$1200, just like many of us predicted that NV will once again raise prices. $799-899 1080Ti was also my other prediction.
3584 Cores is a repeat of the OG Titan where NV released a cut-down flagship (full GP100 is 3840 CCs) and only later followed up with the full Titan Black. Let the milking begin!
Why wouldn't Nvidia do this? There is no competition from AMD. The only reason to release this card is to get more money to pay for the R&D that went into these chips sooner, such that Nvidia recoups the costs and starts making real profit of the chips.
Titan X Pascal going 12GB G5X is now a sure bet that NV is saving HBM2 for GV100 unless there is a $1500-2000 Titan X Black 3840 CC slated for 2017.
NV is a genius at marketing. I am expecting 1080 / 1080 SLI owners to be putting up their cards on eBay and upgrading to this thing. Well played.
Exactly. Nvidia waited just long enough for all those epeen types to have bought their card(s) so that Nvidia could get them to buy this chip a second time. And by also using cards that are not yet the full cores enabled, Nvidia is still leaving room for yet another release, with another 5-8% performance. And to top that off, Nvidia also has room for HBM2 memory implementation card(s) if/when that product is finally in the market (end of the year last I heard).
I've been saying this all along, but Nvidia really has some of the best marketing and product release schedulers/personnel out there. They have contingencies for contingencies with everything they do so that they can keep ahead in terms of performance of AMD. Nvidia jumped the release of their 1080/1070 products because they felt certain that AMD didn't have a competing product in the 480 (and were obviously correct). This gave Nvidia a full month of press coverage all to themselves while we heard crickets from AMD. Nvidia held off on the 1060 as they felt it would be the direct competitor card with AMD, no reason to release this before AMD because it just gives less incentive for people to stretch their budgets and buy the higher end 1070 or 1080 cards until AMD has their card out. Nvidia then could do a quick benchmark on AMD's card vs the 1060 and price the 1060 accordingly to the performance (i.e., if it was faster than the 480 price it a little higher, and if it was slower, price it a little lower, no need to release the card, only to then within weeks make a price adjustment if AMD managed to undercut price while having higher performance). Now the release of this next version of the high end cards, while being closer to the true full implementation of the chip, it has some parts still disabled. This lets them reuse chips that had small imperfections and were discarded as GP100 chips (but were otherwise good), as well as keeping more headroom for another quick released GPU in case AMD's Vega manages to somehow compete (assuming AMD not realizing that Nvidia kept something in reserve, AMD tunes their chip to beat Nvidia's fastest on the market, with Nvidia then releasing yet another card that has another 5-8% more speed immediately after AMD, and/or releasing with significant cost cuts, as Nvidia just spent the last 6 months as the performance king with customers even buying multiple versions of Pascal already, which recouped all the R&D, so that Nvidia might then undercut AMD because the cost of the card is now mostly the cost of the materials and manufacturing costs)... I mean, seriously, look at what is happening, and realize it. This is why I didn't buy a 1070 or 1080. I knew there were going to be at least 1-2 more versions released in the near future...