Did NVIDIA jump the gun with TITAN Z?

[Nukemann]

OK, this only my opinion based on some observations, but I'm thinking NVIDIA might have announced TITAN Z a little too soon.

Why? TITAN Z is based on GK110 (and probably underclocked), which is the older Kepler technology. I read a review of the new GTX 750 and how Maxwell architecture could knock AMD off the crypto-currency crown. GTX 750ti hits 242kh/s, which while less than the R7 265, GTX 750ti does this with only 60W of power. That means Maxwell is faster on a clock/power ration. This is where the problem with TITAN Z comes in. Could NVIDIA have been better off announcing a dual near-TITAN level 28nm Maxwell instead? Either way, when 20 nm Maxwell arrives, and a dual-GPU card is launched it's going to cannibalize TITAN Z, especially if it was priced at or slightly higher than the GTX 690.

 

[blackened23]

Titan Z does more than just gaming, it is a dual purpose card aimed (mostly) at developers but has full gaming functionality as well. It has features that consumer level GTX 780 cards do not have, and is more suitable to CUDA development. For that sector of buyers, it is 60 times faster than a 780ti and is actually competitive with the Quadro K6000. Because of this reason, 2nd gen Maxwell whenever it hits will not overlap. I don't think many gamers are looking at the Titan Z as a potential purchase, and they shouldn't. Sure, NV will sell it to a gamer - I don't think they care what you use it for. But the card does more than games pretty much.

The short answer is, nvidia doesn't need only gamers to buy the Titan Z and it doens't really interfere with Maxwell. Now don't get me wrong. On that note. I personally would have appreciated a gaming oriented product minus the CUDA / full DP much more. In fact, a 790 would have been far more interesting to me. But, nvidia for whatever reason made a dual purpose card with the Titan Z that is usable for gaming but is mostly aimed at CUDA developers. The card is both cheaper and similar in speed to the K6000 for those professional users.

Since i'm a gamer, it's not my preference. I was really thinking they'd do a GTX 790 if anything. That would have been interesting to me. What can ya do though. I don't like it, but I do understand that NV has strong profesisonal HPC sales as well. So its what nvidia rolled with. Oh well.

 

[VulgarDisplay]

You are basing all of your speculation off other maxwell parts coming soon. That is likely not going to happen. Titan z will be alone on the market for close to a year I would guess.

 

[SlickR12345]

You want lower power consumption on a either way 500W dual gpu card? This isn't build for saving power, its overkill and that's what its meant for, its meant for either uber gaming on 4k monitors or computing.

I mean what is maxwell going to save like 30w, maybe 50w? So instead of 500w its 450w? If the new architecture is even capable of such things, it may be that they will just go with low end cards with Maxwell.

 

[Bateluer]

OK, this only my opinion based on some observations, but I'm thinking NVIDIA might have announced TITAN Z a little too soon.

Why? TITAN Z is based on GK110 (and probably underclocked), which is the older Kepler technology. I read a review of the new GTX 750 and how Maxwell architecture could knock AMD off the crypto-currency crown. GTX 750ti hits 242kh/s, which while less than the R7 265, GTX 750ti does this with only 60W of power.

Crypto mining is irrelevant for GPU miners now. The difficulty has skyrocketed, the value of the coins has dropped off the cliff, and people's trust in exchanges is almost non-existent. That ship as sailed. Which is good, the prices of Maxwell and Pirate Island cards won't be inflated by bandwagon miners.