So NVIDIA’s new flagship GeForce GTX Titan Z has been released, and as I have said before it is a beast! A dual Titan Card with 5760 CUDA cores! Damn I want to see how this would run on Premiere Pro. Probably only be able to use One Core for now, but if you could use the other to run your monitors, that would rock! Still $3000, youch!
Makes me want to build a PC for my next editing machine. Still can’t believe the new MacPro’s make me want a PC!
PC World has this exciting news.
Pascal will use NVLink, to enhance the PCI connection between cards, and allow for 5x to 12x speeds over PCI Express. And with 3D stacking of chips to increase bandwidth between components we will have serious powerhouses here.
And the Titan Z has 12GB of memory and 5760 CUDA Cores! Wow, think of the CUDA accelerated editing with that! And Pascal will be even faster than that. AWESOME.
And this is why it was insane for Apple to give up on user expandable PCI Express cards in their computers. By limiting graphics to only specific AMD cards they have done their customers a huge disservice, and this is likely why I will end up with a PC someday.
With 2880 CUDA cores and 6 GB of 7.0 Gbps Speed Memory this thing should fly! It can perform single precision at 5.1 TFLOPS and double precision at 1.3TFLOPS so should be beating the GTX 780i for professional applications.
Personally I was hoping my next computer had 2 of these, and certainly not AMD cards!
Macnn is reporting that NVIDIA has updated it’s graphics card drivers, but you need CUDA 5.5.28 to work with them.
I tried installing them in my MacPro with a PC NVIDIA Geforce 670 and it wouldn’t restart, had to zap the PRAM, so be careful with these!
Todd Kopriva has announced the release of NVIDIA Cuda Drivers 5.5.47. You can download them from the CUDA control panel or NVIDIA’s CUDA site.
I had to update to 5.5.28 first to get the 5.5.47 update, guess I have not updated in a while.
Apple has once again updated it’s iMacs, now with Haswell Processors, PCI SSD cards and NVIDIA 7 series GPU’s!. Now that the MacPro is going fully AMD only, people wanting CUDA will have iMacs as their main option, as you can go up to a GTX 780M with 4GB of GDDR5 Memory. Would rather have a non-mobile version of the processor, but these should still rock for CUDA.
If only APPLE would relent and release a MacPro that is actually expandable, and doesn’t use just thunderbolt for expansion, but that is unlikely to happen. Thinking a hackintosh looks more and more likely in my Future!
Netkas did some speed tests on a GTX Titan running OS 10.9 and Windows, and it looks like os x is between 22-26% slower! YOUCH!
Oh the irony, since the new MacPro will leave out the awesome NVIDIA graphics cards completely. Check out the article at FCP.CO, which actually says it is to speed up FCPX and Motion, though is actually more about the upgrade and flashing the card.
He even used a PC model like my 670 (though I did a 670 because of possible power issues with a 680, so though the Mac Version would be safer), though he was able to flash it into the Mac version so he gets the boot screen.
And honestly this is better for Adobe software as you get great CUDA support with it.
FXGuide has the news on this awesome new video card. 2880 CUDA cores and 12 GB of memory! A workstation class card if there ever was one. Way too expensive for normal use though!
AnandTech has some great comparisons on this new wondercard.
Until I have a really big company to afford something like this I would still like a GTX TITAN.
Video Guys has a good post as to why to chose NVIDIA and Quadro for the creative Cloud.
Personally I want to see a really good Quadro vs GeForce comparison, especially something like a GTX Titan, and throw in AMD as well to see the OpenCL performance and really see which is best.