Titan Z Has Been Cancelled

[Silver Sparrow]

Yea that's the point. It's not a card meant to be only used for gaming.

Urh what else? Same support for professional applications as a Titan Black or a 780 with the Geforce drivers. Can this card use the Quadro drivers alongside application specific performance drivers? I can understand the price point then should it be able to.

This whole Titan Z farce, imo, was merely to snub AMD and their 295x2 product. It just stinks.

 

[SeekaX]

Urh what else? Same support for professional applications as a Titan Black or a 780 with the Geforce drivers. Can this card use the Quadro drivers alongside application specific performance drivers? I can understand the price point then should it be able to.

This whole Titan Z farce, imo, was merely to snub AMD and their 295x2 product. It just stinks.

It's the same garbage i thought we buried with the first Titan all over again. "Oh my god it's so much more expensive and it's not even any better in BF4!"
There will be a 790 anyways which will compete with the 295x2, the Titan cards have no competition.

 

[Gripen90]

Where exactly does it say the Titan Z has been cancelled ? I have heard and read that is has been delayed and postponed untill further - but that doesn't mean it's cancelled.

Update:
NVIDIA made the first official comment since GTC, reassuring TITAN Z is still on track, however no specific date was given. The time-frame we are looking at could mean weeks or even months. Here’s a quick update from KitGuru:

“At the very high end, we announced our newest flagship GPU, the GeForce GTX Titan Z,” said Chris Evenden, the director of investor relations at Nvidia, during a conference call with financial analysts and investors. “This is the highest performance graphics card we have ever designed. The Titan Z will please both PC enthusiasts and CUDA developers and will be available in Q2.”
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[Silver Sparrow]

It's the same garbage i thought we buried with the first Titan all over again. "Oh my god it's so much more expensive and it's not even any better in BF4!"
There will be a 790 anyways which will compete with the 295x2, the Titan cards have no competition.

Compete for what exactly? Seeing how they're dealing with the Titan Z I wouldn't wager on a 790 but it would be cool(figuratively) to have a dual gpu duel again.

 

[SeekaX]

Compete for what exactly? Seeing how they're dealing with the Titan Z I wouldn't wager on a 790 but it would be cool(figuratively) to have a dual gpu duel again.

A 790 will happen, i am pretty sure about that, they won't leave the dual GPU market to AMD.
The only audience i can figure for the Titan cards are game developers and people who like to game and do 3d work. The Titan cards were never supposed to be competitive, the only reason for why they exist is that nVidia wants to make them.

 

[Dicehunter]

Where exactly does it say the Titan Z has been cancelled ? I have heard and read that is has been delayed and postponed untill further - but that doesn't mean it's cancelled.

Here in the original post -

ComputerBase.de web-site reports that the launch date was “shifted indefinitely”.

 

[RizeAllard]

I tought NVidia under estimated the opportunity to create a double gpu AMD graphics card on Hawai chips because of the TDP of those gpu-s. Thats why they just create an under powered dual gpu Titan Z, and when AMD has launched the R9 295 they were shocked, and they delayed the card to get some info about the power of the 295 to adjust their child. But it seems they had trouble with it. I hope they will make it i would like to see a competition in that high-highend category

 

[Dicehunter]

I tought NVidia under estimated the opportunity to create a double gpu AMD graphics card on Hawai chips because of the TDP of those gpu-s. Thats why they just create an under powered dual gpu Titan Z, and when AMD has launched the R9 295 they were shocked, and they delayed the card to get some info about the power of the 295 to adjust their child. But it seems they had trouble with it. I hope they will make it i would like to see a competition in that high-highend category

As a few others have said the Titan class of cards are not really gaming focused cards, They are a cheap option for compute cards with the added benefit of being able to game on them.

The GTX 790 which might still be coming out will be a direct competitor for the 295X2.

 

[SieB]

The thing is, the Titan Z may not be aimed to directly compete with the 295x2 but it still does. As a compute card the Titan Z only excels in cuda, the 295x2 has just as much compute power, it also has less Vram and obviously doesn't have any cuda performance, but it does do openCL.

So really they are only appealing to people who use cuda specific programs to make use of the the Titan Z. A lot of programs also use openCL, so for Nvidia to justify the price they need to make it faster or at least just as good as the 295x2. If it is slower then what would be the point? Not only would they lose on the performance side they would also be laughed at for charging $3000 for a slower card, not that $3000 isn't laughable as it is anyway.

The Titan Z is a joke to be fair, $3000 is stupid and Nvidia should feel ashamed. Not that they will because all they care about is the money. If they lowered the price to something like $2300 they would sell more cards and people wouldn't think the Titan Z isn't worth it.

 

[Luscious]

I think this now gives Asus the green light to release a ROG MARS 780 card, which I'm pretty sure they've been working on ever since the MARS 760.

 

[nepas]

Here in the original post -

That does NOT mean cancelled.

 

[Dicehunter]

That does NOT mean cancelled.

Indefinitely means never going to happen or on that date, Which means it was cancelled on that date and moved back by quite a large time frame.

 

[Rastalovich]

Maybe they saw some extra room on the pcb and figured 16g would be a better idea ...

pffft

 

[SieB]

Maybe they saw some extra room on the pcb and figured 16g would be a better idea ...

pffft

Shhh, don't give them ideas :lol:

I can see it now, 16gb special Edition for the reasonable cost of $4500 :\

 

[vorticalbox]

Shhh, don't give them ideas :lol:

I can see it now, 16gb special Edition for the reasonable cost of $4500 :\

It would still would be less powerful over all, plus could it even use the 12 gb effectively with that memory bus?

 

[Wraith]

16gb special Edition for the reasonable cost of $4500 :\

Made me giggle like a mad scientist.. Very reasonable indeed. :lol:

 

[Captain Helltheo]

Well I think that because it was more focused towards professionals which is a small market compared to enthusiasts/gamers who it appeals more too, plus professionals have FirePro, Quadro and Tesla cards (which are cheaper anyway), so because its £3000 no gamer will get it other than for the satisfaction of having one.

Also its meant to be x2 Titan Black cores, so why not just get x2 Titan Black cards, the only real advantages that it really brings is that it takes up 2 expansion slots instead of 4 and it could be cherry picked cores so overclocking might be better.

So in my opinion for the target market and price - "performance" wise just worth it anyway.

 

[Zoot]

Shhh, don't give them ideas :lol:

I can see it now, 16gb special Edition for the reasonable cost of $4500 :\

Well the top end Quadro K6000 goes for a whopping $5000 so it wouldn't surprise me.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133494

 

[krew]

it doesnt look like its cancelled at all.. i see it available in a local shop and they apparently have it in stock

 

[SeekaX]

it doesnt look like its cancelled at all.. i see it available in a local shop and they apparently have it in stock

I doubt that. If nvidia didn't release it yet then your store surely doesn't have any.