Last year, Nvidia hoped to change the graphics card game when it released the GTX Titan, a high-performance, energy efficient card. Now, Nvidia is looking to iterate on that innovation, and has released an new model of the Titan, the GTX Titan Black.
When the Titan first launched last year, it wasn’t Nvidia’s most powerful single-GPU (GK110) card. It ranked high on the food chain, but what it really provided was all that power in an energy efficient solution. Back in November, Nvidia released the GTX 780 Ti, which didn’t exactly smoke the original Titan, but became a better solution for gaming, while the original Titan remained a better solution for general computing. This time around, the Titan Black doesn’t leave gaming for the GTX 780 Ti, as it can not only hold its own in the field, but outperforms the 780 Ti at general computing, making it a top-tier solution.
The differences between the Titan Black and original Titan are mostly iterative — such is the hardware game — but the upgrades do enough to push the Black over the 780 Ti. This time around there are 200 more CUDA cores, totaling 2880, 16 more texture units totaling 240, and the core clock has been bumped 52MHz to 889MHz, and the 6GB of GDDR5 memory is locked at a full 7GHz, up 1GHz from the original card. The Titan Black also sports an HDMI out, two dual-link DVI ports, and a single DisplayPort 1.2 connector. The Titan Black is basically the 780 Ti, but with 6GB of RAM.
If you’d like to stuff one or two in your rig, there’s good news and bad news. A single Titan Black runs $999 — cheaper than buying a PS4 along with an Xbox One — but the new card remains the same price as the original $999 Titan. However, the intriguing question is not if the new card is powerful, but if Nvidia’s other offerings won’t get the job done for a much more affordable price.
If you’re building a gaming rig, Nvidia’s new 750 Ti performs quite well for the price — just $150 — as does AMD’s Radeon R9 270 for just $260. Of course, those cards are not nearly as powerful as the Titan Black, but if you’re looking for something that can handle popular games on the highest settings, the Titan Black would be overkill. However, overkill is part of the fun when building a powerful rig, and boutique PC builders — such as Origin — have already committed to using the Titan Black in their new, insanely powerful rigs. If you’re on the fence about the Titan Black, though, the high-end versions of the GTX 750 Ti are just over the horizon, and it’s safe to assume the those will outperform the Titan Black (at least on the gaming front) just as the GTX 780 Ti outperformed the Titan.
When the Titan first launched last year, it wasn’t Nvidia’s most powerful single-GPU (GK110) card. It ranked high on the food chain, but what it really provided was all that power in an energy efficient solution. Back in November, Nvidia released the GTX 780 Ti, which didn’t exactly smoke the original Titan, but became a better solution for gaming, while the original Titan remained a better solution for general computing. This time around, the Titan Black doesn’t leave gaming for the GTX 780 Ti, as it can not only hold its own in the field, but outperforms the 780 Ti at general computing, making it a top-tier solution.
The differences between the Titan Black and original Titan are mostly iterative — such is the hardware game — but the upgrades do enough to push the Black over the 780 Ti. This time around there are 200 more CUDA cores, totaling 2880, 16 more texture units totaling 240, and the core clock has been bumped 52MHz to 889MHz, and the 6GB of GDDR5 memory is locked at a full 7GHz, up 1GHz from the original card. The Titan Black also sports an HDMI out, two dual-link DVI ports, and a single DisplayPort 1.2 connector. The Titan Black is basically the 780 Ti, but with 6GB of RAM.
If you’d like to stuff one or two in your rig, there’s good news and bad news. A single Titan Black runs $999 — cheaper than buying a PS4 along with an Xbox One — but the new card remains the same price as the original $999 Titan. However, the intriguing question is not if the new card is powerful, but if Nvidia’s other offerings won’t get the job done for a much more affordable price.
If you’re building a gaming rig, Nvidia’s new 750 Ti performs quite well for the price — just $150 — as does AMD’s Radeon R9 270 for just $260. Of course, those cards are not nearly as powerful as the Titan Black, but if you’re looking for something that can handle popular games on the highest settings, the Titan Black would be overkill. However, overkill is part of the fun when building a powerful rig, and boutique PC builders — such as Origin — have already committed to using the Titan Black in their new, insanely powerful rigs. If you’re on the fence about the Titan Black, though, the high-end versions of the GTX 750 Ti are just over the horizon, and it’s safe to assume the those will outperform the Titan Black (at least on the gaming front) just as the GTX 780 Ti outperformed the Titan.
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