NVIDIA unveils $2,500 RTX TITAN Turing-based graphics card with 24 GB of VRAM

By Mithun Mohandas | Updated on 04-Jun-2020

03 Dec 2018 19:50

HIGHLIGHTS

The flagship SKU in the Turing-based RTX 2000 series packs a wallop with 130 TFLOPS of Tensor perfor

Most of the top SKUs in NVIDIA’s RTX 2000 series of cards are out with their announcement at GAMESCOM 2018. What remained was the flagship TITAN card and the mid-range 2060 and 2050 graphics cards. Most of us expected the TITAN RTX to be unveiled at CES but NVIDIA decided to make good of the hype-vacuum and unveil the TITAN RTX today. Like previous TITAN cards, the TITAN RTX is aimed at workstation loads but it’s very likely that we will see it on gaming rigs in the coming months. The only thing holding people back is the $2,500 price tag which is, surprisingly, lower than the previous TITAN V’s price tag of $2,999. Let’s take a look at the specifications.

NVIDIA RTX TITAN Specifications
	Titan RTX	Titan V	RTX 2080 Ti	Tesla V100
CUDA Cores	4608	5120	4352	5120
Tensor Cores	576	640	544	640
Core Clock	1350MHz	1200MHz	1350MHz	?
Boost Clock	1770MHz	1455MHz	1635MHz	1370MHz
Memory Clock	14Gbps GDDR6	1.7Gbps HBM2	14Gbps GDDR6	1.75Gbps HBM2
Memory Bus Width	384-bit	3072-bit	352-bit	4096-bit
Memory Bandwidth	672GB/sec	653GB/sec	616GB/sec	900GB/sec
VRAM	24GB	12GB	11GB	16GB
L2 Cache	6MB	4.5MB	5.5MB	6MB
Single Precision	16.3 TFLOPS	13.8 TFLOPS	14.2 TFLOPS	14 TFLOPS
Double Precision	0.51 TFLOPS	6.9 TFLOPS	0.44 TFLOPS	7 TFLOPS
Tensor Performance (FP16 w/FP32 Acc)	130 TFLOPS	110 TFLOPS	57 TFLOPS	112 TFLOPS
GPU	TU102	GV100	TU102	GV100
Die Size	754mm2	815mm2	754mm2	815mm2
Transistor Count	18.6B	21.1B	18.6B	21.1B
TDP	280W	250W	260W	250W
Form Factor	PCIe	PCIe	PCIe	PCIe
Manufacturing Process	12nm	12nm	12nm	12nm
Architecture	Turing	Volta	Turing	Volta
Launch Date	12/2018	12/07/2017	09/20/2018	Q3'17
Price	$2499	$2999	$1199	~$10000

The TITAN RTX uses the same TU102 as the RTX 2080 Ti which means they’re both the same chip but given how the RTX 2080 Ti seems to have fewer active CUDA cores, we can surmise that it uses a slightly cut down version of the TU102 while the TITAN RTX uses all of it. The TITAN RTX even has a slightly better boost clock than the 2080 Ti and more thermal headroom as well.

From a design perspective, the TITAN RTX follows the new twin-blower cooler that the RTX series introduced. There are no openings on the rear side of the card so it’ll be interesting to see how this design fares in a NVLink configuration. Since TITAN cards are often used in multi-GPU configurations, the cooling on the cards makes a huge difference. The only thing different here seems to be the golden tinge that the TITAN RTX has. NVIDIA is calling it, T-Rex.

Mithun Mohandas

Mithun Mohandas is an Indian technology journalist with 10 years of experience covering consumer technology. He is currently employed at Digit in the capacity of a Managing Editor. Mithun has a background in Computer Engineering and was an active member of the IEEE during his college days. He has a penchant for digging deep into unravelling what makes a device tick. If there's a transistor in it, Mithun's probably going to rip it apart till he finds it. At Digit, he covers processors, graphics cards, storage media, displays and networking devices aside from anything developer related. As an avid PC gamer, he prefers RTS and FPS titles, and can be quite competitive in a race to the finish line. He only gets consoles for the exclusives. He can be seen playing Valorant, World of Tanks, HITMAN and the occasional Age of Empires or being the voice behind hundreds of Digit videos. View Full Profile