Mousemonkey :
jimmysmitty :
Which would be nice if it also could work with AMD GPUs as well, they would make more money. I understand internal things like different AA as different AA methstead.
For that to happen I wouldn't be surprised if they (Nvidia) would want to have access to AMD hardware specs in order to make sure it would work reliably, which is also what they said about PhysX and we all know how that turned out.
Problem is that PhysX worked before NVidia bought them as a separate add-on card and even as a lower end say NVidia GPU with a AMD GPU as a main. It wasn't until NVidia caught wind of this that they decided to remove that ability from drivers.
I understand not making PhysX work on a AMD GPU, but why can't someone buy say a GTX 640 and throw it in as a PhysX card?
maxiim :
Mousemonkey :
maxiim :
So now there is a 780 Ti which they will charge less for now than we might have originally speculated and only because of the 290x performance. Had the 290x proved not to be close to the 780 this Ti card would have been a 899$ Titan LE, instead of a 750-799 780 Ti. Well played nVidia I must really admit, but why not just release GPUs the best that they can be instead of screwing the public and playing these market games while AMD wasnt keeping up.
You seem to forget that they are a business not a charity and as a business its about making money.
This is the same business that could have had Titan as their x80 flagship but decided to sell it at a 300$+ premium and deliver a subpar product just because they didnt "have to". If they had done that the 700 series could have possibly been much better, so as a consumer I'm not really complaining about the prices of their products but their business plan to get a few quick $$ off of the titan, instead of advancing tech they way they really should be. As a consumer I cannot support a business that I know has a product that was planed to fill a certain market, but as the competition released something that didnt closely compete, nVidia decided to over charge THEIR loyal customers just simply because they could. Now dont mistake me for a fanboy of either company, Im simply more interested in them advancing as much as they can instead of sitting back because they lack competition.
Actually when Titan came out it was the best you could get, and that was for a few months. Once the GTX 780 hit, that's when Titan became over priced and pointless.
But up until that point it was better than anything AMD had. Hell it is still the only card that can play Max Payne 3 at max settings with max AA at 2560x1440 resolution. Well the HD7970 Toxic could but you can't buy them anymore (it also had 6GB of VRAM before the Titan even came out) or the HD7970 Vapor-X 6GB edition.
And every company will over charge when they can. How many AMD loyalists do you think dropped $1K on a FX 9590? Quite a few more than should. I even had a friend think it was a good CPU but when you need water cooling and it barely performs as well as Intels $350 offering, that's when you know its over priced and aimed at the die hard fanboys. Titan was as well.
And if AMD had a true Titan killer (I mean in pure performance) they would over charge for it much like they did with the first FX series and the HD 7970 when it first came out. Not until
after the GTX 680 came out did it drop below $500.