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Is it about time NVidia produced an Ampere Titan?

Kaapstad

Kaapstad

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As in the title, Is it about time NVidia produced an Ampere Titan?

The reason I say this is because of the likely price it would be very poor value to the miners and would give real enthusiasts the chance to get their hands on a very high end gaming GPU.

The way things are going at the moment I am very seriously thinking about walking away from PC gaming for a couple of years until things improve.

I can not see the point in waiting for an enthusiast card like an Asus Strix for many months and when I can finally get one it is almost obsolete because the next generation of GPUs are only a few months away.
 
If the Strix @ circa £2k is still not expensive enough to stop months of waiting, I feel a Titan will do the same.
 
Kaapstad said:
NVidia have sold Titan Vs at £2900 that should be enough to put of the miners.
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True, but I think there'll be more people willing to part at the top end due to COVID and being locked in, increased FOMO etc.

I think stock will still be hard to get, but I do agree it'll be in enthusiasts hands first.
 
You want to walk away from pc gaming because you can't buy a titan ?????? #confused.
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What...those two 3090 not quite powerful enough you? Kap?

You want a 3095, or titan H. Is this just for epeen or you actually going to use that extra 5% for something useful?
 
I don't think you will see a titan this round, maybe later in the year when Nvidia goes to TSMC at 7nm but at the moment they cant get enough 3080/3090 cards made so will milk that first i am sure.
 
Dontrocktheboat said:
You want to walk away from pc gaming because you can't buy a titan ?????? #confused.
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What...those two 3090 not quite powerful enough you? Kap?

You want a 3095, or titan H. Is this just for epeen or you actually going to use that extra 5% for something useful?
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The problem I am having is I can not easily get my hands on any of the enthusiast cards like Kingpin 3090, Asus Strix 6900XT LC, Asus Strix 3090 and most like the new Sapphire 6900XT Toxic. I can not see the point in waiting 6 months or more for these type of cards to the point were they are almost obsolete.

It is not about epeen as I lot of what I do these days with my PC gear I never post online, it is about being an enthusiast and enjoying the latest tech.

If NVidia brought out a new Titan with 20% more performance than a 3090 I would be quite happy to pay £3500 for it and probably would not even mention it on the forums. You don't see any 3090 SLI benches posted by me these days do you.
 
Kaapstad said:
I can not see the point in waiting for an enthusiast card like an Asus Strix for many months and when I can finally get one it is almost obsolete because the next generation of GPUs are only a few months away.
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I've pretty much given up on the GPU front this time around - settled for a 3070FE and waiting it out - anything else is a huge waste of money at the moment unless you can snag an FE card at MSRP.
 
Why do you need Titan that you can't get from a Quadro Kapstad? If it's for your business, surely the Quadro RTX A6000 is the better option - it uses 50w less than the 3090, never mind the Titan and it's a fair bit faster than the 3090 in work, I've seen benchmarks showing it's 20-30% faster
 
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Grim5 said:
Why do you need Titan that you can't get from a Quadro Kapstad? If it's for your business, surely the Quadro RTX A6000 is the better option - it uses 50w less than the 3090, never mind the Titan and it's a fair bit faster than the 3090 in work, I've seen benchmarks showing it's 20-30% faster
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For me it has never been about using cards for business I just like to try out the latest hardware to see what it can really do, this often is quite different to the review sites.

I also do a lot of gaming as I have a lot of spare time.

I do hope the GPU situation improves for everyone whether they are in the Red or Green team, with the lack of cards ATM we are all on the same side.
 
Kaapstad said:
As in the title, Is it about time NVidia produced an Ampere Titan?

The reason I say this is because of the likely price it would be very poor value to the miners and would give real enthusiasts the chance to get their hands on a very high end gaming GPU.

The way things are going at the moment I am very seriously thinking about walking away from PC gaming for a couple of years until things improve.

I can not see the point in waiting for an enthusiast card like an Asus Strix for many months and when I can finally get one it is almost obsolete because the next generation of GPUs are only a few months away.
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I'm sure Nvidia are desperate to sell us Titans but the problem is how.

Right now it's difficult for them to source GDDR6X modules at a density to give them 48gb @ 3090 speeds. That's why the A6000 has slower ram, after all. Then there's the problem of their PCB - they can't re-use the present FE pcb since it's ultimately still 2x8pin connectors (even if going into a 12, which is rated higher). A Titan would be very power limited compared to most AIB 3090s - this isn't new, but what is new is that even mid-tier 3090s would beat a Titan due to power capping, which wasn't true of the 2080Ti generation (where only the Kingpin, HOF labs, etc. could beat an unmodded Titan). Nvidia won't ignore pcie spec, so they'd need a 3x8pin pcb for the Titan, which is an additional hassle for them.

It's possible that once Micron can give them the chips, they put out the 48gb Titan that was in leaks ages ago - although 400w tdp it won't have enough extra cores to get ahead of even a Strix in games. Proportionally the gain of ~250 cores has got less and less from Pascal to Turing and now to Ampere. It won't be enough for a Titan to be top dog in that format.
 
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