thilanliyan
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Nvidia has luxury GPUs covered.
There are "luxury" video cards? Wow, had no idea.
Nvidia has luxury GPUs covered.
i dont know. if someone comes to me and says he got a titan gpu i wouldnt be jealous as it would be more feeling pitty for their poor choice to impress someone with electrical waste that gets replaced 5 months after its purchase.
There are "luxury" video cards? Wow, had no idea.
Wanna buy some slightly used 980s?
RAM isn't THAT expensive.
What does a backplate do...?
8GB of DDR4 will set you back ~$85. GDDR5 still carries a heavy premium, lets say 50% being generous. That puts it at $120. Now factor in that Nvidia likely wants ~100% margin, which puts it at $240.
Mainly provide support to a longer and heavier card, and as a secondary benefit, help protect the components on top from getting dinged. It also serves as a heatspreader for any memory and VRMs on top, and that may be the chief reason for its presence when compared to preventing "dings", as that is rarely something any manufacturer actually has in mind. You either know how to handle components or you don't, amirite? .
8GB of DDR4 will set you back ~$85. GDDR5 still carries a heavy premium, lets say 50% being generous. That puts it at $120. Now factor in that Nvidia likely wants ~100% margin, which puts it at $240.
Any guesses on what this thing will be priced at?
The rumor has been $1350 for a while now.
now selling for $600 on Newegg (R9 295X2)
Seems like almost double the price of a GTX780Ti, and if the DP performance feature is lacking, it would make it the most expensive single chip consumer card ever. Maybe NV thinks the 12GB of VRAM and increased SP performance is worth the upgrade for the original Titan owners for compute/rendering?
Let's say clocks of 1178mhz @ 3072 CUDA cores would make the card 54% faster in SP compute against the original Titan.
I think there is a market of early adopters who aren't price sensitive and would buy this if it's $1000, $1350 or $1500. Having said that, it's pretty much a given that dual $650-700 cards such as 390Xs or dual GM200 6GB consumer cards will beat a single $1350 Titan X. I think after seeing $1000 Titan get matched by a $400 R9 290 in 7 months, then beaten by a $330 970 or even $700 780Ti or seeing $1500-3000 R9 295X2/Titan Z now selling for $600 on Newegg (R9 295X2), anyone buying Titan X already knows what they are getting themselves into. It's probably also likely that in 1.5 years a $400-450 Pascal chip will beat it in games. I suppose if someone is looking for a semi-professional/workstation card where VRAM and single precision compute provides a huge boost in productivity in CUDA, etc. even at $1350, it's "cheap" for that type of customer.
For example, in a MacPro tower, 2 of these could sell well over the outdated HD7970s Apple currently uses. I am interested in seeing what Apple chooses for the aging D700 FirePros. I am not sure though if MacPro users need the FirePro/Quadro designated card features though.
Seems like almost double the price of a GTX780Ti, and if the DP performance feature is lacking, it would make it the most expensive single chip consumer card ever. Maybe NV thinks the 12GB of VRAM and increased SP performance is worth the upgrade for the original Titan owners for compute/rendering?
Let's say clocks of 1178mhz @ 3072 CUDA cores would make the card 54% faster in SP compute against the original Titan.
I doubt anyone is buying Titans for SP compute. First Titan was a steal for DP compute crowd, and one has to wonder what SP/DP ratio Maxwell Titan will have.
I wonder what % of Titan users bought it for the DP capabilities, what % bought for the larger VRAM buffer, and what % bought because it was at one point the fastest gaming card.
Completely agree. I wonder why NV even wants to use the 'Titan' label for this product, as it doesn't really fit with their previous offerings of being a 'prosumer' product. The Titan X is essentially a pre-release 980Ti, for lack of a better term. It is odd to me and hurts the Titan brand somewhat IMHO.