You seem to live in a world where price is irrelevant. Your post implied that your Titan is near supposed Hawaii's performance which is just a tad faster. Ya, so what? You seem to have forgotten the other side of the coin - price. I said what if it costs nearly half of your Titan? You seem to have a serious problem understanding that people consider it a major improvement in the GPU landscape if a certain level of performance becomes available for a substantially lower price. For instance GTX760 for $250 delivering 95% of the performance of a 670/7970 is good for the GPU market. There is no point in talking about performance without looking at the price unless you are made of $. Most people who are buying GPUs for next gen games aren't going to be spending $650+ on a GPU. If more PC gamers start buying faster and faster GPUs, game developers will have more incentive to invest into next generation engines and introduce more advanced graphical effects. This is the result of a given level of GPU performance becoming accessible at lower price levels. So in 2016 we would hope the Titan's level of performance could be had in a $299 14nm Volta card. This is the very foundation of the entire GPU industry - price/performance must improve over time.
Ok and if someone posted a score of 7000 points and then told you that HD9970 card costs $10,000, you'd care? Price/performance improvements is what drives the GPU market. Without it the GPU industry would be wiped out. If tomorrow AMD released a card 20% faster than the Titan but priced it at $1,500, almost no one would care. 99.5% of the market cares about the price for a given level of performance. Discussing performance without price makes no sense unless you get GPUs for free or are loaded. I bet 99.5% of this forum would rather take a $549 card with Titan's performance than a card that costs $1000+ and is faster than the Titan.
You're incapable of sticking to a strictly technical discussion/point of view. Got it.
There are people who in between their buying cycles just like to follow the
tech talk and aspects of GPUs and are interested in the progression of technology and performance in general as a hobby. I'm one of them. Maybe this is a concept that you just cannot understand. What a sad place this must be where this is not allowed, understood or respected. I don't feel compelled to frantically look at the value side of any GPU each time I post - it's as simple as that.
He was sitting on GTX580 until Titan arrived. If he could easily afford the fastest single GPU card at any price he would have bought 7970 on launch date, then 2.5 months later GTX680 Lightning, then Titan. Instead he skipped all those cards. Someone who always buys the fastest card would not be gaming on a GTX580 since its release until the Titan came out.
What an honor, this thread is about me all of a sudden. Wait...looking at the thread title...it isn't.
And btw, get your facts straight. I had two 580s 3GB in SLI. Since I would never touch CF, the 7970s were no option. The 680s were not enough oomph and when Titan launched, I got sick of waiting and just got two, slapped two water coolers onto them and called it a day. So it was an impulsive decision and I knew full well, that the value of my purchase was poor. But that's none of your damn business and certainly not the topic of this thread.
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