Nvidia reveals GeForce GTX TITAN, the world’s fastest GPU, priced at Rs. 68,499

Move over AMD and Nvidia’s own GeForce GTX 680, the king of gaming GPUs is here. Just a while ago, Nvidia revealed their new GeForce GTX TITAN graphics unit, which is supposedly the most powerful GPU on the planet right now. Nvidia says that is made of the same Kepler architecture that the company’s been using for its range of graphics units recently. It is also purportedly delivering the same amount of power as the GPUs in the Titan supercomputer, powered by the Nvidia GK110 GPUs. Here’s a short promo of the new GTX TITAN in all its aluminium glory -

The GTX TITAN has 2,668 GPU cores, which are about 75% more than the ones on the GTX 680, but a little less when compared to the GTX 690, which has a grand total of 3,072 GPU cores running at 915 MHz by default while the TITAN runs at a lesser 837 MHz. But on the memory side, with 6GB of DDR5 memory and a bandwidth of 384-bit, the TITAN is better than the 690. So, with a better memory bandwidth, multi screen gaming would be a total win with the TITAN, but Nvidia themselves say that single screen gaming may favour the 690 a bit. Nevertheless, the TITAN is a beast. The exterior is made of aluminium and has, what Nvidia calls,

According to Nvidia, these are the highlights of the TITAN, in a nutshell -

The GeForce GTX TITAN:

• Contains 7 billion transistors
• Has 2,668 GPU cores—75%  more than the Company’s NVIDIA GeForceGTX 680 GPU
• Delivers 4.5 Terraflops of single precision and 1.3 Terraflops of double precision processing power
• Supports new GPU Boost™ 2.0technology which automatically boosts graphics performance and supports unlocked voltage and advanced controls for even more gaming control and overclocking customization
• Can be combined with additional GTX TITANs in SLI mode for even more performance

Nvidia says the GTX TITAN will be available within a week, and in India, it is priced at Rs. 68,499. ASUS and Zotac will the Add-in card partners who will be selling this card in the market. We are certainly looking forward to it, are you? Let us know in the comments section below.

13 inch MacBook Air and MacBook Pro with Retina Display get a Price Cut in India

Apple had just announced price drops on its 13 inch retina MacBook Pro and the higher end 13 inch MacBook Air with 256GB of storage in the United States. And guess what ? those price cuts are coming to India too !

Here are the new and old prices for a comparison

Applicable Models	Old Price	New Price
13 inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display(128GB)	114900	99900
13 inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display(256 GB)(2.6 GHz)	134900	114900
13 inch Macbook Air (256GB)	99900	94900

The above prices are inclusive of VAT / Tax. That’s a huge price drop  ! Rs.15000 on the base model Rs.20000 on top end model and Rs.5000 on 256GB Macbook Air.

SwiftKey 4 for Android with SwiftKey Flow released

SwiftKey has released SwifKey 4 as an update for Android that combines the SwiftKey Flow with gliding input. SwiftKey Flow Beta was first introduced back in December, and it got a major update last month. SwiftKey has announced that the app has been test by over 200,000 SwiftKey fans, with more than 2.4 billion characters flowed. In addition to SwiftKey Flow with mixed tap input, the new version also brings better personalization, easier corrections, support for 60 languages and more.