Titan V Gaming Benchmarks: An Async Future for nVidia

Benchmarking the nVidia Titan V in gaming to determine how Volta vs. Pascal will play out, featuring the Titan Xp, 1080 Ti, and Vega 64.

This nVidia Titan V gaming benchmark tests the Volta architecture versus Pascal architecture across DirectX 11, DirectX 12, Vulkan, and synthetic applications. We purchased the Titan V for editorial purposes, and will be dedicating the next few days to dissecting every aspect of the card, much like we did for Vega: Frontier Edition in the summer.

The nVidia Titan V graphics card is not targeted at gamers, but rather at scientific and machine/deep learning applications. That does not, however, mean that the card is incapable of gaming, nor does it mean that we can’t extrapolate future key performance metrics for Volta. The Titan V is a derivative of the earlier-released GV100 GPU, part of the Tesla accelerator card series. The key differentiator is that the Titan V ships at $3000, whereas the Tesla V100 was available as part of a $10,000 developer kit. The Tesla V100 still offers greater memory capacity by 4GB – 16GB HBM2 versus 12GB HBM2 – and has a wider memory interface, but other core features remain matched or nearly matched. Core count, for one, is 5120 CUDA cores on each GPU, with 640 Tensor cores (used for Tensorflow deep/machine learning workloads) on each GPU.

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Editorial, Testing: Steve Burke
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[batmangovno]

I'm amazed at how fast you got and benchmarked it. Amazing work.

[foreignsgamingtech]

Steve and GN bring the REAL DEAL to the tech scene. Great job, and quick at that! Thank you!

[terrafirma]

there's nothing quite like Jesus telling you how you don't need a $3000 gpu while it's guts are splayed at his feet.

[paskowitz]

The real "first" award goes to Steve.

[rdleh]

Steve i guess you're the first tech press to put a true a analysis of the Titan V, well done mate!

[rexlupis]

I had to give this video a thumbs up when you said "There's no point in going through all that when you can just read it."
Edit: Wolfenstein: The New Colossus uses Vulkan, but since it uses the same engine as DOOM, I'm not sure if it would really add variety to your benchmarks. It certainly is a more demanding implementation of idtech6, however.

[BarneyKB]

Just wanted to say that your explanation of graphs and the way they are set out on screen is superb! Very easy to understand and very informative. Great job!

[Tractionless]

Titan V OC: 142.2 fps
1080Ti OC: 91.1 fps

That's a 56% increase in avg. fps @ 4K over an overclocked 1080Ti FTW3... and this is not a gaming card??? Impressive. Most impressive.

[peterderbeste]

why are there 4 stacks of hbm visible? arent there supposed to be only 3?(maybe they reused parts of higher tier voltas? )

[JarrodsTech]

Nice performance boost, will be interesting to see how the GeForce Volta cards do next year!

[Xor]

CPU bottleneck at 4k, now that is what I am talking about.

[daedalus]

"Tensor cores wont be used in future gaming cards"

[LordDecapo]

I personally can see Nvidia putting tensor cores into gaming GPUs. I have seen a bunch of research and tests using neural networks for physics simulations. They ended up using less compute then traditional liquid physics. It was still in testing. But I could see machine learning based gaming engines becoming a thing within the next few years.
With those tensor cores, it could be very nice to run physics on those. And keeping the rendering process in the traditional parts of a GPU.

[Auron]

Best in-depth Tech-Reviews of YT.. continue your awesome work!

[tommihommi]

HBM is the reason this monster can be cooled with the nvidia blower cooler, gddr5x would increase the heat even further

[shadowreaver]

Can't wait to see what the consumer versions of volta will put out.

[MrMoxes]

This has probably been the most "in-depth" review that you all have done and I am loving it. Very interesting. I makes me excited and optimistic as to what the next near, as well as the future will hold. Very intense stuff. Keep up the dedicated works guys...and Snowflake. LoL :-)

[nickmudd]

I watched the whole ad since you got a hold of one of these bad boys first in my feed

[BladeScraper]

If Tensor cores WERE implemented into games, could they be used for i.e. AI learning in-game? Obviously not any time soon, but possible I think?

[MalyVitaloshnik]

potential gaming volta GPUs would probably have the stuff like tensor cores turned off because there is no use for tensor cores in gaming... that definitely aged well :D