When will the Nvidia Titan be out of date?

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SIRFureman

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I am looking to upgrade my rig.
I have at the moment:
800w power supply
Intel i7 4770k
Nvidia 770
and a Gigabyte X87-HD3.
I want to upgrade in around 6 months when I have the money, and I was wondering how long the Gtx Titan will be able to run any game on Highest settings on one or two monitors.
What i mean is, how long until the GTX Titan will be out of date, or if it is already out of date.
I really don't want to spend a grand on a gpu and then have it go out of date right away.
Also, can my rig handle a Titan.
Will i need a larger power supply or a different motherboard.
Thanks for the help!
 
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wdmfiber

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The 780Ti is graphically stronger than the Titan. Although it's basically the same card, in general you wouldn't buy a Titan today, but rather the 780 Ti.

However the 780/Titan will be probably be obsolete by Christmas, or Q1 2015. The next generation "Maxwell" GPU's are delivering double the graphical processing power at the same(a given) wattage. So next year a mid-range 125 watt(20nm) Maxwell GPU's should have Titan level performance. With the high end 200 ~ 250 watt GPU's noticeably stronger. Likely good for 4K monitors alone(no need for two in SLI).

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Today GPU's tech is old(as far as chips go). It dates to late 2011(TSCM 28mn tech). TSCM will be moving the whole industry to the next generation 20nm fab process. They supply Nvidia, AMD(Radeon), some chip for Apple, ect...
 
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the 780ti is a full 2880 core gk110 while the titan is a 2688 core gk110.

if rumors are true, the 880ti is only 10-15% faster than the 780ti, although with much better power efficiency.

obsolete??? what do you mean by that. any gk110 equipped card, even the 2304 core 780, will not be obsolete for at least 3 years if were talking only 1080p. it will very likely run any game release in the next 3 years at medium settings no problem. if you want to completely max out games well that is a different story... have fun upgrading every time a new generation and running more than a single gpu.
 
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wdmfiber

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By obsolete....I mean:
- superseded by a much better design
- at EOL, end of life (no longer in production)
and in general considered inefficient, weak and a waste of electricity to operate

Or course you could still run it, till whenever...
Heck stay at 1080p and low your settings if future games are too demanding.

[That said... and slightly off topic(CPU's)
An Intel 2500K dates to early 2011. And I'd say it's nowhere near obsolete. At 95 watts it's not a "power hog" and even today is a very strong CPU.]

So time will tell... but I thing current GPU's are done. Besides as an enthusiast, 20nm GPU's are the only thing to look forward too. Some "current" GPU's are on their 3rd refresh/name change. yawn...
 
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I would say it is fairly safe to say that the 780 series of GPU(780/780Ti/Titan) would be able to produce Ultra/High resolutions of 1920x1080p @ 60Hz for the next 4-5 years. Obsolete is just the wrong word , is all.

About the old CPU thing.... I will upgrade my i7-920 when it is cold and dead or melted and burnt to a crisp, whichever comes first. =) OC'd for 5+ years and still going strong.
 
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