh from actual series.

  • dump_my_oo

    Yeah, Tri-Way SLI 680 to be exact.

  • Sena

    I was thinking about photoshop things, image is not edited.

  • BestJinjo

    Ya, I never said GK110 would launch at 2880 SPs @ 1130mhz. That’s just me doing some math to figure out how a single GPU Titan can possibly hit X7100 score. Anyway, the slide is proven to be fake. It was done with an overclocked GTX690:

    http://i.imgur.com/oGPVPHY.jpg

  • BestJinjo

    Ya you are 100% correct :)

    Just like the person with the X7100 score used a GTX690 OC and then covered it up in paint.

    http://i.imgur.com/oGPVPHY.jpg

  • skr13

    Yeah, after some seconds looking at the picture, I saw the 690 ;). Thanks for sharing!
    My guess is February will be another “hot” month full of rumors about next Gen cards.

  • BestJinjo

    February 20th, supposedly Sony will reveal some details regarding PS4. I am way more excited about that because the GPU/hardware power in PS4/Xbox 720 will dictate the growth of PC gaming graphics far more than any single videocard on the PC launching in 2013. I have my fingers cross that PS4 will have a slightly downclocked HD7970M with 2GB of GDDR5 (HD7870). That would be welcome news after all the underwhelming rumors of next gen consoles using an APU with HD6670/HD7670 level GPU.

  • Tyler Wakeland

    phobos is a 100% a clown..

  • Tyler Wakeland

    single card? what are you clocks? 2gb or the 4gb? I bet 2gb cause 4gb is dogshit for overclocking

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