Remind me if you don't mind, what was the price prior to that?Couldn't have been much less.
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The Pascal Titan X and XP Owners Thread
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Remind me if you don't mind, what was the price prior to that?Couldn't have been much less.
£1099 but a price increase on tech that's getting older just seems plain wrong to me.
I appreciate its still considered the best but it just seems a money grab to me
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I was going to say the pound is dropping and predicted to continue to do so but noticed the 1080 hasn't changed since release and still the same price now from NV so it's not an across the board increase so seems a bit odd to raise the price of the highest priced product only. Who knows what the reason is? Huge demand?
, or going to sell rest of stock as no more coming so pricing higher to get most £ out of them before they run out....who knows.I was kinda hoping it would drop to get another later but don't think I need it to be honest anyway and think the Volta TX will good and bring DX12 improvements so don't want to be too future proof in the case of sheer performance if that makes sense, so one's enough for me
Would have no problem moving to AMD for my next gpu if they can offer required performance.That includes having to sell the Gsync monitor.
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Nope, wrong. It's now £1179 for 10-15fps.
(just having a bit fun)Has there been a change in exchange rates to cause the price inflation?. If so, I wouldn't look into it as a push to raise Ti pricing. If there hasn't been anything to fluctuate the price then you may be on to something.
If it's the latter, it could be a tell from Nvidia they know something in regard to Vega. Dun dun DUN!!!!. Disregarding my tom foolery, things are more expensive these days. I'm past being shocked and just accept it as I'm too laid back to protest or riot.
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Nope, wrong. It's now £1179 for 10-15fps.
Has there been a change in exchange rates to cause the price inflation?. If so, I wouldn't look into it as a push to raise Ti pricing. If there hasn't been anything to fluctuate the price then you may be on to something.
If it's the latter, it could be a tell from Nvidia they know something in regard to Vega. Dun dun DUN!!!!. Disregarding my tom foolery, things are more expensive these days. I'm past being shocked and just accept it as I'm too laid back to protest or riot.
Same, they are confident... If VEGA was this txp destroyer everyone is talking about. I'd expect reductions not increases lol
£1179 is well. Give them another reason to launch the TI at £850+.
Same, they are confident... If VEGA was this txp destroyer everyone is talking about. I'd expect reductions not increases lol
£1179 is well. Give them another reason to launch the TI at £850+.
I said it ages ago, with the exchange rate as it is the 1080ti, if it appears would be £800 to £850 and then up to £1000 for the high end EVGA and Asus cards.
ANd the exchange rate gets worse everytime May does a speech. Looks like we will have ARticle 50 before the 1080ti is launched. Can see the 1080ti being more than the Titanxp was
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I said it ages ago, with the exchange rate as it is the 1080ti, if it appears would be £800 to £850 and then up to £1000 for the high end EVGA and Asus cards.
ANd the exchange rate gets worse everytime May does a speech. Looks like we will have ARticle 50 before the 1080ti is launched. Can see the 1080ti being more than the Titanxp was
Was going to say the same. Would be hilarious if ti ends up being same price or close to what txp was. As days/months tick by getting closer to next architecture too.£ may even recover a bit by then after article 50 accepted and move on in a 9 months or so
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Every time she opens her mouth the pound plummets.
She's clearly more interested in what the Daily Mail thinks than in buying high end gear.
Sorry if this has been asked already but the thread is 60 pages long. 
Has anyone here done any actual testing to see if Titans in SLI will saturate the lanes on a z170/z270 board? Been googling for hours and the closest I could find was an article on techpowerup where they tested a single 1080 in various lane speeds which didn't see any performance hit going from 3.0 x16 to x8. There's been no tests on SLI and pci-e scaling on the pascal architecture at all from what I can see.
Well, there was that test over at Puget Systems but the results from that was so weird they must have done something wrong, you shouldn't get less performance from more bandwidth, not to mention their lackluster choice of realworld gaming benchmarks. Plus it was an x99 platform where they gimped the lanes in BIOS.
Has anyone here done any actual testing to see if Titans in SLI will saturate the lanes on a z170/z270 board? Been googling for hours and the closest I could find was an article on techpowerup where they tested a single 1080 in various lane speeds which didn't see any performance hit going from 3.0 x16 to x8. There's been no tests on SLI and pci-e scaling on the pascal architecture at all from what I can see.
Well, there was that test over at Puget Systems but the results from that was so weird they must have done something wrong, you shouldn't get less performance from more bandwidth, not to mention their lackluster choice of realworld gaming benchmarks. Plus it was an x99 platform where they gimped the lanes in BIOS.
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Sorry if this has been asked already but the thread is 60 pages long.
Has anyone here done any actual testing to see if Titans in SLI will saturate the lanes on a z170/z270 board? Been googling for hours and the closest I could find was an article on techpowerup where they tested a single 1080 in various lane speeds which didn't see any performance hit going from 3.0 x16 to x8. There's been no tests on SLI and pci-e scaling on the pascal architecture at all from what I can see.
Well, there was that test over at Puget Systems but the results from that was so weird they must have done something wrong, you shouldn't get less performance from more bandwidth, not to mention their lackluster choice of realworld gaming benchmarks. Plus it was an x99 platform where they gimped the lanes in BIOS.
From running 1080 SLI i noticed a difference between 16x/8x and 16x/16x. i'd imagine a similar story with TXP SLI. I'm sure kaap or someone else with these cards can confirm.
Sorry if this has been asked already but the thread is 60 pages long.
Has anyone here done any actual testing to see if Titans in SLI will saturate the lanes on a z170/z270 board? Been googling for hours and the closest I could find was an article on techpowerup where they tested a single 1080 in various lane speeds which didn't see any performance hit going from 3.0 x16 to x8. There's been no tests on SLI and pci-e scaling on the pascal architecture at all from what I can see.
Well, there was that test over at Puget Systems but the results from that was so weird they must have done something wrong, you shouldn't get less performance from more bandwidth, not to mention their lackluster choice of realworld gaming benchmarks. Plus it was an x99 platform where they gimped the lanes in BIOS.
The results look about right with Puget systems.
In some situations you can get more performance switching to PCI-E 2.0 as it reduces CPU workload which in turn allows for higher fps. If something like 3dmark11 is used with several cards the fps will be very high but at a low resolution so bandwidth is not as important as out and out CPU speed.
The above type of situations are quite rare but they do exist. For normal use there is not much difference between PCI-E 2.0 and 3.0 or X16 and X8. For normal use the difference is about 1% or 2%.
Exactly this, it's the main reason I decided to wait for the 1080ti. Just can't be arsed fitting another AIO to a very expensive card
Some extreme testing with
4 Pascal Titans running X8/X8/X8/X8
6950X @4.4
PCI-E 3.0 v PCI-E 1.0
PCI-E 3.0 results on the left and PCI-E 1.0 on the right.
Firestrike Standard
Firestrike Ultra 4k
Firestrike Ultra 8k Custom resolution
Some of us like waterblocks on everything so reference cooler does not matter.
Having said that the Pascal Titan cooler is not bad, but waterblocks are needed for maximum performance.
Thanks for taking the time Kaapstad, those results look reassuring, would it make any difference if you scaled down to 2-way SLI PCI-e 3.0 16/16 and 8/8?
So if I understood this correctly basically any loss you take in PCI-e bandwidth (~5% tops) by picking Zx70 over X99 would be evened out by the SkyKaby's stronger singlecore performance and higher memory bandwidth? Might actually be worth it to upgrade to a faster 4000Mhz kit from my current 2666Mhz. DDR4 4000 gaming benchmark.
So if I understood this correctly basically any loss you take in PCI-e bandwidth (~5% tops) by picking Zx70 over X99 would be evened out by the SkyKaby's stronger singlecore performance and higher memory bandwidth? Might actually be worth it to upgrade to a faster 4000Mhz kit from my current 2666Mhz. DDR4 4000 gaming benchmark.
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2 way SLI 16/16 is slightly better than 8/8 but we are talking about 1% or less.
For normal gaming with 1 or 2 cards there is very little difference between Zx70 and X99.
From what I understand of it Zx70 systems do like fast memory but don't spend too much money on it as it could be better spent on the GPUs themselves.
For normal gaming with 1 or 2 cards there is very little difference between Zx70 and X99.
From what I understand of it Zx70 systems do like fast memory but don't spend too much money on it as it could be better spent on the GPUs themselves.
Already spent the money on the GPUs, got a pair of TXPs and EK blocks on their way. 
Was just worrying over any potential performance loss over my choice of platform, got a ASUS Hero VIII ready to go and was eyeing the follow-up IX Hero when I started thinking about the amount of lanes I have to play with. I suppose I could always migrate to the X299 platform in a year or so since they're expected to release in august and not have to worry about it anymore.
Was just worrying over any potential performance loss over my choice of platform, got a ASUS Hero VIII ready to go and was eyeing the follow-up IX Hero when I started thinking about the amount of lanes I have to play with. I suppose I could always migrate to the X299 platform in a year or so since they're expected to release in august and not have to worry about it anymore.