** TITANX **

[Quixote]

They chopped out the 64bit Floating Point, so it's now a very expensive but fast gaming card with too much memory.

Still a champ for GPU rendering where all the models, textures & multi-pass has to fit in the GPU RAM.
I'm talking Octane, V-Ray RT, Redshift etc.
IMO the only area any Titan has ever made sense financially.

 

[cainer]

I paid a total of £1627 (ish) for 3 Titans and sold them for £1350. I think I did ok with that

i saw your thread in the MM wanting 350, 350 and 300 (inc rmsd) = £1k
did i miss somthing? if i did then i should have had one straight away

 

[Gibbo]

£799 is awesome, well done to Nvidia for setting the price at a great price point and OCUK for not ripping the pish. I do realise there's £999 cards but for there to be a TX at £799 is awesome really.

Could I get £799 for my 980's ?

£799 is absolute best case, final price is still undecided, unfortunately if they had launched this 3-4 weeks ago it would have being:

$999 / 1.55 = £645*1.2 = £775 so £799 was possible a shipping would be about $10 per card.

Unfortunately rate has being plummeting last few weeks:

$999 / 1.47 = £679*1.2 = £815 and then add shipping.


So if NVIDIA price it at £799 in the UK, they will be doing a great job, reality is that is the absolute very best you can expect, it is far more likely to be between £799 - £999 as I originally suggested, so £899.


P.S. Just to really upset things, at 980 launch GBP was even stronger, so would have being $999 / 1.64 = £609*1.2 = £730, so if we had those rates now hell £749 could be possible.

 

[Tonester0011]

You answered your own question, if you saw his MM post you'll know he sold elsewhere.

 

[Divine Pain]

Im gonna wait for the 980 Ti or whatever is next. By the time I reach MM and the next iteration of Titan is released, I will buy the old Titans of Greggs.

Sorted.

 

[Harlequin]

Still a champ for GPU rendering where all the models, textures & multi-pass has to fit in the GPU RAM.
I'm talking Octane, V-Ray RT, Redshift etc.
IMO the only area any Titan has ever made sense financially.

funnily enough the makers of octane slam the likes of maya saying ocl isn't as widespread or mature as cuda...

 

[Gibbo]

My understanding is that there is no dual pricing. The two prices quoted are a minimum and maximum that OCUK expect it to be.

Correct and based on how weak the pound is now against USD my guess is we will be lucky to see £799 and I am betting on £899.

 

[Tonester0011]

Have you not even bought any stock yet then??
Or is that not how it works, and you part with the reddies after launch?

 

[kazuya1337]

899.99 is a massive price gouge, that's charging £80+ per unit for shipping.

 

[Xelene]

Still a champ for GPU rendering where all the models, textures & multi-pass has to fit in the GPU RAM.
I'm talking Octane, V-Ray RT, Redshift etc.
IMO the only area any Titan has ever made sense financially.

We ended up using buying a stack of them for rendering, but in the end it made more sense to buy octocore Xeons for our workload. The titans ended up doing computational tasks around CFD and such - were cheap for that. These Titan-X just seem like gaming cards only.

 

[Gibbo]

Have you not even bought any stock yet then??
Or is that not how it works, and you part with the reddies after launch?

NVIDIA decide the price. We then buy stock and pay for it 30-60 days later, if the rate weakens more then we lose more money, or rate strengthens we make more money.

 

[Gibbo]

899.99 is a massive price gouge, that's charging £80+ per unit for shipping.

That's upto NVIDIA, they can charge £999 if they like, they are not forcing you to buy.

 

[Tonester0011]

NVIDIA decide the price. We then buy stock and pay for it 30-60 days later, if the rate weakens more then we lose more money, or rate strengthens we make more money.

Didn't know that, learn something new everyday.
I'm guessing some of your big price cuts you do are based around the fluctuations on the dollar price?

That's upto NVIDIA, they can charge £999 if they like, they are not forcing you to buy.

Soooo it's not a straight dollar conversion? Or has the $999 price everyone has talked about not yet final?

 

[kazuya1337]

You could import from the US for less than £999

 

[Blitzkrieg]

Looks nice, but I think i'll stick to my 980 SLI

 

[SiDeards73]

You could import from the US for less than £999

You forget import tax, you would end up paying way more

 

[cainer]

You could import from the US for less than £999

i should think a fair bit less if your ordering a large ammount??
is the $999 price for a single unit to US private customers*? or is that the trade price?

*+ sales tax

 

[Frenzy]

I've seen one in the flesh, it's REALLY big.

 

[Quixote]

funnily enough the makers of octane slam the likes of maya saying ocl isn't as widespread or mature as cuda...

Octane is a CUDA-based render engine which integrates natively in Maya, Cinema 4D, 3DS max & many other packages.

V-Ray RT is CUDA & Open CL but generally faster under CUDA & again, integrates natively with a wide range of host programs.

So the issue of CUDA/ Open CL is seperate to what the host application is (ie Maya, Max, C4D, Modo etc)

But there's no doubt CUDA is far & away the leader in this field, I would cite VRay-RT as the only really popular render engine with a good Open CL version.

 

[Tonester0011]

I've seen one in the flesh, it's REALLY big.

Means a lot bud
Favourable angles, and the lightning helps. It's normally smaller.