The Titan is Here

[jasonvp]

I'll take two, please?

 

I despise @-tagging folks, but: @LinusTech do we get review vids soon(ish)?  I assume some sort of NDA in place and it's about to drop given the cards are for sale now?

 

 

[LukeSavenije]

[Madgemade]

Looks like they will be up very soon then. About time as Linus teased this a week or more ago now. The video will have been made weeks ago so all we need to do is when for the scheduled upload to go public. Almost certainly today.

 

Stange that no media have released anything yet but Googling "Titan RTX takes you straight to Nvidias site.

[jasonvp]

One of the things I'm interested in besides performance numbers is: is the PCB identical to the 2080Ti?  Are all of the components on the PCB the same physical size, etc?  I'd assume so, given the 2080Ti card had the slot for the 12th memory chip already in place.  This is important because it means the current 2080Ti water blocks will work on the Titan, like they have in previous gens.

[Tristerin]

I saw this, and came here to ask why we aren't talking about THIS lol

 

 

[Kalm_Traveler]

1 hour ago, jasonvp said:

One of the things I'm interested in besides performance numbers is: is the PCB identical to the 2080Ti?  Are all of the components on the PCB the same physical size, etc?  I'd assume so, given the 2080Ti card had the slot for the 12th memory chip already in place.  This is important because it means the current 2080Ti water blocks will work on the Titan, like they have in previous gens.

I've been asking this but even EK is telling me to wait and make sure - but I agree with your logic, wouldn't make sense for them not to fit so I'm going to just risk it and order the 2080 water block (FE block fits 2070, 2080, and 2080 Ti so seems very likely this board uses the same PCB layout).

 

If it doesn't fit worst case I have to return one and keep waiting for a Titan-RTX-specific block.

[jasonvp]

25 minutes ago, Kalm_Traveler1 said:

If it doesn't fit worst case I have to return one and keep waiting for a Titan-RTX-specific block.

Since I run all of my GPUs in SLI, I absolutely and vehemently refuse to air cool them due to noise.  So the blocks are a must for me before I purchase the GPUs.  The last Titans I purchased (Pascals, when they first launched) sat in their boxes on my kitchen counter for several weeks because EK didn't have block ready for them.  That was pure, unadulterated torture for me!

[Kalm_Traveler]

4 hours ago, jasonvp said:

Since I run all of my GPUs in SLI, I absolutely and vehemently refuse to air cool them due to noise.  So the blocks are a must for me before I purchase the GPUs.  The last Titans I purchased (Pascals, when they first launched) sat in their boxes on my kitchen counter for several weeks because EK didn't have block ready for them.  That was pure, unadulterated torture for me!

Totally understand. I'll just order the 2080Ti blocks and hope for the best. 

[jasonvp]

1 hour ago, Kalm_Traveler1 said:

Totally understand. I'll just order the 2080Ti blocks and hope for the best. 

I mooched this off of the NVidia site.  I'm sure some of it is "prettied up" for advertising reasons, but:

 

 

 

The layout appears to be identical.  But if you look closely at a 2080Ti, you can see some of the smaller chips (VRMs?) are missing on the 2080Ti, but the chip slots are there.  Much the same way as the 12th memory slot.

 

 

Bet the EK block will work.

[Kalm_Traveler]

1 hour ago, jasonvp said:

I mooched this off of the NVidia site.  I'm sure some of it is "prettied up" for advertising reasons, but:

 

 

 

The layout appears to be identical.  But if you look closely at a 2080Ti, you can see some of the smaller chips (VRMs?) are missing on the 2080Ti, but the chip slots are there.  Much the same way as the 12th memory slot.

 

 

Bet the EK block will work.

yep I agree - going to order blocks and the cards now and cross my fingers. Thanks for finding those pics!

[jasonvp]

6 minutes ago, Kalm_Traveler1 said:

yep I agree - going to order blocks and the cards now and cross my fingers. Thanks for finding those pics!

Good deal.  Let me know how everything goes.  Are you going to grind through any shooters with them or just do work with?  If the former, I'm keen to know your impressions; I'll likely be joining you soon.

[Kalm_Traveler]

Just now, jasonvp said:

Good deal.  Let me know how everything goes.  Are you going to grind through any shooters with them or just do work with?  If the former, I'm keen to know your impressions; I'll likely be joining you soon.

definitely a fair amount of gaming   this is my 'completely overkill nonsensical' rig after all. It just wouldn't be right to only use them for productivity!

[jasonvp]

2 minutes ago, Kalm_Traveler1 said:

this is my 'completely overkill nonsensical' rig after all. It just wouldn't be right to only use them for productivity!

As the Mythbusters used to say, "If it's worth doing, it's worth over-doing."  I'm completely on board with the "overkill" box.  But in my case, it's also my main desktop.

[Kalm_Traveler]

3 minutes ago, jasonvp said:

As the Mythbusters used to say, "If it's worth doing, it's worth over-doing."  I'm completely on board with the "overkill" box.  But in my case, it's also my main desktop.

100% onboard with that. I mainly use this one as well. The 9900k + Titan V rig is mostly the result of wanting something for games that don't support SLI at all - and sadly doesn't see a whole lot of use.

[Kalm_Traveler]

Well... these, two Bitspower RTX 20 series water blocks, and an Asus ROG NVLink bridge are on their way... My wallet is angry at me.

[Madgemade]

So they are shipping now? In that case the embargo must be lifting soon or the first deliveries will be before the reviews are out!

[Kalm_Traveler]

2 hours ago, Madgemade said:

So they are shipping now? In that case the embargo must be lifting soon or the first deliveries will be before the reviews are out!

would be sweet if they somehow arrived this weekend so I can play with them over the Christmas / New Year's breaks. My order was confirmed a few hours ago - will update if it ships later today.

[Madgemade]

Well the embargo is up now. Hopefully your cards have shipped. Nothing from Linus yet, maybe he isn't going to cover it?

[Lathlaer]

Like I suspected, within 10-15% of 2080ti. To think that some people were actually wondering whether to get this or 2x 2080ti  

 

I'm more interested in Jay's second video about the pro performance where he will - presumably - reveal how NVIDIA explained undercutting their Quadro lineup

[Quadriplegic]

On 12/19/2018 at 4:20 AM, Kalm_Traveler1 said:

Well... these, two Bitspower RTX 20 series water blocks, and an Asus ROG NVLink bridge are on their way... My wallet is angry at me.

R.I.P. $5362.85

[Lathlaer]

27 minutes ago, Quadriplegic said:

R.I.P. $5362.85

I wouldn't be premature about this. True, it doesn't look good for the value (Titans never did) but historically speaking, Titans spread their wings the most on the water so if @Kalm_Traveler1 is putting the blocks on them, he might be able to get much better performance than initially expected. 

[Kalm_Traveler]

1 hour ago, Madgemade said:

Well the embargo is up now. Hopefully your cards have shipped. Nothing from Linus yet, maybe he isn't going to cover it?

My cards, water blocks, shunt resistors, and NVLink bridge will be here by Saturday. What I'm curious about is how much extra voltage will work without tripping safety mode. 

[Nicnac]

it's ya boi golden gpu again 

[Kalm_Traveler]

49 minutes ago, VegetableStu said:

could probably extrapolate from the reference Nvidia 2080ti card o_o

 

Thanks, yeah I watched that but he didn't mention anything about a detection - imposed limit. I think GN Steve mentioned that these newer cards will go into protect mode if the input circuit detected too low voltage relative to what it is expecting. 

 

In the past i just stacked another 5MO resistor on top of the existing two, for 200% tdp but it may not be that easy with Turing. 

[jasonvp]

3 hours ago, Lathlaer said:

I'm more interested in Jay's second video about the pro performance where he will - presumably - reveal how NVIDIA explained undercutting their Quadro lineup

Quadros carry ECC VRAM, which is expensive.  So that may help explain some of the "undercutting", as it were.