14 DAY TRIAL // NVIDIA finally introduced its current-generation dual-GPU graphics card, with a pair of GK110 graphics processing units totaling 5,760 CUDA cores. Now the obvious question is: what can it be used for?
The obvious answer, gaming, is too vague. After all, even a GTX 750 and equivalents can play pretty much everything at full settings.
The slightly more specific answer of Full HD gaming on multiple monitors doesn't really cut it either. That's something that even the GTX Titan Black, with its single GPU, doesn't even have to strain to achieve.
The next step would be 4K multi-monitor gaming, and I agree that we are getting close. NVIDIA still felt things could go a bit higher though.
Thus it was that it presented the GeForce GTX Titan Z, with its 5,760 cores, 12 GB of GDDR5 VRAM, 480 TMUs and 96 ROPs, as the first 5K gaming card for multi-monitor setups. It will mean a lot more pixels per image width than height (5120 x 2700), but that's true for any triple-display (or more) setup.
If you want to learn more about the card, we detailed the NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan Z earlier today. It makes do with a single-fan cooler if you can believe it, albeit a triple-slot-thick one.