NVIDIA announced the launch of Titan V, a graphics card that they say is the most powerful PC GPU card on the market.
Although this type of graphic processing card generates a strong attraction on the part of the gamer public , the truth is that its qualities make it ideal both for artificial intelligence servers and for cryptocurrency mining , computationally intense activities.
The card has 12 GB of HBM2 memory, 640 cores, 5120 CUDA cores and can achieve a performance of 13.8 teraflops. This new release makes use of the Volta type architecture that is used in the previous Tesla V100 card, with which the Titan V shares many of its qualities, starting with the same GPU core. They differ only in that the V100 has 16 GB of graphics memory and 6 MB of L2 cache, while the Titan V has 12 GB of memory and 4.5 MB of cache.
Also, the price of this new card is far from the $ 10,000 that the Tesla V100 costs. The Titan V card currently costs about $ 3,100 on the official NVIDIA portal.
In addition, on its website NVIDIA announced that it released the software for all users of the Titan V card , which would be used as an environment for the adaptation and processing of deep learning, artificial intelligence and intense computational calculation activities.
Although NVIDIA is promoting this card for the purpose of applying it to artificial intelligence, the truth is that the mining market wants to receive it with open arms.
According to the tests carried out by BitsBeTrippin to discover the mining capacity of the Titan V, it works very well. The equipment was equipped with a 16-core 1950X Ryzen Threadripper inserted in an Asus ROG Zenith Extreme motherboard with 64 GB of DDR4 memory, as well as an EVGA Supernova G2 power supply of 1300W, together with Corsair H110i liquid cooling.
The results in the blockchain of Ethereum allowed to process 77 MH / s with 237W of power, being twice as fast as the Radeon RX Vega 64 of AMD . The latter has a value close to $ 600 in the market with respect to the more than $ 3000 of the Titan V.
The NVIDIA card is the first to use the Volta architecture, and has as potential customers a mass of 'domestic' consumers. The product is being viewed with good eyes by the cryptocurrency miners, so at its launch in 2018 they could be quickly depleted. It is mainly because of its price that this market could accommodate it better, instead of the video game market, who do not need to invest such amount of money for their purposes.