AMD Roy Taylor "GK110 is not something which was designed to be a gfx"

[Genx87]

Poor Roy. After working at Nvidia he must still be in a state of shock at the difference in competence of management between the two companies.

That said his quote about Nvidia turning into a smartphone company sounds like sour grapes. AMD would like to do the same but stupidly(read incompetent management) sold their mobile division to Qualcom. Qualcom that is now raking in money with AMDs IP and has a market cap the size of Intel.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Basically they have no answer for the GK110 but I don't think they care because GK110 doesn't compete with any AMD card on the market.

If GK110 was close to $600 then they might have been pressured but as it stands someone who is in the market for 7970 Ghz Ed./GTX 680 is not in the market for GTX Titan.

What does Titan change in the current market? Nothing.

If anything it makes the gtx690 a harder sell. Titan runs cooler, uses less power, and is about the same price point with similar (not quite the same) performance.

 

[The Alias]

If anything it makes the gtx690 a harder sell. Titan runs cooler, uses less power, and is about the same price point with similar (not quite the same) performance.

say what ?

 

[sontin]

When somebody ask you what is wrong with AMD, i guess you got the answer:
A smartphone company is beating a graphics company. :|

 

[Leadbox]

say what ?

Ain't that one of them charts they put out there to try and catch the leaks?

 

[railven]

You heard it here first:

AMD to released Radeon HD 7980 with, included with a water cooling kit, clocked at 1500/1800 and cost $750.

Frankly, with the ceiling of the Titan, there is no reason why a card like that *couldn't* exist.

Of course, it will have to include it's own PSU at them clocks haha.

 

[Vesku]

If AMD put out a card that mirrored the Titan for $100 under Titan MSRP I am confident they would still sell less of it than Nvidia will the Titan.

 

[railven]

If AMD put out a card that mirrored the Titan for $100 under Titan MSRP I am confident they would still sell less of it than Nvidia will the Titan.

AMD can give you a free card with the purchase of a PC game and they'd still lose marketshare to nVidia.

 

[Phynaz]

OP:
Posting an entire article / interview like that is considered bad form. You should just post the link to the originating site with a synopsis of the article.

 

[Silverforce11]

Basically they have no answer for the GK110 but I don't think they care because GK110 doesn't compete with any AMD card on the market.

If GK110 was close to $600 then they might have been pressured but as it stands someone who is in the market for 7970 Ghz Ed./GTX 680 is not in the market for GTX Titan.

What does Titan change in the current market? Nothing.

This. Titan is rumored to be around $1000.. thats an insanely expensive card that changes nothing as its a) too limited and b) too far out of most gamer or even enthusiast budgets.

Now if NV will be nice to consumers, they could sell it around $600-700, now we're talking serious enthusiast level threat to AMD and obsoletion of gtx680 (will need major price drops). The 2nd point is why NV isnt going to price it that low. Why hurt their profit margin on a small die going for high prices??

 

[tviceman]

You heard it here first:

AMD to released Radeon HD 7980 with, included with a water cooling kit, clocked at 1500/1800 and cost $750.

Frankly, with the ceiling of the Titan, there is no reason why a card like that *couldn't* exist.

Of course, it will have to include it's own PSU at them clocks haha.

Nope. 7970's can't even hit 1500mhz on water right now. Memory hitting 1800mhz is also so rare it's not even worth mentioning.

 

[aaksheytalwar]

Nope. 7970's can't even hit 1500mhz on water right now. Memory hitting 1800mhz is also so rare it's not even worth mentioning.

But they could release highly binned chips which do 1300/1600 with high end air cooling. That will come within 10% of a stock Titan. And they could price it at $550-600.

 

[BallaTheFeared]

But they could release highly binned chips which do 1300/1600 with high end air cooling. That will come within 10% of a stock Titan. And they could price it at $550-600.

lol and you think they have the resources and time required to go through and validated 1,000s of chips for such a project?


You do understand their voltage stability is higher than "it's brand new and ran a benchmark @ x with only a few artifacts".

AMD would have to find a specific voltage that was fully 100% stable over prolonged use, then bump it up several notches to ensure stability 3 years from now for the duration of it's warranty.

 

[ocre]

Nvidia wanted to keep titan power consumption and noise as low as possible. Dont neglect the overclocking of this beast. If it 1150+ is common, there is nothing like it. at 1100 it will have unbelievable performance. I think this really could be something special.

 

[Fx1]

Nope. 7970's can't even hit 1500mhz on water right now. Memory hitting 1800mhz is also so rare it's not even worth mentioning.

Its not that rare i did it without trying.

 

[BallaTheFeared]

Its not that rare i did it without trying.

:thumbsup:

 

[f1sherman]

But they could release highly binned chips which do 1300/1600 with high end air cooling. That will come within 10% of a stock Titan. And they could price it at $550-600.

Yeah for sure. AMD is going to spend last penny they don't have trying to cure Titan induced anxiety in their kook base :biggrin:

Releasing New Zealand might be a good move though

 

[Genx87]

When somebody ask you what is wrong with AMD, i guess you got the answer:
A smartphone company is beating a graphics company. :|

lol

 

[tviceman]

Its not that rare i did it without trying.

Dude you have the current longest, if not record longest, streak of worst posts ever on this forum. By tonight it wouldn't surprise me if you said you successfully did a pencil mod to an hd4870 to enable dx11 features.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=34456953#post34456953
http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=34456982&postcount=56
http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=34457030&postcount=59
http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=34457062&postcount=62
http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=34457098&postcount=64
http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=34457150&postcount=68
http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=34457351&postcount=75

All within 19 posts of each other in the same thread. Golden.

 

[blastingcap]

GK110 was not built to be a gaming GPU as its focus. True. But it's also sour grapes to say that.

 

[cmdrdredd]

say what ?

Maybe next time post a chart that compared the 690 to the Titan because I clearely said GTX 690 not GTX 680

 

[SolMiester]

Ain't that one of them charts they put out there to try and catch the leaks?

Wow, they do that?....it would make sense as that doesnt look anywhere near the 690 perf....
I still think it should of been $100 less, as it doesnt have the perf of the 690...

 

[SolMiester]

But they could release highly binned chips which do 1300/1600 with high end air cooling. That will come within 10% of a stock Titan. And they could price it at $550-600.

But you wouldnt be able to hear the game!...its already loud enough...have you seen any of the acoustic benchies on this thing? 45d?...same level as a 7850.

 

[The Alias]

Maybe next time post a chart that compared the 690 to the Titan because I clearely said GTX 690 not GTX 680

you should know a 690 leaves all those benches in the dust

 

[Skurge]

you should know a 690 leaves all those benches in the dust

Yeah a 690 is at least 40% faster than Titan.

PS: I think titan is a dumb name.