Why Does the Titan Z Exist

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There must be some reason for the Titan Z's existent but I can't figure it out. The Titan Z is literally 10x as expensive, and is worse than the 780ti which came out BEFORE it. Is it something related to some feature that doesn't matter to consumes but companies were willing to drop 1000% of the money on? The only thing I could find is the fact that it has 12GB of memory where as the 780ti has 6GB but are 6GB extra memory which 99.9% of consumers never use actually worth $2,800? I'm really curious about this, thanks in advance for your answers.
 
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Robert Cook is right, the Titan Z is primarily about FP64 and computational performance.

Nvidia and AMD were well-known for implementing dual-GPU configurations on a single PCB (GTX 690, HD 7990) and the Titan Z was simply the next step up from the GTX 690. I doubt we'll see the same configurations in the future.
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well it has full FP64 support (2.6 Teraflops double precision I believe) which the newer titans do not have, and it has the titan branding. other than that I am not sure. a TitanX ( the old one has less Fp64 and the new one has something like 343 GFLOPS from what I saw) so for FP64 it is cheaper than a tesla card like the k80 which has almost 3TFLOPS for FP64.
EDIT: the new Tesla P100 rocks 5.3 TFLOPS double recision but is expected to be around $12000 I think.
so the TitanZ is a FP64 Goldmine.
 
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The titan Z is essential two titan black GPU's in a single card. I would like to see the benchmarks where a single 780 ti can beat a titan Z, especially if the game works with SLI.

The card itself would have it uses in computational rigs where the max number of GPU's a rig could have would be limited by the number of PCI-E slots. And of course the more GPU's the better.

Sure it has it's place with gamers, but any gamer could get better performance with 2 titan blacks running in SLI. A gamer is not likely to have more then 2 or 3 of these in a rig so space wouldn't really be a premium. A more value oriented gamer would be better served with 2 x 780 ti.
 
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from what I remember titan black SLI and the titanZ were so terrible (stutter FPS drops) that this was one of the key reasons why Nvidia has since not done a dual GPU card.
 
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Robert Cook is right, the Titan Z is primarily about FP64 and computational performance.

Nvidia and AMD were well-known for implementing dual-GPU configurations on a single PCB (GTX 690, HD 7990) and the Titan Z was simply the next step up from the GTX 690. I doubt we'll see the same configurations in the future.
 
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