Slashdot Mirror
Nvidia Announces 'Nvidia Titan V' Video Card: GV100 for $3000 (anandtech.com)
Nvidia has announced the Titan V, the "world's most powerful PC GPU." It's based on Nvidia's Volta, the same architecture as the Nvidia Tesla V100 GPUs behind Amazon Web Service's recently launched top-end P3 instances, which are dedicated to artificial-intelligence applications. From a report: A mere 7 months after Volta was announced with the Tesla V100 accelerator and the GV100 GPU inside it, Nvidia continues its breakneck pace by releasing the GV100-powered Titan V, available for sale today. Aimed at a decidedly more compute-oriented market than ever before, the 815 mm2 behemoth die that is GV100 is now available to the broader public. [...] The Titan V, by extension, sees the Titan lineup finally switch loyalties and start using Nvidia's high-end compute-focused GPUs, in this case the Volta architecture based V100. The end result is that rather than being Nvidia's top prosumer card, the Titan V is decidedly more focused on compute, particularly due to the combination of the price tag and the unique feature set that comes from using the GV100 GPU. Which isn't to say that you can't do graphics on the card -- this is still very much a video card, outputs and all -- but Nvidia is first and foremost promoting it as a workstation-level AI compute card, and by extension focusing on the GV100 GPU's unique tensor cores and the massive neural networking performance advantages they offer over earlier Nvidia cards.
It's like a number crunching daughtercard that can maybe do video too as a secondary feature.
Somehow, I seriously doubt it.
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
Microsoft will use your $3000 GPU for high-end AI telemetry.
It's funny because I used to think AMD's drivers were crap, but since switching from an AMD A-10 to an NVidia GTX, and updated drivers, all kinds of bugs and errors manifest. What good is a $3000 video board if the drivers are acting up?
I'll wait until I can purchase it for $100.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these
Before we get the deluge of "What's this used for?" we need to take a look at the specs.
Float64 performance is only 1/2 of float32 -- WOW! This thing is built for number crunching! (The original Titan has 1/3 float64 performance. Gamers screamed bloody murder when it sold at $1,000 but they weren't the target audience.)
Bandwidth has been neutered at only 653 GB/sec due to the 3,072 bit Memory Bus Width compared to 900 GB/sec of the Tesla V100.
Compared to spending to $10,000 at $3,000 this is basically the "poor man's" Tesla V100 specifically designed for AI. I see the full 640 Tensor Cores.
TL:DR; If you are doing number crunching (C's "double"), or AI / ML (machine learning) this might be a bargain GPU. Otherwise, it has almost zero practical value from a Gamer's POV.
Now systemd will drive our graphics stack! Why can't we program our games in init scripts?
What? With this Up Start? Naw!
Until they release the 5000 buck Collector's edition with Nvidia Titan dancing badge.
Can it run Crysis?
But can it run Crysis?
Hi! I make Firefox Plug-ins. Check 'em out @ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-mp3-podcaster/
Normally, this kind of graphic cards are supported by the proprietary closed-source drivers for Linux, and corresponding CUDA SDK.
It wouldn't make much sense for Nvidia to NOT release Linux support for it, as an GPU-based AI-accelerator, they would be missing on the big Linux HPC market segment (common is there any super computer still rellevant nowadays that doesn't run any unix ?)
Though they would definitely be supporting Windows too (not to miss on the lucrative "extreme gamer enthousiast" market, and people working in graphics)
The whole point of Nvidia's proprietary Linux driver is that they can share code base with their Windows drivers.
(And it doesn't matter if this driver doesn't properly mode set onlinux : on Linux Titan V are most likely to end-up on headless compute nodes on some cluster)
(Neither does it matter if this driver can't properly resume after a suspend : on Linux Titan Vs aren't going to be used in laptops. Ever).
"Sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from reality." - [Tips: 1DrYakQDKCQ6y52z6QbnkxHXAocMZJE61o ]
What good is a $3000 video board if the drivers are acting up?
The main target segment for this card is scientific computation.
Most of the Titan Vs sold are going to end-up on Linux compute nodes in some universities or other.
Their output connectors are almost not likely to get plugged into anything ever.
Not a problem if their Direct X drivers are acting up a bit.
CUDA SDK is the thing that they most definitely need to get working right.
In terms of volume sold, the few hardcore extreme enthusiast gamers who are going to stuff them into Windows workstations are only icing on the cake.
It's funny because I used to think AMD's drivers were crap, but since switching from an AMD A-10 to an NVidia GTX, and updated drivers, all kinds of bugs and errors manifest.
AMD drivers crap ?
On windows, maybe. (Haven't tested since long time ago)
On Linux, since AMD finished transitioning to the opensource stack (well except for the ROCm/OpenCL bits and the current opensource source Vulkan still not being the official AMD one), their drivers are among the best.
"Sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from reality." - [Tips: 1DrYakQDKCQ6y52z6QbnkxHXAocMZJE61o ]
How fast will it scroll text in my terminal?
Yeah how does it handle Crysis on max?