By Darren Allan
Nvidia has unleashed a new Titan graphics card which it’s billing as the most powerful GPU in the world. However, it’s not aimed at gamers, but rather AI and machine learning – with a powerfully frightening price tag to boot at $2,999 (around £2,230, AU$4,000).
Nvidia’s Titan V is the first ‘consumer-grade’ card (i.e. the Titan brand, as opposed to Tesla) to use the company’s new Volta technology (the next step on from Pascal, which powers the current GeForce 10-series cards), and it boasts no less than 21.1 billion transistors, delivering a jaw-dropping 110 teraflops of computing power.
With new Tensor Cores tailored specifically for deep learning, it offers nine times more peak computing teraflops compared to its predecessor, the Titan Xp.
As mentioned, this is aimed at serious applications by scientific researchers in the fields of AI and high-performance computing in general, with a focus also on energy efficiency as well as power.
Nvidia notes that Titan V sports a major overhaul of the streaming multiprocessor at the heart of the card, and it’s twice as energy-efficient as its Pascal predecessor.
CUDA kudos
In total, the card has six graphics processing clusters, 80 streaming multiprocessors, 5,120 CUDA cores (compared to 3,840 …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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