NVIDIA to Name GK110-based Consumer Graphics Card "GeForce Titan"

[kompukare]

I'll read some of the reviews when they come out just to see if nVidia's PR machine has managed to pull off some trickery with their Reviewers Guide and to see if any reviewers are willing to step outside of that and do their own benchmarks and settings.

In other words I'll try to review the reviewers and see if I can spot the toadies so that in the futre I won't waste my time reading their spiel.

Still NV are very aware of the halo effect and probably with good reason: it has worked very well for them in the past because people tend to generalise. It's like with Intel and the i7/i5; just because they beat AMD's FX people immediately assume that this applies across the board despite i3/Pentium/Celeron often looses to AMD's equiv.

[quady]

Leaked slides:

http://wccftech.com/nvidia-officiall...gle-chip-gpus/

I like how they have made the scale relative rather than absolute fps, otherwise someone might notice its OTT and a much cheaper card is more than quick enough.

£750 now, or £250 for three generations let me think...

[jim]

To be fair, nobody's suggesting that you need to spend £750 on a graphics card. I doubt many people will. But I'm glad the option is there, nonetheless.

[HalloweenJack]

Built on the GK110 silicon, the Titan (named after the worlds fastest supercomputer) features a whopping 2688 CUDA cores with 7.1 billion transistors, 6GB of GDDR5 memory and an impressive 250W TDP. The GK110 core that lies at the heart of the Titan is clocked to 837MHz and boosts to 876MHz, whilst the memory stays at the usual 1502MHz (6GHz effective) clock.

now official

[AGreatName]

Is it only me who thinks that nv are going to put a lot of effort into the drivers for titan tri and quad (and maybe less into the 680/future 780 tri/quad sli) in order to show it in the best light?
Nvidia are the masters of marketing, especially with the 690 SLI vs tri titans comparison, knowing quad sli scaling is poor. It seems like all nv care about is having the best halo product and image. To be honest i would much rather have tri 7950s (despite cf issues) than 1 titan, and still have enough money left over to get a ssd.

[shaithis]

Nah, they will sell so few of them that they would be silly to let the mainstream support be affected by it.

The price (just like the 600 series to a lesser extent) is utterly retarded. Charging "what they can".....I wouldn't be surprised if they are putting a 300-600%+ mark-up on these.

If this is the "future", then I guess it may be time to downsize my monitors. I refuse to pay £800 for a graphics card upgrade every year or two and I am sure I am not the only "high end gamer" who is also thinking the same.

[Biscuit]

Nah, they will sell so few of them that they would be silly to let the mainstream support be affected by it.

The price (just like the 600 series to a lesser extent) is utterly retarded. Charging "what they can".....I wouldn't be surprised if they are putting a 300-600%+ mark-up on these.

If this is the "future", then I guess it may be time to downsize my monitors. I refuse to pay £800 for a graphics card upgrade every year or two and I am sure I am not the only "high end gamer" who is also thinking the same.

This definitely isnt the future, with PC sales on a decline i think AMD and Nvidia need to keep the current price sectors as they are. I would be very surprised if this was anything more than another 'limited' run just like the GTX690 and the Asus Ares

[Phage]

RRP £827.

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages...erence,11.html

[shaithis]

This definitely isnt the future, with PC sales on a decline i think AMD and nVidia need to keep the current price sectors as they are. I would be very surprised if this was anything more than another 'limited' run just like the GTX690 and the Asus Ares

The 600 series cards are over-priced as well though....which half justifies the price of these cards. The entire nVidia range is at least 50% over-priced compared to previous generations.

Of course people could say that they aren't, which would imply that nVidia sees 1080p as the future. Which it clearly is not.

Selling "680"s with stupid bandwidth limitations, then releasing the "real 680" at £800+. Milking every penny they can in a flagrant show of "because we can"

I am starting to think that nVidia are moving their business and high-end gfx cards will be stupidly priced from now on. The high-end chips will go to businesses as £3k compute cards, rather then £500 gaming cards.....once yeilds improve, we will start to see cards like titan filtering through.

[Willzzz]

Nvidia are a business, is it wrong for them to want to make money?

[ajones]

Nvidia are a business, is it wrong for them to want to make money?

Certainly not.

But I'm not a business, I'm a consumer (as I guess most people on these forums are when it comes to graphics cards). As a consumer, I want suppliers to offer the cheapest prices.

Am I wrong for wanting them "not to make quite so much" money?

Naive maybe, but not unreasonable.

[Terbinator]

1600p Linus review:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghDS73GSbp0

[Terbinator]

[Biscuit]

Asus should definately do another limited run of ARES cards

[Terbinator]

Asus should definately do another limited run of ARES cards

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/6gb-a...-gpu-1050mhz-b

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Looking at those graphs the AMD cards seem to be doing better than the equivalent Nvidia cards in BF3 and Crysis2.