I dont think it will release anywhere near the 999$ price tag quoted by NVIDIA, but we will see, also some people are claiming yields are low with a die this size thus justifying the increase in cost yet it is only marginally bigger than a 580 (GTX580 520 mm² v TitanX 561 mm²) also still 20nm which is a matured manufacturing process (also supposedly cheaper to manufacture than the 40nm of the GTX 580) so where is the justification in cost?Is 12GB VRAM that expensive?I dont think so it, after the success of the Titan followed by people raging and "upgrading" to 780ti's I firmly believe they will follow the same plan for this generation, they release TitanX followed by AMD with there 390x which is met with 980ti etc etc why wouldn't they, people are eating these GPU's up, must be a great time for the shareholders at NV
This is also not like the previous Titan, being a workstation orientated card with compute performance, this is clearly aimed at consumers and at gamers at that, it will only continue too, its becoming clear I think, NV has done the same tactic this generation as the previous, selling there x60 range as x70 and x70 as x80 at least thats what I believe based on their performance relative to their respective ranges of previous generations.
Also I am not saying everything should be cheaper that the last gen etc etc I realize the cost of R&D, Marketing, Logistics etc however this kind of price gouging simply because they can is absolutely abysmal for end users and small business, unfortunately the only way for it to end is with the consumer, and with the thread here any many more like it all around the web, the consumer is getting the ready to drink it up.
Consumerism, Conformity and Uncritical Thinking.
EDIT: On pre-order at Overclockers from 870GBP