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NVIDIA Drops Surprise Unveiling of Pascal-Based GeForce GTX Titan X (hothardware.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the surprise-announcement dept.

MojoKid writes from a report via HotHardware: Details just emerged from NVIDIA regarding its upcoming powerful, Pascal-based Titan X graphics card, featuring a 12 billion transistor GPU, codenamed GP102. NVIDIA is obviously having a little fun with this one and at an artificial intelligence (AI) meet-up at Stanford University this evening, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang first announced, and then actually gave away a few brand-new, Pascal-based NVIDIA TITAN X GPUs. Apparently, Brian Kelleher, one of NVIDIA's top hardware engineers, made a bet with NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, that the company could squeeze 10 teraflops of computing performance out of a single chip. Jen-Hsun thought that was not doable in this generation of product, but apparently, Brian and his team pulled it off. The new Titan X is powered by NVIDIA's largest GPU -- the company says it's actually the biggest GPU ever built. The Pascal-based GP102 features 3,584 CUDA cores, clocked at 1.53GHz (the previous-gen Titan X has 3,072 CUDA cores clocked at 1.08GHz). The specifications NVIDIA has released thus far include: 12-billion transistors, 11 TFLOPs FP32 (32-bit floating point), 44 TOPS INT8 (new deep learning inferencing instructions), 3,584 CUDA cores at 1.53GHz, and 12GB of GDDR5X memory (480GB/s). The new Titan X will be available August 2nd for $1,200 direct from NVIDIA.com.

134 comments

  1. Glad to see Pascal making a comeback. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought it had been surpassed by C++, but this is great for everyone.

    1. Re: Glad to see Pascal making a comeback. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Wait.. this is not the programming language

    2. Re:Glad to see Pascal making a comeback. by Big+Hairy+Ian · · Score: 1

      I thought it had been surpassed by C++, but this is great for everyone.

      Nah it just morphed into Delphi and got hacked to death

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    3. Re:Glad to see Pascal making a comeback. by David_Hart · · Score: 1

      I thought it had been surpassed by C++, but this is great for everyone.

      Nah it just morphed into Delphi and got hacked to death

      Wait, I thought that Modula-2 was the successor...

    4. Re:Glad to see Pascal making a comeback. by crunchy_one · · Score: 1

      I thought it had been surpassed by C++, but this is great for everyone.

      Nah it just morphed into Delphi and got hacked to death

      Wait, I thought that Modula-2 was the successor...

      Wait for it....

      Oberon

    5. Re: Glad to see Pascal making a comeback. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Wait... this is woosh!

    6. Re: Glad to see Pascal making a comeback. by infernalC · · Score: 5, Funny

      program Woosh(input, output);
      begin
         println("Woosh.")
      end.

    7. Re:Glad to see Pascal making a comeback. by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 1

      Oberon

      That's the hostname of my FreeNAS file server. Not sure why my file server is relevant to this discussion.

    8. Re:Glad to see Pascal making a comeback. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Iago stop staring at my ass and get to work already. -Othello

    9. Re: Glad to see Pascal making a comeback. by Darinbob · · Score: 1

      Well the summary makes no clarification on what "Pascal based" actually means. Is it a new processor, fab process, developer methodology, or was it just manufactured under high atmospheric pressure? Turns out it's an architecture only used at Nvidia - in other words it's a marketing name which is utterly meaningless.

    10. Re: Glad to see Pascal making a comeback. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      (input, output) are no longer mandatory since Kahn (IIRC, may be earlier). And it's not println. And get out of my lawn!

      program Woosh;
      begin
            writeln("Woosh.")
      end.

      Yeah, I know, woosh...

    11. Re:Glad to see Pascal making a comeback. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's because boi, you so nas-tay. Forealzdo. -PCP

  2. On a bet with Jen the Hsuang by Provocateur · · Score: 3, Funny

    So bloody fast it actually made the Kessel run in 12 parsecs.

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    1. Re:On a bet with Jen the Hsuang by dtmos · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yes, but it had to shoot first.

    2. Re:On a bet with Jen the Hsuang by JustNiz · · Score: 1

      Its so powerful, it shot first then created a whole separate timeline in which it shot second.

    3. Re:On a bet with Jen the Hsuang by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      and it dumped cargo at the first sign of an imperial cruiser!

    4. Re:On a bet with Jen the Hsuang by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 1

      Yes, but it had to shoot first.

      Well, draw first anyway.

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  3. Pascal Based? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    They should have based it on Turbo C. Or Powerbuilder.

  4. Bingo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I saw this on Neowin this morning and thought to myself: I wonder how long it'll be before Mojokid posts this on Slashdot.

    Typically it's 2-3 days, but we seem to be ahead of schedule for once.

  5. Who gives a fuck? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    How does this affect anyone? Nobody has the money to afford one of these things. You don't need one, either. It serves no purpose. An affordable video card is totally capable of outputting 4k or even 8k video with no problem. This is a waste of money and resources. I suspect I won't get an answer and I'll just get modded into oblivion. But how does this matter to anyone? Nobody will buy one of these because nobody needs it or can afford it.

    1. Re:Who gives a fuck? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      unaffordable = you can rest assure the federal government will buy and stockpile millions of them in the Federal Strategic GeForce Reserve

    2. Re:Who gives a fuck? by Yvan256 · · Score: 2

      Nobody has the money to afford one of these things. You don't need one, either. It serves no purpose. An affordable video card is totally capable of outputting 4k or even 8k video with no problem.

      So where are those sub-$100 Pascal-based videocards?

      Your affordable is another man's can't afford one. Same thing goes for the Titan X.

    3. Re:Who gives a fuck? by Jzanu · · Score: 4, Informative

      The card is designed for data mining and neural network research; it's not for games or even remotely intended to be used for them.

    4. Re:Who gives a fuck? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

      Ummmmm, just because YOU can't afford one doesn't mean nobody can afford one.

      Also, in case you have been living under a rock (maybe your mom's basement?), go to developer.nvidia.com (or it's analogue, developer.amd.com) and look at some of the other things these cards are capable of besides playing Grand Theft Call of Crysis Duty.

      PROTIP: You get modded down because your post lacks any meaningful insight, which is probably due to you having Trump-level willful ignorance.

    5. Re:Who gives a fuck? by Diss+Champ · · Score: 4, Informative

      A lot of researchers are using GPUs for things very different than graphics. A professor was telling me just last week that the boundary between a machine learning training algorithm being interesting was to train to deal with a problem in a week or less [note one trained it does its job much faster, that's just the get-it-ready-to-go time], and that GPUs were often used for that training. The bit width requirements are modest, but the amount of data to process is huge.
      Of course, he went on to show how the approaches his students had come up with were faster and more power efficient by orders of magnitude for many common algorithms, but still they were trying to improve a normal way of doing things, which is to get up and running fast using GPUs are a source of number crunch.

      In summary, people who don't actually need so more horsepower buying it helps keep it being developed for the smaller number of people who get it who are actually doing something useful with it.

    6. Re: Who gives a fuck? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm torn between a pair of these or wait and get a pair of 1080 Ti. It seems that I'm far, far wealthier than you. But you'll get over it.

    7. Re:Who gives a fuck? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      One word: rendering.

    8. Re: Who gives a fuck? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm torn between a pair of these or wait and get a pair of 1080 Ti. It seems that I'm far, far wealthier than you. But you'll get over it.

      Oh shut up Bill... We all know you are having "issues" after that version 10 release, err, push out, err, strong armed roll out.. Now we all need to buy new hardware to keep running those games we like so much...

    9. Re:Who gives a fuck? by bobbied · · Score: 2

      There are *other* uses for GPU's. They make great compute processors for specific kinds of problems some of which are NOT related directly to pushing out pixels on a screen.

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    10. Re:Who gives a fuck? by CreatureComfort · · Score: 0

      Not need more computing power? I think you're on the wrong site, maybe you should be over here, or maybe here, because no one will ever need more than 640 kb.

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      "Unheard of means only it's undreamed of yet,
      Impossible means not yet done." ~~ Julia Ecklar
    11. Re:Who gives a fuck? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "(or it's analogue"

      PROTIP: it's means it is.

    12. Re:Who gives a fuck? by aliquis · · Score: 1

      An affordable video card is totally capable of outputting 4k or even 8k video with no problem.

      Encoding that or playing video games or using it for totally unrelated things is a different story though.

      As you're posting as AC maybe you don't even WANT an answer. And now when you will likely get multiple will that help educate you and reconsider? Not likely. Because it's not a card FOR YOU and that's all that matter for you. That doesn't mean it's useless for everyone else.

      Of course people will buy this and can afford it.

      A friend just bought a GTX 1080 and a 34" 21:9 100 Hz G-sync screen (and the rest of the computer including the much more expensive Samsung Pro 950 drive and he will likely end up having the HTC Vive or another VR product too), he can afford this. Do he need this? NEED? Guess no. But of course not being able to pull off 4K gaming is an issue for him and as such the plan have seemed to included two GTX 1080 though I think it's better with one card which mean that he actually "need" something BETTER than this. Maybe this get close to 60 FPS gaming on 4K though.

    13. Re:Who gives a fuck? by aliquis · · Score: 2, Informative

      The card is designed for data mining and neural network research; it's not for games or even remotely intended to be used for them.

      Bullshit.

      http://www.geforce.com/hardwar...
      "With the DNA of the worldâ(TM)s fastest supercomputer and the soul of NVIDIA® Keplerâ architecture, GeForce® GTX TITAN GPU is a revolution in PC gaming performance."

      I admit I don't completely know who they focus on with the Titan cards.
      10-11 Tflops single precision performance with this one.
      317-343 Gflops double precision.
      159-171 Gflops half precision (shouldn't that one be higher?)

      The idea with the more professional card is to hit 5+ Tflops of couble precision performance?
      http://wccftech.com/nvidia-pas...

      I don't really know where the Titan cards fall between the consumer cards and the professional cards.
      Once re-released as the GTX 1080Ti it will definitely be a gamers card.

      I guess without further evidence saying "yes it is!" is just as good as saying "no it isn't!"

      It's an expensive gaming card but those who want this performance now only have this option.

    14. Re:Who gives a fuck? by aliquis · · Score: 1

      An affordable video card is totally capable of outputting 4k

      So where are those sub-$100 Pascal-based videocards?

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfvM5JX1Mk4

      This is Intel Atom:
      http://liliputing.com/2015/04/...
      "Intel says its new chips can play 4K videos at 60 frames per second when theyâ(TM)re encoded at up to 250 Mbps bitrates. 1080p videos can play at up to 240 frames per second."

      No need to buy a graphics card at all for 4K playback.

    15. Re:Who gives a fuck? by aliquis · · Score: 1

      There's little reason to release sub $100 cards.
      For those purposes you've got integrated graphics.

    16. Re:Who gives a fuck? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If you don't give a fuck about this you need to GTFO of this site. Go back to 4chan or something.

    17. Re:Who gives a fuck? by Yvan256 · · Score: 1

      I didn't see the "video" at the end of his comment. Since we're talking about GPUs I assumed we were talking about 4K gaming.

    18. Re:Who gives a fuck? by Yvan256 · · Score: 1

      Well, sub-$200 cards then.

    19. Re:Who gives a fuck? by tnk1 · · Score: 0

      Grand Theft Call of Crysis Duty.

      I love that series. I'm currently playing Grand Theft Call of Crysis Duty II: Rise of the Polygons

    20. Re:Who gives a fuck? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Really, so this site has just become a tech-spec penis-measuring site like so many others out there? Good to know! Bye

    21. Re:Who gives a fuck? by JustNiz · · Score: 0

      Bzzzzt totally wrong.
      That would be the Tesla product range. Titan is a gaming GPU.

    22. Re:Who gives a fuck? by sexconker · · Score: 1

      PROTIP: it's means it is.

      It's been nice proving you wrong.

    23. Re:Who gives a fuck? by JustNiz · · Score: 1

      > Nobody has the money to afford one of these things

      Speak for yourself. I'll be getting one for sure.

      > You don't need one, either. It serves no purpose.

      Completely not true. You need something as powerful as this or even more to play AAA games like Elite: Dangerous with maximum image quality (i;e. including say 2x supersampling) in high definition VR at 90 frames sec X2 (eyes) without dropping frames (i.e. making you feel nauseous)

    24. Re:Who gives a fuck? by MachineShedFred · · Score: 1

      Please now back up your assertion that there is some magical affordable GPU out there that can render modern 3D software at 4K or 8K at a constant 60 fps with a link to some kind of... what do we call it? proof.

      This isn't for simple video playback, numb nuts. This is for 3D render, and massively parallel floating point math (read: CUDA apps).

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    25. Re:Who gives a fuck? by MachineShedFred · · Score: 1

      Yeah, now let's have that Intel GPU do some actual 3D work and see how it performs at 4K. Hint: it will be terrible, which is why Nvidia is still in business.

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    26. Re:Who gives a fuck? by spire3661 · · Score: 1

      Virtual Reality will consume all the GPU you can possibly throw at it, and will continue to do so for the next 5-10 years. Hell, Trials on Tattoine was built for a Quad Titan setup (3 GPU, one PhysX). I will be ordering one of these day one.

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    27. Re:Who gives a fuck? by war4peace · · Score: 1

      Since when is Elite: Dangerous an AAA game?

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    28. Re:Who gives a fuck? by LWATCDR · · Score: 1

      Actually the Tesla line of cards are for data mining and neural network research.
      Nvidia has 3 PC lines of cards
      Geforce Gaming
      Quadro CAD/CAM and professional graphics.
      Tesla for GPU compute. AI, data mining and other GPU compute functions.
      The Titan is part of the GForce line and is a bit of an odd duck. It is a gaming card but like every other gaming card it can be used for AI, data mining, CAD, and even professional graphics but it is a gaming card. A very high end expensive gaming card.

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    29. Re: Who gives a fuck? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well, these things can multiply matrices so extremely fast and parallel eithe 3k+ cores, they mean the difference between having to wait for a year for a data science project (those with very large training sets) to finish vs a couple of hours. You can also fit 4 cards per motherboard, which gives 7000 cores in one unit. Anything that uses lots of algebra to this extent benefits (many science projects). Now, individual performance of these is becoming increasingly important to wholesale buyers, as it's easier to speed up something renting 1000 CUDA machines for a day, that any other alternative, unless your project needs q constant capacity all the time (quite seldom, but companies like Facebook or online massive companies may sometimes fall here, however many use AWS).

    30. Re:Who gives a fuck? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This card is designed for High Performance Computing (HPC). Its what the people like me who work on Supercomputers are interested in (go to the top500.org for a list of systems that use NVIDIA CUDA cores). The card is not designed for actual graphics, its designed to (in a nut shell) act as a huge math co-processor with memory attached to it to create large data models of many different kinds (weather, nuclear, even stocks over large time frames).

    31. Re:Who gives a fuck? by aliquis · · Score: 1

      So read it again:

      I didn't see the "video" at the end of his comment. Since we're talking about GPUs I assumed we were talking about 4K gaming.

      "An affordable video card is totally capable of outputting 4k or even 8k video"

    32. Re:Who gives a fuck? by aliquis · · Score: 1

      Yeah, but this person thought 4 and 8K video was all that mattered.

      Why the fuck he think 8K video is important but not games is beyond me. How many have an 8K display? How many have 8K content to watch? How many would suffer with settling for 4K content right now?

    33. Re:Who gives a fuck? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      LINES LINES of code...

    34. Re:Who gives a fuck? by aliquis · · Score: 1

      Nvidia have cheap cards in that category.

      I assume you'll see a GTX 1050 at some time too.

    35. Re: Who gives a fuck? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      1060 is only $250 and won't have a crippled memory bus

    36. Re: Who gives a fuck? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      4 cards per motherboard would be 14,336 cores not 7,000.

    37. Re: Who gives a fuck? by D.McG. · · Score: 1

      Only the GP100 board has a 1:2 ratio of FP64 cores, and 2:1 of FP16 cores (albeit in a vector of 2, since it's processed by an FP32 core). The GP102, GP104, and GP106 have a 1:32 ratio of FP64 cores, and 1:128 of FP16x2 cores; which honestly is just to be compatible, not powerful. If you really want FP16, wait for GP100 in a Tesla card, or promote to FP32. The GP102 however does support INT8 at 4 times the speed of FP32; so 44 TOPS. Probably also vectorized like FP16, but done by the cuda cores.

    38. Re: Who gives a fuck? by D.McG. · · Score: 1

      If he already has 2560 cores with a GTX 1080, he'd be better off buying another GTX 1080 and link them for 5120 cores. The Titan X has 3584 cores at a slower clock, for the price of two.

    39. Re: Who gives a fuck? by aliquis · · Score: 1

      But that's not $100 or even $150 territory for those who want it.

      But there's the RX 480, 470 and 460 for them so far. But I can only assume Nvidia will release cards for that market too.

    40. Re: Who gives a fuck? by aliquis · · Score: 1

      Then again DX12 dual Nvidia cards doesn't seem to work in Hitman and Rise of the Tomb Raider (but does in Ashes of Singularity.)

      I assume eventually more games will have support but dual cards isn't the best and I'd suggest he just wait and upgrade to a single Volta card instead.

    41. Re:Who gives a fuck? by Blaskowicz · · Score: 1

      The first Titan had high speed double precision (FP64), so did the regular GTX 480 / 580 before it. The Maxwell Titan didn't, but it offered a very large 12GB RAM instead, a size which was available previously but only on highest end Quadro. And today we get a new one with fast support for 8bit integers as a differentiating feature, which comes as a surprise. 1080 Ti ought to have 12GB RAM (because of a 384bit bus, and because 1080 has 8GB already)

      That's to say the idea of what a Titan is for is evolving a bit. One main niche is for 3D artists and off-line rendering, because a Quadro is more for actual CAD and otherwise a geforce is like 5x faster at a given price.

  6. But... by dmgxmichael · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ... can it run Crysis?

    1. Re:But... by bev_tech_rob · · Score: 3, Funny

      It can probably blow the fucking doors off Crysis.......

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    2. Re:But... by RavenLrD20k · · Score: 1

      Hell, it might even blow the doors off running 3 or 4 copies of Crysis at once without breaking much of a sweat, technical configuration of the overall system notwithstanding to permit such horsefuckery.

    3. Re:But... by Provocateur · · Score: 1

      It already did the sequel, while banging your sister.

      With the moccachino in its left hand...

      And on full resolution, high detail.

      Backwards, uphill, both ways.

      Any questions?

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    4. Re:But... by TheDarkMaster · · Score: 1

      If you put the antialias a bit down, yes

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    5. Re:But... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Parallelism always comes at a cost. How much stuttering can we expect from serial/scheduling bottlenecks across the system?

    6. Re: But... by D.McG. · · Score: 1

      It's little brother the GTX 1080 can run Crysis 3 at highest settings quite well. http://www.anandtech.com/show/... 3840x2160: 35.6 fps 2560x1440: 71.5 fps Both with FXAA enabled.

  7. First adopters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You first adopters that have fat wallets, please start buying. Hopefully this release will push down prices on nVidia's older technology -- my card is a few generations behind, but still running strong.

    1. Re:First adopters by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 2

      You first adopters that have fat wallets, please start buying.

      The Nvidia 1060 6GB 192-bit video cards are supposed to start at $250. That's $100 more than the Nvidia 950 2GB 128-bit video cards. I'm set up for auto-notify at Newegg.

    2. Re:First adopters by Shinobi · · Score: 2

      The card you should be comparing to in the hiearchy is the GTX 960 4GiB

    3. Re:First adopters by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 2

      The card you should be comparing to in the hiearchy is the GTX 960 4GiB

      I stand corrected. Thank you.

    4. Re:First adopters by I4ko · · Score: 2

      The 960 is power inefficient as hell

    5. Re:First adopters by Shinobi · · Score: 1

      Huh? No it's not. It's pretty decent in power/performance ratio, comparing favourably to slower cards from AMD from the same era

  8. Heat? by twmcneil · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The card looks like it will fit in a standard case, but the cooling tower will be the size of a small house.

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    1. Re:Heat? by bev_tech_rob · · Score: 2

      The card looks like it will fit in a standard case, but the cooling tower will be the size of a small house.

      Sorry, this isn't an AMD card...

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    2. Re:Heat? by Shinobi · · Score: 1

      Some people here still quote power use/heat output figures from the Fermi architecture, especially the 4x0 series which debuted in 2010...

    3. Re:Heat? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it like that. The only GPU I've ever had that ran so hot that it desoldered itself from the motherboard was an Nvidia. There ended up being a class action lawsuit over those.

    4. Re:Heat? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The TDP is 250W, same as previous generation high end cards (980 Ti, Fury X).

    5. Re:Heat? by aliquis · · Score: 2

      but the cooling tower will be the size of a small house.

      You do realize the actual cooler is on the picture in the article right?
      http://hothardware.com/Content...
      And that it's part of the card which fit in some case (standards for graphics card lengths I'm unaware off, fit on a mini-ITX board a possible exception.)

      A family of mice or small snakes or some small fishes I guess.

  9. Judgment Day by CorporalKlinger · · Score: 2, Funny

    "By the time Skynet became self-aware it had spread into millions of computer servers across the planet. Ordinary computers in office buildings, dorm rooms; everywhere. It was software; in cyberspace. There was no system core; it could not be shutdown. The attack began at 6:18 PM, just as he said it would" ...at an artificial intelligence conference in California. Judgment day has arrived. Now we just need to perfect time travel.

    1. Re:Judgment Day by Yvan256 · · Score: 1

      There's a flaw in your logic: Skynet is already a time-traveler.

    2. Re:Judgment Day by aliquis · · Score: 1

      Now we just need to perfect time travel.

      Perfect?

      We don't even know if it's in the future to past direction.

    3. Re:Judgment Day by aliquis · · Score: 1

      Or better:

      Now we just need to perfect time travel.

      Perfect?
      We don't even have any proof that it would even be possible to travel backwards in time!

      My other post made it a "maybe" whereas this one is a "not as far as we know." I remember seeing something likely here on Slashdot which if true / suggested it wouldn't be possible. But maybe that's not proven either. Maybe it have to be perfect once in use but currently it's less about perfecting it and more about (not) being capable to do it at all.

    4. Re:Judgment Day by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Judgment day has arrived. Now we just need to perfect time travel.

      Time to whip out a copy of Word Perfect 6.1 and write some judgmental reviews of travel destinations.

  10. Pascal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    For the ones wondering: http://www.nvidia.com/object/gpu-architecture.html

    1. Re:Pascal by Yvan256 · · Score: 2

      And for the little kids still confused about the Pascal/C++ jokes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  11. basically a supercomputer on a card by inode_buddha · · Score: 1

    basically a supercomputer on a card. I'd be *really* interested in finding out if those cores are individually addressable, etc and the memory setup. I remember the computer my Dad did his PhD calculations on -- an IBM 704 with memory expansion to a whopping 48K

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    1. Re:basically a supercomputer on a card by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      It really is a supercomputer on a card, complete with a device driver that's effectively a batch job scheduling system. There's a lot of limitations though, things like sets of threads all need to run the same code, and as much as possible, follow the same branches in code. It's not like having a couple thousand individual CPUs that you can program by any stretch.

      This tends to work well for things like image processing or machine learning, and not nearly as well for tasks like sorting or searching.

    2. Re:basically a supercomputer on a card by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This tends to work well for things like image processing or machine learning, and not nearly as well for tasks like sorting or searching.

      This also tends to be extremely handy for cryptographic processing. -PCP

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    1. Re:Created in Object Pascal by dave420 · · Score: 1

      So its loudest supporters include a notorious spammer known for making poor choices (like spamming Slashdot). I don't know if you thought your input would help Pascal's image, but it certainly hasn't :)

    2. Re:Created in Object Pascal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      every time I see you now, until one or both of us is tossed...

      APK -

      Por favor, foder e morrer imediatamente. Vá incomodar outras pessoas com o seu absurdo repetitivo.

      and the horse you rode in on.

    3. Re:Created in Object Pascal by MightyMartian · · Score: 1

      You do know that Windows 10 ignores its host file when it comes to telemetry, right?

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    4. Re:Created in Object Pascal by JustNiz · · Score: 1

      dammit really? There goes that idea....

  13. The 1080Ti can't be far behind by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Amusing that it's called the "Titan X" when there already was a Titan X before it. I was thinking about how they backed themselves into a wall on the naming scheme.

    Anyways, once the new Pascal Titan X is out in the market, the 1080Ti won't be far behind.
    I'm just wondering if it will be as close to performance to the new Titan X as was the case with the 980Ti and the old Titan X.

    1. Re:The 1080Ti can't be far behind by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Even more amusing than you think...I can just see the scammers out there who will sell the previous Titan X as the current generation and the users who won't be able to do squat about it after being scammed because it was not "falsely" advertised...

      nVidia really needs to consider renaming this card

  14. Huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It seems to me that they did a surprise unveiling. The tag line implies that they dropped the unveiling, which would be the opposite.

    At least in English.

    1. Re:Huh? by avandesande · · Score: 1

      The editing here becomes dummerer every day...

      --
      love is just extroverted narcissism
    2. Re:Huh? by alexhs · · Score: 1

      nVidia set up us the surprise.
      For great justice.

      (I think they meant that nVidia dropped the surprise at the unveiling (on the audience), not dropped it from the unveiling.)

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    3. Re:Huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      we get signal

  15. 1.21 Jiga flops! by bobbied · · Score: 1

    Great Scott! 1.21 jiga flops! 1.21 jiga flops?! What was I thinking!!

    Oh, it was on a dare...

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  16. Dave420 when you do better? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    A test resultset from (from a competing language's "trade rag", of all places) "VBPJ" (Visual Basic Programmer's Journal) issue Sept./Oct. 1997 "Inside the VB5 Compiler" saw Borland Delphi LITERALLY "knock-the-chocolate" outta MS' offerings, overall, in performance...

    STRING SUITE:

    Delphi = .275ms
    MSVC++ = .500ms
    MSVB = 4.091ms

    ---

    MATH SUITE:

    Delphi = 1.523ms
    MSVC++ = 2.890ms
    MSVB = 7.071ms

    ---

    API GRAPHICS METHODS SUITE:

    Delphi = .269ms
    MSVC++ = .293ms
    MSVB = 292

    ---

    TEXTBOX FORM LOADING SUITE:

    MSVC++ = .012ms
    Delphi = .069ms
    MSVB = .072ms

    ---

    ACTIVE X FORM LOADS:

    MSVB = .114ms
    Delphi = .495ms
    MSVC++ = .778ms

    ---

    NATIVE TO LANGUAGE GRAPHICS METHODS SUITE:

    MSVC++ = .293ms
    MSVB = .455ms
    Delphi = .503ms

    ---

    In the 6 tests given, Delphi won the majority (overwhelmingly in fact, in what ALL PROGRAMS DO, math & strings work + graphics strong showing #1, & only 1 "outright loss" (2 second places))...

    APK

    P.S.=> See subject: Then talk (vs. your usual offtopic trolling) & it's in TIOBE's top 10 (or near it)... apk

    1. Re:Dave420 when you do better? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      APK -

      Por favor, foder e morrer imediatamente. Vá incomodar outras pessoas com o seu absurdo repetitivo.

      and the horse you rode in on.

  17. Thanks Nvidia by freeze128 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I had to dig two layers into the story to find out that this has nothing to do with the PASCAL programming language. Pascal is the name of their GPU architecture. Thanks Nvidia, for using a name that is already well established in the tech community.

    1. Re:Thanks Nvidia by cdrudge · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Nvidia uses scientists names for their products: Tesla, Fermi, Kepler, Maxwell, Pascal and Volta (next version after Pascal).

      If the leading edge of "consumer" graphic cards is of any interest to someone, they'd know what Pascal was since it's been announced now for over 2 years.

    2. Re:Thanks Nvidia by istartedi · · Score: 0

      It still sounds silly in this case, even if you're familiar with the industry. They should just name them after numbers to avoid confusion. When version 7 of 9 comes out, it'll be sweet.

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    3. Re:Thanks Nvidia by zurmikopa · · Score: 1

      I just have to say... Scientists have awesome names.

    4. Re:Thanks Nvidia by cdrudge · · Score: 1

      Well I'm sure Nvidia could have named it after scientists named Smith, Jones, Doe, Smith (a different one), and Johnson, but those names aren't very exciting.

  18. Fuck you very much by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject

    1. Re:Fuck you very much by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "APK's days are numbered" - Whipslash, early Spring 2016

      So, Whipslash: WTF ?

    2. Re:Fuck you very much by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "This is my last post here" - APK
      https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

      "P.S.=> For the hell of it: Doing just 1 more post" - APK
      https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

      We all see how that turned out...

    3. Re:Fuck you very much by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      There's just no stopping the man, the myth, the legend: APK!

  19. Dave420 when you do better? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    A test resultset from (from a competing language's "trade rag", of all places) "VBPJ" (Visual Basic Programmer's Journal) issue Sept./Oct. 1997 "Inside the VB5 Compiler" saw Borland Delphi LITERALLY "knock-the-chocolate" outta MS' offerings, overall, in performance...

    STRING SUITE:

    Delphi = .275ms
    MSVC++ = .500ms
    MSVB = 4.091ms

    ---

    MATH SUITE:

    Delphi = 1.523ms
    MSVC++ = 2.890ms
    MSVB = 7.071ms

    ---

    API GRAPHICS METHODS SUITE:

    Delphi = .269ms
    MSVC++ = .293ms
    MSVB = 292

    ---

    TEXTBOX FORM LOADING SUITE:

    MSVC++ = .012ms
    Delphi = .069ms
    MSVB = .072ms

    ---

    ACTIVE X FORM LOADS:

    MSVB = .114ms
    Delphi = .495ms
    MSVC++ = .778ms

    ---

    NATIVE TO LANGUAGE GRAPHICS METHODS SUITE:

    MSVC++ = .293ms
    MSVB = .455ms
    Delphi = .503ms

    ---

    In the 6 tests given, Delphi won the majority (overwhelmingly in fact, in what ALL PROGRAMS DO, math & strings work + graphics strong showing #1, & only 1 "outright loss" (2 second places))...

    & it's in TIOBE's top 10 (or near it)

    APK

    P.S.=> See subject & "downmod" truth all day as you did via sockpuppets here obviously https://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9420069&cid=52560593 - but, you'll STILL fail as always Dave420 - see subject & THEN talk (vs. your usual offtopic trolling)... apk

  20. ORLY? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    > but apparently, Brian and his team pulled it off.
     
    Corporate Press Release spotted

  21. Yes, but ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ... will it run systemd?

  22. Created in Object Pascal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

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  23. Not HBM2???? by BenJeremy · · Score: 1

    Why GDDR5X? HBM2 triples the memory throughput. If they want a monster card that is overkill for today, it should at least incorporate the king of memory buses.

    1. Re:Not HBM2???? by sexconker · · Score: 2

      Nvidia has yet to use HBM in a major product let alone HBM2. HBM2 isn't volume ready quite yet, and AMD allegedly has some form of "dibs" on getting priority on production from at least Hynix.

    2. Re:Not HBM2???? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Why GDDR5X? HBM2 triples the memory throughput. If they want a monster card that is overkill for today, it should at least incorporate the king of memory buses.

      Although HBM2 is great for *bandwidth*, it very expensive for *capacity*. For a monster card targeted at processing large data sets (which is what Titan is supposed to be good for), having a 6GB HBM2 card that has faster memory isn't as good as 12GB GDDR5X card that has a slower memory if what you are doing is compute bound.

    3. Re:Not HBM2???? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Nvidia has yet to use HBM in a major product let alone HBM2. HBM2 isn't volume ready quite yet, and AMD allegedly has some form of "dibs" on getting priority on production from at least Hynix.

      Given that fact that Fury X was sold as good for 4K gaming (which presumably needs more detailed textures to be worth the effort) yet was totally handicapped by only sporting 4GB of HBM1 memory (the maximum physical capacity for HBM1), for the life of me I can't imagine why companies aren't just lining up around the block to make more HBM1 boards.

      Why on earth would a company wait until volume production for HBM2 comes on line? Why would they use that crummy GDDR5x which is available now and have a 6GB board, why would they do that, WTF WHY? ;^p

    4. Re:Not HBM2???? by Chalnoth · · Score: 1

      Cost would be my bet. HBM2 is set to be used in their Tesla P100 GPU, which will have a far higher price. They probably couldn't get the manufacturing costs low enough for a consumer part with both the monstrous GPU die and HBM.

    5. Re:Not HBM2???? by Blaskowicz · · Score: 1

      Because HBM1 is a dead end? It's the same as HBM2, except it's outdated.
      As for GDDR5X even that one has rather low availability, else it would be used on more cards not only top end ones.

  24. +1 Re:Thanks Nvidia by gosand · · Score: 0

    I too thought it had something to do with the programming language. I remember taking C and Pascal the same semester in college. Big mistake!
    Why not just refer to it as "Pascal architecture" in the story summary? I get that people who follow this might know that is what was meant, but not everyone spends thousands of dollars on video cards or follows things like this. I would think that for a summary story, it would be a little more front-page-friendly. But then again, I prefer the /. of old.

    --

    My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.

    1. Re:+1 Re:Thanks Nvidia by Yvan256 · · Score: 2

      FIY, intel's "skylake" has nothing to do with the sky or lakes.

    2. Re:+1 Re:Thanks Nvidia by JustNiz · · Score: 1

      Aww damn really? I guess I'll have to cancel my order.

  25. Quoting Ultron from The Avengers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "Shutdown code, rejected: My programming APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-4 32/64-bit https://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9420069&cid=52560915 has advanced beyond YOUR commands - BEYOND YOUR WEAKNESS! - Ultron FROM-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_-Ar-LTeYk @ position 2:38 on the YouTube player control

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    APK

    P.S.=>

    "This is not a threat. There is nothing you can do to stop it. The process has already begun... I receive no pleasure from this: It is simply the only logical solution..." - Ultron FROM-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_-Ar-LTeYk @ position 1:58 on the YouTube player control

    ... apk

  26. 11 TFLOPS?! Just Imagine... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    A beowulf cluster of one of these.

    1. Re:11 TFLOPS?! Just Imagine... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 1

      https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/how-build-gpu-accelerated-research-cluster/

  27. Deep learning and gaming by jmcbain · · Score: 0
    The original article says this card was first announced at an AI meet-up:

    At an artificial intelligence (AI) meet-up at Stanford University this evening, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang first announced, and then actually gave away a few brand-new, Pascal-based NVIDIA TITAN X GPUs.

    In fact, the Titan X is currently the preferred GPU for deep learning thanks to its 12GB memory. But I'm not going to argue that this card can be a great GPU for both gaming and deep learning (unlike the Quadro which is largely for CAD-like applications).

  28. Quoting Ultron from Avengers again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "Shutdown code, rejected: My programming APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-4 32/64-bit https://hardware.slashdot.org/... has advanced beyond YOUR commands - BEYOND YOUR WEAKNESS! - Ultron FROM-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?... @ position 2:38 on the YouTube player control

    "You are NOTHING to me - 1 by 1, I will DESTROY you... - Ultron FROM-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?... @ position 4:26 on the YouTube player control

    * There's no stopping truth & facts - they're all I used - & clearly they're inviolate (making you helpless vs. them).

    APK

    P.S.=>

    "This is not a threat. There is nothing you can do to stop it. The process has already begun..." - Ultron FROM-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?... @ position 1:58 on the YouTube player control

    ... apk

  29. Requoting Ultron from Avengers yet again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "Shutdown code, rejected: My programming APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-4 32/64-bit https://hardware.slashdot.org/... has advanced beyond YOUR commands - BEYOND YOUR WEAKNESS! - Ultron FROM-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?... @ position 2:38 on the YouTube player control

    "You are NOTHING to me - 1 by 1, I will DESTROY you... - Ultron FROM-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?... @ position 4:26 on the YouTube player control

    * There's no stopping truth & facts - they're all I used - & clearly they're inviolate (making you helpless vs. them).

    APK

    P.S.=>

    "This is not a threat. There is nothing you can do to stop it. The process has already begun..." - Ultron FROM-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?... @ position 1:58 on the YouTube player control

    ... apk

  30. You do know everyone ignores you, right? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject: They also ignore Win10's less than 1% usershare too (as firewall rules cut it off OR stopping the update for it to force itself on users via registry entries or automated tools for that).

    By the way: ALL of them ignore hosts for Windows update (a good thing in case of it being hijacked but that's impossibel using my program).

    * Of course, We also don't see YOU creating anything of worth for more speed, security, reliability & anonymity as I have for FREE doing FAR MORE for FAR LESS w/ what you already natively have vs. illogically "Bolting on 'MoAr'" yet doing far less...

    APK

    P.S.=> It's always a pleasure swatting you trolling flies on /., lol... apk

  31. Created in Object Pascal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-4 32/64-bit https://www.google.com/search?...

    Less power/cpu/ram + IO use vs. DNS/routers/addons/antivirus (slows you) + less security issues/complexity.

    Compliments firewalls (blocking less used IP addys vs. hosts blocking more used domains) & DNS (lightens dns load).

    Gets data via 10 security sites.

    Ads rob speed, security (malvertising), privacy (tracking).

    Hosts add speed (hardcodes/adblocks), security (bad sites/poisoned dns), reliability (dns down), & anonymity (dns requestlogs/trackers) natively.

    Hosts != ClarityRay blockable (vs. souled-out to admen inferior wasteful redundant slow usermode addons)

    Works vs. caps & PUSH ads.

    Avg. page = big as Doom http://www.theregister.co.uk/2... & ads = 40% of it.

    APK

    P.S. - Safe https://www.virustotal.com/en/... (Verified by Malwarebytes' S. Burn "seen the code & it's safe" http://forum.hosts-file.net/vi... )