Early Access Hardware? NVIDIA’s $3,000 Titan V!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,442 words · ~7 min read
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let's begin with the important stuff the v in titan v isn't a roman numeral there
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have actually been six titans now making this one number seven
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instead it directly signifies the volta
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architecture that this card is based on
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and to further drive home the point that it is not a gaming oriented card NVIDIA
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has decided to forego the GeForce gtx in the product name not
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that we won't game on it of course after i tell you guys about ifixit their
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so to help manage overhead our test setup is a little different this time
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around we're going to be testing our productivity and our gaming loads on our
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z270 bench for its fast per thread performance while we'll be doing our
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scientific testing on our x299 bench
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where those workloads are more likely to benefit from the extra CPU cores
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let's kick things off then with the boring sciency stuff i'm just kidding so
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titan v manages a higher
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percentile frame rate in deus ex mankind divided than the second place titan xps
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in directx 11 mode then it continues the
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curb stompage in directx 12. middle
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earth shadow of war also sees a huge spike in performance over the titan xp
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and while assassin's creed origins dials things back a little the titan v still
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ends up on top so i don't even really need to say it but given these scores
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and our synthetic results titan v is right now hands down the fastest card on
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the market for gaming and it isn't even supposed to be
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what sets this titan apart is its fp16
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and fp64 performance along with the inclusion of NVIDIA's new tensor cores
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which are special compute units that are optimized for deep learning and ai
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oh and while we're at it NVIDIA is also showing off hbm2 memory for the first
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time in a titan so v does end up with a smaller frame
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buffer than the vega workstation cards or the hbm2 equipped quadro gp100
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but it may end up making up for that
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through sheer brute force its whopping
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5120 cuda cores should make it the
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fastest card available for compute
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should but when we first took the shrink wrap
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off and loaded up some compute benchmarks we actually found that many
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cuda focused tasks simply wouldn't run well it turns out
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that while previous generation cards were built around cuda compatibility
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version 6.1 and earlier
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volta and by extension the titan v bumps
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this up to 7.0 and new compute kernels
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need to be compiled to support it so blender most coin mining algorithms and
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other tests were affected with users reporting even more incompatibilities
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that we didn't see oh i'm getting flashbacks to the vega
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frontier edition thankfully the opencl layer still works
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though so we can get rough numbers for benchmarks that support NVIDIA cards in
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opencl mode with the caveat that opencl
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does have some overhead compared to cuda starting off with luxmark we've got
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wow are these numbers even right
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luxmark is super paralyzed so those
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extra cuda cores pulled double the performance of the titan xp and
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far higher than even the quadro gp100
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chaos group's render suite v-ray brings us another win for the titan v shaving a
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cool three seconds off the gp 100 in second place moving on to compubench we
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see the gap close for the level set segmentation benchmarks but then the
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titan v pulls way out ahead in the computer vision optical flow benchmark
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leaving everything else well in the dust and it continues to assert its dominance
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in most of spec view perf where 3ds max
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kittia maya energy and showcase all have
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it at the top but it should be noted that the quadros do fire back in some of
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the other tests thanks to their enhanced driver code paths
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as for coin mining well the rumors are
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true it is a beast especially an eighth hash
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but with that said the three thousand dollar price tag is going to kill your
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roi time and it doesn't even win in every scenario vega frontier handily
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outperforms it in kryptonite
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that's a lot of testing and it looks like volta is mostly living
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up to its promises so far but we've got
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one more test up our sleeves for its compute performance deep learning
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using imagenet 12 on caf2 titan v
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managed a significant lead at both
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tested batch size thanks to its tensor cores
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but maybe even more interestingly it even wins without them enabled
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against the gp 100 a truly monstrous
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feat because for context you guys that card is still almost triple the
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price well okay then lioness fine
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volta is great for compute big whoop what does that mean for me
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okay i'll get to that first we need to talk about thermals and
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power because this bit is really important while titan v manages to throttle a bit
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harder than the gp100 and the gtx 1080
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ti in our testing and while it has the
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second highest idle power draw in our entire test lineup
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thanks at least partially to NVIDIA using tsmc's 12 nanometer manufacturing
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process it's also got the lowest full load power
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draw which is bonkers considering everything we know about its overall
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performance so then back to your question what this means for you is that
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the slightly cut down and maybe
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higher clocked enthusiast consumer variants without any tensor cores are
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going to be mind-bogglingly fast
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but that's a conversation for another day here and now what we have is a
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quadro killer at a third of the price
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for most workloads and one that can game
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faster than anything that's ever come before it
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though i'm not saying you should go out and buy one if raw horsepower for compute is your
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jam and you won't benefit from a bigger frame buffer or multi GPU with nvlink
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these connectors they're dead you're looking at your next card right
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here though you'll need to roll your own cuda kernels or wait until compatibility
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level 7 is mainstream by which time there will probably be a quadro variant
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as for the gamers well the lack of g-force in the branding says
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it all it is just not worth it even for
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you mr or ms mega baller over there i mean
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do you really want something that's not even sli compatible anyway
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so you have to run a single card in your system like some kind of a peasant
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so think of the v not as something to buy
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but as more of a teaser for what may come in 2018
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i know that i'm feeling sufficiently teased right about now
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