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Titan Z reviews
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Soldato
That makes the price look a bit better,if you manage to avoid any duties.
Even if you did,its still overpriced. Heck,even the R9 295X2 is blooming overpriced.
They are both more than twice as expensive than the single GPU cards they are based on.
Just doing the sums if someone did do it that way, I will not buy a Z, may see what a 790 is like if it appears.
I agree both are overpriced and that Nvidia card no matter what that YT video states is also aimed at Pro use as its a full non crippled Compute DP card so may be cheap for that use over Quadro and they get vat back anyhow as a business.
I agree both are overpriced and that Nvidia card no matter what that YT video states is also aimed at Pro use as its a full non crippled Compute DP card so may be cheap for that use over Quadro and they get vat back anyhow as a business.
Soldato
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=1914&subid=1966
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Caporegime
Haha. How many were in stock? It was four when i last looked.
Soldato
There were 5 on Monday.
Soldato
He maybe a bit of fanboy but he's pretty bright he would have had the sense to have bought 2 Titan blacks for more CUDA power for less money.
It really isn't a gaming card, this is a for making a Tesla system on the cheap, and cheap it is in comparison.
I'm sure Nvidia will have no issues selling sufficient stock to be viable to the scientific community, academia, and high-tech labs and airforce. Companies like Lockheed Martin will snap these up.
I'm sure Nvidia will have no issues selling sufficient stock to be viable to the scientific community, academia, and high-tech labs and airforce. Companies like Lockheed Martin will snap these up.
no they wont !!!! because they're not stupid like some of us lot
only an idiot would buy one of these cards
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Yer, that's how I see it as well. Cheap for a Tesla system needing CUDA and even though nVidia have said it is a gamers card, I would be surprised if anyone except the uber rich who isn't clued up would buy one for gaming in truth.
i was shocked when i came back to the graphics card section and looked at the latest cards....in preparation for my next rig 
i saw the Titan Z and said, ``oh wow man that's a lot of money`` .
the price of PC gear is about the same as 2 years ago... BUT NOT THAT THING
i was also a bit surprised to see that 8GB 290X..... because i dont think we need 8GB yet.
i saw the Titan Z and said, ``oh wow man that's a lot of money`` .
the price of PC gear is about the same as 2 years ago... BUT NOT THAT THING
i was also a bit surprised to see that 8GB 290X..... because i dont think we need 8GB yet.
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Haha
I wish I had that kind of money!
This is very true and it is for this reason that I am surprised that Nvidia marketed it heavily towards gaming rather than computational based research. Titan Z provides 8.1 TFlops SP performance and 2.3 TFlops DP performance, which are both much higher than the Tesla K20/40 figures and for a cheaper price.
Only thing is that with this being a GeForce branded card it will not come with the added developer support one gets with Tesla cards.
Soldato
And no workstation drivers and no ECC memory.
Haha
I wish I had that kind of money!
This is very true and it is for this reason that I am surprised that Nvidia marketed it heavily towards gaming rather than computational based research. Titan Z provides 8.1 TFlops SP performance and 2.3 TFlops DP performance, which are both much higher than the Tesla K20/40 figures and for a cheaper price.
Only thing is that with this being a GeForce branded card it will not come with the added developer support one gets with Tesla cards.
The labeled it GE force because it jibes with the unified approach to leveraging its R&D across multiple platform strategy that it pitched to anyone who was paying attention. Why not start with unifying the brand, and then create segmentation based on the needs of different markets, i.e., (ranked in no particular priority order) consumer pc, workstations, cloud ,enterprise severs and mobile.
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Soldato
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I had the same thoughts as well but why would you buy 1 Titan Z when you could get 2 Titan Blacks for less money which would give you more performance?
I have heard tell of some specialist rigs (using CUDA) used for things like colour correction on movies that have limited slots for GPUs.