let's begin with the important stuff the v in titan v isn't a roman numeral there
have actually been six titans now making this one number seven
instead it directly signifies the volta
architecture that this card is based on
and to further drive home the point that it is not a gaming oriented card NVIDIA
has decided to forego the GeForce gtx in the product name not
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so to help manage overhead our test setup is a little different this time
around we're going to be testing our productivity and our gaming loads on our
z270 bench for its fast per thread performance while we'll be doing our
scientific testing on our x299 bench
where those workloads are more likely to benefit from the extra CPU cores
let's kick things off then with the boring sciency stuff i'm just kidding so
titan v manages a higher
percentile frame rate in deus ex mankind divided than the second place titan xps
in directx 11 mode then it continues the
curb stompage in directx 12. middle
earth shadow of war also sees a huge spike in performance over the titan xp
and while assassin's creed origins dials things back a little the titan v still
ends up on top so i don't even really need to say it but given these scores
and our synthetic results titan v is right now hands down the fastest card on
the market for gaming and it isn't even supposed to be
what sets this titan apart is its fp16
and fp64 performance along with the inclusion of NVIDIA's new tensor cores
which are special compute units that are optimized for deep learning and ai
oh and while we're at it NVIDIA is also showing off hbm2 memory for the first
time in a titan so v does end up with a smaller frame
buffer than the vega workstation cards or the hbm2 equipped quadro gp100
but it may end up making up for that
through sheer brute force its whopping
5120 cuda cores should make it the
fastest card available for compute
should but when we first took the shrink wrap
off and loaded up some compute benchmarks we actually found that many
cuda focused tasks simply wouldn't run well it turns out
that while previous generation cards were built around cuda compatibility
version 6.1 and earlier
volta and by extension the titan v bumps
this up to 7.0 and new compute kernels
need to be compiled to support it so blender most coin mining algorithms and
other tests were affected with users reporting even more incompatibilities
that we didn't see oh i'm getting flashbacks to the vega
frontier edition thankfully the opencl layer still works
though so we can get rough numbers for benchmarks that support NVIDIA cards in
opencl mode with the caveat that opencl
does have some overhead compared to cuda starting off with luxmark we've got
wow are these numbers even right
luxmark is super paralyzed so those
extra cuda cores pulled double the performance of the titan xp and
far higher than even the quadro gp100
chaos group's render suite v-ray brings us another win for the titan v shaving a
cool three seconds off the gp 100 in second place moving on to compubench we
see the gap close for the level set segmentation benchmarks but then the
titan v pulls way out ahead in the computer vision optical flow benchmark
leaving everything else well in the dust and it continues to assert its dominance
in most of spec view perf where 3ds max
kittia maya energy and showcase all have
it at the top but it should be noted that the quadros do fire back in some of
the other tests thanks to their enhanced driver code paths
as for coin mining well the rumors are
true it is a beast especially an eighth hash
but with that said the three thousand dollar price tag is going to kill your
roi time and it doesn't even win in every scenario vega frontier handily
outperforms it in kryptonite
that's a lot of testing and it looks like volta is mostly living
up to its promises so far but we've got
one more test up our sleeves for its compute performance deep learning
using imagenet 12 on caf2 titan v
managed a significant lead at both
tested batch size thanks to its tensor cores
but maybe even more interestingly it even wins without them enabled
against the gp 100 a truly monstrous
feat because for context you guys that card is still almost triple the
price well okay then lioness fine
volta is great for compute big whoop what does that mean for me
okay i'll get to that first we need to talk about thermals and
power because this bit is really important while titan v manages to throttle a bit
harder than the gp100 and the gtx 1080
ti in our testing and while it has the
second highest idle power draw in our entire test lineup
thanks at least partially to NVIDIA using tsmc's 12 nanometer manufacturing
process it's also got the lowest full load power
draw which is bonkers considering everything we know about its overall
performance so then back to your question what this means for you is that
the slightly cut down and maybe
higher clocked enthusiast consumer variants without any tensor cores are
going to be mind-bogglingly fast
but that's a conversation for another day here and now what we have is a
quadro killer at a third of the price
for most workloads and one that can game
faster than anything that's ever come before it
though i'm not saying you should go out and buy one if raw horsepower for compute is your
jam and you won't benefit from a bigger frame buffer or multi GPU with nvlink
these connectors they're dead you're looking at your next card right
here though you'll need to roll your own cuda kernels or wait until compatibility
level 7 is mainstream by which time there will probably be a quadro variant
as for the gamers well the lack of g-force in the branding says
it all it is just not worth it even for
you mr or ms mega baller over there i mean
do you really want something that's not even sli compatible anyway
so you have to run a single card in your system like some kind of a peasant
so think of the v not as something to buy
but as more of a teaser for what may come in 2018
i know that i'm feeling sufficiently teased right about now
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