i have some great news for anyone out there who ran out and bought two of
NVIDIA's collector's edition titan xp star wars graphics cards for a total of
twenty four hundred dollars to run an
sli and that is
that the new titan v which will actually outperform that
configuration in many games for just 600
more doesn't
have any star wars branding on it whatsoever
so as long as you buy your card purely for star wars and not for performance
you should feel pretty good right now okay now technically
this box has already been opened because Anthony is already hard at work on our
full review of this card but i still wanted to go through the unboxing
experience with you guys because damn it i spent three thousand
dollars on this graphics card so i intend to milk it to the fullest extent
that i can and to that end
nope not working okay here we go so it comes with some documentation
including a quick start guide and a support guide that's actually unusual
for these uh well right this isn't a sample card i
was going to say the samples never come with these uh
okay that's not very interesting titan v
support guide okay yeah well that's not very interesting
either uh it also comes with one of these i'm not sure what it is yet
but it better be gold
just like the card because if i'm gonna spend
three thousand dollars on a graphics card everything should be
silver silver DisplayPort to dvi adapter
hey if i intended to do that it was a good shot all right
and then we've got it right here
the titan v graphics card so
what do they have to say for themselves oh right 5
120 cuda cores so compared to the titan
xp which is an incredibly powerful card in its own right that's got 3
3840 cuda core so we are expecting this to be 20 25 faster right out of the gate
then it has the same amount of memory 12 gigs
but it's using hbm2 memory so that is
much much faster which may or may not have a
ton of applicability in gaming but will definitely help with the titan v's
intended use case which is apparently like deep learning uh ai
and really the same kinds of workloads as NVIDIA's v100 as NVIDIA's v100 the
only card that they've got on the market already using this same volta
architecture now you guys might be looking at
a 3 000 graphics card here going well
that's an unreasonable amount of money and
i would be inclined to agree with you but compared to that tesla v100 it's
actually less than a third of the price with much of the same capability so it
is a little bit slower and as you can see here the nv link fingers that you
probably saw previously when we showed off the gp100 are actually covered and
to our knowledge they are disabled so it does not support nvlink
but other than that for someone working on you know an ai type workload on a
desktop this aims to be the ultimate experience
with all that said you guys want to see it game i'm sure so
so i'm going to save the detailed run-through of our entire test suite for
Anthony's review but i still want to have a quick look at how the titan v
compares to the titan xp so here's the
settings we're using in gta 5 uh 3840 by
2160 i will change that to full screen but
in terms of what settings we're using fxaa
very high or high sort of across the
board here tessellation high and then all the advanced stuff turned on
so i've already got my numbers for the titan xp
let's go ahead and shut this baby down and get a new graphics card installed
you know i gotta say i am not
a huge fan of the gold id
it really smacks of well apple's doing it
but not in a tasteful way like this is
by far NVIDIA's tackiest looking graphics card
in the last you know three four years anyway
it's really ugly
like look and i like i realize this is
maybe seemingly insignificant complaint
for something that's designed for professional use
um and is you know capable of gaming but it's really a professional card
but at this kind of price it should be
perfect there it is there's our titan v powered up for the
first time ever only 3 000 us dollars
i think it included free shipping though so ah here we go
the first image it's ever output
it's like when we think about how long we're actually going to use this card
because we bought it strictly for comparative testing like benchmarking
against other things like it's costing me you know a dollar per minute to run
it so i'm gonna
take it in i need a drink
no water left
it's out for solid water
come on
all right so i'm just dialing in my settings here because grand theft auto
is a giant piece of crap when it comes
to actually remembering what you want
apply and
benchmark benchmark tests
i haven't actually looked at any results that are online yet so this will be my
first experience titan xp with storm
versus titan v wow listen to that coil line
you hear that listen to it so there's a black screen
right now listen to it when i hear i'll get in close
wait for it
i'm trying really hard i'm trying hard
yeah we got it it's kind of crazy to think that we've
gotten to the point though where running grand theft auto at 4k
at very high settings is maybe
not demanding enough to see a huge
separation between graphics cards we might even be CPU limited a little bit
here even though i'm running a 5960x extreme
edition all right
so oh wow uh
okay so just so you guys know this is where you're looking
um uh
wow that is not better um
so
we can't draw any really concrete conclusions right now this is one game
at one resolution against one other card and one set of
in-game settings um but what we can say for certain is
that right now the titan v is not a
great value compared even to NVIDIA's titan xp which is not a great value
compared to the 1080 ti
with that said the word on the street is that NVIDIA is
planning an architecture that's sort of
based on some of the same principles as volta but that doesn't have some of the
deep learning like tensor core stuff built into it so that it can be a little
bit less expensive and hopefully we're gonna see that sometime in 2018
but for now titan v is not a card for gamers
as expected so thanks for watching this uh unboxing
and um lesson on
buyer's remorse is it a lesson did we learn anything
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