Nvidia shows off the TITAN X at GDC

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Nvidia has shown off the TITAN X at GDC, with 12GB of VRAM and over 8 Billion Transistors, want to see what is inside the box?

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Read more on the Nvidia Titan X here.
 
Activate rant mode...

The best part is people will actually buy this.

Its so hilariously pointless. It's just a 980Ti (or whatever they call it) with twice the VRAM and less butchered DP support. Except it has no ECC.... anyone working with DP will want ECC, and pretty much every application of DP will want people to use a quadro ANYWAY just for the professional drivers, which is what you pay for when you get a quadro.

The only people who buy titans are ignorant or just have too much money, there is always a better alternative.

It's even funnier too because nvidia's marketing team has done a GREAT job of fooling people into arguing over "its a gaming card, its not a gaming card" and somehow avoiding the fact that this is literally the most overpriced thing EVER. It is a gaming card, since it has no ECC and no professionally certified drivers, they even market it as a gaming card, but also market it as a "professional GPU" on the side in places that informed people look, in order to put two opinions across, so people argue over it! It's a genius work of social engineering thats for a fact.

AMD cards have less butchered DP support on pretty much all their cards, do that somehow mean that those cards are now "professional" GPU's? No not really.

I can't wait to pay £1000 for a butchered GPU die with no ECC, no professional drivers and only slightly better DP performance which was butchered intentionally to make the titan look better and to artificially reduce TDP figures for marketing..... oh wait, I won't be buying one.

Rant mode over... sorry about that, but it was welling up inside for a while.
 
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@Meladath

Titans are fantastic cards if you use them for the right things.

I would never recommend anyone buying one for use @1080p as there are better faster cheaper options available.

@2160p or higher on the other hand using several Titans in SLI is as good as it gets. Even using the original 2 year old ones 4 up at the resolution gives a better gaming experience than the more modern 290Xs or 980s.
 
Well? It's black so it's automatically superior to grey, right?

And for the future generations of cards? GeForce Colossus and Colossus XT.
 
I'll buy two.. $2700 bargain :D

I will look forward to seeing your benchmarks Kap :)

I will post them but I think the 390X will give this card some really stiff competition @1080p and 1440p. I think at the lower resolutions HBM memory on the 390X will give a boost in fps but @2160p it won't make much difference. It will be a bit like comparing a 290X to a 980 @1080p but in reverse with the 390X being the faster card but the gap closing @2160p
 
I will post them but I think the 390X will give this card some really stiff competition @1080p and 1440p. I think at the lower resolutions HBM memory on the 390X will give a boost in fps but @2160p it won't make much difference. It will be a bit like comparing a 290X to a 980 @1080p but in reverse with the 390X being the faster card but the gap closing @2160p

I haven't been keeping up with the 390x specs and news to be honest, but hopefully AMD can give the Titan X a run for its money. It is all about the 4k performance with highend cards now though, 4k is becoming more and more mainstream pretty quickly. Whoever gets the best 4K card out as well as being good price to performance wise will be the winner.
 
Am I the only one who doesn't like the cooler? It looks great in some lights but cheap in others imo.

Also whats this rumour floating around that they've disabled most of the computing stuff? In Particular double precision floating point? I'm guessing they've given up pretending the Titan was a decent alternative to a Quadro/Firepro now.

Looking forward to the benches :D
 
I suspect that this will mean that the GTX980Ti will be announced in around 6 months and available in around November time.

To be honest though these cards would be great for me gaming at 4K but I cannot justify the cost of them when they are going to probably somewhere between the £700 to £1000+ mark over here although if they are £700 I could get two of them at the end of this month if they are available then, or early next month.
 
Not even bothered about that tech demo, yet another stunning demo when actual playable games don't look anything like it, so makes it irrelevant and a con.
 
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