Nvidia officially reveals their £2,399 Titan RTX

[Dicehunter]

This^

For the record the 2008 recession is like a non event compared to some of the decades I have lived through.

When I was small catching something like Scarlet Fever I considered good news as I did not have to go to school.

Knew it !


You're an immortal that's been travelling through the ages collecting tech as it grows ^_^

 

[Dawelio]

If you had any knowledge of history and current times you would have the answer to your question.

Why is the Titan RTX £2399? because of all of the things we have been discussing in this thread.

Why, instead of constantly whining, don't you read manuals? or maybe a book about economics.

I don't blame you solely for not knowing anything about history. Today's PC climate says that you should not learn from the mistakes made in the past. You're fully able to make your own, and WW3 is inevitable.

Honestly dude, I couldn’t really care less. I just said that since it was going way off topic (which many threads does these days).

And IF I want any knowledge about history, I’d Google it. Not learn/hear it from someone random on a tech forum, who most of the times seem to think that they know it all.

Also lately I’ve seen you more or less go on pretty much everyone. Not sure what that is about.

I’m not whining, I simply don’t like the idea of every thread making pages of going off topic. Therefore simply trying to remind everyone about the thread, which is about ”RTX Titan” and not some economical situation that happened 50 years ago or about some war.

Lastly, what does potentially me reading about manuals even have anything to do with this thread even? :huh: Keep in the subject of the thread dude.

Anyway, I’m off this thread.

 

[grec]

The GTX280 launched at £450 here, about £570 in todays money, and it had 55% the area of a Turing die. Cost rises exponentially with die size because besides fitting fewer dies into a wafer and using the wafer less efficiently by attempting to fit larger squares into a circle, the chance of a defect in the given area obviously rises too. Getting a perfect/fully enabled chip on a massive die like this is going to be much harder than traditionally.

Obviously, then there's the massive R&D cost of designing a chip with more than 10 times as many transistors and a far more diverse array of compute units. Modern GPUs are now often larger and often more expensive than modern CPUs, while over the last few years becoming just as important to enterprise markets. Intel have been doing this stuff for years, NVidia are just following suit. Charging "Prosumers" near enterprise prices has long been the norm, and to be fair generally these products do benefit from much of the expensive validation work that goes into the fully-enterprise big daddy versions. Of course GPUs are much more than just the chip too, with VRAM now being a significant part of the cost due to supply constraints and pricing.

 

[AlienALX]

The GTX280 launched at £450 here, about £570 in todays money, and it had 55% the area of a Turing die.

Within a month you could get them for £350. Though a lot of that had to do with ATI being very competitive.

 

[Warchild]

Within a month you could get them for £350. Though a lot of that had to do with ATI being very competitive.

Had to be UK as one of the few places then. I bought two of them. One for my partner and I at the time. When mine was returned faulty, I was asked to choose another brand, and lo and behold... Cost had risen by 100kr / £10

I still have them. They had a cool graphic label on them, so never had the heart to throw them. Also the back plates were far better than any today.

This card though.. Definately has to be out of the window for gamers.

Lets say £2399 gets you a card that is 30% faster (being generous) than a 2080ti. Regardless of that, it is still cheaper to buy 2 2080ti and NVlink them. I see on overclockers that Palit 2080ti are sub £1000 now which as far as the whole model range go seems to be the cheapest of the lot. And judging by size and pcb, its using reference design.

 

[AlienALX]

Yeah it was right around the time of the recession. I paid £270 for mine. It was a refurb XFX XXX. Lasted about 8 months, then died. Ended up backing it and paying £100 to get two brand new 5770s.

Not a bad card. Fast, especially for the HD mod for FO3 (which ate VRAM). But as hot as a day in heck. Which was inevitably its downfall.