Nvidia introduces the Titan RTX with 24GB gddr6

Nvidia has announced a Titan video card based on its Turing GPU. The Titan RTX, as the card is called, has 24GB gddr6 video memory. The workstation card will be released later in December for $2499.

Nvidia has coined the nickname T-Rex for its Titan RTX, which is announced by the company a year after the introduction of the Titan V. The video card is built around the TU102, a GPU based on the Turing architecture with all its cores activated. The Titan RTX thus has 4608 cudacores, compared to 4352 for the RTX 2080 Ti, which also has a TU102, but where Nvidia has released fewer cores.

Among other things, the card should distinguish itself with its 576 tensor cores of the Turing generation. According to the manufacturer, these cores ensure that the card reaches 130 teraflops of computing power for deep learning applications. That’s an improvement over its predecessor, the Titan V, which achieved 110 teraflops with its 640 Volta-generation tensor cores on these types of calculations.

The Titan RTX also has considerably more memory: 24GB of the gddr6 type compared to 12GB of high bandwidth memory 2 of the Titan V. The memory bandwidth has increased from 653GB/s to 672GB/s. With its amount of memory, the card must be able to hold, among other things, large models and data sets for processing.

With the Titan RTX, Nvidia is not targeting gamers, but on professional use for, among other things, artificial intelligence, real-time ray tracing, virtual reality and high performance computing. For users who do not have enough of one card, there is support for NVLink, so that two Titan RTX cards can be combined in one system.

Nvidia is asking $2499 for the Titan RTX when it comes on the market later in December. Remarkably enough, that is a lower amount than the company charged for the Titan V. The GeForce RTX cards, on the other hand, were more expensive than their predecessors. One possible explanation lies with the type of memory used by the manufacturer. Nvidia uses expensive hdbm2 for the Titan V, compared to cheaper gddr6 for the Titan RTX.