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Geforce Titan rumours.

V3teran said:
I had huge problems buying my x58 EVGA in 2008 and i had to switch brand.
I had the same problem when buying my 690 on day release and had to switch to Gigabyte.

Not one retailer in the whole uk has an EVGA 690 for about 2 months after including OCUK.

EVGA products are very hard to get at the time of release and beings as there are only 10000 being made i bet the EVGA ones will be virtually non-existent in UK/Europe.

As soon as one is released in the USA through EVGA website the Yanks buy them up within minutes.

Ive seen it happen many times with lots of EVGA hardware so if i was you i wouldnt order an EVGA one as you will be waiting forever and may actually miss out.

If i was going to buy from EVGA i would buy directly from them and not through a reseller.
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Fair enough, Let's hope it's not repeated with these cards then !:)
 
Mr. May said:
Just think these result are with 'beta' drivers as such we could be looking at extra performance down the line as the drivers mature.
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Could be on to something there. Mature drivers for a complete new card could see higher fps in games and should be expected.
 
Sin_Chase said:
It does, it's still SLI, just on one PCB rather than 2 and bridged.
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Obviously cards like the 690 have all the software issues as any other SLI setup would have but if they are using a PCI-e splitter onboard like the NF200, etc. (not sure what the latest version is off the top of my head) they work a little more efficently than 2 equivalent seperate cards would in SLI. Similiar story with my EVGA 750 which has the NF200 splitter onboard - tho its a very very minor single digit percentage difference in performance/responsiveness.
 
gregster said:
Could be on to something there. Mature drivers for a complete new card could see higher fps in games and should be expected.
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Yes, I think that's a Given !, sadly they seem to be at their best nearing the end of the cards production life. I think Kepler has more tweaking and polishing left to do still.
 
i dont know where nvidia get off charging £700+ for a gpu to play mostly console ports.

have to pay out shed loads just to get playable FPS due to bad optimization is quite upsetting.
 
youdsy said:
i dont know where nvidia get off charging £700+ for a gpu to play mostly console ports.

have to pay out shed loads just to get playable FPS due to bad optimization is quite upsetting.
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Couldn't agree more. The only killer app in years is the forthcoming Crysis 3 and it'll probably be buggy and broken.
 
Crysis 3 is a joke. It's playable maxed out NOW. If it was killer it would be unplayable at the maximum settings.

As for needing to pay £topdollar for a GPU..nobody is forcing you to.........Do not want it? Do not buy it.
 
V3teran said:
Actually it will be Metro Last Light not Crysis 3.
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Well apparently Crysis 3 is Crysis 2 with all of the heavy textures included at launch. The same ones that made a GTX 580 cry.

So with any luck it will be a proper PC game at launch and not a lite version.
 
youdsy said:
i dont know where nvidia get off charging £700+ for a gpu to play mostly console ports.

have to pay out shed loads just to get playable FPS due to bad optimization is quite upsetting.
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Bad and buggy isn't really the same as console port, most people seemingly don't really know what they are talking about when they mention console ports.
 
If this really is a single GPU board with 6GB RAM on it for <£1000 then this is major news for CUDA-enhanced rendering. MAJOR news. Previously to get a card with a single GPU with RAM of 4GB or more you'd be looking at several thousand pounds for a Quadro 4000 or 6000, or k5000. To get a gaming-class card with 6GB ram on-board on a SINGLE GPU is a MAJOR change in attitude for Nvidia as a company and could have a very strong impact on GPU-enhanced rendering across the DCC world. I'm very excited for this!
 
spoffle said:
Bad and buggy isn't really the same as console port, most people seemingly don't really know what they are talking about when they mention console ports.
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Console ports don't fully exploit PC potential. You can see this in FC3 or Hitman, where a good percentage of rendering calculations are done by the CPU instead of the GPU.
 
mothermachine said:
If this really is a single GPU board with 6GB RAM on it for <£1000 then this is major news for CUDA-enhanced rendering. MAJOR news. Previously to get a card with a single GPU with RAM of 4GB or more you'd be looking at several thousand pounds for a Quadro 4000 or 6000, or k5000. To get a gaming-class card with 6GB ram on-board on a SINGLE GPU is a MAJOR change in attitude for Nvidia as a company and could have a very strong impact on GPU-enhanced rendering across the DCC world. I'm very excited for this!
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AMD did have HD7970 6GB cards out last year though!! :p I heard DP is locked at 1/24 still??

But still,yeah,for CUDA related things this would be good,I wonder if more than one Geforce Titan version will be launched though??

spoffle said:
Well based on the 384bit bus, it would already be significantly better than GK104.
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It will be interesting to see how both factors improve performance.

However,remember that the GK110 is second generation Kepler too,so there are bound to be some tweaks to the basic shaders too.
 
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