Nvidia GTX Titan “world’s fastest GPU”

Nvidia has announced the GeForce GTX Titan, claiming it to be “powered by the fastest GPU on the planet¹“. The Titan will be hitting the desktop and small form-factor PC market as soon as 25 February 2013 in some regions.

However, it won’t be cheap, with prices expected to start from US$999 (±R8,800). That’s before import and other costs are factored into getting the cards to SA.

Nvidia add-in card partners include ASUS, EVGA, Colorful, Galaxy, Gigabyte, INNO 3D, MSI, Palit and Zotac.

GTX TITAN is built with the same NVIDIA Kepler architecture that powers Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s newly launched Titan supercomputer, which is number 1 in the list of the Top500 supercomputers in the world.

“GeForce GTX TITAN is a beast of a GPU — and the only one in the world powerful enough to play any game at any resolution at any time,” said Scott Herkelman, general manager of the GeForce business unit at NVIDIA. “And yet, all of this immense power is housed in a sleek, sexy design, so gamers can also build beautifully-designed PC gaming machines about the size of a gaming console, yet magnitudes more powerful and always upgradeable.”

Nvidia GeForce GTX TITAN

The GeForce GTX TITAN

Contains 7 billion transistors
Has 2,668 GPU cores — 75% more than the Company’s NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 GPU
Delivers 4.5 Teraflops of single precision and 1.3 Teraflops of double precision processing power
Supports new GPU Boost 2.0 technology which automatically boosts graphics performance and supports unlocked voltage and advanced controls for even more gaming control and overclocking customization
Can be combined with additional GTX TITANs in SLI mode