Purported Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan X benchmarks are published

[plexabit]

^If that's true, you might as well get two 390x's...

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

It will be cheap for people who use it for things like Blender when compared to equivalent priced Quadro. Sure,you will lack the professional level drivers but 12GB of VRAM will make it great for rendering projects.

However,CUDA is now waning for consumer usage - Adobe for example has moved over most of its GPU acceleration over to OpenCL for example since both Intel and AMD have greater emphasis on this now.

[jackt246]

Looking at the benchmarks it makes me wonder why anyone would go for this over a 390x? (Going on leaked benchmarks for both)

The titan cards are workstation cards that can game. They have technologies in them that allow use of proffesional software and calculate sums to much more precision than your standard 900 series cards.

They are basically a gaming QUADRO card. Their price is high for similar reaosns that FirePro from AMD has a high price.

[Platinum]

Well they have more Vram and higher DP performance thats for sure, but they still lack the professional drivers and ECC memory.

Its a halfway card for sure, good for the home enthusiast but no business will use these over a quadro.

[KeyboardDemon]

I don't trust 'leaked' benchmark results and would rather wait until some more trustworthy sources are published. I'm especially put off the reported scores when the accompanying copy contains phrases like, "said to show", which suggests to me that even Mark has doubts over the authenticity of the scores and is therefore covering his back with that subtle disclaimer.

Are there any cases of rumoured/pre-launch benchmarks actually giving scores that closely resemble the actual scores that was achieved after launch?

[GuidoLS]

I don't trust 'leaked' benchmark results and would rather wait until some more trustworthy sources are published. I'm especially put off the reported scores when the accompanying copy contains phrases like, "said to show", which suggests to me that even Mark has doubts over the authenticity of the scores and is therefore covering his back with that subtle disclaimer.

Are there any cases of rumoured/pre-launch benchmarks actually giving scores that closely resemble the actual scores that was achieved after launch?

Hexus was advertising on Facebook a couple of days ago that they had one and benchmarked it - and then linked to an older article on the 960/70 benchmarks. A tease, I guess.

https://www.facebook.com/HEXUSnet/ph...230134/?type=1 - yes, a link to Facebook, for those who don't/won't partake.

[kalniel]

Well more an interaction than a tease - you're meant to have a guess at what it scored on the Hexus test rig on firestrike ultra - the 960/970 review helps you look at the test rig specs and scores with other cards

And I'd guess at around 4300

[GuidoLS]

Well more an interaction than a tease - you're meant to have a guess at what it scored on the Hexus test rig on firestrike ultra - the 960/970 review helps you look at the test rig specs and scores with other cards

And I'd guess at around 4300

Post on Friday and go home for the weekend? A tease Not necessarily evil, but a rose by any other name is....

IMO, they need to seriously slow down the arms race here - make each new generation meaningful, each new upgrade exciting and worth the premium upgrade cost, instead of just e-peen bragging rights. The NEW and IMPROVED 295X/990 super card - now .0003 faster, with 3 more memory lanes and 27 more transistors, for a result of 5 more points on Firestrike....

[MercutioUK]

As far as the wee argument about features goes further up:

Gsync - pointless, freesync will be better. AMD 1, Nvidia 0
HD3D/3D vision - both shortly to become pointless with VR headsets from everyone inside the next year, 3D vision is clearly vastly better. AMD 0, Nvidia 1
Physx - pointless, no score
CUDA - pointless, no score.

So it's even. Now, the performance of the 2 cards, on previous generations will likely be quite close. If Nvidia choose to sell the titan at the usual £1k price point, AMD wins by a landslide.
If they choose to be more reasonable with pricing and come down to the 600/700 region, it's all to play for.
Unfortunately, I think we all know how pricing is likely to shake out.

[shaithis]

As far as the wee argument about features goes further up:

Gsync - pointless, freesync will be better. AMD 1, Nvidia 0
HD3D/3D vision - both shortly to become pointless with VR headsets from everyone inside the next year, 3D vision is clearly vastly better. AMD 0, Nvidia 1
Physx - pointless, no score
CUDA - pointless, no score.

Say that to people who play Physx games, have purchased 3D Visions displays and glasses or use CUDA.

So, it ain't even until people stop using them.....

And new Batman out this year, guess what nVidia tech you will need to get all the visual effects? That's right, Physx.

UNTIL all these technologies are superseded by open standards, there will always be people who will turn to nVidia over AMD.......I do feel AMD would have got more mileage from creating open standards to those techs, rather then creating a new graphics API (which they have now abandoned!)

[KeyboardDemon]

As far as the wee argument about features goes further up:

Gsync - pointless, freesync will be better. AMD 1, Nvidia 0
HD3D/3D vision - both shortly to become pointless with VR headsets from everyone inside the next year, 3D vision is clearly vastly better. AMD 0, Nvidia 1
Physx - pointless, no score
CUDA - pointless, no score.

So it's even. Now, the performance of the 2 cards, on previous generations will likely be quite close. If Nvidia choose to sell the titan at the usual £1k price point, AMD wins by a landslide.
If they choose to be more reasonable with pricing and come down to the 600/700 region, it's all to play for.
Unfortunately, I think we all know how pricing is likely to shake out.

I see it differently, in some places:-

G-Sync is here now Freesync isn't, nVidia 1 AMD 0
HD3D/3D - I have the 3D glasses, tried it a few times, but nah... I wouldn't base my decision on buying a GPU on that feature, the only reason I have the hardware is it came free with a BenQ monitor when nVidia launched it, but I was unable to try it as I had an AMD card at the time.
PhysX - If a game has it I'll use it, but without running a search on Google there are only a few games I can think of that use PhysX
CUDA - Only ever used it to run CUDA benchmarks other than that I can't think of any benefits. So I agree with you on that front.

I think the most I would ever spend on a new card is £600, I think my HD6990 was somewhere around that price point, maybe a shade under that price. If the 390X came out higher than that I would not expect it to sell much in terms of volume, and a more expensive Titan X would sell in even lower numbers if it costs significantly more.