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welcome back to harbor unboxed now yesterday some pretty massive news came in from Nvidia then unexpectedly announced the world's most powerful PC GPU ever created at the 2017 neural information processing systems conference company CEO and founder Jensen Wong took the stage to show off the card which is based on the company's Valter architecture Nvidia actually first announced volta based products seven months ago now the tesla v100 accelerator pci express accelerator card for data centers the titan v on the other hand is designed to be used in pcs well it probably costs more than your pc i know it cost more than mine the GV 100 powered Titan V which is fabricated on the new TSMC 12 nanometer FF and manufacturing process the F F stands for FinFET but what's the n all about you ask well the end simply stands for in video so FinFET in video and video now has their own node over at TSMC and that has allowed them to create this truly massive GPU but more on that in a moment the titan v is available today at the bargain basement price of three thousand dollars u.s. it features 110 teraflops of raw performance 21 point 1 billion transistors 12 gigabytes of HBM to memory 5120 cuda cores and 640 10 cycles nvidia says it has nine times the horsepower of its predecessor the Pascal based Titan XP or at least it does when talking about compute horsepower now this is still a consumer-grade desktop GPU believe it or not that said the Titan series has always been a prosumer type product selling for around or just over a thousand dollars u.s. there have been a few exceptions to that but anyway the Titan V pretty much kills that I wouldn't be surprised if we do see sort of a cut-down type Titan released next year maybe that the Titan VP without the tents of course for example that was meant to be a bit of a joke but anyway moving on the Titan V is targeted towards researchers developers and scientists working in the field of ai and machine learning much like the Tesla V 100 announced back in May no gaming performance information has been in revealed though Nvidia did say that the GPU uses the standard GeForce driver stack in fact just a few days ago a new video released the 388 point 59 driver bringing official Titan V support with no less than 5,000 120 cuda cores clocked no lower than 1.2 of yogurts in fact the rated boost frequency is 1455 megahertz and it's not much slower than that of the Titan XP just 8% lower in fact so there's really no question the Titan V is the world's fastest and most powerful graphics card even for games or probably even for games the key thing to note here is that the double precision is at half rate and that results in 6.9 teraflops and that makes up world's fast and the Titan XP also in compared to the Titan XP the new Titan VIII packs 33% more CUDA cores and 43 percent more than the GTX 1080 Ti 5120 cuter course is an incredible amount of CUDA cores but I do wonder how efficiently they can all be utilized without a sync compute needless to say if it were to be compared on a clock for clock basis to say the GTX tuna a you'd likely not really see anywhere near a 43 percent jump in performance at least in games so keep that in mind if you've got mad money to drop on a Titan via graphics card for your gaming rig in my opinion you definitely shouldn't do that buy one of these cards for gaming just would be an epic waste of money that said although the Titan V isn't a gaming graphics card Nvidia I'm more than happy to sell up to gamers with deep pockets and you just know some of these will end up in gaming rigs around the world loads of you have been asking me if I'll be getting a Titan Vita benchmark on the channel the answer sadly though is no Nvidia says they aren't sampling this product and I can't say I'm all that surprised still you'll likely see benchmarks pop up online and they're not too distant future I personally can't afford to buy one for testing but I know there are media outlets that can and probably will that said if you happen to buy one and you want it compared to every current generation GPU and over 30 games at 3 resolutions I'm available I'm here for you anyway as I said this isn't really a gaming graphics card rather it's a workstation level AI compute card and with the inclusion of those unique tensor cores it offers a massive performance leap over the previous models and for those of you unaware the tentacles are invidious special deep learning AI caused and the Titan V packs 640 of them the same amount as the Tesla V 100 it's actually quite shocking to see how similar the Titan V and Tesla V 100 are in terms of specs and likely performance the Tesla V 100 is an insanely expensive bitter kit in comparison the Titan V is a bargain as far as I can tell the only real difference between the two is the memory configuration the Titan V's memory buffer is 25 percent smaller at 12 gigabytes and as a result the memory bus width has been reduced by 25 percent and this results in about 25 percent less bandwidth 27 percent in fact to be precise to a difference in clock speeds the time v also lacks the envy link functionality in the l2 cache size has been reduced from 6 megabytes to four and a half megabytes baking of memory I should note that like the Tesla V 100 the Titan V also features HBM to memory you're just getting 12 gigabytes of it not the 16 gigabytes found on the tesla model the HBM 2 memory has been down clocked slightly to 1.7 gigahertz which again coupled with the reduced capacity has limited the memory bandwidth to 653 gigabytes per second so as I say that out loud or limited might not have been the best words used because that's still a massive figure as for the card itself well it looks mmm dare I say it a bit tacky the gold die cast aluminium body yeah really Nvidia it probably doesn't look that bad in the flesh but yeah it's still gold I guess at least it'll go with my gold motherboard and gold case anyway it features a vapor chamber cooler with a copper heatsink and blower fan apart from the gold finish which despite the asking price isn't real gold this is the same foundation cooler you'll find on the Titan XP and GTX 10 a UTI for example this all makes sense since the card has been slapped with a 250 watt TDP and it features the same 8 plus 6 pin PCI II power connecting configure as the Pascal Titans and GT x10 atti on the reference PCB you'll find 16 power phases though it's unlikely we'll see any custom board partner Titan V models so that's what we know about the Titan VIII for now until some lucky or I suppose broke tech enthusiast gets their hands on one we won't know exactly how fast it really is but you can safely assume it is the world's fastest graphics card as advertised by Nvidia and it will be brutally fast compared to anything we currently have what this means for PC gamers next year is hard to say obviously there are faster gaming graphics cards to come from Nvidia next year and they will likely be a decent step up from what we currently have the only question remains now is will they be a decent step up in terms of price we will limited competition from AMD at the moment and probably for the foreseeable as well chances are you will be paying a bit more for your high-end gaming graphics cards next year of course we just don't know what to expect at the moment I'm a little concerned with where things are headed but ultimately we'll just have to wait and see what happens even if AMD do happen to fall further off the radar Nvidia are still competing with themselves and they do need to give GeForce 10 series owners a reasonable upgrade sure they can afford to drip-feed as the next-generation a bit like what they do with Pascal well that doesn't really change the fact that gtx 980ti owners we're in no hurry to upgrade to the gtx 1080 and most will have probably waited for the gtx 1080i all just decided to skip Pascal entirely I know people carry on about their well as I just described it the drip-feeding of new current generation GPUs but I honestly didn't have our problem with Nvidia released in the GT X 1080 first then the 1070 a month later and then the 1080 Ti was at something like nine months later it's not like the 1070 for example started at $500 us or even $600 u.s. or something crazy like that anyway and then was knocked down to the current $380 US MSRP for the AIB cards that's been the price since day one and it meant that you were getting performance that the previous Maxwell generation offered for something like six hundred and fifty dollars us wrapping things up like all of you I'm keen to see in videos new gaming focused graphics cards next year as well as AMD's though Navi is expected much later in the yeah you can expect me to benchmark the hell out of them I can't wait to do that anyway that's going to do it for this one I'm your host Steve see you next time guys