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NVIDIA Announces Flagship GPU ‘Titan RTX’ with VirtuaLink Connector

NVIDIA today unveiled their most powerful GPU yet, the TITAN RTX (nicknamed T-Rex). While it’s priced clear out of the regular consumer market at $2,500, that doesn’t mean you won’t be able to use next-gen VR headsets thanks to its VirtuaLink connector port.

Like NVIDIA’s other 20-series GPUs, TITAN RTX is based on the company’s new Turing architecture. The company’s latest GPU isn’t really built for gamers in mind, but rather more befitting the workload of AI researchers, deep learning devs, data scientists, and game and video professionals. The company would be remiss though if they didn’t capture whoever has the pockets deep enough to shell out the $2,500 for what NVIDIA touts as “world’s most powerful desktop GPU,” providing what we’d hope to be VR’s best real-time ray tracing performance money can buy.

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To date, all of the company’s 20-series reference cards feature the VirtuaLink connector, and we expect a majority of manufacturers to carry over the next-gen VR port. The Quadro RTX cards, RTX 2080 Ti, 2080, and 2070—and now the TITAN RTX all include it.

VirtuaLink is new connector standard created by a consortium representing many of VR’s most prominent players—NVIDIA, AMD, Valve, Oculus, and Microsoft. The port itself offers four high-speed HBR3 DisplayPort lanes (which are “scalable for future needs”), a USB3.1 data channel for on-board cameras, and up to 27 watts of power. The standard is said to be “purpose-built for VR,” being optimized for latency and the needs of next-generation headsets. That means a singular cable connected your computer from your next VR headset.

Although there’s no specific launch date yet. NVIDIA says TITAN RTX will be available “later this month” in the U.S. and Europe.

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TITAN RTX Specs

  • 576 multi-precision Turing Tensor Cores, providing up to 130 teraflops of deep learning performance.
  • 72 Turing RT Cores, delivering up to 11 GigaRays per second of real-time ray-tracing performance.
  • 24GB of high-speed GDDR6 memory with 672GB/s of bandwidth — 2x the memory of previous-generation TITAN GPUs — to fit larger models and datasets.
  • 100GB/s NVIDIA NVLink can pair two TITAN RTX GPUs to scale memory and compute.
  • Incredible performance and memory bandwidth for real-time 8K video editing.
  • VirtualLink port provides the performance and connectivity required by next-gen VR headsets.
GeForce GPU Ray Tracing RTX-OPS Performance Memory Starting At Founders Edition
Titan RTX 11 GigaRays/s TDB 24GB $2,500 N/A
RTX 2080 Ti 10 GigaRays/sec 78T RTX-OPS 11GB $1,000 $1,200
RTX 2080 8 GigaRays/sec 60T RTX-OPS 8GB $700 $800
RTX 2070 6 GigaRays/sec 45T RTX-OPS 8GB $500 $600

Check out the full specs at NVIDIA.

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NVIDIA Unveils Ray-Tracing Powerhouse TITAN RTX

NVIDIA’s range of TITAN graphics cards have always embodied the pinnacle of each series that it sits atop of. Having announced the new GeForce RTX 20 Series during Gamescom this summer, the company has gradually rolled out the various iterations, the 2070, 2080 and the 2080 Ti. Now, the company has its most powerful consumer-level GPU to date, the NIVIDA TITAN RTX.

The desktop GPU is designed to provide massive performance for AI research, data science and creative applications thanks to its Turing architecture. TITAN RTX – dubbed ‘T-Rex’ by NVIDIA – delivers ray-traced and next-gen virtual reality (VR) graphics as well as high-performance computing.

To give you an idea of what NVIDIA has managed to squeeze into the GPU here’s a few specs:

  • 576 multi-precision Turing Tensor Cores, providing up to 130 teraflops of deep learning performance.
  • 72 Turing RT Cores, delivering up to 11 GigaRays per second of real-time ray-tracing performance.
  • 24GB of high-speed GDDR6 memory with 672GB/s of bandwidth — 2x the memory of previous-generation TITAN GPUs — to fit larger models and datasets.
  • 100GB/s NVIDIA NVLink can pair two TITAN RTX GPUs to scale memory and compute.
  • Incredible performance and memory bandwidth for real-time 8K video editing.

“Turing is NVIDIA’s biggest advance in a decade – fusing shaders, ray tracing, and deep learning to reinvent the GPU,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “The introduction of T-Rex puts Turing within reach of millions of the most demanding PC users — developers, scientists and content creators.”

NVIDIA TITAN RTX

To ensure the TITAN RTX is ready for the next generation of VR tech the GPU has the VirtualLink port built in. This is a new specification high-bandwidth USB Type-C cable specifically for VR that companies like Nvidia, HTC Vive, Oculus, Valve, AMD and Microsoft have been working on.

But before you get your hopes up on upgrading to this new GPU you might think again looking at the price, a rather substantial $2,499 USD. That puts it significantly higher than the NVIDIA Geforce RTX 2080 Ti which retails for around $1,099.

The TITAN RTX will be available later this month in the US and Europe. For further updates from NVIDIA, keep reading VRFocus.