Geforce GTX Titan Black not for gamers

At the beginning of next week, it’s time for Nvidia to release a bunch of new graphics cards. One of these is the worsting model Geforce GTX Titan Black, which will take over after today’s GTX Titan by offering the full version of the GK110 circuit. However, the purpose is not to offer more performance in games.

Sources at SweClockers now state that the Geforce GTX Titan Black will not be positioned as a graphics card for gamers. Instead, Nvidia plans to target the model to professional users, specifically workstations for the development of CUDA-based applications.

While that doesn’t stop anyone from acquiring a Geforce GTX Titan Black and unleashing it in Battlefield 4, the focus of the launch is on performance in GPGPU-related scenarios. Like today’s Titan, the newcomer is not as limited in double precision-performance like other models in the Geforce series but rather a kind of “Tesla Light”.

Higher clock frequencies – more memory

In practice, the upcoming Geforce GTX Black Edition is very similar to today’s GTX 780 Ti with 2,880 CUDA cores and 384-bit memory bus, but there are differences. Above all, the amount of memory is doubled to 6 GB GDDR5 and this while maintaining the speed rating of the memory capsules, which points to a similar memory frequency.

When it comes to the graphics processor, specially selected circuits with higher clock frequencies than today’s Titan are used. According to SweClocker’s data, the nominal clock frequency is 940 MHz, which is increased to 979 MHz with GPU Boost. It can be compared to the Titans 837/876 MHz or 876/928 MHz in the GTX 780 Ti.

Geforce GTX Titan Black will be released on February 18. At the same time, the first graphics cards are launched with the new Maxwell architecture: Geforce GTX 750 and 750 Ti.