Amazing achievement? They charge 1k USD and yet they skimp on power circuitry and block overclocking. Luxury product my ass.
while the Titan is an amazing achievement for nvidia (in terms of performance and lack of noise) - I would love to get one of these things but the performance per dollar is just so skewed (poorly) on the Titan.
Ah.. theres the worth. Should be a topic in itself.Many negatives to crossfire, starting with getting a profile for a game to even work.
Then it's micro-stutter, noise and heat.
From TPU's review of Titan. Which was also tested against the gtx690.NVIDIA has done a very good job here in the past and out of the 19 games in our test suite, SLI only fails in F1 2012. Compare that to 6 out of 19 failed with AMD CrossFire. Looking at the F1 2012 example, we can clearly see the benefits of having a single powerful GPU. In that specific test, looking at 5760x1080 surround gaming, GTX Titan makes short shrift of any other card by delivering over 50% higher frame rates - crucial for aspiring race drivers playing on three screens.
Any tests with overclocked cards? I have a feeling that OCed titan vs OCed 7970 Asus matrix (1350MHz/1600MHz) wouldn't look very compelling at all. 15-20% faster for over 2x the price...
How much is one? I don't think I'll spend over $450 for my next card.
$400 seems to be well into fantasy land. But it is too expensive for me.
A bit over twice the price of a 7970 GHZ for 1.3 to 1.35 times the performance is not where I want to spend my money.
If it was only 1.5 times the price (say 700 to 800 and still well off the price performance line) I'd consider it but it has just too much of a halo mark up. Though compared to the CPU halo extreme editions this is at least markedly better than the second best GPU around.
Oh come now, the least expensive 7970 at newegg is 359 after rebate (I'm not even using CND) and that is not a GHZ edition. The titan is very expensive but we don't need to exaggerate it. It is roughly twice the price of a GHZ edition (a bit more than twice if it sells at MSRP).
MSRP is $1000.
Even 100$ less than 1000$ would change so many opinions on this card. I think the performance relation to the GTX 690 will be a halt sign for quite a few; while the Titan is an amazing achievement for nvidia (in terms of performance and lack of noise) - I would love to get one of these things but the performance per dollar is just so skewed (poorly) on the Titan.
How many of these type posts do we have to keep reading?VulgarDisplay I would consider buying one if Nvidia kissed me prior to giving me the fat end of their, um... "pricing structure."
2 and 3 way crosffire? LOL
The noise and the heat, and the extra cost of the motherboard to support 3x cards correctly, oh and the PSU. And then get ready for the disappointment when you drop down to single gpu performance or less (30+%) of the time with a non-working crossfire profile.
So if you can't afford Titan, stop dreaming up reasons of what you would do with your imaginary money. Because the single gpu, Titan , is in a class by itself.
How many of these type posts do we have to keep reading?
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