Knowing that these cards will lose $800 in value over the next 18-24 months is a tough pill to swallow.
If amd is able to get the memory management fix right among other driver enhancements to the tune of an additional 15% or so, then an overclocked 7970 at 1200-1250mhz will be unnoticeable different in performance from an overclocked Titan in 80%+ games and with amd leading by say 5% in nearly half of them.
They have done much more than 15% since release and the next big jump is realistically expected at 10-15% anyway. So even if it turns out 10%, it would be so close to the Titan once heavily oced that in most cases you would only be able to bench the difference, say sub 15% avg.
They have done much more than 15% since release and the next big jump is realistically expected at 10-15% anyway. So even if it turns out 10%, it would be so close to the Titan once heavily oced that in most cases you would only be able to bench the difference, say sub 15% avg.
this shares my view on the titan release and I only have 580sli.Exactly this. If they weren't going to be absolute useless garbage in two years, then I might consider sucking it up and throwing down for a couple of them in the near future. But I can't possibly stomach the loss of value that they will incur. This is just way too much.
NO BUY.
Amazing achievement? They charge 1k USD and yet they skimp on power circuitry and block overclocking. Luxury product my ass.
Well...so far I think you're the only confirmed one unless I missed a post in here somewhere. I pretty much had myself talked into a pair of them as of yesterday. They missed the mark though for me, either too high of a price or less performance increase than I was expecting, combination of both I suppose. There is no doubt the card is impressive judged on it's own merits, it's just not $1000 (or $2000 in my case) dollars impressive IMO. Enjoy.This thread is afterall about people buying Titans right.... ?
Are they out yet?
Well...so far I think you're the only confirmed one unless I missed a post in here somewhere. I pretty much had myself talked into a pair of them as of yesterday. They missed the mark though for me, either too high of a price or less performance increase than I was expecting, combination of both I suppose. There is no doubt the card is impressive judged on it's own merits, it's just not $1000 (or $2000 in my case) dollars impressive IMO. Enjoy.
Thanks, I'm only buying it because I'm sick of multi-gpu nonsense, I will most likely be taking an overall 5-15% decrease in actual fps.
Tom's does not present that data in a useful format at all. the difference between frames is hard to digest, and 1 frame out of every 30 could be *awful* which would look horrible, but would not appear in that graph at all.
I hope that AMD is able to get even more performance out of the 7xxx series cards through a memory rewrite and other driver changes. I think nVidia would charge less for the titan, but I think chances are these are cards that due to quality concerns never made it into various super computers, and so were validated for desktop/consumer use.
I mean, everyone knows nvidia has been having yield issues, we can't expect the supply of these cards to be infinite at a good price. I believe the price though is just two high. The performance really isn't good enough to justify $1000.00 though. Think about it, you buy this card, and you decide later that you want to get another and run them in sli.... what if they are cleared from that channel by that point? And another reality is, the value proposition at $1000.00 is terrible. If this product was cheaper I would seriously consider 2x of them for my next system, but I think the market will be better served in q4 2013-q1 2014. The Titan strikes me as, I want it and I want it now performance, for people who really have a lot of money to sink....
That could be the case. I'm trying to make sense of something that absolutely does not make sense.
This should not happen. Yet according to quite a few web reviews, SLI has less microstutter than single GPU. I'm anxiously awaiting for anyone to explain this because it is not possible, period. Either the test is flawed or the method of testing needs to be refined.
What multi GPU headaches? If tomshardware and PCPer are to be believed, apparently SLI has better frame latency / microstutter than a single card. So you're losing out on frametimes with the titan. Let it be known that SLI microstutter doesn't exist. Single GPU microstutter does.
And before you say cherry picking, every single benchmark shows GTX 690 with better microstutter results than GTX 680.
I guess those with SLI 680s or 670s made the smart choice (and opted to NOT get titan) made the smart choice to stick with smoother gaming. I personally wouldn't want the single GPU microstutter. Remember : frame times are the flawless performance metric. Do not question it.
I don't understand the charts either regarding SLI v sGPU, but hope the sarcasm doesn't bite you back
EVGA has at least 4 SKUs showing already....one will most certainly be mine.