Nvidia Titan - do we really need it?

Is it needed?

  • Yes

    Votes: 10 58.8%

  • No

    Votes: 5 29.4%

  • I don't know yet

    Votes: 1 5.9%

  • I'm AMD all the way.

    Votes: 1 5.9%
  • Total voters
    17
mr.doom

mr.doom

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So, Nvidia just released a new GTX Titan. Do you think it is really needed? Would you upgrade from, say, GTX 680 or 690? What are your thoughts on the matter?
 
yep. Now AMD release the AMD Radeon HD God and we will have Gods vs Titans :P

But yeah I would in all honesty.
 
If the price is good I'd definitely invest in one. Not only could it fold or Boinc, but it would game tremendously well.
 
The rich people who can afford to constantly upgrade to the highest-end stuff will get it I'm sure.

For most people though, it's not really needed at all. Even the GTX 680 is overkill for a lot of people out there.

I don't really see myself going back to NVIDIA anyway, sticking with AMD for the time being.
 
Only reason the 7970 beats the 680 in a lot of stuff was the faster memory bus. Now that it's the same, I'd rather have a Titan, if I had a lot of money.
 
It is the true 580 replacement, not like the 680 which was more more of a 560Ti replacement and when you look at it like that, this is an incredible piece of hardware. Compared to the 580, the theoretical performance is so far ahead.

I don't see this as a gaming card though tbh. There is a lot of marketing going on towards the gamers, but then the majority of Nvidia's income is from the consumer market, not the business market, even when it comes to their $1k cards. For any company or person doing heavy compute work, this is a god send. You will be able to pick up two of these for the price of a single Tesla card and theoretically destroy them, because a single card is virtually the same as a K20X on paper. In practice this will likely be a different story because of the drivers, after all the Tesla drivers aren't designed with any gaming in mind, but the Titan will be so will not excel to the same degree at compute work as a Tesla card will. But at half the price, who would care if you get even 2/3 the performance ;)
 
The more I read about it, the more I want to buy one. As an upgrade from the GTX 670 I have right now. FAH should fly on so many cores, don't you think?
 
no i woudent upgrade to titan, if i had a 680 ore 690, the 690 is faster and with the new cards that will come out its a waste of money i think, i would rater upgrade to the arus lol.
 
The thing you are missing is the Titan isn't really aimed for the gaming market.
It is really intended for the workstation environment where best compute power for the $$ is welcomed.
If it was aimed at the gaming market the price would also be lower by a couple of hundred.
 
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The only reason for the titan is if you were to run 2 or 3 in sli they'd scale better and probs beats 2 or 3 690s.
 
Titan has double-precision CUDA processing which makes it attractive for CAD/Maya, due to its low pricepoint compared to Quadro and FirePro/FireGL cards (often $1500+)

For gaming, it's total overkill, which is good if you want a constant 60fps or even 120fps at 1080p
 
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