now the first thing you might think of when you hear Titan for NVIDIA's latest
graphics card is it must be absolutely
huge whoa look how big it is whoa
actually it's not that big so the Titan is compared to previous generation
GeForce graphics cards like the 680
which was up till now the highest end single GPU Kepler card is pretty much
the same compared to a last generation
dual GPU card the GTX 590 it
is um oh is it shorter is it shorter than a 590 it is shorter than a 590 oh
that's cool okay so it's shorter than a 590 when we go way back to the launch
premium firmy card we find out the Titan is exactly the same but how does it
compare to other gpus that you might have in your system just for
comparison's sake so this right here is a reference GeForce GTX 650
TI yeah that's a 650 TI right yeah it's
a 650 TI so this guy right here is only
a mirror 6 in long so by comparison the
Titan which I'm going to swap out right
here actually you know what let's have the Titan here for comparison with
everything else so that's a 6 in card so
you want to check your case because the Titan is going to fit as long as your
case accepts gpus that are 27 CM or 10 1
12 in in length so here's a 6in card
okay here's a 560 TI reference card for
comparison so that right there is a 9in
card so you can see there's an extra inch and a half here I'm just going to
bring out the 680 again so the 6 70 remember is the same length as the 680
so actually the Titan is a touch longer than a 680 I was wrong about that so the
680 is a 10in card and the Titan is as we measured before a 10 and 1 12 inch
card finally the 7970 which is the
closest thing to a competitor for a single GPU card from the red Camp is 11
in Long now this was a funny decision that AMD made because you can see right
here the PCB is not actually 11 in Long the PCB is only about 10 and wow look at
that 10 and a in so it could have easily been the same length as the Titan but
they opted to go with an extra bit of
plastic on the other end which was a very odd decision so it's a single GPU
card that has a PCB that's as big as a
690 or a 590 why did they do that well
couple things so it has six gigs of memory so it's loaded up to the nines
with memory on this side and on the other side it also has one of the large
well no the largest GPU with 7.1 bill
billion transistors ever made so you're going to have to have a very complicated
power delivery system in order to make sure that that bad boy stays fed it has
a beastly cooler so you can see there's a huge aluminum fin stack both on this
side and this side which is over top of a vapor chamber and last but not least
why does it need that complex vrm uh
that's for GPU Boost 2.0 which dynamically adjusts the voltage the fan
speed and the clock speed of the card to hit various targets which are actually
user definable on this particular card so what would it look like in a small
chassis because one of the great things about Titan is it actually performs
better and runs quieter than GTX 680 so
this is what it would look like in the kind of enclosure where you might often
see a GTX Titan this enclosure accepts
up to a 280 mm card and you can see
Titan fits in there just nicely this is an ITX case and I think that pretty much
wraps it up for our physical side look at the GeForce GTX Titan don't forget to
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I forgot something whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa we were almost oh yes ah okay so
when we're talking thousand video cards like the Titan then we have to start
talking about other super uber expensive
video cards like say for example the
ASUS Aries 2 so this guy right here is a
liquid cooled dual 7970 GHz Edition card
that comes with an extra radiator and is
as you can clearly see much larger than a Titan so if you're concerned about a
Titan fitting in your case you better be really concerned about this guy it's almost a foot long right there it is
actually taller than a standard board so a standard board would actually be only
about uh 4 in high whereas this board is
five inches high so there's a full extra inch along the top plus it requires a
radiator to actually cool the Dual GPU
so that's a thick single 120 millimeter radiator stay tuned and don't forget to
subscribe to lus Tech chips because we will be testing the Titan against the
Aries 2 to see who is the king of the
ludicrously fast expensive gpus although probably more appropriate test would be
two Aries 2os versus three Titans because that would then be about the same price I don't know if we can get
our hands on three Titans and two Aries 2os
but yeah and