Pascal Titan-X Launch

tyler_jrb · 2 Aug 2016 at 18:05

Glanza said:
That's not too long a wait. No doubt be £90-£100 for the block.

Make sure you take out insurance in case it blows up

DmitryD · 2 Aug 2016 at 18:08

smilertoo said:
I will keep holding out for 1080 to hit £350, it will get there eventually.

Yes it will for sure, right after 1380 is introduced...

danielanthony · 2 Aug 2016 at 18:10

Greebo said:
Yet some people with them say all bar the odd game they run like a dream?????

I was getting random screen flicker in Doom and on Windows desktop, this was using the new HB Bridge.

Now on one card there is no random screen flicker at all.

Born_2_Kill_83 · 2 Aug 2016 at 18:11

**** my life I'm going to buy one.

DmitryD · 2 Aug 2016 at 18:11

tyler_jrb said:
That's why I won't be buying the pascal TX. £1099 ain't bad though, I'm suprised at that at least.

That's before you have to pay 20% VAT and possible customs duties...

Griffildur said:
wow, I've just seen the price and happy days. I expected it to come in at around £1050 and I wasn't far off at all. Hopefully we get to see a 1080 TI around £800 at some point this or next year

Prepare 20% VAT + admin fee for this import...

tyler_jrb · 2 Aug 2016 at 18:16

DmitryD said:
That's before you have to pay 20% VAT and possible customs duties...

Prepare 20% VAT + admin fee for this import...

That is £1099 on the nvidia uk website. Plus shipping of course.

tyler_jrb · 2 Aug 2016 at 18:20

Born_2_Kill_83 said:
**** my life I'm going to buy one.

Let me know how it is mate. If they end up bringing EVGA ones might be half tempted dependent on perf of course.

spiralz · 2 Aug 2016 at 18:23

tyler_jrb said:
That is £1099 on the nvidia uk website. Plus shipping of course.

Free shipping

Combat Fighter · 2 Aug 2016 at 18:24

DmitryD said:
That's before you have to pay 20% VAT and possible customs duties...

Prepare 20% VAT + admin fee for this import...

How did you work that one out?

There wont be any extra duties as its bought within the EU. (Ireland)

Born_2_Kill_83 · 2 Aug 2016 at 18:26

tyler_jrb said:
Let me know how it is mate. If they end up bringing EVGA ones might be half tempted dependent on perf of course.

Will do, EK water block comming on the 16th just get one of them, probably better than EVGA AIO.

tyler_jrb · 2 Aug 2016 at 18:27

Born_2_Kill_83 said:
Will do, EK water block comming on the 16th just get one of them, probably better than EVGA AIO.

Already have EK on my 1080's. Would be fine but nvidia selling only. No waterblock warranty.

Born_2_Kill_83 · 2 Aug 2016 at 18:29

tyler_jrb said:
Already have EK on my 1080's. Would be fine but nvidia selling only. No waterblock warranty.

Oh yes of course didn't think of that, guess I won't be putting a hybrid on this one then.

Combat Fighter · 2 Aug 2016 at 18:29

Born_2_Kill_83 said:
probably better than EVGA AIO.

Indeed.

If your gonna take the plunge do it the right way with a full EK block yourself + decent paste.

MooMoo444 · 2 Aug 2016 at 18:30

smilertoo said:
I will keep holding out for 1080 to hit £350, it will get there eventually.

980Ti isn't even there yet, so you'll be waiting a while.

RichardH754 · 2 Aug 2016 at 18:32

tyler_jrb said:
Already have EK on my 1080's. Would be fine but nvidia selling only. No waterblock warranty.

What's SLI 1080s running like?

Most games getting a boost?

I'm thinking of getting another.

NirK · 2 Aug 2016 at 18:32

I just couldn't handle the depreciation on this... possibly in 12 months from now, they will release Volta and this Titan X will be equalled by a 150w 400MSRP 1170 etc. I just could not deal with a 1100 card (plus waterblock probably) going on ebay for 400 quid possibly 12 months later. I guess you can keep the TX until the next Volta TX comes out... but still the depreciation is just horrible.

nomadd · 2 Aug 2016 at 18:32

waspy88 said:
Do you just put it as computer parts I am self billed too any tips would be much appreciated

Yes, I do. And I've been doing this for the last 27 years.

Having said that, I only upgrade once every 4 years or so. Do this every year or two, and the tax inspector will be asking questions. In other words, use some common sense.

Seanspeed · 2 Aug 2016 at 18:34

drunkenmaster said:
You really don't understand it do you, it's already rated at 250W, it's a 384bit bus and a small core, to go bigger on the core, more shaders... requires more bandwidth. It's already 250W, so add another 25W for memory bandwidth and another 25W for more shaders and it's a 300W part and it's become 550mm^2.

Replace the gddr5x with HBM2 and you've got lets say 630GB/s bandwidth, you've saved 30mm^2 of die space, you've dropped power down to 200W. Now add in 100mm^2 of shaders/rops/tmus and you're back at 250W and you have more than enough bandwidth to feed it.

384bit bus is limited by the power they wanted to use, the shader count is limited by the power they wanted to use and the available bandwidth as well. HBM2 alleviates both issues, bandwidth and reduces power significantly allowing for more power for the GPU.

You do know that 250w is hardly the 'max' acceptable power draw for a GPU, right? Where were you when the 290X and Fury X were released?

300W with the performance on offer to justify it is hardly anything high end users are going to complain about if it has no competition that does things better.

nomadd · 2 Aug 2016 at 18:35

Born_2_Kill_83 said:
**** my life I'm going to buy one.

Why did I read "life" as "wife"?

Seanspeed · 2 Aug 2016 at 18:37

NirK said:
I just couldn't handle the depreciation on this... possibly in 12 months from now, they will release Volta and this Titan X will be equalled by a 150w 400MSRP 1170 etc.

I'm counting on it! lol

Seriously, that's kind of what I'm hoping for(or an AMD equivalent). Not as a Titan X owner, but as somebody who wants to buy that £400 TitanX-matching card so I can justify switching to a 4k monitor and a 4k Bluray player(most likely a PS4 Neo).