A new GPU may be unveiled by Nvidia at the end of February if the rumors around the web are to be believed. It was originally thought that the current flagship of the GeForce 600 Series was not never intended to be de-facto leader of GPU’s everywhere since it was based on a cut down Graphics Core designated GK104, which consists of 1536 CUDA cores.
There were apparently two reasons for this, Nvidia was disappointed by it’s rival competitor AMD’s HD7000 release and decided to hold back and benefit from this weakness, by giving consumers a stripped down GK104 instead of the GK110 which consists of a staggering 2688 CUDA cores, it actually consists of 2800 CUDA cores but a SMX cluster has been disabled which has been assumed to be due to manufacturing reasons. The other reason was that the GK110 core was not fully matured and would have been too expensive for wide-scale manufacturing, hence the core was only released to the professional market in the name of Tesla K20x & K20 which makes use of it’s double floating point and parallel processing capabilities . But now it is finally time for Nvidia to formally cement their hold on the performance crown and release the GK110 in the form of Geforce GTX Titan. According to reports from originating from Asia, it is said that this specific GPU demolishes everything in terms of performance, including the GTX 690 and HD 7990. It is said that the retail price for this godly piece of technology is estimated to be $899 (£571.92) of hard earned cash.
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