NVIDIA Titan Black cards bring much improved specs, even crazier prices

That's right, a thousand dollars is just the starting price
for the new Titan Black, which surpasses and replaces
the original $999 GTX Titan that came out last year.
Thanks to a more overclock-friendly version of
NVIDIA's "Big Kepler" silicon, card vendors are
offering custom-cooled versions of the Titan Black that
go way beyond the 889MHz reference design, with
monetary premiums to match. EVGA looks to be
bringing out a 1GHz "HydroCopper" variant, for
example, which will likely fetch in the region of $1,100
-- just reasonable enough, in a twisted sort of way, to
make you question whether buying a base card might be
selling yourself short.

But the Titan Black is about more than just clock
speeds. It adopts the gaming-focused features of the
$699 GTX 780 Ti, including a full quota of 2,880
stream processors and 240 texture units, and it
combines them with the 6GB of GDDR5 and double
precision floating point performance that made the first
Titan so good at semi-professional GPU compute tasks
(just below the level of a Tesla). We haven't seen many
reviews yet, aside from one saucy piece of literature
that looked at four Titan Blacks side-by-side in SLI
mode, but it looks like NVIDA might have finally hit
on a solid product for those of us who want to mix
business with pleasure.

SOURCE: Hardware.info, AnandTech, TechPowerUp