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nVidia announce the Titan X at GDC 2015
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Do it any way. I don't think the Titan is worth the money. How Nvidia went from charging £450-£500 to £800+ is a mystery lost on me. Even the 8800 Ultra was only around £500 ish.
AMD came along with the 290x for what? £450 or so? it was every bit as fast as a Titan.
This silly stuff* has come about because AMD keep on timing their launches terribly and letting Nvidia go first. In which case they can do what they like, call their GPUs what they like and in theory, so long as they're good enough, charge what they like.
* whether I think it's worth the cash or not is not important. I won't have a go at people buying that's their call. Their money etc.
I'm going AMD. It used to be for one reason (the 970) but now it's changed to more. Basically because Titan gets to go first that means AMD are going to be forced into doing another top value card and that's good news for me. It kinda sweetened the deal, if that makes sense
Just sitting here playing with a load of AIO gear. Won't be long will have my TBs under water
But the thing is...just because it didn't happen before, doesn't mean it will never happen
Take a look around dude. Where's the Titan Z owners thread? where are the owners?
Even the absolute die hard Nvidia lovers winced at the price and moved on.
Titan Z priced every one out. Even the most avid fanboy could not make sense of the price. I seem to recall one instance where OCUK where selling a rig and chucking in the second one for free. That was about the only time I've seen Titan Z mentioned in any sort of positive light.
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How accurate are those specs from earlier posts do we think?
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I already gave an example (which you conveniently not included in the quote) that logic doesn't always apply for occurance of odd phenomenon
The people switching from 780/290 to 970 example wasn't great to be honest. Those kind of sidegrades cost barely anything and are at a completely different level of the market to the kind of prices we're talking about here.
I am hoping very accurate but I hold off till nVidia give official stats.
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Curse you Father Time!!! I want my X 
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So...
Titan X Vs 980 sli?
Titan X more expensive, although single card solution.
4GB Vram limit with 980s at higher resolutions, although has anyone experienced a problem with this at say 4k?
I suppose a single titan X would be the 'better' future proof set up with the longer Vram wang.
Titan X Vs 980 sli?
Titan X more expensive, although single card solution.
4GB Vram limit with 980s at higher resolutions, although has anyone experienced a problem with this at say 4k?
I suppose a single titan X would be the 'better' future proof set up with the longer Vram wang.
These sites are all guessing the same as we are.
Now that review samples are being sent out, more info will leak. The thing is nobody who actually gets a review sample will leak anything, because if they do they wont get any more cards from NVidia. Before there has been instances of different sites being sent different info so NVidia knows who it is that has leaked the info. Not only that but NVidia could then take you to court for breaking the inevitable NDA, that I'm sure is in place.
Bottom line, no place that actually has a card will leak its specs, it is just not worth it for them.
Having said all that, the truth still manages to get out eventually.
The Titan price has never had anything to do with what AMD charge for their cards. Before and after the 290X launch the price of a Titan has remained much the same and has not been effected by the availability of the cheaper card.
What killed the Titan Z was not the price, it was the fact that it was a crap card and probably the worst one that NVidia have launched in the last 3 years. Underclocked core, bulky crap cooler, heat problems and rotten performance, even the 970 looks like a star compared to the Titan Z.
I suppose if it did come in at £899 some would find it a bargain. 
It's the old tactic of get the news out early that the price will be very, very high and then price it at launch not that high but still very high and people think they are getting a bargain. Works quite well on some.
It's the old tactic of get the news out early that the price will be very, very high and then price it at launch not that high but still very high and people think they are getting a bargain. Works quite well on some.
Of course competitor products affect pricing. How can you say they don't?
I can absolutely assure you that what killed it was the price. Absolutely 100% no arguments.
The 590 was also a pig for the voltage and clocking. Difference was the 590 was £500 or thereabouts. The 690 was a half decent card, £700 a bit more expensive though.
Wouldn't exactly say the TZ had rotten performance, just rotten price to performance.
I suppose if it did come in at £899 some would find it a bargain.
It's the old tactic of get the news out early that the price will be very, very high and then price it at launch not that high but still very high and people think they are getting a bargain. Works quite well on some.
I don't think anyone would see it as a bargain (excecpt maybe professionals) and anyone buying will be fully aware of what is what in terms of prices and what is an alternative purchase. I would be happy to pay £900 for each though.
This is obviously not correct as the 290X made very little if not no difference to the price of a Titan.
If anything it was the price of the 290X that took the hit.
When you compare the Titan Z to a pair of single GPU Titans it is a bit of a non contest with the performance you don't need to get to the end of a review to find out the price as you already know the Titan Z was a bodged up pile of rubbish. Price did not come into it, the card was useless unless you only had room for a single card.
The GTX 690 was a very good card and the price was actually just over £800. It was a rare example of a dual GPU card that was better than two individual 680s. The performance was the same when overclocked (both 680s and 690) and the real clincher was the 690 came with a hardware fix for frame pacing which no other kepler card had.
