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** TITANX **

I'll likely wait for the 390x and whatever nvidia counter with before buying, a couple of 980ti's if the 390x isn't a game changer would make me moist.
 
I just realised something, NVidia have missed a marketing trick.

They should have called their new card "The Titan Rex" instead of Titan X.
 
^JP^ said:
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!
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Can you pick me a caselabs case please??? :D
 
africanos23 said:
I know but someone mentioned the 23 then the 25th.

Damn ETA: 31/03/15 :(
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I noticed that too with the EVGA SC, first it was the 23rd then it got later and later.

I think Gibbo is probably going to get stock in limited quantities and the eta changed as they received orders against those deliveries.
 
Kaapstad said:
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.
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My point wasn't that gamers care about dual precision, twice I explained if fully and you still don't get it.

Again, I don't care about DP, Nvidia guys do... or purported to. One last time I'll try.

Nvidia guys were excusing the cost of Titan 1, because it wasn't a gamers card, it had professional level DP performance, and wasn't targeted at gamers. ME and many other AMD guys laughed at this, called it overpriced and pointed out DP performance doesn't matter to them.

Titan 2 comes along, same arguments being made, same excuses from Nvidia guys... it's not really aimed at gamers, the price is okay because it has good DP performance and is really a cheap professional card rather than an uber expensive gaming card.

Titan 3 comes along... woeful DP performance.... the excuse for it being expensive that Nvidia guys used for the past couple of years is gone, suddenly DP is completely and utterly irrelevant.

In those points, where did I claim DP performance was useful, or required, or that the card is worse at gaming without it? NO where, despite saying none of those things you managed to take my point as gamers care about DP performance and/or it's a worse card for gaming without DP performance, neither things I came close to saying.

I was highlighting the hypocrisy of those people who used DP as the excuse for the pricing of Titan 1/2 but deem it entirely irrelevant for Titan 3.
 
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drunkenmaster said:
My point wasn't that gamers care about dual precision, twice I explained if fully and you still don't get it.

Again, I don't care about DP, Nvidia guys do... or purported to. One last time I'll try.

Nvidia guys were excusing the cost of Titan 1, because it wasn't a gamers card, it had professional level DP performance, and wasn't targeted at gamers. ME and many other AMD guys laughed at this, called it overpriced and pointed out DP performance doesn't matter to them.

Titan 2 comes along, same arguments being made, same excuses from Nvidia guys... it's not really aimed at gamers, the price is okay because it has good DP performance and is really a cheap professional card rather than an uber expensive gaming card.


Titan 3 comes along... woeful DP performance.... the excuse for it being expensive that Nvidia guys used for the past couple of years is gone, suddenly DP is completely and utterly irrelevant.

In those points, where did I claim DP performance was useful, or required, or that the card is worse at gaming without it? NO where, despite saying none of those things you managed to take my point as gamers care about DP performance and/or it's a worse card for gaming without DP performance, neither things I came close to saying.

I was highlighting the hypocrisy of those people who used DP as the excuse for Titan 1/2 but deem it entirely irrelevant for Titan 3.
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No you still don't get it.

Even if there was a shedload of hypocrisy going on your argument falls flat on it's face.

Should we not be discussing what the card can do for the gamer and stick to the facts.

There are actually technical reasons why someone could criticise the Titan X but sadly you seem blinded to these by sticking to illogical arguments.
 
DM's just upset that he cant bang his 'Nvidia wasting die space on compute' drum when talking about gaming cards. The guy needs to get some new and for the love of god concise material.

The Titan X is the fastest GPU available, the card is wonderfully well engineered (like previous Titan's, and a polar opposite to AMD's woeful reference designs) and will be supported by a far superior software engineering team (have you taken a recent looks at the AMD drivers thread...). Yes, you have to pay a premium, but when I look at what is on offer on the other side of the table, it's no contest.
 
***Disclaimer***

All my posts have been made on an AMD GPU based PC which I have used almost exclusively for the last 3 weeks.:D
 
Gibbo, are you able to tell us which TX variant will be in good supply next week? I want to pre order one however it would be nice to have it by the end of next week as my 780's are currently up on the flea market auction site.

Would be a shame to have a PC with no graphics card in it for too long!

Cheers
 
@DM,

You're wasting your time, people that want to buy / have bought a TitanX will justify the cost somehow, if it's not DP performance it'll be something else.

The card is 33% faster than a GTX980 (according to anand) but costs twice as much, it's overpriced for sure, but being the fastest single GPU out it'll get away with it.
Fair play to nVidia if they can price it at ~£900 and people still buy it, that's good business.
 
iB CoMpL3XiTy said:
@DM,

You're wasting your time, people that want to buy / have bought a TitanX will justify the cost somehow, if it's not DP performance it'll be something else.

The card is 33% faster than a GTX980 (according to anand) but costs twice as much, it's overpriced for sure, but being the fastest single GPU out it'll get away with it.
Fair play to nVidia if they can price it at ~£900 and people still buy it, that's good business.
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If the Titan X does what people are expecting it to, then it has justified the cost. On that score the Titan X has not got a problem.:)
 
iB CoMpL3XiTy said:
@DM,

You're wasting your time, people that want to buy / have bought a TitanX will justify the cost somehow, if it's not DP performance it'll be something else.

The card is 33% faster than a GTX980 (according to anand) but costs twice as much, it's overpriced for sure, but being the fastest single GPU out it'll get away with it.
Fair play to nVidia if they can price it at ~£900 and people still buy it, that's good business.
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I'm not justifying my purchase I have mentioned its a compulsive-impulse-degenerate act on my behalf.

Looking at all aspects....

I currently have 2xR9-290s in my PC that are ~roughly the performance of a single Titan X OCed. Crossfire for some games is just a waiting game, I'm a patient guy but 3 months isn't my fancy to be honest especially when I run 4K. They are overly hot (maybe it's those stupid MSI coolers) Gaming edition btw. I need to underclock and use VSync to not heat the room. They rock 4K but some things I just can't handle, one of the reasons I went with GTX970s.

I had GTX970s that were pretty good other temp wise as well as software wise. Other than some stutter when breaching over 3.5GB (very few titles) I had a great experience overall. RMAed as that VRAM stutter for me was just to much.

Nvidias drivers are by all means superior and Shadowplay is pretty nice.

12GB VRAM is going to become handy especially when I don't want to go back to anything under 4K. Then move to SLI for more horsepower.

AMD are overly quite and I have an urge when new hardware comes out especially since HBM might be max 8GB and we know nothing for sure about the R9-390Xs performance.

I'm not justifying the price, it's a lot but a well.. to each his own.
 
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