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Posted March 25, 2014
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Smannesman: Wasn't the Titan line always pretty insane?
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Neobr10: It was pretty good back when it was released, but it became obsolete in a few months once AMD released the R290x which had the same performance as a Titan for half the price. The U$999 price tag on the first Titan was never justified, to be honest.
Well I was talking about the pricetag, not the card itself.
I would never buy the 'best' graphics card of the moment anyway.
Posted March 25, 2014
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JudasIscariot: I am soooo suggesting to the folks in charge of the purse strings here just to see their facial expressions :D

"Could we have 2...for the test lab?"
So even as a company these things are expensive for you guys? I would have thought that quadro/firepros and other $5,000+ cards would be in line with your business budget.
Posted March 25, 2014
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Neobr10: Not a surprise. The GTX Titan was never meant to be a gaming video card. Seriously, 12GB VRAM? No game will use that much in the near future, not even in 4K.

But yeah, nvidia's price tags are fucking insane. A GTX 780 Ti costs around U$150-U$200 more than a R290x and the difference in performance between the two is irrelevant.
It is because the market for Titan cards is willing to pay that price, and because gamers who are bewildered by the price do not see that the market is not them. Titan buyers aren't buying frames per second. They're buying gigaflops per cubic centimeter.

AMD cards are not competitive in double precision floating point. Also, they don't run CUDA, which remains nVidia proprietary. But the users of GPU supercomputing are 80 percent CUDA.

So nVidia can charge what they want for those cards, and get it, because in their market they are the only game in town.
Post edited March 25, 2014 by cjrgreen
Posted March 25, 2014
I don't think I need it, but I feel the urge to buy it .
Posted March 25, 2014
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cjrgreen: It is because the market for Titan cards is willing to pay that price, and because gamers who are bewildered by the price do not see that the market is not them. Titan buyers aren't buying frames per second. They're buying gigaflops per cubic centimeter.

AMD cards are not competitive in double precision floating point. Also, they don't run CUDA, which remains nVidia proprietary. But the users of GPU supercomputing are 80 percent CUDA.

So nVidia can charge what they want for those cards, and get it, because in their market they are the only game in town.
That's why i said that the Titan never made sense as a gaming card. I know there is a market for it, i never said there wasn't. But i still think nvidia's prices are out of this world. Look at the GTX 780 Ti: it's a video card targeted at gaming, unlike the Titan, and it costs U$200 more than it's competitor for an irrelevant performance difference.
Posted March 25, 2014
Waiting for Crytek to make the next Crysis game requiring that card.
Posted March 25, 2014
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JudasIscariot: I am soooo suggesting to the folks in charge of the purse strings here just to see their facial expressions :D

"Could we have 2...for the test lab?"
How else could you properly test Grim Fandango for release?

Insta-buy, as far as I'm concerned :)
Posted March 25, 2014
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JudasIscariot: I am soooo suggesting to the folks in charge of the purse strings here just to see their facial expressions :D

"Could we have 2...for the test lab?"
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MaximumBunny: So even as a company these things are expensive for you guys? I would have thought that quadro/firepros and other $5,000+ cards would be in line with your business budget.
It's not just the cost, it's the fact that there's no real point in adding it to a test machine in case 1 person on this site decides to buy one of these bad boys.
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Neobr10: Not a surprise. The GTX Titan was never meant to be a gaming video card. Seriously, 12GB VRAM? No game will use that much in the near future, not even in 4K.

But yeah, nvidia's price tags are fucking insane. A GTX 780 Ti costs around U$150-U$200 more than a R290x and the difference in performance between the two is irrelevant.
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cjrgreen: It is because the market for Titan cards is willing to pay that price, and because gamers who are bewildered by the price do not see that the market is not them. Titan buyers aren't buying frames per second. They're buying gigaflops per cubic centimeter.

AMD cards are not competitive in double precision floating point. Also, they don't run CUDA, which remains nVidia proprietary. But the users of GPU supercomputing are 80 percent CUDA.

So nVidia can charge what they want for those cards, and get it, because in their market they are the only game in town.
That's true, but CUDA is so last year, I'm much more bullish on OpenCL if they can get it adopted, just because it has a lot more potential. CUDA is cute, but being so reliant on one vendor is a bad idea. Which is probably part of why it was created in the first place.
Post edited March 25, 2014 by hedwards
Posted March 25, 2014
Perfect for playing Dosbox games :o

But, really, I'm looking forward to the GTX 870.
Posted March 25, 2014
Gat-daym... just for a video card? You can buy a whole beast of a machine for that kind of money!
Posted March 25, 2014
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hedwards: It's not just the cost, it's the fact that there's no real point in adding it to a test machine in case 1 person on this site decides to buy one of these bad boys.
Oh, was it a joke at compatibility with GOG games/users? I would have missed that context completely. :P
Posted March 25, 2014
Dayum, so this is what we need to run DirectX12 then? ;)

Hmm, may need quad SLI set up to run Terraria :D
Posted March 25, 2014
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GaminggUy45: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=790646
I'm in. Thanks for a very generous giveaway!

Cheers.
Posted March 25, 2014
Oooh baby! Be the first to have QUAD SLI of these scrumptious little beauties and be the reason your city to have rolling black outs. :D





MOAR POWER TO THE SHIELDS!!! :D
Posted March 25, 2014
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JudasIscariot: I am soooo suggesting to the folks in charge of the purse strings here just to see their facial expressions :D

"Could we have 2...for the test lab?"
I might need two for TW3.
Post edited March 25, 2014 by scampywiak
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