I can have one or the other for about the same price, although getting the Titan X would be more of a hassle because I would have to sell my current cards, which have water blocks on them. I don't know if I could sell them with water-blocks installed or if I would be forced to sell all of that separately. Another thing to consider is if there are any water blocks available for the Titan X? I would certainly not want to have it air-cooled, that would be unacceptable to me. I think that I have to act quickly if I want to still fetch a fair price for my titans because when AMD's 3XX series cards arrive that have more or less the same performance as the Titan X for 600$ then my Titans are going down in price a lot and then I would want to get the 3rd one, but if I decided to go with the Titan X I would do it as quickly as possible to still sell my titans for a fair price. I think even 2 titans are already faster than one Titan X, so the value proposition isn't really there is it? So I would need to get the second one down the line for that to make sense. How long before a used one will be going for a 500$? The larger frame buffer doesn't seem like much of a benefit because 6GB is still plenty, at least even for 4K not to mention 1440p. Are there any games where 6GB can be a limiting factor already? I don't care about the power draw, like at all, so that's not an advantage for the Titan X in my case, because I'm using water-cooling anyway and my loop can easily handle any computer parts.
UPDATE: Never mind, Titan X is out of the question due to the ethics of NV. I won't be supporting a company that utterly neglected drivers for the cards that cost me so much money just because they released a slightly faster card. I'm talking about the GTX980 not the Titan X. Neither of these cards is the proper successor to the original Titan. Titan X seems like a proper successor to the 780Ti but with a hugely inflated price.
See the relative performance of 780Ti, 290X, 7970 and 980 at Maxwell's launch and now. I'm not buying the explanation that GCN even GCN 1.0 and Maxwell are so much more future proof hardware wise, it's all down to drivers. Also the 970 fiasco.
ps. We can still discuss the merits of such an "upgrade" but it will be a purely academic discussion but then most of such threads are like that anyway.
UPDATE: Never mind, Titan X is out of the question due to the ethics of NV. I won't be supporting a company that utterly neglected drivers for the cards that cost me so much money just because they released a slightly faster card. I'm talking about the GTX980 not the Titan X. Neither of these cards is the proper successor to the original Titan. Titan X seems like a proper successor to the 780Ti but with a hugely inflated price.
See the relative performance of 780Ti, 290X, 7970 and 980 at Maxwell's launch and now. I'm not buying the explanation that GCN even GCN 1.0 and Maxwell are so much more future proof hardware wise, it's all down to drivers. Also the 970 fiasco.
ps. We can still discuss the merits of such an "upgrade" but it will be a purely academic discussion but then most of such threads are like that anyway.
Last edited: