Why don’t nVidia release the Titan first?

[nashathedog]

Titan production has mostly been related to professional cards or other markets, etc. also when on a new node the first few months yields are often less than ideal and take awhile to ramp up - one little defect can mean you have to write off an entire larger core while you might still get say 3 working smaller cores. Making a smaller Titan core will somewhat tie their hands going forward though eventually they can do a lineup refresh.

The Titan has always been targeted at gamer's. All the promotional stuff calls them the ultimate gaming card, The first one that hasn't been targeted directly at gamer's via the promotional work is the Volta model, but by this point they know that anything with the Titan branding is seen as a Gaming product. They know that and the Titan V was all about seeing how far they can push gamer's when it comes to pricing. Sure they pretend otherwise but that was as see-through as perspex, Next thing you know the 1080ti replacement will cost a grand. Both Nvidia & AMD seem intent on destroying PC gaming just to make a fast buck.

 

[Rroff]

The Titan has always been targeted at gamer's. All the promotional stuff calls them the ultimate gaming card, The first one that hasn't been targeted directly at gamer's via the promotional work is the Volta model, but by this point they know that anything with the Titan branding is seen as a Gaming product. They know that and the Titan V was all about seeing how far they can push gamer's when it comes to pricing. Sure they pretend otherwise but that was as see-through as perspex, Next thing you know the 1080ti replacement will cost a grand. Both Nvidia & AMD seem intent on destroying PC gaming just to make a fast buck.

Not saying the Titan hasn't been aimed at gamers - that isn't relevant to my point - the cores themselves though are connected in some way to the production of professional cards i.e. salvaged cores from runs designed for compute cluster installation used in Titans, etc.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

The Titan V is out before any Volta gaming cards

They said its not for gamers though, even though its a GeForce, which is their gaming card brand, like all their others.

 

[Kaapstad]

They said its not for gamers though, even though its a GeForce, which is their gaming card brand, like all their others.

If it can play games and is the fastest gaming card it is for games.

It is not bad at the boring stuff either like DP or using Tensor cores for AI. Sadly none of this is supported in games.

 

[Firestar_3x]

They said its not for gamers though, even though its a GeForce, which is their gaming card brand, like all their others.

Is it a GeForce? It isn't listed under the GeForce product catalogue and the Nvidia site has no reference to it being under this product line that i have seen.

 

[nashathedog]

Not saying the Titan hasn't been aimed at gamers - that isn't relevant to my point - the cores themselves though are connected in some way to the production of professional cards i.e. salvaged cores from runs designed for compute cluster installation used in Titans, etc.

Fair enough, I misunderstood your point, Sorry.

 

[Lord-Jaffa]

Not true. I bought my Titan because I realised it was only £50 more expensive than the 80Ti

Same, Galactic Empire for life