Just recently, the final and confirmed specifications of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Black Edition has been revealed, thanks to VideoCardz. The GTX Titan Black Edition is powered by a GK11-430 chip featuring 2880 CUDA Cores, 48 ROPs and 240 TMUs. It has a base clock speed of 890MHz and boost clock speed of 980MHz, which is higher than the GTX 780 Ti and the previous GTX Titan. Check out the rest of its specifications below.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan Black Edition Specifications
Aside from the clock speeds and number of shaders mentioned above, the new GeForce GTX Titan Black Edition will sport 6GB GDDR5 memory with a clock speed of 7,008MHz effective, in a 384-bit memory interface. The GTX Titan Black Edition will be definitely faster than the previous Titan, 15% according to NVIDIA, but with regards to the performance difference between the GTX Titan Black Edition vs GTX 780 Ti, we will find out that soon once real world benchmarks surfaces from reviews. It is also reported that the GTX Titan Black Edition have an almost exactly the same PCB as with the GTX 780 Ti.
| Specifications | GTX TITAN Black Edition | GTX TITAN | GTX 780 TI |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPU | GK110-430 | GK110-400 | GK110-425 |
| Base Clock | 890 MHz | 836 MHz | 875 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 980 MHz | 876 MHz | 928 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 7008 MHz | 6008 MHz | 7008 MHz |
| CUDA Cores | 2880 | 2688 | 2880 |
| TMUs | 240 | 224 | 240 |
| ROPs | 48 | 48 | 48 |
| Memory | 6GB GDDR5 | 6GB GDDR5 | 3GB GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 384-bit | 384-bit | 384-bit |
| Single Prevision | 5.1 TFLOPS | 4.5 TFLOPS | 5.0 TFLOPS |
| Double Precision | 1.7 TFLOPS (?) | 1.5 TFLOPS | 0.2 TFLOPS |
| TDP | 250W | 250W | 250W |
| Power Connectors | 6pin + 8pin | 6pin + 8pin | 6pin + 8pin |
Price and Availability
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan Black Edition is said to go on sale quietly starting next week. MSRP is currently undetermined, but reports says that it will replace the previous GTX Titan and will probably have an SRP around $999 USD. It won’t be long until other graphics card manufacturers will also announce their own GTX Titan Black Edition with non-reference cooler.
besides 2 points why would anybody buy this over the TI
there are people who want to buy the “highest end” graphics card despite that performance gain is little and price difference is high