Tech Wishlist #001

Supercomputer technology. Revolutionary gaming?

The GeForce GTX TITAN harnesses NVIDIA's Kepler architecture, the same technology that powers supercomputers, is now implemented for the next generation gaming experience.

Bearing in mind that NVIDIA's Kepler architecture was previously reserved for their high end workstation graphic cards; the likes of QUADRO and TESLA.

NVIDIA's Kepler architecture gives you 2,688 NVIDIA CUDA cores and 4.5 teraflops of gaming horsepower. The GTX TITAN also delivers a 384-bit memory interface running at a blazing fast 6 Gbps for an amazing 288 GB/s of memory bandwidth.

Additional features:

•NVIDIA TXAA technology (Temporal Anti–aliasing) - bringing cinematic production level of fidelity, utilising a new anti–aliasing technology that deliver a viewing experience that eliminates the distraction of unrealistic, jagged lines (”jaggies”) and aliased shimmering.

•NVIDIA GPU Boost 2.0

•NVIDIA PhysX technology

•NVIDIA FXAA technology - FXAA is a new way of performing antialiasing that's fast, effective, and optimized for modern game engines. Instead of rendering everything at four times the resolution, FXAA picks out the edges in a frame based on contrast detection. It then smoothes out the aliased edges based on their gradient. All this is a done as a lightweight, post processing shader.

•NVIDIA Adaptive Vertical Sync

•NVIDIA Surround

•Support for four concurrent displays including:

-Two dual-link DVI
-HDMI
-DisplayPort 1.2

•Microsoft DirectX 11.1 API (feature level 11_0)

•NVIDIA Project SHIELD -Ready

•NVIDIA 3D Vision -Ready

•NVIDIA SLI -Ready

•NVIDIA CUDA technology

•PCI Express 3.0 support

•OpenGL 4.3 support

•OpenCL support

With a pre-order price tag of between £830.00 - £840.00 it isn't cheap. However, for what you're getting with its' low power consumption and low noise profile (compared to previous generation cards), it would make a great addition to any build especially small form factor gaming or media pcs.

Source: http://www.nvidia.com/titan-graphics-card