NVIDIA Titan V Benchmarks Show Volta GPU Compute, Mining and Gaming Strength (hothardware.com)

MojoKid shares a report from Hot Hardware: Although NVIDIA officially unveiled its Volta-based GV100 GPU a few months ago, the NVIDIA TITAN V featuring the GV100 began shipping just this past week. The card targets a very specific audience and is designed for professional and academic deep learning applications, which partly explains its lofty $3,000 price tag. Unlike NVIDIA's previous-gen consumer flagship, the TITAN Xp, the TITAN V is not designed for gamers. However, since it features NVIDIA's latest GPU architecture, it potentially foreshadows next-year's consumer-targeted GeForce cards that could possibly be based on Volta. The massive 21.1 billion transistor GV100 GPU powering the TITAN V has a base clock of 1,200MHz and a boost clock of 1,455MHz. The card has 12GB of HBM2 memory on-board that is linked to the GPU via a 3072-bit interface, offering up 652.8 GB/s of peak bandwidth, which is about 100GB/s more than a TITAN Xp. Other features of the GV100 include 5,120 single-precision CUDA cores, 2,560 double-precision FP64 cores, and 630 Tensor cores. Although the card is not designed for gamers, the fact remains that the TITAN V significantly outpaces every other graphics card in a variety of games with the highest image quality settings. In GPU compute workloads, the TITAN V is much more dominant and can offer many times the performance of a high-end NVIDIA TITAN Xp or AMD Radeon RX Vega 64. Finally, when it comes to Ethereum mining, NVIDIA's Titan V is far and away the fastest GPU on the planet currently.

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Cost

[TFlan91]

At 82 MH/s, 250 watts, you can pay for this puppy in just under 14.5 months!

Re: Cost

[K. S. Kyosuke]

And "significantly outpacing other cards in games" means being about 15% faster on average for more than twice the cost. And let's not even speak of the GPGPU claims.

Re: Cost

[ravenshrike]

In properly coded DX12 games its performance directly scales with the increased CUDA cores. Which means it's not actually any better than Pascal, they just stuffed more crap on there.

Re:Cost

[war4peace]

Um, no.
This ridiculous argument was flung around for years and was always wrong.
The 5 dollars a day you make NOW do multiply by themselves as time goes by. My 3 dollars a day from one year ago are now 55. My 3 dollars a day from August are now 12.
I know people who spend a couple grands on GPUs 7 months ago and what they mined using those GPUs is now worth four grands if not more. One guy cashed out the two grands last month and all he makes now is profit.

Sure, Bitcoin might tank and the investment might never pay off, but that doesn't make the assumption any less wrong. The X dollars a day from today might be worth a lot more or a lot less in the future. So far the former was true. I don't know if the trend is going to continue, personally I give it 6 months, maybe a year until it tanks.

With that being said, I agree that it makes no sense to buy a 3k card for mining only, and not even for mining+gaming. The fact remains, after you read the articles and reviews: Volta is a great architecture step-up, with excellent efficiency and plenty raw power to boot. The baseline has been established, looking forward to see normally-priced cards based on this architecture. Until then, I'm happily mining with my single water-cooled GTX 1080 and making bits of virtual currency without hope of being rich. It's like a lil' hobby of mine.

Re:Who gives a SHIT?

[Anonymous Coward]

Hear, hear! Most people would be better off spending $3000 on a decent bike and cycling equipment, and going (shudder!) outside in the fresh air and sunshine, getting some exercise, and losing that fat ass they've acquired over the years of sitting on it playing with silly computers. Never know, guys, you might actually meet a girl (you know, the fleshy, living, human kind) who thinks you're cute and will (shocking!) talk to you!

This option has been available for many years

[RhettLivingston]

The only thing really new here is the marketing change. This is essentially an NVidia Quadro card being marketed to the consumer market instead of the business market.

Any gamer who has wanted power this far above the other gaming cards has had the option of buying a Quadro for ages. Back in 2005, I was gaming with a dual Xeon, dual Quadro GPU, quad display system. The cards cost several thousand instead of topping at around a thousand.

There are still higher end cards than this one if you have the money to spend.

Re:This option has been available for many years

[WilliamGeorge]

The big difference here, and something that most Quadro cards don't even have, is the high double-precision (FP64) performance. The original Titan had good performance there too, for its time, but later Titans were more like the GeForce cards: they had crippled FP64. Most Quadro cards do as well, though there have been some of the top-end models that had good FP64. Tesla cards are normally the ones that specialize in that, but those are far more expensive than the Titan V and they don't have video outputs. They also often require specialized cooling. Being able to bring massive FP64 performance to a desktop / workstation will be really good for some users!

The addition of Tensor Cores in Volta (and thus the Titan V) could also be nice... but not much uses that yet. It will likely be restricted to inference engines, but being able to test those quickly without additional hardware could be handy.

For more 'normal' applications, the Titan V also does really well with GPU based rendering. Maybe not well enough to justify the price, but if you need the most performance from just 1-2 cards (in a compact system, for example) it is a great performer. See the results in this article from V-Ray and Furryball:

https://www.pugetsystems.com/b...

Re:This option has been available for many years

[Anonymous Coward]

No, quadros have terrible gaming performance.

Re:This option has been available for many years

[alvinrod]

Quadro cards weren't necessarily more powerful than the consumer cards (typically its the same GPU die with slightly lower clock speeds and significantly more memory) based on that same architecture. The biggest difference was that they just had the professional drivers that people doing CAD work, 3D modeling, etc. wanted and could justify the added expense for.

Also you must have been running with two cards or some kind of X2 card as I don't believe that NVidia made any single card solutions that supported 4 monitors back then.

Ethereum?!

[DontBeAMoran]

Finally, when it comes to Ethereum mining, NVIDIA's Titan V is far and away the fastest GPU on the planet currently.

But how does it perform when mining a real crypto-currency like Dogecoin?

Re:Ethereum?!

[perpenso]

Finally, when it comes to Ethereum mining, NVIDIA's Titan V is far and away the fastest GPU on the planet currently.

But how does it perform when mining a real crypto-currency like Dogecoin?

With etherium switching from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake in early 2018 that may be a more meaningful question than some people realize. ;-)

Etherium Mining

[dave562]

How long until it pays for itself?

Re:Etherium Mining

[perpenso]

How long until it pays for itself?

With etherium mining ending in a few months as it switches from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake, never.

Re:Etherium Mining

[war4peace]

Oh no, since when is ETH the only mineable cryptocurrency out there?

Re:Etherium Mining

[perpenso]

Oh no, since when is ETH the only mineable cryptocurrency out there?

Its not, but in general its one of the few coins people might want. If they think GPU mining is a way to get ETH at a discount they might want to know about the switch. Could they mine other coins, yes, but then its questionable if they can sell those and get ETH at a discount. They might be better off spending the money that would go to GPU and electricity to buy ETH directly given how ETH is growing faster than other alt-coins.

If you have a nice GPU for other reasons then mining alt-coins can be a useful thing to do when you're not using the GPU for those other reasons. If you are buying the GPU for only mining then things get a lot more complicated.

Re:Etherium Mining

[war4peace]

I currently mine Vertcoin (this month).
January will be Monero and then Karbowanec (February) and then Monacoin (March).
One coin per month, just for kicks.

Yes I bought a video card for gaming but I only do that for 2h a day, meaning it would idle for 22h a day, and being watercooled means it reaches 49 degrees Celsius tops while mining at any point in time, that's lower temperature than a regular aircooled card during idle.

Re:Who gives a SHIT?

[OneHundredAndTen]

Does one really need a $3000 bike for doing some exercise and getting some fresh air? A bike one tenth of that will not do? Really?

Filthy 1080Ti peasants

[Billly Gates]

For you are weak and I am mighty ..

Re:Who gives a SHIT?

[UnknownSoldier]

> better off spending $3000 on a decent bike

* Walking is still free.

* Spending $3K on a hobby -- when you don't even know if you will even LIKE it -- is dumb. It is FAR more prudent to spend $500 ~ $750 and get a decent starter bike and THEN decide if spending more money on your hobby is worth it.

> you might actually meet a girl

You are assuming:

* everyone has this goal. Yet another money + time sink to keep us away from our hobbies. Plus, hairy palms is FAR cheaper in the long run, and one never has to worry about being betrayed, or catching something. Also saves times from all the stupid arguments and whining over "Why won't you waste money buying me an over priced rock that has ZERO resell value?". Engagement Rings Are a Scam - Adam Ruins Everything
* everyone is straight.

Etherium mining ends in a few months ...

[perpenso]

At 82 MH/s, 250 watts, you can pay for this puppy in just under 14.5 months!

But etherium is switching from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake in early 2018, so in a few months there will be no more etherium mining to do. ;-)

Save yourself a ton of money

[OrangeTide]

Do what the guy who stole my bike did.

Bike?

[ArchieBunker]

For $3000 I could buy a fun beater car to ride around in.

Re:Who gives a SHIT?

[ravenshrike]

With 3000 dollars they should buy a halfway decent used gym set including an exercise bike, stairmaster, light weight set, and rowing machine.

Re:Who gives a SHIT?

[religionofpeas]

Actually, in most cases, a $300 bike will get your more exercise, because it's heavier. And probably more comfortable to ride.

Re:Who gives a SHIT?

[Luckyo]

Unlikely. Miners care about cost of the rig + electricity vs returns. That's why they don't care about 1070 and higher grade cards all that much. It's the 1060s that get snapped up, as they are in the sweet spot.

Re:Deep machine learning, LOL

[war4peace]

The one who doesn't shed hair, bark, stink, shit and leave "snail tracks" all over the place.

Re:Yawn. Wake me when they release the Vulva GPU.

[war4peace]

Hopefully never. I'm an asshole, and competition ain't good.

Re:Get a new hobby

[thechemic]

Tell that to the US Government!