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Poll: Titan Poll.... who will buy ?

Who would 100% buy a titan if they were.....

  • 600-750

    Votes: 70 23.1%

  • 751-900

    Votes: 19 6.3%

  • 900-1200

    Votes: 5 1.7%

  • How much?!?!

    Votes: 209 69.0%
  • Total voters
    303
ACEOWNER said:
Good to hear, I can't help see it as a waste when people buy and keep things like this just to willy wave in benchmarks. If you're actually using it for gaming as well though then it completely warrants the purchase. I'm still contemplating getting one so I can keep BF3 around 120fps on my 120hz monitor as I don't want to go down the multi gpu route.
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Also to note, I don't ever consider it as "Willy Waving" when people only have components for benching. It is competitive and a buzz.

I admire and respect people like 8Pack who has the cahunas to push every last ounce of ability out of components. When I bench my components, I find it greatly satisfying to see a bench complete that wouldn't previously allow me to do that and see a higher score than I had previous.

That is no different to someone who plays sport/darts/golf/snooker/games or anything competitive. I find it harsh when people say e-peen/willy waving. To me it is getting the best out of components and pushing parts to the limits and we do the best we can with our ability.

Tonester0011 said:
If it's priced upto £1000 i'll be getting. Any less would be welcomed but i cant see it happening so might as well think for the worst.
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+1
 
ACEOWNER said:
The 7 series won't be as fast in my opinion. Don't think the top end card of a series has ever gained more than around 30% on it's predecessor. Someone educate me if I'm wrong though.
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HD5870 from HD4890 and GTX480 from GTX285. 8800GTX from 7900GTX and HD4870 from HD3870.

The 8800GTX and HD3870 were on the same node. The jump from HD3870 to HD4870 was technically quite interesting, as the transistor count did not jump very high,but the performance did.

The main issue is that the time between process nodes is getting longer and the price is going up.
 
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gregster said:
I game across 3 screens and with my Lighning 680's, it would struggle in games like Far Cry 3/Crysis 3 with max detail.
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That's because FC3 doesn't work with SLI at all. Even with the bodge the FPS don't increase over one card. I benched before and after and there was no difference tbh.
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
HD5870 from HD4890 and GTX480 from GTX285. 8800GTX from 7900GTX and HD4870 from HD3870.

The main issue is that the time between process nodes is getting longer and the price is going up.
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Ah I see, with the older gens the step up seems more noticeable, I agree the time between seems to be getting longer and the performance gains seem to be getting lower.

I wouldn't say the 5870 was 30% better across the board than the 4890 though. In certain things yes but not as a whole.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/175?vs=162
 
ACEOWNER said:
Ah I see, with the older gens the step up seems more noticeable, I agree the time between seems to be getting longer and the performance gains seem to be getting lower.

I wouldn't say the 5870 was 30% better across the board than the 4890 though. In certain things yes but not as a whole.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/175?vs=162
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The HD5870 was on average about 40% faster at launch over an HD4890:

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ATI/Radeon_HD_5870/30.html

That is with a larger range of games.
 
ALXAndy said:
That's because FC3 doesn't work with SLI at all. Even with the bodge the FPS don't increase over one card. I benched before and after and there was no difference tbh.
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It does but scaling is very poor.

Single card 1080P (cant remember settings)
Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg
10956, 120000, 78, 118, 91.300

SLI 1080P (same settings)
Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg
13677, 120000, 87, 166, 113.975

22fps avg gain with SLI enabled.
 
i wont, for multiple reasons. the foremost one being a 7950 can do all i need with room to spare, so a titan would be wasted.

gregster said:
Also to note, I don't ever consider it as "Willy Waving" when people only have components for benching. It is competitive and a buzz.

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I find it harsh when people say e-peen/willy waving. To me it is getting the best out of components and pushing parts to the limits and we do the best we can with our ability.
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+1. there is some willy waving being done, but its by nvidia, not the customers. i doubt there's anything titan can do that a 690/7990 cant. however, each to their own. if people need all that power to push 120hz/triple screens then go for it :)
 
ACEOWNER said:
You'd probably have to compare it against the highest stock clocked 6970 for a fair comparison.
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The HD6970 only came in one SKU though and it was very near its limits at 880MHZ. If you were lucky you could just about hit 1GHZ or about that and most pre-overclocked cards were lucky to hit 960MHZ. The Devil 13 was one of the highest clocked ones at 960MHZ.

The HD7970 GHZ Edition was not clocked anywhere near the highest it could be though. Its clocked at between 1000MHZ to 1050MHZ. The Lightning Boost Edition runs at around 1070MHZ to 1150MHZ,but HD7970 cards still overclock better overall than HD6970 as a percentage on average.

The HWBOT states 963MHZ from 3000+ submissions for an HD6970:

http://hwbot.org/hardware/videocard/radeon_hd_6970/

Stock is 880MHZ.

For an HD7970 it is 1211MHZ from over 10000+ submisisons:

http://hwbot.org/hardware/videocard/radeon_hd_7970/

Stock is 925MHZ for the bog standard HD7970 and 1000MHZ to 1050MHZ for the HD7970 GHZ Edition.
 
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ACEOWNER said:
The 7 series won't be as fast in my opinion. Don't think the top end card of a series has ever gained more than around 30% on it's predecessor. Someone educate me if I'm wrong though.
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But we've never had a sudden card chucked in at the end of the series either, that is expected to be faster than the highest performing single chip card available.
I might be right in saying that we've not had a x2 card released early into the lifecycle of a new design either like we did with the 690 (the 590 for example came quite late?)

Maybe we're in for a surprise next range of cards.
Or maybe the Titan is the 780 and they're refining the process to produce a fuller range of cheaper consumer parts that will arrive in the coming months :).

Or maybe we are in a period where a new range of cards released say July won't match the performance of one off product released 5 months earlier, but I'd find that a bit odd, unless maybe the retail price point of the new top end card is the main marketing point
 
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Susan Boyle

i dreamed a dream of titan :D

1 day left and don't worry it wont exceed 600 benjamins

i don't know about UK only Gibbo knows price right now for uk

but it wont exceed 500 queens
 
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