Nvidia Announces Titan Xp Graphics Card (opens in new tab)

They should really stick with their standard naming convention and just call it a 1090 or a 1080 Titan or something - all the information is there, you know what generation it's from and you know where it stands in the product lineup. No confusing "which Titan X do you mean".

Even more confusing: In the picture the shroud is labeled "TITAN X".

They should have gone with the great Apple/Nintendo naming convention of "The New Titan X"

They were probably thinking next year, they can call the new one Titan XPP. Historically, their naming conventions for GeForce cards haven't been super consistent either.

Well, at least it's somewhat better than the iPad.

"Here's the new iPad. It's newer than the old one, but good luck trying to tell the difference. So to clear things up, we've named it the "iPad". You can thank us later.".

I have been evaluating buying a 1080Ti recently; it appears to also have the highest cores per $. Is the 1080Ti really then the most efficient card for general purpose HPC work on Linux (numerics)? The 1080 is a step down but also competitively priced. Curious about your thoughts, as I couldn't find a guide on this stuff on the web.

edit: The Tesla K20 is also in competition in my view (despite the much higher cost) due to its focus on higher double-precision performance.

they don't call it the bleeding edge for nothing.

I may be totally wrong here, but from what I remember the Titan line handles up to double precision floats whereas the gtx line handles only single? Games don't really need the double precision so it's overkill for gtx. Can anyone confirm?

Yeah, I kinda hoped the next Titan will have decent FP16 performance...

On the other hand, video cards meant for games generally can't take sustained load. By that I mean you can't run them at 90-100% load for days on end in e.g. a render farm, they invariably melt. You're paying for better build quality and for having enough money for a render farm.

> for instance, on a Mac system via an eGPU setup

This is one of my biggest feature requests for Apple. I want a tiny little laptop with an integrated GPU when I'm on the road. But when I'm home I also want to be able to run simulations, play games on a big screen & do VR. And for that I want a desktop class GPU when I'm at home. And I want that GPU to be upgradable - CPU speed isn't improving anywhere near as fast as GPU speed, so it makes sense to keep the rest of my system across multiple GPU generations.

The laptops are already there. The RAM fiasco aside, the current laptops are fine little machines. And with thunderbolt 3 they should have no problem supporting external GPUs.

All thats missing is an official apple egpu enclosure and software support! People on the internet have already gotten them working via injecting kexts into the kernel. But first party support would make the whole thing way better, and way more stable. C'mon apple! We're so close! Take my money!

This is great. Hackintosh builds using the GTX 1080 will be fairly powerful now.

That's the real news. Just yesterday we were lamenting the lack of drivers for newer cards from Nvidia. Good times for Hackintoshes all around!

Finally! This is fantastic news and the first real indication in ~10 months that the 1000/Pascal line will even be functional on a Mac. This is going to make a lot of people very happy.

I'm thinking of MBPs with nvidia. I'm guessing Vega only comes in big configurations and there won't be a smaller version suitable for notebooks. Mobile Polaris is non-competitive with Pascal on notebooks. Hope this is the case.

In terms of architecture and features the 1080ti and Titan Xp are the same, the only difference is the Titan Xp is slightly faster and has 1GB extra VRAM.

If your workload can be efficiently split between multiple cards then a $1400 pair of 1080tis will vastly outperform a $1200 Titan Xp - 16% more money for nearly double the throughput.

just a meta showerthought;

I was about to ask "What is it we expect from GPU companies in the next ten years? Why/how will they dominate computing/innovate in ways that we care/compute?"

you answered my question. I think now is the time to invest in Nvidia and any other GPU manufacturer as the ML/DL/AI field is on the precipice to explode computing in the next 15 years. (15 years happens much faster than you might think)

"double precision performance" and "industrial-grade drivers" are two reasons. I think it depends on what exactly you are doing.

The problem is that they also need to distinguish it from the higher memory and much more expensive Quadro line. For instance, the new Quadro P6000 comes with 24GB and it'll run you $5500.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1681413...

If you're doing memory intensive stuff, NVIDIA wants you to spend a whole lot more.

Wow. These graph cards have more memory than my machine.

But what Mac are you going to put it in...?

It doesn't. AMD only has low & mid-range cards ATM. Vega is supposed to be released in the first half of 2017, and working silicon has already been demoed, so it does look likely. Rumours have it at 12TFlops, so should be comparable to this card.

It will more than likely demolish it in terms of raw performance; however, AMD's most recent cards are aimed at being more budget-friendly. An RX 480 will only set you back about $200-250 (compared with this $1200 beast of a card). You'll get more "bang for your buck" by going with an AMD card as opposed to a top-of-the-line model such as this one. That may change later this year when AMD releases their Vega architecture, as it's rumored to aim more at the high-end market (which is currently dominated by Nvidia).

AMD's card are much better supported by free drivers. If you plan to use a modern distribution as a desktop, I strongly recommend going with AMD.

Sorry I might not understand what you are saying.

You're in the game and look at a house, then you turn around an look at a tree, so you need the geometry and texture of the tree, but no longer of the house. Then you look down and a chicken walks into frame, so you now need that, you kill the chicken and suddenly need the dying chicken animation etc.

Almost never you need all data for a single frame. That would be way too much work for the render pipeline anyway.

The Titan X was never intended exclusively for gamers. Do not forget that Nvidia is also emphasizing its AI-related products.

Think it's time to face facts that Apple doesn't care about you, me or any other people who need this power.

(Will believe the new Mac Pro when I see it, but It's likely to have AMD cards)

It's already available

http://www.nvidia.co.uk/download/driverResults.aspx/117771/e...

The mac drivers give some hope, but I doubt it will be any better than what we have already.

The GTX 1070 is a very powerful card and can purchased for ~$370.

The GTX 1060 is also a good card if you're looking to game at 1080p (which most people still are). It can be found for around $200.

probably won't ever get this for $300 brand new.

you might be able to find some 2013 Titans for $400.