Nvidia Titan V - Classic Unboxing
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,319 words · ~6 min read
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i have some great news for anyone out there who ran out and bought two of
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NVIDIA's collector's edition titan xp star wars graphics cards for a total of
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twenty four hundred dollars to run an
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sli and that is
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that the new titan v which will actually outperform that
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configuration in many games for just 600
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more doesn't
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have any star wars branding on it whatsoever
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so as long as you buy your card purely for star wars and not for performance
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you should feel pretty good right now okay now technically
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this box has already been opened because Anthony is already hard at work on our
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full review of this card but i still wanted to go through the unboxing
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experience with you guys because damn it i spent three thousand
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dollars on this graphics card so i intend to milk it to the fullest extent
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that i can and to that end
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nope not working okay here we go so it comes with some documentation
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including a quick start guide and a support guide that's actually unusual
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for these uh well right this isn't a sample card i
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was going to say the samples never come with these uh
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okay that's not very interesting titan v
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support guide okay yeah well that's not very interesting
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either uh it also comes with one of these i'm not sure what it is yet
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but it better be gold
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just like the card because if i'm gonna spend
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three thousand dollars on a graphics card everything should be
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silver silver DisplayPort to dvi adapter
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hey if i intended to do that it was a good shot all right
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and then we've got it right here
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the titan v graphics card so
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what do they have to say for themselves oh right 5
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120 cuda cores so compared to the titan
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xp which is an incredibly powerful card in its own right that's got 3
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3840 cuda core so we are expecting this to be 20 25 faster right out of the gate
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then it has the same amount of memory 12 gigs
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but it's using hbm2 memory so that is
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much much faster which may or may not have a
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ton of applicability in gaming but will definitely help with the titan v's
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intended use case which is apparently like deep learning uh ai
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and really the same kinds of workloads as NVIDIA's v100 as NVIDIA's v100 the
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only card that they've got on the market already using this same volta
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architecture now you guys might be looking at
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a 3 000 graphics card here going well
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that's an unreasonable amount of money and
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i would be inclined to agree with you but compared to that tesla v100 it's
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actually less than a third of the price with much of the same capability so it
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is a little bit slower and as you can see here the nv link fingers that you
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probably saw previously when we showed off the gp100 are actually covered and
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to our knowledge they are disabled so it does not support nvlink
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but other than that for someone working on you know an ai type workload on a
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desktop this aims to be the ultimate experience
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with all that said you guys want to see it game i'm sure so
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so i'm going to save the detailed run-through of our entire test suite for
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Anthony's review but i still want to have a quick look at how the titan v
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compares to the titan xp so here's the
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settings we're using in gta 5 uh 3840 by
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2160 i will change that to full screen but
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in terms of what settings we're using fxaa
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very high or high sort of across the
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board here tessellation high and then all the advanced stuff turned on
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so i've already got my numbers for the titan xp
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let's go ahead and shut this baby down and get a new graphics card installed
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you know i gotta say i am not
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a huge fan of the gold id
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it really smacks of well apple's doing it
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but not in a tasteful way like this is
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by far NVIDIA's tackiest looking graphics card
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in the last you know three four years anyway
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it's really ugly
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like look and i like i realize this is
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maybe seemingly insignificant complaint
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for something that's designed for professional use
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um and is you know capable of gaming but it's really a professional card
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but at this kind of price it should be
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perfect there it is there's our titan v powered up for the
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first time ever only 3 000 us dollars
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i think it included free shipping though so ah here we go
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the first image it's ever output
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it's like when we think about how long we're actually going to use this card
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because we bought it strictly for comparative testing like benchmarking
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against other things like it's costing me you know a dollar per minute to run
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it so i'm gonna
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take it in i need a drink
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no water left
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it's out for solid water
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come on
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all right so i'm just dialing in my settings here because grand theft auto
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is a giant piece of crap when it comes
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to actually remembering what you want
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apply and
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benchmark benchmark tests
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i haven't actually looked at any results that are online yet so this will be my
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first experience titan xp with storm
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versus titan v wow listen to that coil line
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you hear that listen to it so there's a black screen
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right now listen to it when i hear i'll get in close
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wait for it
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i'm trying really hard i'm trying hard
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yeah we got it it's kind of crazy to think that we've
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gotten to the point though where running grand theft auto at 4k
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at very high settings is maybe
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not demanding enough to see a huge
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separation between graphics cards we might even be CPU limited a little bit
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here even though i'm running a 5960x extreme
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edition all right
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so oh wow uh
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okay so just so you guys know this is where you're looking
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um uh
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wow that is not better um
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so
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we can't draw any really concrete conclusions right now this is one game
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at one resolution against one other card and one set of
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in-game settings um but what we can say for certain is
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that right now the titan v is not a
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great value compared even to NVIDIA's titan xp which is not a great value
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compared to the 1080 ti
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with that said the word on the street is that NVIDIA is
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planning an architecture that's sort of
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based on some of the same principles as volta but that doesn't have some of the
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deep learning like tensor core stuff built into it so that it can be a little
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bit less expensive and hopefully we're gonna see that sometime in 2018
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but for now titan v is not a card for gamers
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as expected so thanks for watching this uh unboxing
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and um lesson on
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