The continued existence of the GTX Titan is the only reason this hasn't happened yet

Jan 13, 2014 07:41 GMT  ·  By

When NVIDIA released the GeForce GTX 780 Ti graphics card, basically the entire video board industry did a side flip because the Santa Clara, California-based company once again had the fastest board on sale. It could have been a lot better though, apparently.

For a board that somehow beat every other card out there, including the Radeon R9 290X and NVIDIA's own GeForce GTX Titan, it had surprisingly little VRAM: 3 GB.

Even the AMD Radeon R9 290X has 4 GB, and the GTX Titan has 6 GB (which makes GTX 780 Ti's superiority all that more impressive).

It turns out, though, that it was a calculated move on NVIDIA's part not to give the 780 Ti more than 3 GB memory.

Apparently, or so certain parties believe, the GPU maker wanted to still be some reason to get a Titan instead of the new one.

After all, NVIDIA might no longer be making Titans, but it still has some leftover inventory, so releasing a GTX 780 Ti with 6 GB would have eliminated the only advantage Titan had.

Anyway, supply chain partners of the corporation appear to be in agreement that a 6 GB GTX 780 Ti will be launched soon.

Everything is ready according to WCCFTech, so you'll soon have better SLI potential. After that, the only thing Titan will win in is compute performance (not totally sure why this is the case).

The other specifications will probably be left alone, which means that the GK110 graphics processing unit, with its 2,880 CUDA cores, will work at 875 MHz / 928 MHz base/boost clocks.

Also, the memory is bound to have a clock of 7 GHz and communicate with the GPU over an interface of 384 bits.

Finally, there will be dual dual-link DVI ports, one HDMI and one DisplayPort, for 4-monitor support, or more via SLI multi-card setups. The price is unknown, but with the 3 GB board at $700 / €700, it could be $100 / €100 higher, or thereabouts.