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NVIDIA Cuts GeForce GTX TITAN-Z Price by 37 Percent, But for OEMs Only

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With a price-tag of US $2,999, the GeForce GTX TITAN-Z from NVIDIA is the most expensive consumer graphics card in recent times. You needn't be a Vulcan to tell that it's overpriced by a lot, and that NVIDIA is selling these cards at a gargantuan margin. In a bid to see more system builders sell the card to their high-paying customers, NVIDIA cut prices of the card, by as much as 37 percent. An OEM partner will now be able to source a GTX TITAN-Z from NVIDIA for as less as $1,830. What they do with the cards - such as charging the full $2,999 for the option, is their business. DIY users will still have to cough up three grand for one of these illogical cards.
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http://www.techpowerup.com/204653/n...-z-price-by-37-percent-but-for-oems-only.html
 
Awesome news is that it's SLi Ready, so popping in 2 of those...or maybe 3 will be totally worth it!

Now that the price drop of has been announced on the 290X2 (600-750GBP - unconfirmed) we can now all see how ridiculous it is buying state of the art tech from day 1. Just wait a few weeks and the price drops down 37%!

My missus tells me buying one of these also involves signing a paper for divorce lol. Do OcUK provide the paper work? :p I guess there's always a bag of Haribo to cheer me up! :)
 
If it were £1200 I'm sure it would fly, even with AMD's offering being £700 currently. But NVIDIA can't afford to sell them for £1200, because it would muck up their workstation graphics segment.
 
Why they do not cut by 30% the price of the Blacks to grab 2 and do not look for an upgrade for the next 2-3 years??? :(
 
Acme said:
If it were £1200 I'm sure it would fly, even with AMD's offering being £700 currently. But NVIDIA can't afford to sell them for £1200, because it would muck up their workstation graphics segment.
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Basically, yeah. Two of these would make an awesome tidy setup, though.


The AMD card is still a little bit hindered by the 4GB VRAM
 
Considering that the Titan-Z is meant to be a workstation card and not a consumer card, I think its initial price was fair enough. 12GB VRAM isn't required for any game whatsoever, not even close, graphics and video rendering would eat that up like Jaffa Cakes though.

Having said that I want the card to be cheaper so I can use it for rendering. :D
 
Varsh said:
Considering that the Titan-Z is meant to be a workstation card and not a consumer card, I think its initial price was fair enough. 12GB VRAM isn't required for any game whatsoever, not even close, graphics and video rendering would eat that up like Jaffa Cakes though.

Having said that I want the card to be cheaper so I can use it for rendering. :D
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No

The Titan Z was launched as a gaming card that you could use as a second rate workstation card not the other way round.

It all only has 6gb of VRAM per GPU which is barely enough @4K in the latest game launches.

I am a fan of the Titan brand but unlike the original Titan and Titan BE, the Titan Z is a poor card and even NVidia more or less admitted it by having to redesign the cooler and make other changes before launch even to get it on the shelves.
 
Yeah even NVIDIA advertised it as the ultimate gaming card and only 6GB of that 12GB ram is usable because it's mirrored.

The 6GB 780s were the best value of all of this overpriced kepler thing imo.

You could have got 5 6GB 780s for the price of a Titan Z. NVIDIA got them off the shelves probably because offering a card not gimped by memory limitations at nearly half the price of a Titan Black probably made them lose sleep.
 
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Acme said:
If it were £1200 I'm sure it would fly, even with AMD's offering being £700 currently. But NVIDIA can't afford to sell them for £1200, because it would muck up their workstation graphics segment.
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Not really true at all. This is just a ridiculously priced card. Nvidia could sell them at £1200 if they wanted to and not affect workstation card sales at all.

For quadro cards you get support and certified drivers from NVidia. This is why businesses will buy the workstation cards over the consumer cards everytime.
 
The Titan Z must be a big fat joke from NVIDIA. It symbolises this whole let's slap the workstation tag on a gaming gpu and make them pay 100% more full fat Kepler thing.

They probably have a ticker at their HQ and probably are in stitches every time they sell one.
 
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