Nvidia announces Titan V CPU
Nvidia announced the release of their Titan V GPU. They are billing as "the most powerful GPU ever created." According to Nvidia, it represents a more significant leap than most products that have made that claim. It is the first GPU based around Nvidia's new Volta architecture. It may be a bit of a stretch to call this a "consumer" card; the Titan V costs $2,999 and is focused around AI and scientific simulation processing. Nvidia claims 110 teraflops and that it consists of 21.1 billion transistors. It is also loaded with 12GB of HBM2 memory, 5120 CUDA cores, and 640 "tensor cores" that are said to offer up to 9 times the deep learning performance of its predecessor. Visually, the card is gold and black.
Currently, it is being marketed to researchers and scientists and ther is no word whether Volta might make its way to the gaming-focused GPUs. Nvidia's current Pascal architecture, which was introduced a year and a half ago still remains one of the best gaming GPUs available. Volta GPUs are more costly for Nvidia to produce so the company may continue to use the Pascal for the gaming market as long as they can. The Titan V is available today and is limited to two per customer.