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Report: Nvidia GTX Titan-Z to Hit Retail April 29

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April 24, 2014 9:15:49 AM

Might want to fix the currencies in this article.
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April 24, 2014 9:23:15 AM

Proof Read!? na...
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April 24, 2014 9:24:16 AM

so in other words, the GTX 690 is still better? =(
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April 24, 2014 9:31:52 AM

I wonder what the profit margin is for these. Hopefully, pricing the high end "consumer" cards to be affordable only to the upper class isn't a trend.
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April 24, 2014 9:42:42 AM

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The card is reportedly going to make its arrival to retail on April 29...


How convenient for those getting back tax refunds right about now/then.
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April 24, 2014 9:45:13 AM

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Might want to fix the currencies in this article.


Yeah, they don't seem to understand how prices in Europe work.
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April 24, 2014 9:52:22 AM

we have 21% taxes here in Belgium. So 2999$ = 2169,57€ + 21% = 2625.18€ all inclusive wich is 3628,79$. This card will not sell here, the max for a graphics card should always be about 700€. (about 970$)
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April 24, 2014 9:53:35 AM

OMG, is Nvidia that crazy to try and charge that much for an enthusiast video card??? At that price I'd much rather use it for something more practical, like a down payment for a nice car or a house. I'm sure there will be some fools with more money than brains though...
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April 24, 2014 9:54:56 AM

This is a complete waste of money. If you're a pro, why not go Tesla or K series instead of this bloated double float gaming card? And then they purposefully disable double power on the gaming cards (600x on, 500x was great). I laughed in NVidia's face at SIGGRAPH 2012 at the show and their parties for doing that. Pros would never desaturate the T or K market, only enthusiasts would have a small bridge to learn on.

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April 24, 2014 10:10:39 AM

Not that it is relevant at all, but I actually live in Europe. The Netherlands to be precise.

Now, while I agree that the price for Europe will probably end up landing somewhere around the €2600 - €2700 mark after a few days/weeks, initial prices are almost always the USD number with a Euro symbol in front of it. The R9 295X2 for example, is available right now for pre-order for about €1499 here (incl VAT), and its US MSRP is $1499 (Excl VAT).
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April 24, 2014 10:19:09 AM

3000 effin dollars

1 fan
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April 24, 2014 10:33:57 AM

This is why I dislike Nvidia so much. They might make good products, but they always seek ways to exploit their fans for the profit sake alone. Take the 780ti for example, they could have released it instead of the 780 but they chose to hold back and charge $700 for the 780 instead, because AMD didn't have any competing products at the time. They also love to come up with ways to corner the market with proprietary tech. This new Titan Z is so under powered and so overpriced it is insulting. Nvidia is all about the bottom line $$$. Nvidia = Apple.
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April 24, 2014 10:42:39 AM

For me, this is far out of my price range. I agree with kristoffe.Pros will go for a tesla or a quadro - especially since it was more than pointed out in the recent "pro card" review that "consumer" card support in the pro software region is minimal.

I can't see this card selling much even in the US. My bet is that NVidia is testing the waters in the consumer market to see if there is enough of a market for them to justify selling a high-powered, double-precision compute card at this outrageous price, especially when double-precision power used to come built-in. We'll see, but I have to say that I hope this fails.

With the recent hacks that turn consumer cards into "pro" cards, I have to say that NOTHING has changed in between the pro and consumer worlds. It is the same silicon, but masked by a resistor or a ground instead of a positive voltage.

And having worked in the pro RIP industry, I highly doubt that the drivers are as optimized as all the folks at various review sites think. The software I worked on was sold complete - the only difference was that you had to buy a key to activate features - for which the company I worked for charged a premium.

This is what I hate about this kind of card. It is pure marketing BS, and people who fall for it perpetuate this business model.
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April 24, 2014 12:00:52 PM

A ridiculous overpriced card with a GPU chip that will be obsolete the minute you buy it because it isn't based on maxwell. I pity the fools that buy this. For once, Mr. T was right.
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April 24, 2014 12:45:08 PM

But it's pretty. Really pretty. Doesn't that count for something?

And like every supermodel on the planet - way outta my league.
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April 24, 2014 1:10:07 PM

sugetsu said:
This is why I dislike Nvidia so much. They might make good products, but they always seek ways to exploit their fans for the profit sake alone. Take the 780ti for example, they could have released it instead of the 780 but they chose to hold back and charge $700 for the 780 instead, because AMD didn't have any competing products at the time. They also love to come up with ways to corner the market with proprietary tech. This new Titan Z is so under powered and so overpriced it is insulting. Nvidia is all about the bottom line $$$. Nvidia = Apple.


of course they care so much about their bottom line. they are profit making company after all.
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April 24, 2014 1:46:20 PM

Everyone here knows they would piss their pants if this card showed up on their doorstep. Most of us COULD max out our credit card and buy this card, but the question is ... what would I do with it? My GTX 470 still plays all my games at 1080p @ 40-60 frames. Buying this card would be like buying a piece of art or a classic car. I dont need it, it just looks cool. We are the only species on the planet who appreciates things because they exist and not cause we need them. It is apart of our humanity and it is healthy in moderation.
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April 24, 2014 2:28:56 PM

This should be a $2k card.

690-Basically 2 680's
Costs $1000, 1 680 costs $500 (Time of release)

Titan Z-Basically 2 Titan Blacks
Costs $3000, 1 Titan costs $1000

It doesn't translate well in price to me. You could buy 3 Titans and pay the same amount for ~25-35% more performance.

Nvidia will drop the price on this...or they won't sell any. It's worth ~$2000-2200
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April 24, 2014 2:39:40 PM

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This is a complete waste of money. If you're a pro, why not go Tesla or K series instead of this bloated double float gaming card? And then they purposefully disable double power on the gaming cards (600x on, 500x was great). I laughed in NVidia's face at SIGGRAPH 2012 at the show and their parties for doing that. Pros would never desaturate the T or K market, only enthusiasts would have a small bridge to learn on.


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This is a complete waste of money. If you're a pro, why not go Tesla or K series instead of this bloated double float gaming card? And then they purposefully disable double power on the gaming cards (600x on, 500x was great). I laughed in NVidia's face at SIGGRAPH 2012 at the show and their parties for doing that. Pros would never desaturate the T or K market, only enthusiasts would have a small bridge to learn on.



I think you should look at the price on the Tesla or k series equivalent.... you'll see why
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April 24, 2014 2:55:13 PM

shogunofharlom said:
Everyone here knows they would piss their pants if this card showed up on their doorstep. Most of us COULD max out our credit card and buy this card, but the question is ... what would I do with it? My GTX 470 still plays all my games at 1080p @ 40-60 frames. Buying this card would be like buying a piece of art or a classic car. I dont need it, it just looks cool. We are the only species on the planet who appreciates things because they exist and not cause we need them. It is apart of our humanity and it is healthy in moderation.


If this showed up on my doorstep for free, I'd turn around and sell it right away.... lol
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April 24, 2014 2:59:41 PM

warezme said:
A ridiculous overpriced card with a GPU chip that will be obsolete the minute you buy it because it isn't based on maxwell. I pity the fools that buy this. For once, Mr. T was right.


Oh how I wish I could choose this as best answer! LOL
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April 24, 2014 3:00:40 PM

It's called supply and demand. Nvidia is an expert at it. The price is so high because they are only going to make a very limited number of them. The supply and demand curves meet at the $3000 point. It's much easier to lower the price if you are off a bit than it is to raise it.
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April 24, 2014 5:09:34 PM

Only reason you should even consider this card is if you're a game developer. Other than that this shouldn't be classified as a gaming GPU because the price vs performance as far as gaming goes is out of this world and you'd be an idiot to buy this just to play BF4 or some other game that is on the next-gen market.
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April 24, 2014 8:54:13 PM

Cheap alternative for the Quadro K6000 for professionals looking for powerful card, it is only half the price.
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April 25, 2014 12:42:12 AM

I'll just buy a GTX 770 :) 
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April 25, 2014 5:53:15 AM

YAY!!! all hail nvidia's marketing scheme= 2 titans for the price of 3!!(not to mention based on the kepler architecture where as maxwell has < 1 year to hit the shelves(hopefully). soooo.... people pay 3k for it and it becomes out dated after less than an year later.
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April 25, 2014 7:57:42 AM

Does it make coffee?
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April 25, 2014 9:37:35 AM

This is way way too expensive. I can only imagine this being bought by niche scientific research individuals with bloated budgets. Or people with access to more money than sense.
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April 25, 2014 11:02:53 AM

I wonder if this card is also perfect for 3D model compilation...
This giant piece seems to be able to replace both cureent GTX series and Quadro series.
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April 25, 2014 11:06:37 AM

ngbeslhang said:
I wonder if this card is also perfect for 3D model compilation...
This giant piece seems to be able to replace both cureent GTX series and Quadro series.


That is the purpose of it, not really a gaming card.
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April 25, 2014 11:13:03 AM

Steveymoo said:
This is way way too expensive. I can only imagine this being bought by niche scientific research individuals with bloated budgets. Or people with access to more money than sense.


it was the other way around.the Titan line up was made for professional user but doesn't have the budget to get Tesla cards. it is intended for developer that only starting or in the experiment phase using CUDA and make use double precision in their works. so when their software is fully developed and ready for true rolls out they will replace their titan with tesla line up. it is kind of starter kit where you got the hardware full capabilities (unlock DP performance) but it doesn't come with the support (and drivers) that usually comes with true professional cards like Tesla.
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April 25, 2014 11:18:53 AM

Vlad Rose said:
shogunofharlom said:
Everyone here knows they would piss their pants if this card showed up on their doorstep. Most of us COULD max out our credit card and buy this card, but the question is ... what would I do with it? My GTX 470 still plays all my games at 1080p @ 40-60 frames. Buying this card would be like buying a piece of art or a classic car. I dont need it, it just looks cool. We are the only species on the planet who appreciates things because they exist and not cause we need them. It is apart of our humanity and it is healthy in moderation.


If this showed up on my doorstep for free, I'd turn around and sell it right away.... lol


Sell it to who? Bill Gates, Tim Cook? Zuckerburg?
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April 26, 2014 12:36:49 AM

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Everyone here knows they would piss their pants if this card showed up on their doorstep. Most of us COULD max out our credit card and buy this card, but the question is ... what would I do with it? My GTX 470 still plays all my games at 1080p @ 40-60 frames. Buying this card would be like buying a piece of art or a classic car. I dont need it, it just looks cool. We are the only species on the planet who appreciates things because they exist and not cause we need them. It is apart of our humanity and it is healthy in moderation.


You dont deserve those downvotes, and I totally agree
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April 28, 2014 11:43:31 AM

Prediction...retail price will be reduced 50% by September. I can wait, thank you very much :D 
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April 28, 2014 1:36:37 PM

Floooooop! Right on it's face! The only reason for a card like this is surround gaming and in any OS newer than win7 - SLI either doesn't work at all in surround, or works very very poorly.

Trust me I know. I own 4 titans and have been harassing them to fix this for months and months. In both ffxiv and wildstar I get about 25fps (while solo)

Biggest regret of my life (ok slight exaggeration) but a big regret nonetheless was being an nvidia fanboy and building a PC around their gpus. Set me back 10k for what supposed to hold me over for YEARS but at the end of 1 the performance is worse than a single 680 on one display. Tbh it's worse than a single 580 lol.

No one with half a brain will touch this with a yard stick. Nvidias getting way too greedy. Sorry guys up your piss poor csr and software for hardware alrwady on the market before you pepper us with new overpriced hardware. As if sits we pay a gargantuan premium for absolutely 0 concession elsewhere.

GG
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April 28, 2014 9:29:42 PM

Ninjawithagun said:
Prediction...retail price will be reduced 50% by September. I can wait, thank you very much :D 


will it? the original titan never did drop in price even with the pressure from AMD R9 290X. nvidia only drop the price of their 700 series in response. when launching 780Ti (which is faster than Titan) nvidia still keeping Titan at 1000. not even Titan Black make the original Titan sell for less than it's original MSRP.
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April 28, 2014 9:38:07 PM

klepp0906 said:
Floooooop! Right on it's face! The only reason for a card like this is surround gaming and in any OS newer than win7 - SLI either doesn't work at all in surround, or works very very poorly.

Trust me I know. I own 4 titans and have been harassing them to fix this for months and months. In both ffxiv and wildstar I get about 25fps (while solo)

Biggest regret of my life (ok slight exaggeration) but a big regret nonetheless was being an nvidia fanboy and building a PC around their gpus. Set me back 10k for what supposed to hold me over for YEARS but at the end of 1 the performance is worse than a single 680 on one display. Tbh it's worse than a single 580 lol.

No one with half a brain will touch this with a yard stick. Nvidias getting way too greedy. Sorry guys up your piss poor csr and software for hardware alrwady on the market before you pepper us with new overpriced hardware. As if sits we pay a gargantuan premium for absolutely 0 concession elsewhere.

GG


having poor performance is not uncommon when there are 3 or more cards inside the system. also in MMO having better CPU is better than pumping more GPU. it is rare to have MMO support 2 way SLI let alone 3 way or 4 way.
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June 9, 2014 12:56:20 PM

Niels, no unfortunately this is not the worst case scenario... Here in Brazil, a Radeon R9 290x can be found from R$2250 to R$2450... that's north from US$1000.
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