GeForce Titan coming end of February

[Tweak155]

is this real http://imgur.com/b2WMUjg ?

I doubt it. That's a pretty crappy score.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Any idea when there will be a lower end sanely priced "titan" or what is the new shiny for those of us without massive amounts of disposable income?

 

[JM Popaleetus]

The hate in here is pathetic. How can any of you claim something is overpriced if it sells? A lot of you need to retake Economics 101. Regardless, that shouldn't be the focus of this conversation.

Anyway, I'm more impressed with 7.1b transistors on a 28nm process. This is what we should be talking about.

 

[Golgatha]

Yeap, nVidia has lost all their marbles. $1,000 for a consumer level video card is ridiculous. Call me back for the revision 2 with 3GB of RAM model that's priced under $500 and then we'll talk.

 

[JM Popaleetus]

Yeap, nVidia has lost all their marbles. $1,000 for a consumer level video card is ridiculous. Call me back for the revision 2 with 3GB of RAM model that's priced under $500 and then we'll talk.

What part of this is consumer level? In fact, it's original source is a supercomputer.

The card you're looking for the the GTX 680.

 

[Golgatha]

The hate in here is pathetic. How can any of you claim something is overpriced if it sells? A lot of you need to retake Economics 101. Regardless, that shouldn't be the focus of this conversation.

Anyway, I'm more impressed with 7.1b transistors on a 28nm process. This is what we should be talking about.

I think at their price point it will not sell. Certainly it won't sell in volumes large enough to recoup their R&D costs. Perhaps they can only make enough right now to satisfy their corporate and high earning consumer customers, and they'll get their $1,000 a pop for them.

 

[iMacmatician]

I think it's great that Nvidia will be supporting a gaming driver for the K20 line. But does the launch of the Titan also mean that the next generation of Nvidia GPU is not coming out for quite some time? I mean given generational improvements the replacement for the 680 would deliver Titan like performance at <$500, right?

Probably not until 20 nm in 2014 or so since the interim update later in 2013 is generally rumored to give a performance increase of around 15%.

Any idea when there will be a lower end sanely priced "titan" or what is the new shiny for those of us without massive amounts of disposable income?

A rumor not too long ago mentioned that cheaper GeForce GK110 model(s) may show up later this year.

 

[Golgatha]

What part of this is consumer level? In fact, it's original source is a supercomputer.

The card you're looking for the the GTX 680.

If they market it to gamers, it's a consumer level card.

 

[NTMBK]

Define low volume?
Better than limitied 10.000 unit run I suppose? ^^

It's a $1000 graphics card... it's low volume.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

Any idea when there will be a lower end sanely priced "titan" or what is the new shiny for those of us without massive amounts of disposable income?

90% of these will be bought on credit cards that they can't really afford to do or they live with mommy and daddy. Adults with 50k+ in the bank wouldn't even consider a colossal waste of money like this. How do you think they put 50k+ away? It wasn't by pissing away $1000 on frivolous items.

 

[JM Popaleetus]

I think at their price point it will not sell. Certainly it won't sell in volumes large enough to recoup their R&D costs. Perhaps they can only make enough right now to satisfy their corporate and high earning consumer customers, and they'll get their $1,000 a pop for them.

The 690 managed to sell just fine.

 

[Golgatha]

90% of these will be bought on credit cards that they can't really afford to do or they live with mommy and daddy. Adults with 50k+ in the bank wouldn't even consider a colossal waste of money like this. How do you think they put 50k+ away? It wasn't by pissing away $1000 on frivolous items.

Truth. I can "afford" to buy a couple of these with cash. Ridiculous waste of resources unless you're making money using these cards.

 

[Lonbjerg]

The hate in here is pathetic. How can any of you claim something is overpriced if it sells? A lot of you need to retake Economics 101. Regardless, that shouldn't be the focus of this conversation.

Anyway, I'm more impressed with 7.1b transistors on a 28nm process. This is what we should be talking about.

I'm thinking we will reach/pass the 10b transistor mark on the next process.

But that is sure a lot of trannies doing some shifting, I agree

 

[AdamK47]

What percentage of people posting in this thread do you suppose will actually be getting at least one of these cards?

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Probably not until 20 nm in 2014 or so since the interim update later in 2013 is generally rumored to give a performance increase of around 15%.

A rumor not too long ago mentioned that cheaper GeForce GK110 model(s) may show up later this year.

Whats the rumored timeframe? I'm rocking an old 5870 that is starting to struggle with new stuff and I want to rebuild. I have the cash in hand for a new rig but with haswell and whatever new from nvidia right around the corner (I hope) im concerned about buying just to have something new show up a day later.

 

[Ferzerp]

90% of these will be bought on credit cards that they can't really afford to do or they live with mommy and daddy. Adults with 50k+ in the bank wouldn't even consider a colossal waste of money like this. How do you think they put 50k+ away? It wasn't by pissing away $1000 on frivolous items.

Oh geez, get over yourself. How many boards are you going to preach about what people are allowed to buy? It is possible to both save money, and spend some *Gasp*.

 

[blackened23]

I was really hoping for a 900$ MSRP. Still curious about overclocking performance, wonder if it'll close the gap with a 690 with the new temperature target overclocking.

 

[JM Popaleetus]

90% of these will be bought on credit cards that they can't really afford to do or they live with mommy and daddy. Adults with 50k+ in the bank wouldn't even consider a colossal waste of money like this. How do you think they put 50k+ away? It wasn't by pissing away $1000 on frivolous items.

I can pull random bullshit statistics out of my ass too!

90% of these will probably be bought on corporate accounts for number crunching and rendering use.

 

[Grooveriding]

90% of these will be bought on credit cards that they can't really afford to do or they live with mommy and daddy. Adults with 50k+ in the bank wouldn't even consider a colossal waste of money like this. How do you think they put 50k+ away? It wasn't by pissing away $1000 on frivolous items.

This is how I see it. I can do $1000 for a pair of high end cards, but $2000 says to me that is airfare for one of us on our next vacation - and a sum of money I wouldn't like seeing out of the bank for video cards.

I think nvidia is screwing up here, they're trying to double their historical pricing by slapping some aluminium on the heatsink and referencing a supercomputer in the marketing for a gaming card. If they brought some ground-breaking new levels of single GPU performance versus what they have out there it could of flown, but this is not even performing at double a GTX 580. It's what we expected the 680 to perform like.

They're going to piss off/turn off a lot of their traditional buyers with this, certainly more than they'll manage to convert from $500 to their new $1000 pricepoint.

I'd feel like an idiot buying two of them at these ludicrous prices. I'll vicariously enjoy the few people here who buy two sharing their benches until they drop the price on these and then I'll get some.

 

[NTMBK]

Truth. I can "afford" to buy a couple of these with cash. Ridiculous waste of resources unless you're making money using these cards.

You make a good point- an investment like this makes sense for making money. The "low cost Tesla" is an interesting use case for this. That's a lot of DP horsepower.

 

[AdamK47]

I was really hoping for a 900$ MSRP. Still curious about overclocking performance, wonder if it'll close the gap with a 690 with the new temperature target overclocking.

I was hoping for an $800 MSRP. The reviews on Thursday will have to be spectacular for me to replace my GTX 690s with three Titans.

 

[wand3r3r]

From NVIDIA themselves, albeit the numbers are potentially off a couple of percent getting it from a chart to percentages. (2560x1600, max settings)

680 vs. TitanIc - 680 % relative to titanic
metro 2033 61
crysis 3 70
witcher 2 73
max payne 3 70
crysis 3 67
shogun 2 68
ass creed iii 74
bordland2 75
lost planet 2 76
sleeping dogs 68
bf3 69
des ex 66
dirt 3 70
skyrim 69
COD BO2 71
batman 73
starcraft2 64

TITANic vs 680 % lead
metro 2033 164
crysis 3 142
witcher 2 136
max payne 3 143
crysis 3 149
shogun 2 147
ass creed iii 136
bordland2 133
lost planet 2 132
sleeping dogs 148
bf3 145
des ex 151
dirt 3 143
skyrim 144
COD BO2 140
batman 136
starcraft2 157

A 30-60% lead over the 680. Pretty pitiful for the outrageous premium.

A turd for $1000.

 

[JM Popaleetus]

I was hoping for an $800 MSRP. The reviews on Thursday will have to be spectacular for me to replace my GTX 690s with three Titans.

Why would you anyway?

 

[DooKey]

I was hoping for an $800 MSRP. The reviews on Thursday will have to be spectacular for me to replace my GTX 690s with three Titans.

I'm with you on the price. I was going to buy as soon as they hit the marketplace, but now I'm waiting to see what the performance is like.

 

[blackened23]

Why would you anyway?

You don't know AdamK very well He always has the best gear.