NVIDIA Unleashes GeForce GTX TITAN For Rs 68,500 | TechTree.com

NVIDIA Unleashes GeForce GTX TITAN For Rs 68,500

Flagship graphics card boasts of being the world's fastest with a single GPU and being as powerful as a supercomputer!

 

Here's some good news for hardcore PC gamers and enthusiasts who want to push their rigs to the limits. NVIDIA has launched its top-of-the-line single GPU graphics card known as the GeForce GTX TITAN, according to a press release issued by the company. This should be able to run all the latest and upcoming games at butter smooth frame rates with all the bells and whistles turned on, and even in 3D. The company is touting it as the world's fastest graphics card and even going as far as naming it after the Titan supercomputer that currently holds the record for being the fastest in the world. In fact, this not really wrong, as the supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory does indeed make use of 18,688 units of the NVIDIA Tesla K20X GPUs, which uses the same GK110 chip based on Kepler architecture that powers this graphics card.

That being said, the graphics chip inside this graphics card is dedicated for gaming rather than for super-computational purposes. We are mentioning this to save you the disappointment if you have started thinking that you could use this to build your own supercomputer. The NVIDIA driver identifies this as a gaming card and therefore doesn't expose GPU-computing features such as Hyper-Q that are already present in the chip. NVIDIA uses GPU Boost 2.0 temperature monitoring to govern the performance of this graphics card rather than how much power it consumes, to make sure that the GPU cores do not exceed 80 degrees Celsius.

Of course, you need to make sure that you have a cabinet large enough to be able to install this 10.5" long and 4.4" tall graphics card. The website mentions a minimum CPU requirement of Intel Core i7 3.2 GHz, which is only fair because a powerful graphics cards can only be well-complemented by a powerful CPU, as performance on such high-end systems tends to get dragged down by a weaker component. While the power requirements are not mentioned, it is safe to assume that a PSU from a reputed brand with power output of over 1000 W will be needed. It is mentioned that the graphics card supports playback of Blu-ray 3D content via HDMI, and there are two dual-link DVI outputs as well as a DisplayPort 1.2 output, but it is not yet clear if it can output 4K content to compatible displays.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN is not for mere mortals as it costs a whopping Rs 68,500.

NVIDIA Unleashes GeForce GTX TITAN For Rs 68,500


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