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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]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08 2017, @01:13PM (3 children)
"Are we really going to call this 'Xp'? You know, like that old Windows that Microsoft wants everybody to stop using?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday April 08 2017, @05:42PM
I was thinking of the emoticon. At least they didn't call it Titan XD.
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(Score: 2) by fishybell on Saturday April 08 2017, @06:26PM (1 child)
I once worked for a company that used XP in their new product name to signify that it was cross-platform (ie. didn't only run on OS/2 anymore).
When Windows XP came out they changed their name so people wouldn't think it only ran on Windows XP.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday April 08 2017, @07:09PM
The kind of people who are going to buy this overpriced GPU are not going to be confused much by the name. Maybe search engines will be confused by it, returning results like "Can I use my NVIDIA Titan with Windows XP?"
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by bzipitidoo on Saturday April 08 2017, @01:49PM (5 children)
I never buy top end graphics hardware. Pay $1200 for hardware that 5 years later will be equaled by low end stuff that uses less power and needs less cooling, and costs 1/10th the price? Not me! But the trickle down effect is nice. The bottom end gets better. Last time I bought NVidia, I got a GE Force GT 610, because it was fanless, to replace a previous generation GE Force that had its fan fail. Can't stand those graphics card fans anyway, sound like hair dryers.
Lately I've been running with Intel's integrated HD graphics, which has improved enough to be competitive with the cheapest, least powerful stuff from NVidia and AMD. Not that I'm in love with Intel, but they've promised and delivered better support for 3D acceleration in open drivers for Linux. I hate having to turn back to the proprietary Nvidia driver that has to be recompiled for every kernel update when I find that the Nouveau driver still can't match the 3D performance. So, one solution is just avoid Nvidia (Nvidious) altogether. As to being able to play games at their maximum graphics settings, on a gigantic 4k or more monitor, meh, don't care that much about that aspect of games.
Learning OpenCL is on my bucket list. I have a sense of what it can do. The problem is figuring out how to put all that parallel processing power to good use.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday April 08 2017, @01:54PM (3 children)
Any recommendation on 3D hardware? What to select, not to avoid.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08 2017, @03:37PM
The command line is where it's at.
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Sunday April 09 2017, @09:40AM
I usually stay a gen or two behind with AMD (currently R9 280, previously HD 7750 and before that HD 4850) and have been nothing but happy and they seem to run just fine no matter what OS I throw at them. Windows of course runs fine and Linux drivers have usually caught up with the hardware by then so that is rarely an issue. You can always go to Phoronix and look up whatever card you are looking at and they usually have Linux benches for it if you are wanting to go that direction.
Generally I find Nvidia runs a little cooler while AMD cards tend to last longer performance wise (it even has a nickname, AMD "finewine" because they age so well) so its really which matters to you more.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 2) by tibman on Sunday April 09 2017, @03:49PM
AMD RX 480 is a good deal right now. 580 will be coming out soon but looks just like a more tuned up version of the 480 (so don't wait for it). It appears to have good linux support as well. Doom is playing over 100 fps @1440p vulkan. Played Left 4 Dead 2 last night at 290 fps, lol.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08 2017, @04:57PM
are you just cheap and saying in a roundabout fashion that you will never buy a discrete video card if you can get video included with the CPU?
I have a few fanless gpus for some dedicated workstations, that replaced the function of integrated gpus. Let's face it; integrated GPUs are only as good as what the least common denominator demands of it.
That's why good hardware doesn't come with integrated GPUs.
(Score: 2) by hamsterdan on Saturday April 08 2017, @05:46PM (1 child)
Are they talking about 1st gen Mac Pro (2012?) or running via thunderbolt in an external PCIe enclosure on newer machines? just curious.
(Score: 2) by zeigerpuppy on Saturday April 08 2017, @05:55PM
i guess they may be preparing for the next MacPro.
in the meantine there's quite a few people doing high end graphics/video production work on hackintoshes who have been waiting for pascal support.
My dual Xeon 2680 rig cost me a quarter the price of a mac pro for twice the performance.
most of us are using the Asus Z9PE or Z10PE board, really nice rigs but definitely a little fiddly to get configured.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @07:33AM (1 child)
This card is about 1% different from cards available 6mo ago. Still waiting for the "extreme" to arrive.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @09:40AM
It's an extreme-ly bad deal. At least the difference in VRAM is more than 1%.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday April 09 2017, @06:28PM
Considering the open graphics FPGA project Open Graphics Project [wikipedia.org]. What 3D transforms or functions are the most important ones to implement? (speaking mathematically)