Will the release of AMD's 390x GPU drop the price of the Titan X?

Bozhark · May 10, 2015

What do you think?

barto · May 10, 2015

In my opinion, it's unlikely. Nvidia doesn't drop prices like AMD does. And considering the Titan series is a dual purpose card (workstation and gaming), I doubt it.

Darkbreeze · May 10, 2015

Unequivocally, no. About the only thing that drops the prices of NVidia cards is time. And that's only due to the fact that after a while they stop selling like hotcakes and vendors need to deplete inventory. For high end cards like the Titan, that probably doesn't even apply as they don't expect to sell them in droves, so the supply and demand doesn't really fluctuate.

Bozhark · May 10, 2015

thanks!

...guess my build will have to be $$$.

nikoli707 · May 10, 2015

a desktop variant of the titan x will be out soon. probably called the 980ti and cost between $700-750. there would likely be a slightly gimped version without 10-15% of its cores inactive that will cost between $550-600. i would expect amd to put the 390x at right about that price with the gimped 390 being in the $400-450 range. we should know all of this very soon.

InvalidError · May 10, 2015

If the 300 series is OEM-only, the 390X won't make much of a dent into retail sales.

I would not start holding my breath until the 400 series are about to launch on 14/16nm.

Darkbreeze · May 10, 2015

Exactly what I was going to point out in regard to the article we just saw. If the 380 is a rebranded 285 then the 390x will probably just be a rebranded 290x. I very interested in seeing if what was hinted at in the article pans out with there being another entirely new architectural line released shortly after or sometime soon. The models with the new memory are the ones to watch, probably not the 300 series.

Bozhark · May 10, 2015

the 390x is supposed to have the new memory, HBM. Isn't Pascal going to have the same?

tom7792 · May 10, 2015

Arent the 380 - 390 the ones with the new memoery ? the HBM one ?

Darkbreeze · May 10, 2015

Apparently, not. At least not the 380.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-oem-radeon-300-gpus,29062.html

Bozhark · May 10, 2015

From what I've read only the 390x will have HBM. I don't think the 390 will

tom7792 · May 10, 2015

so whats the point getting those cards ? im trying to wait to buy a new card but if they are just 2xx series cards whats the point ?

Darkbreeze · May 10, 2015

The point is, wait longer. Heh. 'Cause that seems to be what everybody is going to have to do. You didn't actually expect something to go as expected did you? It never does. IE, Broadwell was supposed to be released for the desktop already, windows is NEVER released on schedule, the 8GB models of the GTX 970 that NVidia indicated would be part of the collection hasn't surfaced yet, AMD is on it's third iteration of the same architecture and I have yet to see a new hardware specification actually have the expected speeds once it's released in it's final form as it was touted to have during the speculation period.

Whatever you think is "supposed" to happen, almost never does when it comes to anything tech related. At least, not in exactly the way or on the intended/expected schedule.

Bozhark · May 10, 2015

darkbreeze = pragmatic.

Darkbreeze · May 10, 2015

Indeed.

InvalidError · May 10, 2015

tom7792 :

The currently announced 300-series cards are OEM-only, so you should not be able to buy them short of ordering a new PC from an OEM who offers them.

Just like the HD8000 series before. It is effectively a product un-announcement as far as the retail space is concerned, strongly implying nothing genuinely new is coming in the foreseeable future.

Darkbreeze · May 10, 2015

I'm not sure I totally agree with that.

This:

With the top model being an R9 380, it is still possible that the new HBM-equipped GPUs will be tiered above those in the 300-series naming stack, or AMD may be birthing the 400-series nomenclature for the all-new graphics cards.

paired with this:

It didn't seem like HBM memory was coming to consumer products anytime soon, but AMD just announced that its 300-series GPUs will pack it!

would seem to indicate it IS coming sometime soon, just not necessarily on the current crop of reference designs. Then again, who knows. I've given up even thinking I have an idea of what's coming until it gets here. But I think it will be sooner than later, or they probably wouldn't have announced anything at all, yet.

tom7792 · May 11, 2015

InvalidError :

i dont get it, if thats the case how come everyone is planning to grab one if you say its not a product that can be bought seperately from a whole new computer ?

InvalidError · May 11, 2015

tom7792 :

They must have missed the part that says announced models are OEM-only on top of being suckered into thinking those are new GPUs when most models are only going to be re-brands, just like the last time AMD introduced a transition OEM-only re-brand..

FITCamaro · May 11, 2015

As others said, just because the OEM version is one way, doesn't mean the retail version will be the same. OEMs care about cost more than performance. So OEMs probably love the idea of a 380 card that costs less because it's a rebranded 280. There could still be a retail 380/380X with HBM.

Bozhark · May 11, 2015

I was referencing the 390x exclusively due to my understanding that only the 390x was to be released as a separate unit and only the 390x had HBM. It was my assumption the 390x was AMD's attempt at beating the Titan Pascal to the consumer market. This is all IMO

Darkbreeze · May 11, 2015

You may very well be right, but of course we won't know until it happens, or they make a definitive announcement. I wouldn't be in a rush to run out and buy one even if it released tomorrow. It's going to take a month or two for issues and reviews to shake out after release anyhow.

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