** TITANX **

[Kaapstad]

I hope that at some point you'll learn to read. I was responding to a post that was belittling someone bringing up that it sucked in DP performance. WHy, again, because Nvidia guys were using it's DP performance that you couldn't find on other desktop/consumer level cards as a reason for the pricing. In fact they wouldn't shut up about it.

AMD guys, me included, would point out that it was a gaming card, under a gaming brand, and that DP was irrelevant. I said so the whole time. But using DP as an excuse why at £800 it was great value becomes a bit of a joke when a year later you use lack of DP but the same cost as irrelevant.

It's Nvidia users who insisted it was SOOOO important that the cards cost was fine and now insist it's irrelevant, not me.

My reading skills are fine, I can read the beano and everything.

I would like to point out that your previous post looked very much like a rant which surprised me.

If you think dropping DP is good for a gaming card then congratulate NVidia rather than worrying about what other people are saying.

 

[Marine-RX179]

Why does every thread have to become a Green vs Red thing again, AMD guys, Nvidia users... Why cant we all just be Consumers/users..

Breaking news Titan X doesnt have DP Nvidia has explained for gamers which they wish to buy the card its better to focus on other issues. Yes the cards expensive if you want one pay for it or wait for a cut down version or the AMD equivalent. How many games is DP used in? Makes sense to me if its not used much to skip it in favour of more usable stuff

If I'm not mistaken, Nvidia already has a product range that's specialise in gaming without Double-Precision, and that's the GeForce product range.

The problem we have right now is Nvidia is rebranding the 80 with double the amount of vram as Titan product, and smacking a couple of hundred quid premium on top, despite it is still fundamentally the same product, and removing the double vram 80 cards from the mainstream product range. The 780 6GB didn't really count as by the time it was released, it was no longer the flagship mainstream card (780Ti was) as well as close to EOL.

 

[drunkenmaster]

My reading skills are fine, I can read the beano and everything.

I would like to point out that your previous post looked very much like a rant which surprised me.

If you think dropping DP is good for a gaming card then congratulate NVidia rather than worrying about what other people are saying.

Still missed the point entirely, congratulations.

 

[Kaapstad]

Still missed the point entirely, congratulations.

I have not missed anything at all.

The argument you are putting forward is illogical. Gamers don't care about DP, all they care about is how well their games run.

 

[africanos23]

To be honest probably 99% on here (most are gamers) don't give a rats ass about DP. It's expensive yes but 2 of these cards OCed will give the performance of 3.5-4x GTX980s without the scaling problems of Tri and Quad SLI + the extra VRAM for 1440p and 4K future-proofing.

Getting a worthwhile GTX980 is going to cost you upwards of 460 GBP (ATM) of what I see on OCUK.

If it wasn't for the R9-390X (whenever that's released) I would easily jump 2 of these for 4K and be done with it.

Expensive yes, but hey nothings free in life

 

[Marine-RX179]

I have not missed anything at all.

The argument you are putting forward is illogical. Gamers don't care about DP, all they care about is how well their games run.

Yes double-precision is may indeed not needed by gamer, but I think DM's point is that Nvidia kind of artificially inflated the price of a GeForce product (i.e. 980Ti 12GB) by calling it a Titan, so a £650-£750 card become a £850-£950 card...

 

[africanos23]

Yes double-precision is may indeed not needed by gamer, but I think DM's point is that Nvidia kind of artificially inflated the price of a GeForce product by calling it a Titan.

As mentioned above 460 GBP for a worthwhile GTX980 so that would be upwards of 920 GBP for 2, with one Titan X OCed you won't have any problems waiting for drivers as you will be playing anything off the bat, nor any hassle with SLI.

 

[Gregster]

I have not missed anything at all.

The argument you are putting forward is illogical. Gamers don't care about DP, all they care about is how well their games run.

This.

The people who have purchased the Titan X that I know don't care one iota that it is missing DP and again, if it gives me more gaming performance, I seriously don't want it or care for it.

 

[Gregster]

To be honest probably 99% on here (most are gamers) don't give a rats ass about DP. It's expensive yes but 2 of these cards OCed will give the performance of 3.5-4x GTX980s without the scaling problems of Tri and Quad SLI + the extra VRAM for 1440p and 4K future-proofing.

Getting a worthwhile GTX980 is going to cost you upwards of 460 GBP (ATM) of what I see on OCUK.

If it wasn't for the R9-390X (whenever that's released) I would easily jump 2 of these for 4K and be done with it.

Expensive yes, but hey nothings free in life

Well said.

 

[magpie1966]

why do people come onto a Titan X thread just to get the wooden spoon out?

As for me I agree with Kaapstad , and African

Titan x sli ftw. and I can not wait at all ....

 

[^JP^]

I haven't pre-ordered yet and can't make up my mind.

I will be in the USA at the end of April so could buy Titan X cards there and get them for £600 ish each as I still have USD in my US bank account that I transferred at over 1.65 last June.
But that is only saving me £125 a card if I buy the OcUK brand ones and I could have them in a week without the worry of travelling back with them as I probably couldn't fit all the boxes in hand luggage, but then going away a few weeks later so wouldn't get much time to play with them!

Ahhh decisions!

 

[HaloUK]

So are we going to get a 980Ti or are Nvidia taking the **** out of us and branding the 980Ti a Titan X and charging us £300 more for it?

 

[Marine-RX179]

So are we going to get a 980Ti or are Nvidia taking the **** out of us and branding the 980Ti a Titan X and charging us £300 more for it?

Nvidia may have have branded the "980Ti 12GB" as Titan X, but hopefully there's still the 980Ti 6GB coming, though the chances are they would be coming in at the price bracket of the where the 12GB card should have been (£600-£750)...

 

[Gregster]

So are we going to get a 980Ti or are Nvidia taking the **** out of us and branding the 980Ti a Titan X and charging us £300 more for it?

I am very confident that there will be a 980Ti, just because they will have plenty of failed chips and it should have 6GB as standard.

 

[Davedree]

So are we going to get a 980Ti or are Nvidia taking the **** out of us and branding the 980Ti a Titan X and charging us £300 more for it?

Some people pay the moneys just to get their name on a thread. Or to get a high score in a bench. Price is relevant to your purchase decision, if you think it's a fair price then good for you, just as if you think it's too expensive then don't buy. Let's hope there will be some cheaper dieharvested gm200's, or that AMD delivers a competive product.

No way would I invest strong money into old 28nm.

 

[Bonjour]

Some people will pay a lot of money, DP or no DP.

 

[Gregster]

Some people will pay a lot of money, DP or no DP.

That's why I bought 2 of them. DP doesn't work on a single.

 

[africanos23]

That's why I bought 2 of them. DP doesn't work on a single.

 

[setter]

I am very confident that there will be a 980Ti, just because they will have plenty of failed chips and it should have 6GB as standard.

I hope so, could see this as being a good enough reason to switch from sli. 6gb should be grand for 1080/1440. Plus no sli niggles. Would be interesting too see what price would be though.

 

[Kaapstad]

I hope so, could see this as being a good enough reason to switch from sli. 6gb should be grand for 1080/1440. Plus no sli niggles. Would be interesting too see what price would be though.

I think we will definitely see a 6gb card and it will probably be about 5% faster than a Titan X.

What AMD have got to be careful of is if the rumours are true that the 390X will have 8gb of HBM and an AIO cooler, it could be more expensive than NVidias 6gb card. New tech often costs a lot to start with.