NVIDIA TITAN RTX : Overview | Specs | Testing| Is it good for gaming?

NVIDIA TITAN RTX : Overview | Specs | Testing| Is it good for gaming ?- Another “titanium” flagship was introduced by NVIDIA in early December 2018. At the time of its release, the graphics accelerator NVIDIA TITAN RTX is the most powerful and at the same time the most expensive custom solution. Its cost at the time of the announcement is 2,500 US dollars or 221,990 rubles. The top video card is built on a core marked TU102 new Turing graphics architecture.

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1 NVIDIA TITAN RTX – Specifications

2 Testing in games

3 Conclusion

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The video card in question tops the rating of NVIDIA adapters and is one step above the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti. Compared to the 2080 Ti model, the novelty has more CUDA cores, more texture units, as well as tensor and RT cores. The base frequency of the video core for these two video cards is the same, but in the acceleration mode for TITAN RTX it is 255 MHz higher. The bus width of the Titan is 384 bits, which brings the throughput to the level of 672 GB / s. The flagship model has 24 GB of next-generation GDDR6 video memory. Power consumption corresponds to performance and is 280 watts. For comparison, here is a table with the characteristics of the two mentioned models.

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NVIDIA TITAN RTX – Specifications

	NVIDIA TITAN RTX	GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
GPU model (architecture)	TU102 (Turing)	TU102 (Turing)
Technical process	TSMC 12 нм	TSMC 12 нм
Number of transistors	18.6 billion	18.6 billion
CUDA stream processors	4608	4352
Number of Tensor cores	576	544
Number of RT cores	72	68
texture blocks	288	272
Render Units (ROPs)	96	88
core frequency base	1350 MHz	1350 MHz
Boost Core Clock	1770 MHz	1635 MHz
Memory bus	384 pages	352 pages
Memory frequency	1750 MHz	1750 MHz
Memory	24 GB	11 GB
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6
Bandwidth	672 GB/s	616 GB/s
power usage	280 W	260 W
Min. system requirements	650 W	650 W
Maximum GPU temperature	89 °С	89 °С
Interface	PCI-E 3.0	PCI-E 3.0
Add. nutrition	2x 8-pin	2x 8-pin
Communication	2x NVLink	2x NVLink
Price	2500 USD	1199 USD

NVIDIA TITAN RTX – Specifications

Considering the price difference between these two models is more than twice, the advantages of TITAN RTX are not that great.

The appearance of the casing and the design of the radiator of the video card in question is almost the same as the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti model. Only the color of the Titan casing is golden, similar to the 2017 flagship NVIDIA TITAN V. The video card is powered by two 8-pin connectors. The picture is output via DisplayPort 1.4 and HDMI 2.0b connectors.

Testing in games

The following stand configuration was used for testing:

processor Intel Core i7-6850K,
motherboard MSI X99S MPower,
memory G.Skill F4-3200C14Q-32GTZ (32 GB),
SSD Plextor PX-256M6Pro (256 MB),
Corsair AX1500i power supply (1500 W),
operating system Windows 10 Pro x64,
GeForce 419.35 WHQL driver.

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Testing was carried out at maximum graphics settings with FullHD and 4K screen resolutions.

Conclusion

In terms of gaming performance, the claim that TITAN RTX is the most powerful graphics card is fully supported by the test results. But this raises the question – how justified is the difference in cost compared to the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti? It is clear that there is no point in acquiring a Titan to play in FullHD. But in games at 2K or 4K, the TITAN RTX outperforms the 2080 Ti by about 10%. And the cost, we recall, is more than twice.

The conclusion suggests itself: NVIDIA TITAN RTX can only be claimed by individual computer enthusiasts, as well as by those gamers for whom the cost of components does not matter in principle. But if you are used to spending money wisely, then it is better to take a closer look at the factory overclocked GeForce RTX 2080 Ti adapters. Some of them are almost equal in performance to TITAN RTX.

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