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I have some great news for anyone out there who ran out and bought two of invidious collector's edition Titan XP Star Wars graphics cards for a total of twenty four hundred dollars to run an SLI and that is that the new Titan V which will actually outperform that configuration in many games for just $600 more doesn't have any Star Wars branding on it whatsoever so as long as you buy your card purely for Star Wars and not for performance you should feel pretty good right now okay now technically this box has already been opened because Anthony is already hard at work on our full review of this card but I still wanted to go through the unboxing experience with you guys because damn it I spent $3,000 on this graphics card so I intend to milk it to the fullest extent that I can and to that end nope not working okay here we go so it comes with some documentation including a QuickStart guide and a support guide that's actually unusual for these well right this isn't a sample card I was gonna say the samples never come with these okay that's not very interesting Titan VIII support guide okay that's not very interesting either it also comes with one of these not sure what it is yet but it better be gold just like the card because if I'm gonna spend $3,000 on a graphics card everything should be silver silver DisplayPort to DVI adapter okay if I intended to do that is a good shot alright and then we've got it right here the Titan V graphics card so what do they have to say for themselves oh right 5120 cuda cores so compared to the Titan XP which is an incredibly powerful card in its own right that's got 3840 CUDA cores so we are expecting this to be 20-25 percent faster right out of the gate then it has the same amount of memory 12 gigs but it's using HBM to memory so that is much much faster which may or may not have a ton of applicability in gaming but will definitely help with the Titan V's intended use case which is apparently like deep learning a I and really the same kinds of workloads as in videos v100 as in videos v 100 the only card that they've got on the market already using this same Volta architecture now you guys might be looking at $3,000 graphics card here going well that's an unreasonable amount of money and I would be inclined to agree with you but compared to that Tesla view 100 it's actually less than a third of the price with much of the same capability so it is a little bit slower and as you can see here the NV link fingers that you probably saw previously when we showed off the GP 100 are actually covered and to our knowledge they are disabled so it does not support envy link but other than that for someone working on you know an AI type workload on a desktop this aims to be the ultimate experience with all that said you guys want to see it game I'm sure so so I'm gonna say the detailed run-through of our entire test suite for Anthony's review but I still want to have a quick look at how the Titan VIII compares to the Titan XP so here's the settings we're using in GTA 5 3840 by 2160 I will change that to fullscreen but in terms of what settings were using FXAA very high or high sort of across the board here tessellation high and then all the advanced stuff turned on so I've already got my numbers for the ty next P let's go ahead and shut this baby down and get a new graphics card installed you know I gotta say I am NOT a huge fan of the gold ID it really smacks of well apples doing it but not in a tasteful way like this is by far invidious tackiest looking graphics card in the last you know three four years anyway really ugly like what and it's like I realize this is maybe seemingly insignificant complaint for something that's designed for professional use and is you know capable of gaming but is really a professional card but at this kind of price it should be perfect there it is there's our Titan V powered up for the first time ever only three thousand US dollars I think it included free shipping though so here we go the first image its ever output it's like when we think about how long we're actually gonna use this card because we bought it strictly for a comparative testing like benchmarking against other things like it's costing me you know a dollar per minute to run it so I'm gonna take it in I need a drink no water left it's out for solid water come on alright so I'm just dialing in my settings here because grand theft auto is a giant piece of crap when it comes to actually remembering what you want fly and benchmark jet benchmark tests I haven't actually looked at any results that are online yet so this will be my first experience Titan XP who's still warming versus Titan V Wow listen to that coy line you hear that listen to it went so there's a black screen right now listen to it when I hear all getting close it's kind of crazy to think that we've gotten to the point though we're running Grand Theft Auto at 4k at very high settings is maybe not demanding enough to see a huge separation between graphics cards we might even be CPU limited a little bit here even though I'm running a 59 60 X Extreme Edition all right so oh wow okay so just so you guys know this is where you're looking wow that is not better so we can't draw any really concrete conclusions right now this is one game at one resolution against one other card and one set of in-game settings but what we can say for certain is that right now the Titan V is not a great value compared even to in videos Titan XP which is not a great value compared to the 1080 Ti with that said the word on the street is that Nvidia is planning an architecture that's sort of based on some of the same principles as volta but that doesn't have some of the deep learning like tensor core stuff built into it so that it can be a little bit less expensive and hopefully we're gonna see that sometime in 2018 but for now Titan V is not a card for gamers as expected so thanks for watching this unboxing and lesson on buyer's remorse 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