14 DAY TRIAL // NVIDIA seems to really have a thing for powerful video cards, just like its rival AMD, but one might say that it has extra incentive, right now, to unleash such a card, or a pair of cards in this case: GeForce GTX TITAN Black Edition and GeForce GTX 790.
After all, if it's going to make the first Maxwell-based adapter a mid-range board, it actually does need to release a new high-end card or two.
Otherwise, there wouldn't be anything to hold the fort until later this year, when the top-tier Maxwell-based cards are scheduled to launch.
Granted, one might say that the GeForce GTX 780 Ti should be able to do that by itself, but it came out last year and the world always seems to be eagerly anticipating something new.
So, according to VideoCardz, NVIDIA is preparing a GeForce GTX Titan Black Edition graphics adapter, as well as a GeForce GTX 790.
The former will be better than the GTX 780 Ti, unlike the GTX Titan of 2013. It will use the same GK110 GPU (2,880 CUDA cores, 240 TMUs and 48 ROPs), but 6 GB of GDDR5 VRAM instead of 3 like on the GTX 780 Ti.
Also, it will stick to the same TDP of 250W, though the price will be of $999 / €999.
The other card, the GTX 790, will be a dual-chip card featuring two GK110 GPUs and, thus, 4992 CUDA cores, 416 TMUs (texture mapping units) and 80 ROPs (raster operating units).
The memory interface will be of 2 x 320 bits, the memory amount will be a massive 10 GB GDDR5, and the TDP will be of 300W (a limit that means cut-down components and lower clocks, sadly).
Clearly, NVIDIA isn't fooling around here. Keep in mind, however, that this information is still mostly speculative. Also, GTX Titan Black will not replace GTX 780 Ti (as the price difference indicates).