Big Kepler GK110 is Coming Afterall

[John P. Myers]

GeForce Titan (or possibly Titanium)

Late February. Crippled? You betcha. Likely 2688 cores instead of the 2880 cores that physically exist. It's basically going to be the chips that were meant for the K20's but didn't pass the binning tests.

Is Nvidia being a dick about it to their partners? You betcha. They claim since the GK110 is just so incomprehensibly complex, Nvidia will not allow the board makers like EVGA, ASUS, Gigabyte, etc. to alter the board's design in any way. In fact, Nvidia is going to build all the boards themselves and sell them to these partners. All they get to do is put stickers on it.

Still, for number crunching, this thing will be a beast. Remember the GTX680 is nothing but a Ti-type GPU. The GK110 is the real thing and was built specifically for crunching with graphics as an afterthought. SPFP could be as high as 7 TFLOPS (a GTX690 is 5.62 TFLOPS, a 7970 GHz Edition is 4.1 TFLOPS) depending on final clock speeds, which are currently unknown. DPFP will likely be crippled as it always is, but should still be many times higher than a 680. My personal hope is they don't cripple DPFP this time. If this GPU does turn out to be a limited edition and not the 700 series flagship, they just might not. Maybe. Then it would have DPFP performance on par with a 7970.

384-bit bandwidth. Up to 6GB GDDR5, 2 6-pin power connectors with a TDP of only ~235W (realistically more likely to be 1 8-pin and 1 6-pin if that TDP rating is correct)

It's expected to retail for $899 in limited quantities.