Asus has launched its latest graphics card, based on Nvidia's flagship GeForce GTX Titan Black GPU, in India. The Asus GTX Titan Black-6GD5 comes with 6GB of GDDR5 video RAM and runs at 980MHz. Asus bundles a GPU Tweak utility that buyers can use to overclock their graphics cards within safe limits. The card is priced at Rs. 84,000 in India.
The GTX Titan Black's GK110 GPU is the same one that powers the GTX Titan which launched last year, but has all 15 SMX clusters enabled for a total of 2880 stream processors, as opposed to 2688 in 14 clusters in the GTX Titan.
In a press statement, Vinay Shetty, Country Head - Component Business, Asus (India) said, "The Asus GTX Titan Black is a powerhouse card that puts supercomputer-grade graphics power in the hands of enthusiasts. It builds upon the benchmark set by the earlier GeForce GTX Titan and is bundled with exclusive GPU Tweak technology for advanced overclocking. It has been designed to deliver higher performance with 2880 CUDA cores and 6GB VRAM clocked at 7Ghz that will definitely live up to the expectations of high end users and discerning gamers."
The GTX Titan Black supports DirectX 11.2 which brings advanced tessellation processing for more detailed geometry and texture detail. The GPU also supports Nvidia's new G-Sync technology to synchronize the refresh rates of the graphics card and a compatible monitor, to eliminate latency, which can be the cause of lag or graphical tearing in intense game scenes.
The GTX Titan Black shares many specifications with the GeForce GTX 780 Ti, including Nvidia's high-end metal heatsink, but differs in its support for accelerated general-purpose computing and double-precision floating point operations. The GTX Titan Black can process single-precision operations at 5.1TFLOPS and double-precision at 1.3TFLOPS, far eclipsing the mainstream GeForce GTX 780 Ti. While gamers won't notice much difference, the Titan Black is better suited to scientific parallel processing and GPU-accelerated workstation applications.