Hardware & Technical Nvidia just announced the brand new Titan Xp
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nVidia's Titan X range.
For people with more money, than sense.
For people with more money, than sense.
Can't leave the ~1200 dollar/euro segment untapped.
The 1080Ti (which was necessary) cannibalized the original Titan X Pascal, so now they need something a bit faster than the 1080Ti to have a product that can command the super high-end price tag.
It's a new and improved titan xp. The "p" stands for pascal, the architecture on which the titan was built. The Titan XP debuted last year for $1,200. The new titan XP has the same name, better specs.
So idiots would buy it.
Then see the "new" version and buy that.
Next year you'll see yet another one, and they'll buy that.
Apple have been doing it for years.
Yes. I'm jealous of disposable income. Lol
With the HBM2 ?
The new Titan Xp?
No. It's the same GP102 part thats in the old Titan X(P) and the 1080 Ti. It's just fully enabled and with faster GDDR5X.
You'll have to wait for the Titan Xp(random letter here) for a prosumer/ultra high-end HBM2 Pascal part...if they ever feel the need for one.
classic case of milking the cash cows.
No different than you see in other Luxury item fields, eg Hyper cars.
It also for me sends out a signal that Vega must be fast, as Nvidia have had to respond with a faster card than either the Titan X and 1080Ti.
No different than you see in other Luxury item fields, eg Hyper cars.
It also for me sends out a signal that Vega must be fast, as Nvidia have had to respond with a faster card than either the Titan X and 1080Ti.
With nothing happening short-term on the 20x0 series, and the Titan being way too expensive for me, I'm just waiting for the RX580 to replace myt 750ti. 
I always feel it gets to a point where it's quite futile to buy one of these types of card.
If you're already maxing out all the games, at your highest settings and resolution, there's little need to spend even more, to gain essentially nothing.
Except bragging rights. Lol
Especially when you then go and play WoW or something.
I'm content if i can play any game on ultra at 30+ fps, at my native resolution (1080p). Which oddly enough, my old AMD HD 6870 1GB can, mostly. Lol
60fps is nice, but beyond that, I can barely tell the difference. Lol
If you're already maxing out all the games, at your highest settings and resolution, there's little need to spend even more, to gain essentially nothing.
Except bragging rights. Lol
Especially when you then go and play WoW or something.
I'm content if i can play any game on ultra at 30+ fps, at my native resolution (1080p). Which oddly enough, my old AMD HD 6870 1GB can, mostly. Lol
60fps is nice, but beyond that, I can barely tell the difference. Lol
The increase in powerful of the GDDR5X must bring already of the awesome performances
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Yes it is necessary to relativize the performance of hardware in comparison with the physical capacities of the human
The card is 5-10% faster than the 1080 Ti. Horrible 'value' in the price/performance metric, but it's target market are those who are willing to spend for the best, even if it's only a little better than the second best.
That said, 384-bit 11.4Gbps GDDR5X is plenty of memory bandwidth and a GP100 chip at the same clocks, with the same number of functional units, with HBM2 would only be slightly faster overall, even with ~50% more bandwidth.
In conclusion, it is mainly an affair of prestige that of performances and the price differences are not really justified
That is petty, mate. To some that kind of money aint a big deal, good for them. If you cant or dont want to buy it, fine too.
Yes, happy people who can buy. Happy also those who know that they will have the same visual result for cheaper
It was the fastest consumer GPU at the time, that's why people buy them. It was also known, even prior to release, that it wasn't a fully enabled GP102 part.
That said, they probably weren't deliberately hobbled. Just as likely they didn't have a large enough supply of fully functional GP102 to equip both the Titan and the Quadro P6000 (which they can sell for 5k, not a measly 1k).
Hence my thread. I don't understand why Nvidia did such a thing to begin with. Releasing a top tier graphics card and call it the peak of Pascal basically. It wasn't even fully enabled! And then release the same card but this time it is the unlocked version as if Nvidia was saving it, luring more customers. It's business I guess. Very nasty buisness.