So, when can i get something Titan based for sane $$?

[RadiclDreamer]

I am waiting for the next "consumer grade" for lack of a better word nvidia card, do we have any rumors of when that will be? I am assuming it will be based on titan but i could be wrong. Does anyone know when the $400-500 models will be around? I'm getting excited to build a haswell + whatever nvidia rig.

 

[Keysplayr]

Any Kepler GPU shares Titan DNA. Take your pic.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Any Kepler GPU shares Titan DNA. Take your pic.

So, what will the new one be? Or is the 680/690 it for a while?

 

[Deltaechoe]

Titan is keplar, the 600 series is keplar and from what I've heard the 700 series is going to be keplar too, take your pick

 

[SithSolo1]

Titan is a consumer grade part, the server grade parts cost multiple times more.

The 700 series won't be out until late this year at the earliest afaik.

 

[Anarchist420]

I guess the titan will be about $650 in a year.

I guess the OP could try an AMD 7970 GHz Edition.

 

[Bateluer]

Titan is keplar, the 600 series is keplar and from what I've heard the 700 series is going to be keplar too, take your pick

*Groan* They aren't going to simply rebrand the current 600 parts into 700 parts at launch day pricing again, are they?

 

[Ketchup]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2305443

My guess is Nvidia is just giving use a holdover card to their next "generation," which I will be (pleasantly) surprised to see this year.

They will probably just do a rename on the low end.

 

[greenhawk]

They will probably just do a rename on the low end.

it seems to have become the low end and one or two in the mid ranged as well.

as to the question the OP asked, 3 years is my guess for the current "titan" card to be about $500 or "reasonable mid to high point".

current year, at the silly extra high level, next year possibly is the high level, and the year after that to progress down to "high mid" levels. of course, by then something faster will be along and people will be asking about those getting to reasonable price levels.

 

[Elcs]

Titan is keplar, the 600 series is keplar and from what I've heard the 700 series is going to be keplar too, take your pick

Nvidia has went Klingon?

 

[mutantmagnet]

Titan is a consumer grade part, the server grade parts cost multiple times more.

That's incorrect. Titan is a GK110 chip like the Teslas. The 690 and lesser series use chips that are half the size and as a result have different chip names.


To answer the OP, why do you care about getting a Titan? Did you want it for compute purposes because you obviously aren't going to get it for a bargain better than this?

Did you want it for gaming? What resolutions and FPS did you hope to play current games at? You most likely have an affordable solution available.

 

[DominionSeraph]

Titan is a consumer grade part, the server grade parts cost multiple times more.

I dunno. The Titan supercomputer cost $60 million and has 18,688 K20X's , but it also has 18,688 Opteron 6274's, 598 TB RAM and 10PB storage. If you figure the GPU's made up half the cost, that's only $1603 each.

That's incorrect. Titan is a GK110 chip like the Teslas. The 690 and lesser series use chips that are half the size and as a result have different chip names.

The K10 uses the GK104. Are the GTX 690, 680, 670, and 660Ti not consumer grade cards?
The M2090, M2070, and M2050 use the GF110. Are the GTX 590, 580, 570, and 560Ti 448 Cores not consumer grade cards?
The C2050, 2070, and 2090 use the GF100, Are the GTX 480, 470, and 465 not consumer grade cards?
The C1060 was GT200, I believe. Were the GTX 260 275, 280, 285, and 295 not consumer grade cards?

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Titan is a consumer grade part, the server grade parts cost multiple times more.

The 700 series won't be out until late this year at the earliest afaik.

$1000 isnt consumer grade, it is low end workstation grade. Consumer grade to me tops off at 500-600.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

That's incorrect. Titan is a GK110 chip like the Teslas. The 690 and lesser series use chips that are half the size and as a result have different chip names.


To answer the OP, why do you care about getting a Titan? Did you want it for compute purposes because you obviously aren't going to get it for a bargain better than this?

Did you want it for gaming? What resolutions and FPS did you hope to play current games at? You most likely have an affordable solution available.

I dont care that its titan or whatever else. I just see that the 600 series have been around for a while and i dont want to buy on the tail end of a generation. I am waiting for Haswell at the earliest I just wanted to know if there was something else nvidia related out by that time or if i was stuck with a 680

 

[mutantmagnet]

The K10 uses the GK104. Are the GTX 690, 680, 670, and 660Ti not consumer grade cards?

Ha. I didn't know the K10 was based on the GK104.

The 690 and smaller cards are consumer cards but as you astutely point out the designation isn't always about chip a card is based on.

 

[SithSolo1]

That's incorrect. Titan is a GK110 chip like the Teslas. The 690 and lesser series use chips that are half the size and as a result have different chip names.

Titan is the consumer version of GK110. It is marketed and sold as a consumer gaming card. The first line on the Titan page at Nvidia.com makes clear that Titan is aimed squarely at gamers: "With the DNA of the world's fastest supercomputer and the soul of NVIDIA Kepler architecture, Geforce GTX TITAN GPU is a revolution in PC gaming performance."

Whereas the Tesla page starts as: "TESLA GPU ACCELERATORS FOR SERVERS" followed by "Accelerate your scientific and technical computing with NVIDIA® Tesla® GPU Accelerators." Sure it has much in common with a K20x but a $3000+ workstation card it is not.

 

[SPBHM]

NV had at least 3 different VGAs with their old huge chip, GF100 (465, 470, 480) and also with GF110 (560 TI 448, 570, 580), it was basically the same for GT200 and G80 I think...

they could well release something else GK110 based, like a $700-800 card or something... but nothing has been announced... so, as others have said you have the 680 as a significantly cheaper GK1xx card.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

I mentioned in another thread that there is enough of a performance delta between the Titan and the GTX680 for at least one if not two more GK110 skus (Such as a Titan GT and a Titan GT SE). I find it hard to imagine the second highest point in Cali isn't the summit of that mountain of defective GK110s that didn't even make the cut for the Titan sku.

Although AMD has no plans for a refresh this year, I imagine Nvidia could easily counter with a further disabled Titan sku should the need arise.

All that Blagh Blagh being said, I doubt you'll see a further cut down GK110 sku any time soon.

 

[dagamer34]

I mentioned in another thread that there is enough of a performance delta between the Titan and the GTX680 for at least one if not two more GK110 skus (Such as a Titan GT and a Titan GT SE). I find it hard to imagine the second highest point in Cali isn't the summit of that mountain of defective GK110s that didn't even make the cut for the Titan sku.

Although AMD has no plans for a refresh this year, I imagine Nvidia could easily counter with a further disabled Titan sku should the need arise.

All that Blagh Blagh being said, I doubt you'll see a further cut down GK110 sku any time soon.

AMDs new cards are likely to happen Q4