Nvidia Titan V Specifications – Is it worth $3,000?

Nvidia has announced their new Titan V GPU, the company’s first consumer/prosumer Volta based product and their first Titan-series GPU to make use of HBM2 memory. 

This graphics processor will come with an extremely high price tag of $3,000, making it the company’s most expensive Titan-class GPU to date, delivering new features that have never been seen before outside of Nvidia’s Tesla series of products. 

While this GPU can be used with Geforce gaming drivers, this product is not designed for gamers, offering AI specific features that go unused while under traditional gaming workloads. Nvidia’s new Tensor cores are the main selling point of this new graphics product, so if you don’t already know what these additional cores deliver, it is safe to say that this is not the graphics processor for you.  

The Titan V will come with a monstrous single precision CUDA core count of 5,220, offering 33% more graphics processing units than Nvidia’s Titan Xp, though these come with a lower base and boost clock speeds. Combine this with this GPU’s 12GB of HBM2 memory and the Titan V also delivers more memory bandwidth than the Titan Xp, offering a sizable performance boost. 

With the Titan V, Nvidia has opted not to utilise GV100’s maxed out memory configuration, utilising 12GB of HBM2 memory instead of 16GB. The Tian V uses three active HBM2 memory chips instead of four, losing the GPU a quarter of GV100’s maximum potential bandwidth, even with this limitation the Titan V still outperforms the Titan Xp by a significant margin when it comes to memory performance.  

 

Â	Titan V	Titan Xp	GTX Titan X	GTX 1080 Ti	GTX 1080
GPU Architecture	Volta	PascalÂ	Pascal	Pascal	Pascal
Process node	12nm	16nmÂ	16nm	16nm	16nm
Die Size (mm^2)	815	471	471	471	314
SM Units	80	60Â	56	56	40
Cores per SM	64	64Â	64	64	64
CUDA Core Count	5120	 3840	3584	3584	2560
Tensor Cores	640	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
ROPs	?	 96	96	88	64
VRAM Type	HBM2	GDDR5XÂ	GDDR5X	GDDR5X	GDDR5XÂ
Memory Clock	 850MHz	 11408MHz	10008MHz	11008MHz	10008MHz
VRAM Cappacity	 12GB	12GBÂ	12GB	11GB	8GBÂ
Memory Bus Size	 3072-bit	 384-bit	384-bit	352-bit	256-bitÂ
Memory Bandwidth	 652.8GB/s	547.7GB/sÂ	480 GB/s	484 GB/s	320 GB/sÂ
Base clock speed	 1200MHz	 –	1417MHz	–	1607MHzÂ
Boost clock speed	 1455Mhz	1582MHz	1531MHz	1582MHz	1733MHzÂ
TDP	 250W	250WÂ	250W	250W	180WÂ
Power Connection	 1x 8-pin 1x 6-pin	1x 8-pin 1x 6-pinÂ	1x 8-pin 1x 6-pin	1x 8-pin 1x 6-pin	1x 8-pinÂ
PCI ExpressÂ	 PCIe 3.0	 PCIe 3.0	PCIe 3.0	PCIe 3.0	PCIe 3.0Â

Nvidia has announced their new Titan V GPU, the company’s first consumer/prosumer Volta based product and their first Titan-series GPU to make use of HBM2 memory. 

This graphics processor will come with an extremely high price tag of $3,000, making it the company’s most expensive Titan-class GPU to date, delivering new features that have never been seen before outside of Nvidia’s Tesla series of products. 

While this GPU can be used with Geforce gaming drivers, this product is not designed for gamers, offering AI specific features that go unused while under traditional gaming workloads. Nvidia’s new Tensor cores are the main selling point of this new graphics product, so if you don’t already know what these additional cores deliver, it is safe to say that this is not the graphics processor for you.  

The Titan V will come with a monstrous single precision CUDA core count of 5,220, offering 33% more graphics processing units than Nvidia’s Titan Xp, though these come with a lower base and boost clock speeds. Combine this with this GPU’s 12GB of HBM2 memory and the Titan V also delivers more memory bandwidth than the Titan Xp, offering a sizable performance boost. 

With the Titan V, Nvidia has opted not to utilise GV100’s maxed out memory configuration, utilising 12GB of HBM2 memory instead of 16GB. The Tian V uses three active HBM2 memory chips instead of four, losing the GPU a quarter of GV100’s maximum potential bandwidth, even with this limitation the Titan V still outperforms the Titan Xp by a significant margin when it comes to memory performance.  

 

Â	Titan V	Titan Xp	GTX Titan X	GTX 1080 Ti	GTX 1080
GPU Architecture	Volta	PascalÂ	Pascal	Pascal	Pascal
Process node	12nm	16nmÂ	16nm	16nm	16nm
Die Size (mm^2)	815	471	471	471	314
SM Units	80	60Â	56	56	40
Cores per SM	64	64Â	64	64	64
CUDA Core Count	5120	 3840	3584	3584	2560
Tensor Cores	640	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
ROPs	?	 96	96	88	64
VRAM Type	HBM2	GDDR5XÂ	GDDR5X	GDDR5X	GDDR5XÂ
Memory Clock	 850MHz	 11408MHz	10008MHz	11008MHz	10008MHz
VRAM Cappacity	 12GB	12GBÂ	12GB	11GB	8GBÂ
Memory Bus Size	 3072-bit	 384-bit	384-bit	352-bit	256-bitÂ
Memory Bandwidth	 652.8GB/s	547.7GB/sÂ	480 GB/s	484 GB/s	320 GB/sÂ
Base clock speed	 1200MHz	 –	1417MHz	–	1607MHzÂ
Boost clock speed	 1455Mhz	1582MHz	1531MHz	1582MHz	1733MHzÂ
TDP	 250W	250WÂ	250W	250W	180WÂ
Power Connection	 1x 8-pin 1x 6-pin	1x 8-pin 1x 6-pinÂ	1x 8-pin 1x 6-pin	1x 8-pin 1x 6-pin	1x 8-pinÂ
PCI ExpressÂ	 PCIe 3.0	 PCIe 3.0	PCIe 3.0	PCIe 3.0	PCIe 3.0Â