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NVIDIA Launches Modded Collector's Edition Star Wars Titan Xp Graphics Card (hothardware.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the gotta-collect-'em-all dept.

MojoKid writes: NVIDIA just launched its fastest graphics card yet and this GPU is targeted at Star Wars fans. In concert with EA's official launch today of Star Wars Battlefront II, NVIDIA unveiled the new Star Wars Titan Xp Collector's Edition graphics card for enthusiast gamers. There are two versions of the cards available -- the Galactic Empire version and a Jedi Order version. Both of the cards feature customized coolers, shrouds, and lighting, designed to mimic the look of a lightsaber. They also ship in specialized packaging that can be used to showcase the cards if they're not installed in a system. The GPU powering the TITAN Xp Collector's Edition has a base clock of 1,481MHz and a boost clock of 1,582MHz. It's packing a fully-enabled NVIDIA GP102 GPU with 3,840 cores and 12GB of GDDR5X memory clocked at 5.5GHz for an effective data rate of 11Gbps, resulting in 547.2GB/s of peak memory bandwidth. At those clocks, the card also offers a peak texture fillrate of 379.75 GigaTexels/s and 12.1TFLOPs of FP32 compute performance, which is significantly higher than a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti. In the benchmarks, it's the fastest GPU out there right now (it better be for $1200), but this card is more about nostalgia and the design customizations NVIDIA made to the cards that should appeal to gamers and Star Wars fans alike.

45 comments

  1. What a waste! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    Star Wars should cease. Star Trek is far superior, and any official Star Trek merchandise would be far superior. Star Wars is for people who aren't smart enough to think about science fiction. That's why you get inferior plots and lots of violence. Star Trek Discovery is another excellent installment in the franchise, and I suspect it is Star Wars fans trying to invite disagreement about Discovery supposedly being too progressive. Star Wars should just cease. Star Trek is far superior.

    1. Re:What a waste! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      Star Trak should cease. Star Wars is far superior, and official Star Wars merchandise is far superior. Star Trak is for people who aren't smart enough to think about science fiction. That's why you get monsters of the week and high school drama class acting. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace is another excellent installment in the franchise, and I suspect it is Star Trak fans trying to invite disagreement about The Phantom Menace supposedly being too intelligent. Star Trak should just cease. Star Wars is far superior.

    2. Re:What a waste! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I agree Star Trek is better but there seems to be some timeframe confusion. Star Trek died a noble death in 1999 and Star Wars in 1983 (ST went through some brief post-mortem spasms, but Insurrection and the cancellation of DS9 were unsurvivable). Everything since has been nothing but parading around their exhumed corpses in search of nostalgiabux.

    3. Re:What a waste! by aevan · · Score: 1

      ...read that in the voice from 'Terrible Secret of Space'. It fit.

    4. Re:What a waste! by lucm · · Score: 1

      Thank you for the link. That video is... unique.

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      lucm, indeed.
  2. Will it have lens flares FXAA HDR? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Since JJ Abrams will be responsible for two of the new films, it seems appropriate to include special lens flare rendering cores.

    But I doubt even NVIDIA has the magic ability to make JJ a good director.

  3. One word... by Spasmodeus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Moychandising!

    1. Re:One word... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Shitvertising, thanks Beau!

    2. Re:One word... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm still waiting for the flamethrower.

  4. FUCK YOUR ADVERTS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    It's lame and even more obvious than that, it's not newsworthy even for hardcore star wars dorks. Fails all around.

    1. Re:FUCK YOUR ADVERTS by lucm · · Score: 1

      Also the card sucks. It has 3 display ports and 1 hdmi port. There's simply no reason for that, unless nvidia stumbled upon a couple containers of discount display port sockets on alibaba.

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      lucm, indeed.
    2. Re:FUCK YOUR ADVERTS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I need four DisplayPorts, two for my Pimax 8K X and one each for my two monitors. I guess the HDMI connector can be used for my Vive until the Pimax arrives.

    3. Re:FUCK YOUR ADVERTS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I guess the HDMI connector can be used for my Vive until the Pimax arrives.

      Which will be never, sucker.

    4. Re:FUCK YOUR ADVERTS by lucm · · Score: 1

      I thought display port was still a thing specifically because it supports splitters.

      https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-...

      Three ports on a single card means that it can power 12 monitors, meanwhile because it has only 1 HDMI (and no dvi) you're basically fucked if you want to have what is completely normal, which is 2 monitors using HDMI and feeding desktop speakers from a monitor audio jack.

      The day they have audio on display ports they can put as many as they want, until then we need HDMI.

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      lucm, indeed.
    5. Re:FUCK YOUR ADVERTS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      The day they have audio on display ports they can put as many as they want, until then we need HDMI.

      lucm, lucm, we did that...ten years ago:

      Does DisplayPort also support audio?

      Yes, DisplayPort supports multi-channel audio and many advanced audio features. DisplayPort to HDMI adapters also include the ability to support HDMI audio.

    6. Re:FUCK YOUR ADVERTS by lucm · · Score: 0

      The day they have audio on display ports they can put as many as they want, until then we need HDMI.

      lucm, lucm, we did that...ten years ago:

      Does DisplayPort also support audio?

      Yes, DisplayPort supports multi-channel audio and many advanced audio features. DisplayPort to HDMI adapters also include the ability to support HDMI audio.

      I've never heard of display port audio working without an HDMI adapter, which basically makes it less useful than HDMI.

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      lucm, indeed.
  5. Yeah... no by oic0 · · Score: 2

    In 10 years it will be just as worthless as the standard one. Even while its good no one will know or care that you have it. About the only place you'll get to show it off is in your signature on forums. Might as well just lie and say you have one rather than pay the $1200 to feel justified in your signature bragging.

    1. Re:Yeah... no by Megane · · Score: 1

      You can then buy the limited-edition display card display case for the low, low price of $99.95.

      I've got to admit, the first thing I thought was that this was rather silly. Then I thought it a bit and realized that the people with really pimped-out cases might be able to make it fit in to a theme... if the cool artwork doesn't get hidden by the card in the next slot, that is.

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    2. Re:Yeah... no by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You think this is an example of "cool artwork"? wow. Just wow.

    3. Re:Yeah... no by Megane · · Score: 1

      You think I actually clicked on the link from a Slashdot article? wow. Just wow.

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    4. Re:Yeah... no by lucm · · Score: 1

      For the record, the card is not "modded", it only has a somewhat Star Wars inspired case. It's not a collector item except maybe for someone who collects lame things.

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      lucm, indeed.
    5. Re:Yeah... no by Megane · · Score: 1

      It's not a collector item except maybe for someone who collects lame things.

      And there aren't a lot of those kind of people in the collector market of absurdly popular things like Star Wars?

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  6. Collectable and video card? Really? by sandbagger · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This makes as much sense as a 14.4 USR Collectable Modem or floppy drive, or CRT. Computer subsystems might gather dust in a museum but aren't going to be tooled around with like old cars.

    This is just Disney doing a Scott Adams and sticking a logo on anything that has a shape. I never thought I'd say it, but this makes me think of Lucas as comparatively tasteful.

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    1. Re:Collectable and video card? Really? by Dutch+Gun · · Score: 1

      Ahahah, were you not around in the 70's and 80's? The Star Wars logo was stuck on anything and everything. Or maybe you just don't remember the Star Wars branded toothbrushes or bed covers. There was nothing tasteful about it.

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    2. Re:Collectable and video card? Really? by lucm · · Score: 2

      maybe you just don't remember the Star Wars branded toothbrushes or bed covers. There was nothing tasteful about it.

      TAKE THAT BACK. I had one of those bed covers as a kid and it was awesome. It was the Return of the Jedi one, with the flying bikes -- which are the coolest vehicles ever; fast, agile, with a built-in commlink jammer and a cool rugged paint job.

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    3. Re:Collectable and video card? Really? by Hognoxious · · Score: 1

      It's a rhetoical device. Sort of like:
      "Has your mom lost weight?"
      "No, she's just standing next to an elephant".

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      Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
    4. Re: Collectable and video card? Really? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      LOLOL. Thanks for this.

    5. Re:Collectable and video card? Really? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      NOT TRUE!

      I wanted a Darth Vader CPAP machine and Lucas shot it down.

  7. Unexpected costs? by BladeMelbourne · · Score: 4, Funny

    Do you have to pay EA extra to unlock all the GPU cores before playing Battlefront II?

    1. Re:Unexpected costs? by Dutch+Gun · · Score: 2

      Each locked GPU core will also be available after playing an hour. So, it's not like you *have* to pay extra, right?

      With 3,840 cores, that should take you a mere 1.8 years to unlock it's full potential, assuming you're playing games full-time.

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    2. Re:Unexpected costs? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No, you pay for a chance to unlock a core.

    3. Re:Unexpected costs? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No extra costs, but they do give you the ability to gain a sense of PRIDE AND ACCOMPLISHMENT if you decide to buy their GPLOOT Boxes, that randomly give you 950, 1050, or 1080 speeds.

      (After the beta, they decided to remove the ability to farm higher clocks, as that is not compelling or rewarding enough for EA's goals)

  8. Credit card by Myria · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does the video card come with a slot to insert your credit card for Nvidia DLC?

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    1. Re:mod/ down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      See this post kids? Drugs are bad.

    2. Re:mod/ down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I think a Russian bot has malfunctioned.

  10. How many lootboxes to unlock all cores? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Seems to be the thing with Star Wars branding. Just sayin...

  11. EA, really? by Jason1729 · · Score: 1

    NVIDIA just launched its fastest graphics card yet ...... In concert with EA's official launch today of Star Wars Battlefront II

    So....how are AMD GPUs these days?

    1. Re:EA, really? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Does nouveau support it?

  12. XP Graphics Card by ChunderDownunder · · Score: 1

    Will this Windows XP video board be fully supported under Windows 10?

    1. Re:XP Graphics Card by k_user · · Score: 1

      Just came here to see if someone would make this kind of joke and I'm not disappointed..

  13. Wattage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Recently, I purchased 2 1070s for a high performance computer at work, 2 1050s for home use and 6 1030s to upgrade some older computers.

    What I really like about the 1030s and 1050s is the wattage. There is a minimal power draw, no extra power cables to the card, and no 1200 watt power supply to purchase.

    At the moment, my 1050 is using 35 watts. That's money I don't have to spend on the power bill. I doubt that the people who purchase the Star Wars card will understand such concepts.

  14. Volta will be out any minute by JustNiz · · Score: 1

    Your $1200 only buys you maybe 3 months at most of being the fastest card on the planet, after that is just more of yesterdays tech.

  15. Plays robotron... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    M6809 1MHz
    M6808 890kHz

    wait why is this more fun?

  16. Imperial crypto mining by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Now Misha cans grinds imperial cryptocroedits.

    Nvidia Titan JarJar edition.