To Titan or not?

[UNhooked]

I currently have my 7970's Xfired and gaming has been awesome at WQHD levels. However I was thinking of getting a the Titan. But reports of throttling issue, low quality VRMS have me concerned.

So have all the bugs been ironed out of the Titan or should I just enjoy my 7970's for a few more months and then think about the Titan? If I do get it, it's going under water. Also I would have to sell my 7970's to justify the Titan.

 

[Arkadrel]

There might be 20nm 8xxx series by end of this year.
That would probably mean 7970 1ghz + 50% boost or something.

So spending 1000$ for something that ll be worth 200$ in less than 6months... meh.

Before then though, Nvidia themselfs wil launch new cards.
A Titan Ultra and a Titan Light... or something like that, going by rumors.
That should also drive price down abit.

"To Titan or not"

= not (right now).

 

[UNhooked]

Yea the sane side of my brain is asking me to stick with current cards but man it's sooo tempting. I have currently flashed both my cards to Ghz Edition bios and running the cards at 1100/1575 without any issues. I am sure it'll go higher but for now it's more than adequate.

The Titan LE and Ultra do sound interesting.

 

[Grooveriding]

With the rumoured 780 coming out using a cut down GK110 I wouldn't buy a Titan today. Even if it does come in at $700-$800 as we are hearing, that is still a good deal less money than the Titan costs for what is probably not that much performance differential.

The Titan overclocks pretty well as well, that will likely hold true for another GK110 based card. If there were a 780 for $700-$800 on the market today with 80% the performance of a Titan I would go that way rather than the Titans. Titan is massively out-of-order in its price, regardless of having the single-GPU crown, it doesn't have it by enough of a margin. This is going to be the new reality though. General 'standard flagship' performance increases of 30% for $500 and the real deal 70-80% will go for $1000 from here on out. With the reports of AMD dropping 20nm cards this year, and considering how they priced the 7990, I'll bet if they get out a flagship card on 20nm this year it will cost even more than the $550 the 7970 did at release.

 

[blackened23]

^What he said. Wait until the end of the month IMO! GTX 780 could be a much better buy. Maybe. I hope it isn't exclusive to a 5GB configuration.

 

[3DVagabond]

I say sit on your 7970's.

 

[guskline]

Unhooked, you already have an EXCELLENT system. In light of all of the new announcements of upcoming graphics cards I would wait. Tell me, with a 3830 @4.875 ghz and dual 7970s what game gives you the least bit of a problem?

You have a stellar system already.

 

[nanaki333]

I say sit on your 7970's.

my ass only produces 500watt, so sitting on 7970s would be useless for me :/


but seriously... don't waste your money, especially with the 780 coming out pretty soon. you would need 2 titans for it to be more worth your while, and $2k is not worth it. if the 780 is ~$500.... mmmmm......

 

[3DVagabond]

my ass only produces 500watt, so sitting on 7970s would be useless for me :/

Eat more beans.

 

[Attic]

If money is not a big issue, get two titans and enjoy the hell out of it. 2xtitan right now is best of the best. 7970xfire to single Titan is a negative IMO.

 

[parvadomus]

So you want to downgrade? I bet titan users (the ones that care about money) will feel very very silly in a few weeks, they will probably get almost the same performance for 400/450 less.

 

[UNhooked]

K decided to stick with my 7970s. Just overclocked them to 1200/1600

Update: 1200/1600 didn't turn out to be so stable. I am sure it's that XFX card that's causing the issue. So for now running at 1150/1600 @1.256V