{"video_id":"3zhLSCj4AwA","title":"Why Is The NVIDIA Titan Even A Thing?","channel":"Techquickie","show":"Techquickie","published_at":"2021-05-05T14:58:16Z","duration_s":305,"segments":[{"start_s":0.0,"end_s":6.16,"text":"when you hear titan you might think ancient greek god saturn's largest moon","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.08,"end_s":9.599,"text":"or a football team from nashville but in the tech world it brings to mind the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":7.839,"end_s":14.4,"text":"NVIDIA titan lineup which has represented team green's most expensive","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":11.599,"end_s":18.48,"text":"gpus since 2013. and today we're gonna take a little trip down memory lane as","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":16.4,"end_s":22.4,"text":"we look at the history of the titan and why exactly it's a separate lineup of","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":20.24,"end_s":26.56,"text":"cards in the first place you see unlike the 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you might think ancient greek god saturn's largest moon or a football team from nashville but in the tech world it brings to mind the NVIDIA titan lineup which has represented team green's most expensive gpus since 2013. and today we're gonna take a little trip down memory lane as we look at the history of the titan and why exactly it's a separate lineup of cards in the first place you see unlike the numbered GeForce cards that most gamers gravitate toward the titan series is aimed at users who need GPU compute that is using the GPU for applications other than gaming as we explained in this video gpus are fundamentally different than regular cpus and that they're designed to perform well with parallel workloads tasks that can be readily split up and worked on by different parts of the processor simultaneously good examples of these workloads are artificial intelligence machine learning editing video professional rendering large-scale data analysis and scientific research in fact if you look at the product page for the latest rtx titan you don't see NVIDIA even say a word about the card's gaming performance don't get me wrong though titan cards are still excellent gaming cards and when the original gtx titan came out in 2013 reviewers were gushing over how it was the best single GPU solution out there for gamers with the titan often beating out the then top end gtx 680 by around 50 in terms of frame rate thanks to having over a thousand more stream processors even though its clock speed was a little lower 2014 saw us get the titan black and titan z although they were based around the same gk110 processor as the original titan the black edition had higher clocks while the z was an incredibly expensive dual GPU card that came in at around a whopping three thousand dollars although it was insanely powerful a pair of gtx 780 ti's featuring the same GPU could be had for less than half the cost and remember this was back when dual graphics card setups had a lot more appeal than they do today adding to the confusion was that gaming was still a big part of how NVIDIA was marketing the card even though the the 780 ti's in sli was a cheaper solution the next iteration of the titan was 2015's titan x which was the first titan not to be based on the kepler architecture which was confusingly followed up the next year by a card with the same name with a pascal GPU instead which NVIDIA pushed as being a vr solution as virtual reality headsets need to push high frame rates and resolutions to avoid breaking immersion as well as causing motion sickness 2017 brought the volta based titan v and the titan xp which was a slightly more powerful version of the pascal titan x but by this point NVIDIA was really getting away from its messaging that build titan as a good card for pc gamers flush with cash and as we mentioned earlier the rtx titan from 2018 was barely marketed to gamers at all and it makes sense since gamers have shied away from the titan due to its being bad value for the money but why is it so expensive one reason is that titan cards offer more vram than gpus further down the stack sometimes a lot more for example the rtx titan comes with a whopping 24 gigabytes of gddr6 more than twice as much as the 1080 ti and unlike with your main system memory you can't just add more RAM to a graphics card and for those working with large data sets for research or for machine learning having enough vram to store all that data the GPU is working on can make a big difference there's also the fact that sli setups have been plagued with problems for years and folks who can afford two high-end gpus might be interested in a pricey single GPU solution in order to get bleeding edge performance without dealing with shaky driver or application support and of course because the titan is positioned in the market as a compute card lots of titan customers are businesses and other organizations that won't bulk at the high price tag for example a research university probably wouldn't think twice about spending an extra thousand bucks on a graphics card the same way a home user that's been scrimping and saving would the good news of course is that if you're just chasing high frame rates in your favorite games you're not missing much by skipping the titan except knowing that you have more expensive toys than your neighbor makes me feel good this video is sponsored by world of warships world of warships is a free-to-play strategy action game where you can battle it out with over 7 million players worldwide each in-game ship is based on 3d scans of real-life ships and there are over 200 ships to unlock like the historic uss missouri and uss arizona with four classes of ships a bunch of upgrades weather effects and strategically designed environments the action never ends and every match is completely different and submarines are coming soon which will offer even more variety of gameplay new players can use code ready for battle 2020 to receive 250 doubloons 1 million credits the uss charleston 3 days premium time 1 port slot and more check them out in the link below so thanks for watching guys if you like this video please give it a thumbs up please hit subscribe and please hit us up in the comments section with your suggestions for topics that we should cover in the future"}