300$ for 3 months of bragging rights? money is money, use it for something better.
Seems like a money grab for bragging rights.
1) Consumer version of GM200 should have more TDP headroom for higher clock speeds due to less VRAM. Also, NV can bin the best GM200s over time. We could be looking at 1.5 years away until Pascal in Q3 2016 which means there is plenty of time to launch a higher clocked version of consumer GM200.
2) After-market open air cards from AIBs with better components should come with faster clocks than 1.075Ghz and have better/more consistent overclocking headroom.
3) Lack of DP performance implies one could almost call this a 780Ti successor but NV raised the price from $699 to $999, but stuck with the Titan name. Talk about a marketing inconsistency. The premium for 12GB of VRAM is hardly justified for gaming.
4) As many of us have criticized the stock Titan / Titan Black cooler in the past, Titan X proves that the blower design is just not good enough. The noise levels are similar to a 290X and once overclocked, it's way too loud. It seems it's going to be impossible to achieve a good balance of overclocked performance and noise levels with the stock Titan X cooler.
Sorry, but blowers are dinosaurs for 250W TDP cards. For such cards, open air after-market coolers and/or AIO CLC are by far the superior solutions for getting top performance and great noise levels. Titan X cements this.
I think NV should have just released a 1.18-1.22Ghz GM200 6GB card and allowed AIBs to work their magic. The Titan X seems like it's not a proper GM200 card. Also, it seems this time the 390X has a legitimate shot at being faster and costing less. If 390X is $700, for those on 4K and buying 2-3, the difference in price would grow to $600-900 which is a steep premium for 3 months bragging rights imo.