NVIDIA has released a brand new driver for its graphics cards. According to the release notes, the NVIDIA GeForce 388.59 WHQL driver offers optimal performance in Fallout 4 VR. Moreover, this driver adds official support for the newly announced NVIDIA TITAN V GPU.
The NVIDIA TITAN V is the most powerful graphics card NVIDIA has ever created. This new graphics card uses the Volta chip, features 21 billion transistors, and is priced at $2999.
The NVIDIA TITAN V comes with 12GB of HBM2, sports a base clock at 1200Mhz (that gets boosted at 1455Mhz), packs 5120 CUDA cores, 80 streaming multiprocessors, 6 Graphics Processing Clusters and offers 652.8 GB/s of total memory bandwidth and 384 GigaTexels/sec of texture rate.
The NVIDIA GeForce 388.59 WHQL driver also addresses a flickering that could occur on the internal G-Sync 120 Hz panel when G-Sync was enabled on GeForce GTX1080 GPUs.
Those interested can download this new driver from here. You can also read the complete changelog for this new driver below.
NVIDIA GeForce 388.59 WHQL Driver Release Notes:
Game Ready
- Provides the optimal gaming experience for Fallout 4 VR.
New Product Support
- Added support for the NVIDIA TITAN V.
Software Module Versions
- nView – 148.92
- HD Audio Driver – 1.3.35.1
- NVIDIA PhysX System Software – 9.17.0524
- GeForce Experience – 3.11.0.73
- CUDA – 9.0
Fixed Issues
- [GeForce GTX 1080][Notebook][G-Sync]: Flickering may occur on the internal G-Sync 120 Hz panel when G-Sync is enabled.
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2999$
Titan prices are growing each year.
So i guess the 1180 or whatever they are calling it will be minimum 999$ gee thx Ngreedia
They literally arent, the titan Z cost the exact same price in 2014. Its also been made pretty clear that this isnt necessarily meant to be for “gamers” but for both content pros/gamers/people who need deep learning tech in their PC’s.
Yes, but the Kepler Titan Z was a dual GPU card. The single GPU Kepler Titan was $1,000.
This card isn’t intended for gamers it’s purpose is for people who need a cheaper professional card. If anyone does buy it for gaming it will probably be because they either don’t believe Nvidia will release a 1180 Ti or 2080 Ti whichever Nvidia names it or the expense is trivial to them and they want the best and they want it right now.
btw this is the 4th generation of Titans and for Kepler and Pascal Titans people were saying they were buying Titans because they believed Nvidia wouldn’t release the high end x80 Ti. History will probably repeat itself with this Volta Titan.
Not very likely. Of course Nvidia is pricing Titan V as high as they believe they can get away with, but at the same time, it is true that the enormous Volta core is much more expensive to produce than the Maxwell/Pascal one. They simply can’t release a GV100-based Volta x80Ti at anything close to a reasonable price for gamers – yes, even people that drop 800-1000$ for gaming gpus do have a breaking point.
So a x80Ti will either have to be very nerfed to be released soon, or it will have to wait quite a bit for improved Volta yields – or it is possible that the next x80Ti will break with tradition and won’t even be based on the flagship GV100 chip. With zero competion at the extreme high end, I don’t believe Nvidia will rush to release a product that will either lose them money per unit sold, or won’t be at the high standards associated with the x80Ti brand.
I get that it was a dual GPU card but that doesn’t exactly negate my point, if anything the dual GPU titan was an even worse deal than this since many games have no support for SLI and the ones that do often dont have perfect scaling anyway.
With no competition in the high-end expect that to continue
This Titan is a bit different than the previous 2 generations. It’s intended to be a cheap alternative to a $10,000 Volta Tesla. It won’t be as good as that Tesla card but it costs a hell of a lot less money for people that need one for work.
Where will the blame be put when the gaming Voltas come at very high prices?
The reality is that the Volta GPUs are costing more to manufacture than previous generations. Nvidia has no competition for midrange and high end Pascals right now and if that is still the case when Nvidia releases gaming Voltas then they will just be competing with themselves, as such, they will charge even more.
There is also AMD to blame. Not their GPU division but their CPU division because the money that would ordinarily have gone to R&D to compete with Pascal went to R&D for Ryzen. In this case it’s not that AMD is being inept. It’s because they can’t fully compete with Intel and Nvidia at the same time. They made their choice and it was probably the best choice but time will tell.
There is also miners to blame. It’s become lucrative to mine again and that accounts for the shortages and price gouging by retailers right now. If it’s still profitable to mine when gaming Voltas do come then expect to pay even more to get one.
Nope.The graphic card is made for workstation computing.The card isn’t made for gaming.
He’s right about the increasing Titan prices though. Excluding this Volta Titan because it’s different than the last 3 generations, the prices were:
Kepler Titan $1,000
Maxwell Titan X $1,100
Pascal Titan X and Titan Xp $1,200
A note on the first Titan. It was semi-good for work purposes but not as much as this Volta Titan is. It was an experiment. There was a niche to be filled. People who needed a card for work but couldn’t afford a Tesla and it turned out to be a profitable business decision by Nvidia.
any ETA on volta cards?i want to buy one as fast as possible
Well, Nvidia isn’t saying but rumor is the current Voltas are very expensive to manufacture. Some estimates go as high as $1,000 per GPU. Now gamers don’t need all of the circuitry that the professional cards need so they would be cheaper to produce and as the 12nm process becomes more refined the yields per wafer will improve so the cost to manufacture will decrease, but by how much is the question and when.
The 1180 Ti or 2080 Ti will probably be from slightly defective GPUs originally intended for professional cards and as such will probably have fewer cores but with non-reference coolers the clocks will be higher and so it will probably be as fast as the Titan or close to it but only a few people buy the high end GPUs.
Most will be interested in midrange Voltas which will be a good bit faster than midrange Pascals but one thing I’m pretty sure about is that they are going to be expensive especially if AMD offers nothing that even competes with midrange Pascal at that time.
If history repeats itself then most likely a 1170/2070 will be as fast as a 1080 Ti.
This card isn’t intended for gamers but I am curious if Nvidia will try to also market it to gamers like they did with the original Titan. If you are only using your GPU for gaming then wait on the 1180 Ti or 2080 Ti whichever Nvidia calls it. It will be $1,000 or possibly more but it will be just as fast as this pro-sumer Titan or close to it.
Gotta pity the fool who’d actually buy this
I think it’s foolish too but some will pay the price to have the performance right now. It’s good for the rest of us that the early adopters pay the exorbitant costs to push the tech forward for the rest of us. But then there are people who really don’t have a f*cking clue and waste money because they are uninformed.
Two people come to mind right off the bat. One bought a $3,000 Titan Z and was angry because when Maxwell was released he didn’t like that his dual GPU Kepler wasn’t being as well supported. He thought because he spent so much money on the Titan Z that Nvidia would offer great support for his card for 8 to 10 years. Fail. That’s not how it works.
Another guy wanted to build a rig with 4 Maxwell Titan X in quad SLI because he wanted to have a rig capable of handling any game at highest settings for 5 or 6 years on 4K. Fail. That’s not how it works. Quad SLI (even back when supported by Nvidia drivers) was a mess. Never ever try to build a rig that is future proof. Build the best you can afford today and plan to upgrade every couple of years if you want to be on the cutting edge.
Yeah I guess if you are super rich and can buy these cards like candy with the intent to constantly buy the latest card then it’s fine. And I agree that buying the cards with the intent of wanting longevity is pretty stupid.