Titan Price Cuts

[Lepton87]

I'd would like to get a second Titan but in the country where I live there aren't any used Titans for sale. I check every couple of days. Truth be told I should have expected that, a card that cost as much as average monthly salary(not to mention median) won't get many adopters. I've only ever seen one used Titan on sale and it sold for a similar price that 780 aftermarket cards were going for. In retrospect I should have just bought that used Titan that showed on ebay's polish equivalent, but at the time I wasn't really thinking about upgrading my computer.
Do you think NV should just cut its price to 650$? It's a shame that NV does not support mixed SLI, then I wouldn't have that problem at all. If AMD can do it, why can't NV? I really dislike that they artificially block features, just for their twisted marketing campaign, like having NV PsyX card with AMD card as main rendering card blocked. I would just buy an aftermarket 780 that would have the same performance as my Titan, the only thing I would loose would be 3GB of memory which doesn't come in handy unless you want to very heavily mode some games. Then there's also that DP compute, but I don't use it at all, that's probably the reason why Titan still costs as much as it does. Still,if you can make work AMD's card + NV's card for PsyX, are there any drivers hack that would allow mixed SLI to work? I highly doubt it, I'm 99.8% sure that I would have heard about it by now. The reason I want to add another are performance drops in metro:LL even at high quality no AA, a drop from 60fps to mid 45 is VERY noticeable and even 50 is noticeable. It's going to happen in a lot of games What's even worse it that it's going for about 50% of its original value after just 8 months, so I don't consider selling it.

ps. How much a used titan costs in the US?

 

[Stuka87]

nVidia stated when they announced the 780Ti that they will not be dropping the price on the Titan. Chances are it wont drop until the next iteration of the titan is released.

 

[5150Joker]

NV won't cut it to $650 because its still a superior card to the 780. Has more features, 1 more smx and twice the vram. I have zero desire to sell off my cards and I doubt many other Titan owners do either. For me going to a 780/780 Ti with 3GB vram would be a step down.

 

[phillyboy]

If you want SLI you'd be better off selling that Titan and getting two 780s especially if you are not using it for DP related applications. Titan is their low-end "compute" card and is pretty much in a different category then the 780/780Ti so you will not see it at $650 for a long time (i.e. until they are used on eBay ).

 

[phillyboy]

I'm surprised it would be at $500 now used... if that is the case then buy a used one.

 

[moonbogg]

You could sell the titan for about 650-700 easily I would think, and then get two standard 780s and really fly like crazy compared to a single titan. It would cost you roughly $300 according to regular pricing.

 

[Teizo]

/ebay

 

[Lepton87]

I'm surprised it would be at $500 now used... if that is the case then buy a used one.

It's was at a time where 780 still cost 650$. Unfortunately I only found one auction where it sold for that price. Aftermarket OCed 780s are just better gaming cards. So far no luck finding any used Titan no matter the price.

NV won't cut it to $650 because its still a superior card to the 780. Has more features, 1 more smx and twice the vram. I have zero desire to sell off my cards and I doubt many other Titan owners do either. For me going to a 780/780 Ti with 3GB vram would be a step down.

Sure, but 780 got 150$ price cut, now it goes for 500$ exactly two time lower then Titan. At 650$ is would still be markedly more expensive and wouldn't be any faster then Aftermarket super-clocked 780, some would be even faster.

If you want SLI you'd be better off selling that Titan and getting two 780s especially if you are not using it for DP related applications. Titan is their low-end "compute" card and is pretty much in a different category then the 780/780Ti so you will not see it at $650 for a long time (i.e. until they are used on eBay ).

If I could recoup 80% of its original price that's what I would have done, but 50% after a couple of months of use without new node seems ridiculous. Why NV is so boneheaded about mixed SLI? I don't know why people like NV marketing and artificial locking of feature, I just hate that.

 

[blastingcap]

TITAN's superior DP action alone would ensure that it never gets discounted TOO steeply while it's still in production.

 

[Lepton87]

You could sell the titan for about 650-700 easily I would think, and then get two standard 780s and really fly like crazy compared to a single titan. It would cost you roughly $300 according to regular pricing.

I'm in Poland, situation in this piss-poor country looks different then in the US. Maybe I could sell it for 700USD but every new card would be at least 23% more expensive due to this thievish 23% VAT, on top of that e-tailers/retailers have higher margins especially for such low volume products. Not to mention NV tax, if we have both cards form NV and AMD with the same MSRP and street pricing in the US, in here or even in the whole of Europe NV is going to cost more. Recent example, GTX680, it was always more expensive in Europe despite 50$ lower MSRP at first.

TITAN's superior DP action alone would ensure that it never gets discounted TOO steeply while it's still in production.

Too bad no wants to pay for that, at least in Poland. Maybe I will have to somehow manage on a single Titan until 20nm cards come to market OTOH that's a whole year of waiting. Are there going the be released games that are significantly more demanding then Metro:LL? I just hope that they release High-end cards first for 20nm but somehow from financial standpoint I can't see that happening They are going to be milking 20nm as much as they can. It was nice when when you could just buy a top-end card and have almost the fastest card on the market with few exceptions. It was basically before 7800GT. But GTX480 wasn't bad aside from noise from reference cooler, it was only 5% slower clock for clock then 580, strap a better cooler and there was reason to upgrade.
UPGRADE:Looks like I don't have any cost effective upgrade options right now, unless I find a used Titan costing close to 780, which is going to be hard if not impossible. When 20nm GPUs hit the market I probably upgrade key-components in my computer so I'll probably buy a 6 core Haswell-E CPU, and good mobo to complement that, although I probably won't splurge for an AUSUS ROG which are are favourite mobos, new Quad channel DDR4 RAM and a new SSD, probably 512GB at a minimum. If 20nm cards release first I won't be buying all at one or vice-verse. My PSU should handle that load with no problems, so does the case. I've never had a platform last me four years expect for GPU upgrads and adding SSD and storage and changing monitor, but if didn't change 6990 Q-Fire it should be fine. __________________

 

[moonbogg]

Why can't you find a friend in the US to sell and replace the cards for you? Would that be illegal?

 

[blackened23]

TITAN's superior DP action alone would ensure that it never gets discounted TOO steeply while it's still in production.

From a gamer's standpoint, Titan is overpriced.. With that said you're absolutely right - from a CUDA developers point of view the Titan is far superior to the 780/780ti and is a better value than the Quadro line of GPUs. So with that being the case, nvidia has no reason to drop Titan's price.

 

[nenforcer]

From a gamer's standpoint, Titan is overpriced.. With that said you're absolutely right - from a CUDA developers point of view the Titan is far superior to the 780/780ti and is a better value than the Quadro line of GPUs. So with that being the case, nvidia has no reason to drop Titan's price.

Your absolutely right, talking 1/3 DP (GTX Titan) vs. 1/24 DP (GTX 780/780Ti) the Titan should easily maintain its $1000 MSRP for the life of the product.

I'm guessing next year they will come out with a .20nm Quadro that is slightly faster but will cost as much if not more.

BTW nVidia just announced their latest Quadro K40? which is basically a fully enabled 780Ti Titan with all 15 units available.

The good news is your Titan will probably have one of the longest shelf lives and resale price of any nVidia top end graphics card as long as they add features like DirectX 11.2 through the drivers.