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welcome to my nvidia geforce gtx titan unboxing this has a completely different naming scheme as you can see I have already actually broken the seal once but we had a bit of an error due to a an errant baby that was running around our video set so we had some difficulties with that but we're going to open this bad boy up and I really do mean bad boy this is the fastest single GPU card on the planet it comes packed in beautiful anti-static foam with a beautiful bubble wrap that is carefully painstakingly labeled card four and then more bubble wrap inside for your thousand dollars you get the best packaging that has ever been no I'm just kidding so this is a reference board provided by Nvidia rather than being one that's made by an ad in board partners such as EVGA or Asus which are going to be the ones for Titan in North America so you will get a proper retail package with a proper warranty and all of that but this one is just for benchmarking by yours truly so the first thing you're probably going to notice about the Titan is that it is absolutely gorgeous it is styled similarly to the geforce gtx 690 with an extruded aluminum casing here noise dampened fan just like the gtx 680 and a polycarbonate window that shows you the extended fin stack that is actually on top of a vapor chamber cooler that covers the GPU itself this card has six gigs of memory now something that people have complained about in the past particularly with the gtx 690 is not enough frame buffer on the high end cards so Nvidia wanted to address this because a 690 has four gigs of memory which is two per GPU so two effective because you're running an SLI the Titan has six gigs so that means that these four display outputs here which can be run in three plus one so three an Nvidia surround and one additional one as an auxilary display can all be powered at next-generation resolution so this card is capable in a 3-way SLI configuration of even running games like Crysis 3 at 57 60 by 1080 with very high details on so let's flip the board over so there's some RAM on this side and to fit six gigs of memory on a board obviously you're going to have to put some memory on the top of it as well so I'm not going to let the baby touch the back of the card because I'm sure that would be a bit of a problem so it has a 384 bit bus this is similar to previous generation nvidia high-end cards such as the GTX 480 and what other technology we do we get inside so aside from all that there are some pretty serious improvements to the main feature that Nvidia launched with geforce gtx 680 so codenamed kepler now this is more like kepler on steroids because compared to around 1500 cuda cores which is what a 680 has the Titan has 2688 CUDA cores so in addition to just being a Titan and being generally beast it introduces a new version of GPU boost so GPU boost was what in video was calling their automatic overclocking it was a dynamic changing of how the card operated in terms of its clock speeds its volt and its voltages so according to a power target so they set a power target for how much power the board was allowed to draw and video went oh okay well as long as you're under that power target we can ramp up the GPU clock so you'd actually get faster performance so Nvidia started reading their cards for a a minimum speed as well as a sort of typical boost clock now the problem with that is that board power is not necessarily the only factor there's also temperatures so board temperatures play an important role in the reliability of the GPU so Nvidia won okay well let's do GPU boost 2.0 GPU boost 2.0 doesn't rely on the actual power that the board is drawing it relies on the temperature that the GPU is running at so water coolers for example would run their gtx 680 with a water block on it so it would always be at a very low temperature but you'd reach the but that that power draw limit so what happened was the card would stop boosting up it would stop overclocking any further Titan will not have that issue if you keep the temperatures low Titan will overclock itself very significantly so the base clock for this guy is 836 megahertz with a typical boost clock of 876 megahertz however I've been told that a water-cooled Titan without any further tweaking without any overclocking with manual overclocking would be expected to run anywhere from around 950 megahertz to one gigahertz having done nothing because it will dynamically see that the card is not reaching a temperature that's going to bother it and it'll continue to add more voltage and more clock speed to the card until you reach that limit now another thing about the maximum voltage for the card NVIDIA has completely overhauled the way that they handle voltage increases and overclocking you can actually go beyond Nvidia's recommended maximum voltage for GPU reliability this has to be enabled by the add-in board partner but it'll give you a warning an EVGA precision or MSI Afterburner or any of those utilities that says look this will affect the long-term stability of your card are you sure you want to do this and if you say yeah go for it it'll let you push it harder and further than nvidia has ever really allowed their customers to do in the past past that reliability point so oh yes customizability so not only that but GPU boost to actually enables some further customization so you can control everything from the fan profile to the maximum voltage to the clock speed so what that means is you can say look I'm comfortable with 90 degrees I'm going to set a target temperature of 90 degrees and unlike a power based like a power based target it's not approximate anymore the fan will ramp up as soon as it hits that 90 degree target or 80 degrees which is what it ships at or even 70 degrees this allows the card to say okay that's the temperature the user wants to run it so it can dynamically adjust the clock speed and the voltage of the card to make sure it runs at that temperature so what's the applique to this well you can do a couple things you could say okay I'm comfortable with the GPU having less performance and I want it to run at 70 degrees and I want it to be silent so that means what it'll do is it'll set your fan to spin very very very slow until you hit 70 degrees and then at 70 degrees instead of ramping up the fend and compensate like previous generation cards would have done it will actually ramp down the voltage and down the clock speeds to bring it into a lower thermal output in order to make sure that it stays silent or you could say okay look no no I'm comfortable with a loud card I'm going to move my fan curve all the way down so as soon as it hits 80 degrees it's already running at you know 70 80 percent so that's going to give the GPU more Headroom to crank up voltages and crank up clock speeds because you're giving it more fan to work with so this is going to be pretty much the most customizable card on the planet when it comes to tuning the frequency you want it to run at the voltage the GPU will run at including setting you know voltages for it that it can crank up to that are higher than the reliability would dictate and the acoustics that you can get out of it GTX Titan is actually faster and quieter than GTX 680 by a longshot it's also the most complex largest GPU ever built with 7.1 billion transistors for context something like a core i7 39 60 X has 2.3 billion transistors and I think that pretty much covers it oh yes Lix wanting me to show a couple of things here so it uses a PCI Express 3.0 16x interface which is as fast as it gets these days the bottom of the card which he hasn't seen yet is also absolutely gorgeous on the top of the card there's some more cool things so there's an 8 pin and 6 pin PCI Express connectors right there 2 SLI fingers 4 3-way or four-way SLI and check this out the light on the top actually glows just like the 690 and you can set it to be either glow less or more or even adjust the level of glowing with the GPU load itself so you can be like okay I want it to only blow when I'm playing games you can set that which I personally think is very very cool from a modding perspective the last thing in videos added to the driver is the ability to overclock your monitor so if you have a monitor that's rated for 60 Hertz uh-oh say hi hey hi you're joining us for this unboxing yeah if you have a monitor that's rated for 60 Hertz sometimes that monitor is actually capable of running at 70 80 90 Hertz so you might have the most powerful single GPU graphics card on the planet and it might be able to run your game at 120 fps but if your monitor is only outputting 60 Hertz you're only going to see 60 of those frames per second so this has been kind of a driver hack up till now Titan unlocks it now as with any overclocking nothing is guaranteed so there's not no-one's promising that your 60 Hertz monitor will run at 80 Hertz or that your 120 Hertz monitor will run at 150 Hertz who knows nobody knows no one knows not a guarantee however Nvidia is giving you the option in the driver now with Titan to check and see if your monitor is capable of overclocking this may affect the long-term of your reliability for the monitor itself and it may void your warranty for the monitor so guys exercise caution with any overclocking endeavor however at least now we have the option so it is pretty much the most customizable gaming card on the planet supports all those Kepler features such as adaptive vsync and adaptive vsync does work in conjunction with the monitor overclocking so you might go ok I've got I've got 90 Hertz on my monitor now now I can set 90 fps and I can use adaptive vsync so it's going to allow that card to go vsync when you're at 90 fps so you don't go above and get tearing and then it'll turn it vsync off as you go below it so maybe you dip down to 85 fps so yeah pretty much I think that's it at this point don't forget to subscribe to - tech tips for 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