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NVIDIA issued a press release for its new card, Titan Xp:
Introduced today [April 6], the Pascal-powered TITAN Xp pushes more cores, faster clocks, faster memory and more TFLOPS than its predecessor, the 2016 Pascal-powered TITAN X.
With the new TITAN Xp we're delivering a card to users who demand the very best NVIDIA GPU, directly from NVIDIA and supported by NVIDIA.
Key stats:
- 12GB of GDDR5X memory running at 11.4 Gbps
- 3,840 CUDA cores running at 1.6GHz
- 12 TFLOPs of brute force
This is extreme performance for extreme users where every drop counts.
Open to Mac Community
Speaking of users, we're also making the new TITAN Xp open to the Mac community with new Pascal drivers, coming this month. For the first time, this gives Mac users access to the immense horsepower delivered by our award-winning Pascal-powered GPUs.
TITAN Xp is available now for $1,200 direct from nvidia.com, and select system builders soon.
Don't shoot the messenger.
[More details can be found on the TITAN Xp product page where you can also place an order (Limit 2 per customer). --Ed.]
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08 2017, @01:09PM (4 children)
You know, I grew up using the Macintosh, and there was virtually nothing available for it, relative to what was available for the "PC".
In my adulthood, I've moved to Linux, and there's virtually nothing available for it, relative to what is available for the Macintosh.
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Saturday April 08 2017, @01:50PM (3 children)
I've moved to Linux, and there's virtually nothing available for it, relative to what is available for the Macintosh.
Are Titan X series cards not functional in Linux, as they are on Macintosh?
Macintosh + proprietary binary driver supports these cards, and Linux + proprietary binary driver [phoronix.com] supports these cards.
Phoronix (link above) does mention that acceleration for Titan X series cards is not supported under the free Noveau driver due to the firmware being unavailable from Nvidia.
But, of course, no free driver for Macintosh either, so not a lack of parity in availability.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08 2017, @03:35PM
See here [nvidia.com] for NVIDIA's minimum requirements for a Linux operating system.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08 2017, @05:08PM (1 child)
Use http://www.geforce.com/drivers [geforce.com] to check for support.
Currently there are Linux 32 bit arm drivers, but not x86 or x64. FreeBSD (and Solaris) have both x86 and x64 drivers though, and I assume linux will shortly.
I don't care about mac or windows, so I didn't check them.
I went with Nvidia for my GPU because of their good Linux and FreeBSD support.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08 2017, @08:54PM
Put that in your compiler and smoke it. [soylentnews.org]