Pascal Titan-X Launch

[Cooper]

Well that doesn't look to good for the 1080Ti does it.

Unless they drop prices across the board and slot the Ti into the current 1080 price segment, I can't see many people bothering with them.

Which is rather annoying as I was going to replace my two 970's with a 1080Ti, but extrapolating performance from this Titan, it looks like it will hardly be worth it.

 

[nashathedog]

What an utterly tragic state of affairs the PC gpu market is in that we can have a card 24-29% faster than the midrange, probably crippled fp64, cores disabled and it costs $1200. Sad times indeed

+1,

As someone else said we need a Hail Mary.

It'd be nice if AMD did something faster than a 1080 and very close to a Titan XP and sold it for a max of 600, That'd knock the wind out of these money grabbing gits, If they do I'll bite.

I swore I'd never go above the £440 I spent on my Fury but it seems I may not have a choice so when I do it'll be something I'll keep well beyond 2 to 3 years. It's all becoming too expensive.

 

[Besty]

whycry's 1060 sli comment bang on lol

 

[humbug]

It says the TX is at 1.8Ghz ...

Hmm if that is correct then possibly only 20-25% faster than 1080 for double MSRP.

That is worse than I expected... I was thinking 25-30% would be "not great" and 40% would be "good".

Yup, its 23% faster than a stock 1080.

 

[RanxZy]

I'll wait for the Ultra HD gaming benchmarks, this is where the card should shine with a lot more memory bandwidth and ROPs than the 1080. I don't play Firestrike

 

[Besty]

I'll wait for the Ultra HD gaming benchmarks, this is where the card should shine with a lot more memory bandwidth and ROPs than the 1080. I don't play Firestrike

Yep, it's gonna be a whole 8fps faster in 4K

 

[JediFragger]

Yep, it's gonna be a whole 8fps faster in 4K

It's the higher minimums that 4K users are after really, keep it above that 'choppy' zone

 

[Gibbo]

Well that doesn't include ocuk as gibbo says they aren't stocking them. All that means is that system builders can buy them to include in their builds. Doubt very much they will be allowed to sell them as discreet cards.

Can only be sold as part of a full system and the system should be flagship based and designed for professional use and deep learning, of course nothing to say stop 8 Pack from building a system with 2, 3 or 4 of these in a Supernova and charging £20,000 for it.

But as of right now OcUK won't be stocking or offering this part in systems.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

I had the budget for one of these, but have spent it on a new custom loop instead. I'll be fitting a block on my 980ti today and keeping my eyes peeled for a second reference pcb 980ti in the MM (although at 3440*1440 the single card is still awesome).

I thought I'd be waiting it out for the 1080ti but it looks like I'll have no interest there either.

 

[MooMoo444]

Looking forward to some review action

 

[Seanspeed]

Yep, it's gonna be a whole 8fps faster in 4K

GPU's have been slowly crawling towards 4k for a while now. Yes, a 10% performance improvement at the top end may only mean another 5-6fps at this resolution in a modern, demanding game, but if that plus another 10% finally puts the card in a position to comfortably play it at 4k/60fps, then it means we're finally there.

 

[Disco_P]

What an utterly tragic state of affairs the PC gpu market is in that we can have a card 24-29% faster than the midrange, probably crippled fp64, cores disabled and it costs $1200. Sad times indeed

The worst part is people will buy one. Or two.

Maybe three or four.

 

[Gregster]

Looking forward to some review action

Same.

Out of my price range this time but doesn't atop me wanting one. Hopefully I can hold out til Volta and good stuff for those who get one or more of these beasts

 

[Dirk Diggler]

GPU's have been slowly crawling towards 4k for a while now. Yes, a 10% performance improvement at the top end may only mean another 5-6fps at this resolution in a modern, demanding game, but if that plus another 10% finally puts the card in a position to comfortably play it at 4k/60fps, then it means we're finally there.

Yea, spend £1200 for that 5-6fps... Or just move the shadow distance slider from Ultra to Very High.

 

[Cosimo]

Yea, spend £1200 for that 5-6fps... Or just move the shadow distance slider from Ultra to Very High.

That is just too much effort.

 

[NirK]

It's the higher minimums that 4K users are after really, keep it above that 'choppy' zone

The TX will be good for 4k due to the memory bandwidth and rops... but anything else, it is probably not worth it, hell at less than 30% faster than a 1080 for double the MSRP its really not a good deal full stop.

Ebay your maxwell TX or 980ti and get a 1080, decent upgrade for not too much, ebay and get TX and it is not remotely good value... but people will still get them anyway because those people don't really care about value or depreciation clearly.

 

[Greebo]

The TX will be good for 4k due to the memory bandwidth and rops... but anything else, it is probably not worth it, hell at less than 30% faster than a 1080 for double the MSRP its really not a good deal full stop.

Ebay your maxwell TX or 980ti and get a 1080, decent upgrade for not too much, ebay and get TX and it is not remotely good value... but people will still get them anyway because those people don't really care about value or depreciation clearly.

Agreed. People were complaining about the £200 needed to upgrade from a 980ti to a 1080 for a 20% gain.

Now, if the tx doesnt clock to 1080 speeds, you can spend another £600 for a 13% gain.

Personally, despite its issues, i think would rather have two 1080s.

 

[waspy88]

All this is nothing without benchmarks. I hope some creep up today or will be giving it a miss

 

[ToTheMax]

Given the performance estimates I would think it would be better to go 1080 SLI. Most of the time you'll get massively better performance and even with poor scaling titles it'll probably still be better imo.

 

[RichardH754]

I wonder how much they will cut down for the 1080Ti?

If there is going to be one this time?