GTX Titan Physical Comparison Size & Length vs ARES 2 GTX 680 7970 Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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now the first thing you might think of when you hear Titan for NVIDIA's latest
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graphics card is it must be absolutely
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huge whoa look how big it is whoa
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actually it's not that big so the Titan is compared to previous generation
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GeForce graphics cards like the 680
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which was up till now the highest end single GPU Kepler card is pretty much
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the same compared to a last generation
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dual GPU card the GTX 590 it
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is um oh is it shorter is it shorter than a 590 it is shorter than a 590 oh
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that's cool okay so it's shorter than a 590 when we go way back to the launch
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premium firmy card we find out the Titan is exactly the same but how does it
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compare to other gpus that you might have in your system just for
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comparison's sake so this right here is a reference GeForce GTX 650
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TI yeah that's a 650 TI right yeah it's
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a 650 TI so this guy right here is only
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a mirror 6 in long so by comparison the
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Titan which I'm going to swap out right
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here actually you know what let's have the Titan here for comparison with
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everything else so that's a 6 in card so
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you want to check your case because the Titan is going to fit as long as your
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case accepts gpus that are 27 CM or 10 1
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12 in in length so here's a 6in card
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okay here's a 560 TI reference card for
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comparison so that right there is a 9in
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card so you can see there's an extra inch and a half here I'm just going to
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bring out the 680 again so the 6 70 remember is the same length as the 680
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so actually the Titan is a touch longer than a 680 I was wrong about that so the
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680 is a 10in card and the Titan is as we measured before a 10 and 1 12 inch
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card finally the 7970 which is the
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closest thing to a competitor for a single GPU card from the red Camp is 11
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in Long now this was a funny decision that AMD made because you can see right
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here the PCB is not actually 11 in Long the PCB is only about 10 and wow look at
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that 10 and a in so it could have easily been the same length as the Titan but
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they opted to go with an extra bit of
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plastic on the other end which was a very odd decision so it's a single GPU
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card that has a PCB that's as big as a
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690 or a 590 why did they do that well
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couple things so it has six gigs of memory so it's loaded up to the nines
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with memory on this side and on the other side it also has one of the large
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well no the largest GPU with 7.1 bill
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billion transistors ever made so you're going to have to have a very complicated
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power delivery system in order to make sure that that bad boy stays fed it has
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a beastly cooler so you can see there's a huge aluminum fin stack both on this
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side and this side which is over top of a vapor chamber and last but not least
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why does it need that complex vrm uh
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that's for GPU Boost 2.0 which dynamically adjusts the voltage the fan
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speed and the clock speed of the card to hit various targets which are actually
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user definable on this particular card so what would it look like in a small
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chassis because one of the great things about Titan is it actually performs
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better and runs quieter than GTX 680 so
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this is what it would look like in the kind of enclosure where you might often
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see a GTX Titan this enclosure accepts
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up to a 280 mm card and you can see
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Titan fits in there just nicely this is an ITX case and I think that pretty much
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wraps it up for our physical side look at the GeForce GTX Titan don't forget to
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subscribe to lus Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer oh
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I forgot something whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa we were almost oh yes ah okay so
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when we're talking thousand video cards like the Titan then we have to start
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talking about other super uber expensive
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video cards like say for example the
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ASUS Aries 2 so this guy right here is a
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liquid cooled dual 7970 GHz Edition card
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that comes with an extra radiator and is
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as you can clearly see much larger than a Titan so if you're concerned about a
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Titan fitting in your case you better be really concerned about this guy it's almost a foot long right there it is
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actually taller than a standard board so a standard board would actually be only
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about uh 4 in high whereas this board is
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five inches high so there's a full extra inch along the top plus it requires a
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radiator to actually cool the Dual GPU
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so that's a thick single 120 millimeter radiator stay tuned and don't forget to
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subscribe to lus Tech chips because we will be testing the Titan against the
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Aries 2 to see who is the king of the
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ludicrously fast expensive gpus although probably more appropriate test would be
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two Aries 2os versus three Titans because that would then be about the same price I don't know if we can get
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our hands on three Titans and two Aries 2os
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but yeah and