Titan V Gaming Benchmarks: An Async Future for nVidia

Benchmarking the nVidia Titan V in gaming to determine how Volta vs. Pascal will play out, featuring the Titan Xp, 1080 Ti, and Vega 64.
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This nVidia Titan V gaming benchmark tests the Volta architecture versus Pascal architecture across DirectX 11, DirectX 12, Vulkan, and synthetic applications. We purchased the Titan V for editorial purposes, and will be dedicating the next few days to dissecting every aspect of the card, much like we did for Vega: Frontier Edition in the summer.
The nVidia Titan V graphics card is not targeted at gamers, but rather at scientific and machine/deep learning applications. That does not, however, mean that the card is incapable of gaming, nor does it mean that we can’t extrapolate future key performance metrics for Volta. The Titan V is a derivative of the earlier-released GV100 GPU, part of the Tesla accelerator card series. The key differentiator is that the Titan V ships at $3000, whereas the Tesla V100 was available as part of a $10,000 developer kit. The Tesla V100 still offers greater memory capacity by 4GB - 16GB HBM2 versus 12GB HBM2 - and has a wider memory interface, but other core features remain matched or nearly matched. Core count, for one, is 5120 CUDA cores on each GPU, with 640 Tensor cores (used for Tensorflow deep/machine learning workloads) on each GPU.
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[@Wire4112]

Gamers Nexus 4K 144hz at 3000$.

[@JonathanLGreene]

looks like a threadripper aio might be the way to go.

[@ambhaiji]

is there a setting where this card can achieve 999/1000+ fps on csgo?

[@isaacwolverton2466]

Gamers Nexus any chance you can benchmark and show the difference in machine learning with some common libraries, TensorFlow, PyTorch, etc ?

[@trijiv5624]

Gamers Nexus would you like to test an Asus 1080Ti Poseidon? I have one you could borrow. ^_^

[@batmangovno]

I'm amazed at how fast you got and benchmarked it. Amazing work.

[@TheColemancreek]

Time to Oil Up!! (Steve's Hair)

[@TB-zm3zc]

Adderall is a helluva drug

[@Amber57499]

He who comes first.... well, gets a shitload of new audience. That's why he probably worked his ass off to get his hands on this piece of hardware, and I salute that.

[@tricksalot2]

Yeah, boy.

[@foreignsgamingtech]

Steve and GN bring the REAL DEAL to the tech scene. Great job, and quick at that! Thank you!

[@GamersNexus]

foreign's gaming tech Thanks, foreign!

[@lordzed83]

Trully Steve and Buildzoid are BEST on the testing Scene from my point of View. Actually TEASTING hardware not just slaming it in testbench and running same benchmarks as everyone :)

[@demio22]

I'm an electical engineer and I absolutely agree with that. It's very different to and much better than the other "techchannels"! Much more in-depth, rational, professional and sympathetic. Thank's guys!

[@terrafirma1849]

there's nothing quite like Jesus telling you how you don't need a $3000 gpu while it's guts are splayed at his feet.

[@Tylercantskate]

all hail steve

[@paskowitz]

The real "first" award goes to Steve.

[@peterderbeste6817]

why are there 4 stacks of hbm visible? arent there supposed to be only 3?(maybe they reused parts of higher tier voltas? )

[@GamersNexus]

PeterDerBeste One is disabled. V100 (the Tesla) has 16GB HBM2, while this has 12. It may be for weight distribution or just be cheaper to produce the same package. Great question!

[@the_Scarlet_one]

Peter and Gamers Nexus, at 4:40, if you look close you can actually see three distinct HBM modules, but the one on the bottom right of the die isn’t separated like the other 3 are. The epoxy resin goes around the two on the left of the die and the one at the top right, but not the one on the lower right. I am stating this as you would read the words, looking from the pci bracket. If there was truly 4 HBM stacks, why wouldn’t they just run the epoxy resin around number 4?

[@peterderbeste6817]

thanks a lot :)

[@riffsnreviews]

Scarlet tech good observation, didn't notice, And that's funny as well the die looks to have a funny shape at the top and goes around the 2 good HBM2 dies, it's obviously isn't the die, not the interposer either, funny. Can't see from the video if all those pieces are part of the die silicon, it also looks like the non HBM "chip" is part of the die silicon. It's like they cut the die bigger on the wafer to be able to level everything out, if that's the case it's probably not very cost effective, but then it's a 3k card so...

[@sparkerlight9121998]

PeterDerBeste s

[@WoodWorkLIFE]

Damn you’re busy! Winning!

[@r3dleh107]

Steve i guess you're the first tech press to put a true a analysis of the Titan V, well done mate!

[@rexlupis]

I had to give this video a thumbs up when you said "There's no point in going through all that when you can just read it." Edit: Wolfenstein: The New Colossus uses Vulkan, but since it uses the same engine as DOOM, I'm not sure if it would really add variety to your benchmarks. It certainly is a more demanding implementation of idtech6, however.

[@CharcharoExplorer]

Wolfenstein 2's engine has differences to DOOM's. As per the developers and id.

[@Greyghostvol1]

I'm not sure Jordy was stating that there's no differences, but that the differences might not be substantial enough to include in the testings.

[@CharcharoExplorer]

Well... it seems to be MUCH heavier in tessellation and geometry than doom. MUCH heavier.

[@sgredsch]

plot twist, neither doom nor wolfenstein use tessellation.

[@jc_dogen]

"Wolfenstein: The New Colossus uses Vulkan, but since it uses the same engine as DOOM" No it doesn't. Id's confirmed that they've made large internal changes to the engine.

[@Tractionless]

Titan V OC: 142.2 fps 1080Ti OC: 91.1 fps That's a 56% increase in avg. fps @ 4K over an overclocked 1080Ti FTW3... and this is not a gaming card??? Impressive. Most impressive.

[@Najvalsa]

That's because Pascal can currently only half-ass async compute, whereas Volta properly does it.

[@atnfn]

Is it that impressive? 1080 Ti is nearly twice as powerful as a 980 Ti. Doesn't sound like Volta will be anywhere near twice as powerful as a 1080 Ti. Of course maybe the gaming voltas will be more optimized for games and run at higher clockspeeds so perhaps they will be significantly faster in games.

[@XxLukexX]

SlavjanA stupid amd fanboy

[@bongdelonge8668]

Tractionless It is a gaming card tho. It might not be advertised or priced as one, but it has all that the gaming variants will have and more. Nvidia wouldn't release a card and drivers that weren't also optimised gaming, they know its going to be benchmarked for gaming and its a chance to create buzz for volta. Not having a game optimised driver would be a bad PR move and Nvidia aren't stupid when it comes to marketing.

[@Sonicboomffx1]

Yes in those 3 to 4 particular games and no doubt some other games too. But what about some of the games where it was only 10-15 FPS ahead or even 1-5? That is not enough of an improvement. The 1080Ti was 60-65 percent faster than 980Ti. That was a significant improvement. Although, It overclocks really well but at stock speed compared to the other's at stock speed in my opinion it is not too impressive. Only in some titles it was. Regardless the cards coming out in 2018/2019 look really good even if they will be cut down versions of this card. I or anyone else does not know of course so cannot say until more information is released on them. I hope that is not the case for the XX80/XX80Ti. Probably will be for the XX50/60/70. I would recommend most people wait for the 1180Ti or whatever they call it. But if they want the XX60/70/80 then of course get it too. Just do not buy this $3,000 deep learning card. Some people with too much money will. It is their money to spend but it is kind of silly.

[@Xor200]

CPU bottleneck at 4k,now that is what I am talking about.

[@medimeb]

Maybe he should've tested it with an 8700K or and HEDT CPU like the 7980XE @ 4.8Ghz to eliminate all chances of bottlenecking it

[@Dennell_Mount_and_Blade]

+Noobish i7 7700k.

[@medimeb]

Kaby lake 7700K

[@Dennell_Mount_and_Blade]

+jakeOcowell Btw, HEDT cpu's, atleast Kaby Lake X, are slower than Kaby Lake. Strange ( without getting into more details) but true.

[@medimeb]

I know that, but a 8700K would've been better i tkink, just saying

[@ayushdabral]

4k 8x MSAA WTF!!!

[@daedalus5070]

"Tensor cores wont be used in future gaming cards"

[@r3dleh107]

Steve do you sleep at all?

[@tim3172]

Rumor has it he got a full 30 minutes last in 2008 and is on a 10-year cycle so we should see a small blip in videos next year.

[@LordDecapo]

I personally can see Nvidia putting tensor cores into gaming GPUs. I have seen a bunch of research and tests using neural networks for physics simulations. They ended up using less compute then traditional liquid physics. It was still in testing. But I could see machine learning based gaming engines becoming a thing within the next few years. With those tensor cores, it could be very nice to run physics on those. And keeping the rendering process in the traditional parts of a GPU.

[@mashygreen6974]

LordDecapo Essentially this comes down to being able to utilise the fast 4x4 matrix operations that the tensor cores are designed for. It’s possible, but until that tricked down into APIs game developers actually use is a different question.

[@LordDecapo]

Mashy Green oh ya for sure. A good ML Physics API that can utilize the tensor cores to there fullest will 100% be needed. I personally think that is something that we can look forward to sooner rather then later (a couple yrs vs 10 or so)

[@mashygreen6974]

LordDecapo I hope so, but from the little I know it’s mainly grid-based physics solvers that are starting to look at how to utilise tensor-cores. Games (I think) mostly use particle-based fluid simulations (rather than grid based) and I don’t think there has been much work (at least in the scientific community) in that regards. I only know things from the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) side of things, it could well be things are more advanced in computer graphics research. I’m hoping to find the time to check out if we could utilise tenor cores in our own CFD codes in the near future. :)

[@Kepe]

There's a problem here. Tensor cores are meant for neural network/AI training (optimising the neural network so that it can better solve the problems it's designed for). Tensor cores are not designed to run those neural networks to solve problems, like physics simulations.

[@LordDecapo]

Kepe a tensor core is exactly that... a core that operates on tensors. All neural networks use tensors. Just cause this is may be made for classification based NNs it can still run any NN u can throw at it... faster then traditional GPU cores. The physics simulations I have seen with NN have been mostly grid based like the guy above said. But I have seen one that did a partical style simulation and did so using a fraction of the compute compared to traditional methods. These tensor cores could fully fun that simulation, very very well

[@shadowreaver752]

Can't wait to see what the consumer versions of volta will put out.

[@idtechcelestial6507]

With the failed vega ,nvdia is on winning side they can stay like this. Too much power on nvdia side its like intel again ...

[@hovant6666]

I'm from the future, there were none

[@Tonba1]

Lol lmao

[@RepsUp100]

Radeon Adrenalin review please GN

[@tommihommi1]

HBM is the reason this monster can be cooled with the nvidia blower cooler, gddr5x would increase the heat even further

[@nightcorefusion3884]

HBM is also the reason this card stutters in games.

[@Phambleton]

Nightcore Fusion Yeah because drivers and games aren't quite optimised for HBM yet...

[@alaskanhybridgaming]

And yet this design has been used for many cards with GDDR5X. This cooler design is below the limit of the GPU die. This card is begging for liquid cooling solution.

[@jdrok5026]

vega and fury work well with games and used hbm actually vega uses a different hbm design which cuts bandwidth down but eh

[@BladeScraper]

If Tensor cores WERE implemented into games, could they be used for i.e. AI learning in-game? Obviously not any time soon, but possible I think?

[@will3641]

BladeScraper, it will be too much for developer to do. No one would do that. (learn what it does, how to convert the code / rewrite the code, patch the game). Very nice idea, but to do all this for 0.001% of gamer. Not happening.

[@BladeScraper]

Cool, was just curious. Didn't figure it would be.

[@gigigigiotto1673]

Yes, but you need 2 gpu. One for the graphics/physic and one for a.i. :)

[@nightcorefusion3884]

Good idea but if the A.I in game were learning all the time, the difficulty would go through the roof before the end. It would make almost any game unplayable, just imagine an RTS game where the opponents get smarter with every turn... You'd never be able to win.

[@LeoDavidson]

A truly smart opponent would ensure we had the impression that we could win to keep us playing (and keep itself alive for longer), before brutally crushing us at the last minute.

[@MrMoxes]

This has probably been the most "in-depth" review that you all have done and I am loving it. Very interesting. I makes me excited and optimistic as to what the next near, as well as the future will hold. Very intense stuff. Keep up the dedicated works guys...and Snowflake. LoL :-)

[@MalyVitaloshnik]

potential gaming volta GPUs would probably have the stuff like tensor cores turned off because there is no use for tensor cores in gaming... that definitely aged well :D

[@-Kerstin]

Great video

[@JarrodsTech]

Nice performance boost, will be interesting to see how the GeForce Volta cards do next year!

[@flamingscar5263]

hearing steve say that tensor cores will never come to gaming gpus is funny not saying that 3 years ago it made sense for them to, but now with rtx 2000 and 3000 it shows how much ai can improve gaming with DLSS, and its funny to see that no one thought of the AI potential back then

[@thaddeus2447]

Would love to see revisit of this card and how it compares to 2000series overall and with ray tracing testint too. What a marvelous piece of tech

[@nickmudd]

I watched the whole ad since you got a hold of one of these bad boys first in my feed

[@colgado693]

"You shouldn't be spending 3000 dollars on a graphics card for gaming". Ooooofff this aged badly

[@christianalboroto7574]

That sure is one powerful card.

[@82FGDT]

If only crossfire scaled that well in real games like it does in benchmarks

[@tgdhsuk3589]

finally csgo over 9000fps XD

[@puertorricanboy1]

157 fps on DOOM at 4k? Dayuum

[@Dennell_Mount_and_Blade]

Yeah we can all see that and realize it's because Titan V is not aimed at gamers and drivers are not yet up to date.

[@mattyryon]

well the 0.1%, which is probably just building a shader cache

[@TheNikakoi]

Now you need a 144 Hz 4K monitor not even out yet :P

[@SaturnusDK]

Seeing the crossfire vega 64 at stock besting the titan v results in some games, the blurb from earlier this year, "poor volta", actually starts to make sense (if the Radeon Instinct MI25 release hadn't already hammered it home that Vega is the undistibuted performance per dollar per watt leader for professional applications).

[@TechWeLove]

Gamers Nexus, is it possible for you to upgrade your website in the future, so that people can search for previous articles. : ) I wanted to look for past articles about power supply reviews, but found your website to be hard to search through.

[@wondy250]

Goddamn. 100+ FPS at 4k on most games. Can't wait for the volta ti and these rumored 4k 120 fps g-sync monitors. Late 2018 is gonna be a good time to upgrade I think.

[@godsgiftto3arth]

Volta is the true birth of 4k gaming, surely.

[@colorscompletely]

Dude... You make great tech vids

[@purgedome2386]

Well X4 players will be happy with Volta. Still waiting for Volta.

[@lolakyle8]

Titan > Titan X > Titan Z > Titan X(p) > Titan V What next? Titan Y? Titan W? Anyway, great video as always, GN! :D

[@Bayonet1809]

You missed the Titan X (Pascal), which is not the same as the Titan Xp or Titan X (Maxwell).

[@sh4rx62]

Titan XP, Titan V(ista), Titan 7

[@fullmetaljacket7]

Titan VvTi black edition

[@nO_d3N1AL]

Titan W

[@fatal3713]

Bayonet is that in order of performance

[@nekolver74]

First Benchmark

[@excalibur3311]

I have a question. Since this Titan is 3x more expensive than the other and there hasn't been a Quadro yet, how much more expensive would the "consumer" Volta cards be than Pascal ones? Will the smaller nm gain even be worth the cost?

[@justinm6110]

Love this channel, thx for that, cant wait to see whats next.

[@ganjoog4493]

You need to realize these cards are tested on 4k ultra and they get 100+ fps. Holy shit.

[@Peppy34420]

i cant wait to see what VR has in store for us now, dual 1440p screens? :) i am already in full swing with a build for ACE COMBAT 7 next year!

[@LT7Racing]

But can it mine Crysis?

[@lrmcatspaw1]

3000 for 20% improvement? No rush. Give it to buildzoid, he will mod it for you :D.

[@PCBetter]

Great video. Subscribed as I’m curious about shunting and watercooling my Titan V. Did you happen to run an superposition benches? I been having stability issues trying to run them with a light overclock.

[@MrMike7332]

Perhaps do b-roll right after you unbox. The light makes all the finger prints and doesn't show up. Great video! Excited for consumer voltas

[@diyathkumara2443]

Finally the video i've been waiting for!

[@Hematite]

I only managed to oc mine 100mhz when I went to 150 my pc crashed

[@TarukaiSamurai]

With the deep learning disabled in gaming so far, what if there is a game that is made to use that feature to learn how you play and arrange the levels and game patterns according to play style?

[@WraithWTF]

While I'm looking forward to seeing Volta hit the consumer market, I'm kinda hoping to see Nvidia switch it back over to GDDR5x or GDDR6...it's awesome seeing HBM2 being implemented well and actually working at high clockspeeds (unlike with Vega), HBM still costs a lot to produce, and switching back to GDDR could allow for much cheaper Volta consumer cards...well, comparable to Pascal prices at least--if they stick with HBM2 memory on Volta, I have a feeling we won't see a consumer card for less than a grand.

[@CharcharoExplorer]

But Talos is superior to the "more played" games the subhuman gamers play... Test DOOM and Wolfenstein 2 though. It is the most optimized games in the world.

[@mrthanh2012]

yes, most optimized for AMD.

[@CharcharoExplorer]

*Looks at Nvidia performance in those titles *It is great, fucking excellent What is the problem? They are the most optimized games, period.

[@mrthanh2012]

Those 2 games favor AMD. Period.

[@CharcharoExplorer]

@Cool Kid "Nvidia doesnt win so game isnt optimized reee" Metro Last Light is an Nvidia title and it is still VERY well optimized. So we should protest it from benches too?

[@BRUXXUS]

Talos is probably my top game of all time, but the Vulkan implementation in it is kinda.... not... good? Even with Talos being my top game, DOOM is utterly spectacular too. My new favorite FPS.

[@Dennell_Mount_and_Blade]

Given that AMD gpu's are performing relatively well in dx12 and vulcan titles and sometimes better than it's Nvidia competitors, it's not hard and unlogical of Nvidia to do this. In dx11 Nvidia simply doesn't have the need to improve that much and assumably dx11 is not the future. Considering the ridiculous price of Titan V ( for gaming at least), I would like to see how Vega performs in crossfire/mgpu, preferably rx 64 but rx 56 is a more realistic use case scenario. Particularly in low api titles it would be interesting to see. Great job getting the first ( as far as I know) propper benchmark video on this Titan V.

[@7rich79]

Quite impressed that you got hold of a Titan V. Did you purchase this yourself?

[@Rooksandkings]

Great review as always, Steve. Have you done any investigation on the NVLink aspect of the card yet? For an upgrade from Xp SLI, the question of whether NVLink was actually active would be a big factor.

[@sergeleon1163]

Do you think for gaming cards they will release a Titan Xv (without the Tensor cores and all A.I. Deeplearning bits) or just the Volta equivalents of the 1080 1080 ti etc.

[@forestreynolds1468]

But Steve is it good enough to finally compete with Intel integrated graphics or is blue still best!

[@ZZstaff]

The problem for some gamers will be, will Volta be enough to play the most demanding games on a 4K monitor at 120Hz, and will it include HDMI 2.1

[@alaskanhybridgaming]

ZZstaff 50 percent of 90 fps is 45 if this gets on average up to 50 percent more performance than my 1080 Ti. I think it is a good possibility to be the first 4k 120hz gaming capable gpu

[@Peppy34420]

Volta will hit 4k 120hz, bet

[@TB-zm3zc]

Pretty sure no one has that problem seeing as 4K 120Hz monitors haven't even been released yet

[@mabombo8221]

T B acer and asus will release their 4k 144hz moniter in Q1 2018

[@TripleMoonPanda]

So Titan V has 33.33% more cuda cores then Titan Xp and we're getting about ~35% more performance at most from it at stock speeds. . . That makes me think even Volta gaming cards won't be a big leap in performance compared to pascal cards unless they end up overclocking to something like 2500mhz. Hopefully with newer drivers we might see a bigger performance increase, but If the performance right now ends up being the case (even with newer drivers) I'll just keep my pascal card instead of upgrading to Volta and just wait till the next architecture comes out. Honestly that makes me kinda sad.

[@MichaelReznoR]

Will there be some Async *ON* vs *OFF* comparisons between Titan V and Titan Xp...? Also, one of the most multi-API games is *Serious Sam Fusion 2017 Beta.* It uses Direct3D11, Direct3D12, OpenGL and Vulkan.

[@stoneeh]

The frame drops on the Titan V, especially the OC one, mean that you sporadically run either into the power or temperature limit. Your conclusions overall are pretty weak - Async Compute for example likely has little to no impact on the results of the V compared to the previous gen cards. What makes more of a difference with low level API games is that CPU overhead is removed, so a massive chip like the GV100 is no longer limited by the CPU and can produce higher framerates.

[@WXSTANG]

What about the WX9100 which apparently supports HBCC, draw bin rasterization and a 2048 memory bus, as well as some of the other features AMD locked away in Vega? Maybe bios flash a Vega FE?

[@LeviAckerman-ln8kt]

Can you Test the Quadro GV100? I know it's a bullshit request cause that thing is expensive AS FUCK but I'd love to see how it fares. Its performance is - at least on paper - pretty similar to a 1080 Ti, but it has 32Gb of HBM2 with 870Gb/s. Maybe that makes a difference. I mean we can see here that the Titan V also has a better performance despite having similar performance on paper.

[@MrMilkyCoco]

Those 1% an d 0.1 % lows though :( Those are the things you feel >< Also I wont expect much from nvidia. I mean right now without competition why release a super powerful gaming card. Theyll probably release a 1180/2080 (non volta just pascal refresh)that beats a 1080ti by only like 5 % then when amd decides to be competitive boom true volta gpu.

[@AdnanAhmed]

In the future is it possible to run game AI using the tensor cores?

[@keybraker]

AMD destroyer

[@crimsun7186]

Sure. 3 thousand dollars for 20 % more performance. What a champ.

[@TB-zm3zc]

AMD doesn't have anything comparable in this product category, so technically there's nothing to kill.

[@KingHalbatorix]

T B just put 2 Vega 64 in crossfire, did you see the benchmarks? Plus buying two Vega 64 now that the prices have dropped will set you back about 1100 as opposed to the 3 grand for similar performance from Nvidia which isn't even scalable. You want 4 Vega cards in crossfire? Sure go ahead. Titan sli ? Nvidia says f*k off

[@vespaman101]

It's decent but certainly not the Maxwell to pascal 30 percent jump. Seems pascal overclockerd easily catches up to stock volta. Radeon better catch up next year lol. I doubt it unfortunately. I was hoping AMD could shake up the gpu market and bring prices down like they did with the cpu market. Vega was pretty disappointing.

[@williamalexander4546]

Rip Volta 😢 I wish you made it to consumer cards

[@kainey]

I feel like a peasant with my 1080Ti strix now.

[@Atilolzz]

Steve, sounds odd but can you perhaps do a quick mining test of the Titan V? Maybe the Tensor Cores are good for mining some extremely valueable cryptocurrency :^)

[@BalubishTech]

Holy gaming card batman. Wow that performance. I feel so peasant now with my 1080. :( Damnit Nvidia, I cant afford that.

[@zweck4629]

It seems that it makes at least some sense getting this instead of a 1080 ti for 4k gaming.....if you are super rich. 50% extra should be quite noticeable.

[@jt92]

Gamers Nexus is one of the few KZbin channels I turn off adblocker for. Consistently producing great content. I'll become a patron when I can afford it.

[@Mrbits01]

I know I'm pretty late, but in all fairness, benchmarking Titan V for gaming workloads is like measuring how good a sledgehammer is at nailing board pins. (It decimates the board pins :D) There are a lot of reasons why Titan V is an exciting piece of hardware, especially for Deep Learning Researchers (like myself). 1. It bridges the gap between Quadro and Tesla Server grade cards and consumer cards (basically, $$$$$$s), smack in the middle of P5000 (which is basically GTX 1080 in terms of Single Precision Compute) and the P6000. (both have more VRAM, though Titan V kicks the shit out of both of them) 2. Half-Precision Compute: Consumer cards are SHIT at FP16 compute. Heck, Quadro cards, the next best choice, are shit for Half-Precision Compute. Titan V pushes out ~29 TFLOPs, a 2:1 16:32 bit compute ratio. P6000 only does 197.4 GFLOPs at FP16. YES, THAT'S GIGAFLOPS. A Deep Neural Network would occupy approx half the GPU Memory at FP16 at deployment, and training at FP16 is getting better with improved library support. That means larger Neural Nets/batch sizes AND faster training. 3. We haven't even taken Tensor Cores into consideration yet. It does 119 TFLOPs for Deep Learning (inference only I believe, Tensor Cores are more suited for inference workloads, correct me if I'm wrong). 4. Gaming workloads are basically FP32 compute: this thing does 14.5 TFLOPs there. GTX 1080 Ti does 11.3 TFLOPs. In that sense, performance scales just as its theoretically supposed to. I understand Pure FLOPs isn't the "end all be all" for performance measurement, (eg, RTX 2080 Ti vs Titan V for gaming) but it's a really good starting point, particularly so for non-gaming stuff. PS: Gamer's Nexus is awesome! The best in the game. I'm not criticizing them for benchmarking Titan V. They know more about hardware than me by a long shot.

[@SznoopedCastGaming]

Volta for 4k 144hz? Well, the 2080ti should do it well and a 2080 should provide at least a smooth experience on a 4k 144hz monitor.

[@boeingt7236]

I like to see you guys actual use/test the card for what it was intended for. Not for what you think it preforms for a game.

[@johnyjoe2k]

So Titan V is about 30-40% better than a GTX 1080ti @4K with Vulcan? We need more Vulcan API games!!!!

[@Quetzalcoatl0]

Imaging a game that can use those 640 tensor cores to machine learn an AI in the game to learn individually per player depending what the player is saying, buying, doing, ect ect.

[@AdrianMuslim]

I think volta's top gaming cards like 80/80Ti series will be faster than Titan V in gaming. Titan V is probably like quadro that does well in production but not in gaming.

[@baphomathedude8057]

Shuvo agreed, I think the 80ti version will be optimised for gaming, which this card is not.

[@admiralmyxtar3702]

I expect them to fix frametimes, but no avg fps gains. Quadros are still capable in gaming in their fullest glory, just like a very-very-very expensive GeForce

[@skeletalforce9673]

(on stock clocks) The 80 will be far worse than the v, just like the 80 compared to the old titan, while the 80 ti will probably be similar but not be released anytime soon

[@bigtime9597]

Quadros are not a viable option when it comes to gaming. Their base and boost clocks are lower, they use much more power and the performance gain over actual gaming cards are marginal, at best (P6000 shows only 30% increase in performance over 1080 ti at about 6 times the cost).

[@MrMilkyCoco]

No I think this time around theyre keeping the gpu power in the titans but making them more capable of other things instead hence the frame times are pretty bad. The 80 is definitely going to be much weaker probably 1080ti power or a bit more.

[@thomaszhu2277]

The titan volta was just a rtx 2080 ti, cool

[@dlinkdj]

Hey Steve can you do Titan V 16x pcie vs 8x pcie ?? Wondering if there would be a difference in performance this time around

[@kainhall]

1:19 i didnt even notice the text at first 1080 (watching in 480 due to 192 kbps montana ccow-net)..... on a 23 inch samsung old ass DVI single link....... if i go full screen and bump up to 720p.....i can read it but at 720p 60 i wait 30 seconds for 5 secs of video......(i can JUST run 720p 30 with out pausing) make text bigger ples

[@Teh509]

Can't wait to see the Volta / Ampere replacement for the 1080ti... What do you think are the chances that Nvidia replace the HBM with GDDR6?, maybe 4500 cores or so with some of the other bits ripped out like the tensor cores to increase thermal efficiency... hopefully should be a colossal card...I just hope it replaces the 1080ti price point... Anything more than £800 then it's out.

[@james2042]

Well 5000 cuda cores is still 5000 cuda cores, so the performance is there if the drivers support it. So any framtime issues is going to be driver related. Also another Vulkan title as of now you can test are wolfenstien 2 (mad max the game exist, but its old and was insanely well optimized already). Future games to get it will be CS:GO, Ashes (a borderline benchmark), and Star Citizen (Granted benchmarking that is like benchmarking furmark)

[@hanvitlee6346]

Can you see how many of these you need to play games at 8K 60Hz? Once the waterblocks come out, of couse. EDIT: Probably 3, since SLI has scaling issues and 8K is x4 more pixel density than 4K, but I don't have 40,000 to spend on a PC, monitor and watercooling.

[@hsensei]

Clean the fingerprints off the plastic for you B roll beauty shots! My OCD is going nuts!

[@nukedathlonman]

I wonder if someone at nVidia was watching this and shaking their head ("we said it's not a gaming card..."). ROFL Okay, more seriously now, very very nice work with everything you've done. :-) Can't wait to see what you guys along with Buildzoid can do with the OC magic (should be lot's of fun). :-) Cheers!

[@JWhite-Fishing]

"1080ti is still the clear winner in gaming" - Cmon Steve, throw you're price/perf charts out the window for a second. This is a scientific card on rev 1 Volta with clear architectural drawbacks for gaming, that has a commanding and measurable lead over all previous single GPU cards. Its essentially the fastest single GPU card ever made, for gaming. I'm excited.

[@joonasahola7747]

I'm fully aware that this monster of a card is directed towards professional applications, but it is nice to see Nvidia releasing a full chip (GV100, albeit slightly reduced) under the name of Titan. Maybe this will better differentiate its products in the segment between gaming-grade GTXs and Quadros. No doubt this card is also extremely expensive to manufacture compared to pretty much else on the market.

[@Narwaro]

I actually have some ideas how the extra shit can be used, sorry physics and mathematics has to be useful for something: Interpolation. You could create some technology that lets you play games at higher resolution while the rendering is done at some slightly lower resolution (remember that it is O(n^2), increasing difficulty in a square manner with horizontal or vertical resolution), maybe 20-35%, it would give phenomenal results (frame rate and visuals). But yeah, no one has a card like that for gaming.

[@oldgamergene5712]

Sooooo - if you really don't care about price/performance and money is no object - go for it. Titan V almost kills everything. But for 30% of that cost you can get within 20% of the performance - be sane. And as usual I love the video - "Just the facts mam". ...gene

[@CaptainTomAN94]

It's funny - Volta's efficiency seems intrinsically tied to temperature just like Vega. I can hit 1700 core/1160 Memory clocks with my reference Vega 64 while undervolted no problem, but I have to set the fans to keep it below 64c.

[@GOD999MODE]

I'm not upgrading until I can play AAA games at 4K 120fps+ for under $700 (GPU). My GTX 1080 is a beast for 1440p 100fps+. I can't see any additional value in upgrading for at least 2-3 more years.

[@DerJoshbert]

What about putting an Arctic Accelero Xtreme IV on that card? Is the contact Area to small?

[@pickleadaykeepsthedoctoraway]

Jesus Steve, you keep blowing my mind with how fast and good your content is! You're a force of good for the industry, at least at this moment; I'm sure you wouldn't want people to place blind faith in you since you might turn into the h500p! Jokes aside, again keep up the great work and happy holidays! Seriously, how much do you work each day :S?

[@mbe102]

Throw Wolfenstein 2 in there for Async Compute Benches! PLEASE! There is a Free Demo on Steam

[@ericwright8592]

How many of the Cuda cores are dedicated to double precision? (fp64) Are they part of a dedicated hardware path? As in, if the benchmarks don't require fp64 calculations are those Cuda cores sitting idle while the fp32 do all the work? Or do all the cores function regardless, just that some can do fp64 if required?

[@CoalitionGaming]

Will you guys be doing a crypto Mining benchmark of some type maybe?

[@timothygibney159]

Volta does Async? I was under the impression the performance hurts games which is why AMD is struggling for non-optimized games. Doom, hitman pro, and Dues Ex Revolution are the only ones that use Async which is the only way AMD beats Nvidia in those titles.

[@blazbohinc5735]

That moment when you're CPU bound at 4K. Holy shiet. I think this is how it'll go: gtx 1070 equivalent from Volta = Titan Xp performance gtx 1080 equivalent = 1070eq. + 15-20% gtx 1080ti equivalent = 1070eq. + 35% Or something along those lines, if they stay loyal to their trend.