Nvidia unveils Titan V with 110 Teraflops of deep learning power

Nvidia has unleashed new desktop GPU, with claims the beast is taming 110 Teraflops of horsepower under the hood, a moody nine times that of its puny predecessor.

Designed for computational processing for machine learning researchers, developers, and data scientists, it’s 21.1 billion transistors can deliver 110 teraflops of processing power, nine times more powerful than the Titan X, and what the company describes as ‘extreme energy efficiency’. The technology version of roid heads must be frothing at the mouth.

“Our vision for Volta was to push the outer limits of high performance computing and AI. We broke new ground with its new processor architecture, instructions, numerical formats, memory architecture and processor links,” said CEO Jensen Huang.

“With TITAN V, we are putting Volta into the hands of researchers and scientists all over the world. I can’t wait to see their breakthrough discoveries.”

So where does the extra power come from? Nvidia has pointed towards a redesign of the streaming multiprocessor that is at the centre of the GPU, which it claims doubles energy efficiency compared to the previous generation, which results in the boost in performance in the same power envelope. The team has also highlighted independent parallel integer and floating-point data paths, while also a new combined L1 data cache and shared memory unit which apparently improves performance and simplifies programming.

Some might suggest it is a step backwards, as this is a product which is designed for local use, not necessarily the cloud, but there will be those who prefer the convenience of running workloads on a local machine. Customers will be able to connect to the Nvidia GPU Cloud to make use of software updates, including Nvidia-optimized deep learning frameworks, third-party managed HPC applications. And all this for a cool $2,999.