Report: Nvidia GTX Titan-Z to Hit Retail April 29

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I wonder what the profit margin is for these. Hopefully, pricing the high end "consumer" cards to be affordable only to the upper class isn't a trend.
 
we have 21% taxes here in Belgium. So 2999$ = 2169,57€ + 21% = 2625.18€ all inclusive wich is 3628,79$. This card will not sell here, the max for a graphics card should always be about 700€. (about 970$)
 
OMG, is Nvidia that crazy to try and charge that much for an enthusiast video card??? At that price I'd much rather use it for something more practical, like a down payment for a nice car or a house. I'm sure there will be some fools with more money than brains though...
 
This is a complete waste of money. If you're a pro, why not go Tesla or K series instead of this bloated double float gaming card? And then they purposefully disable double power on the gaming cards (600x on, 500x was great). I laughed in NVidia's face at SIGGRAPH 2012 at the show and their parties for doing that. Pros would never desaturate the T or K market, only enthusiasts would have a small bridge to learn on.

 
Not that it is relevant at all, but I actually live in Europe. The Netherlands to be precise.

Now, while I agree that the price for Europe will probably end up landing somewhere around the €2600 - €2700 mark after a few days/weeks, initial prices are almost always the USD number with a Euro symbol in front of it. The R9 295X2 for example, is available right now for pre-order for about €1499 here (incl VAT), and its US MSRP is $1499 (Excl VAT).
 
This is why I dislike Nvidia so much. They might make good products, but they always seek ways to exploit their fans for the profit sake alone. Take the 780ti for example, they could have released it instead of the 780 but they chose to hold back and charge $700 for the 780 instead, because AMD didn't have any competing products at the time. They also love to come up with ways to corner the market with proprietary tech. This new Titan Z is so under powered and so overpriced it is insulting. Nvidia is all about the bottom line $$$. Nvidia = Apple.
 
For me, this is far out of my price range. I agree with kristoffe.Pros will go for a tesla or a quadro - especially since it was more than pointed out in the recent "pro card" review that "consumer" card support in the pro software region is minimal.

I can't see this card selling much even in the US. My bet is that NVidia is testing the waters in the consumer market to see if there is enough of a market for them to justify selling a high-powered, double-precision compute card at this outrageous price, especially when double-precision power used to come built-in. We'll see, but I have to say that I hope this fails.

With the recent hacks that turn consumer cards into "pro" cards, I have to say that NOTHING has changed in between the pro and consumer worlds. It is the same silicon, but masked by a resistor or a ground instead of a positive voltage.

And having worked in the pro RIP industry, I highly doubt that the drivers are as optimized as all the folks at various review sites think. The software I worked on was sold complete - the only difference was that you had to buy a key to activate features - for which the company I worked for charged a premium.

This is what I hate about this kind of card. It is pure marketing BS, and people who fall for it perpetuate this business model.
 
A ridiculous overpriced card with a GPU chip that will be obsolete the minute you buy it because it isn't based on maxwell. I pity the fools that buy this. For once, Mr. T was right.
 
But it's pretty. Really pretty. Doesn't that count for something?

And like every supermodel on the planet - way outta my league.
 


of course they care so much about their bottom line. they are profit making company after all.
 
Everyone here knows they would piss their pants if this card showed up on their doorstep. Most of us COULD max out our credit card and buy this card, but the question is ... what would I do with it? My GTX 470 still plays all my games at 1080p @ 40-60 frames. Buying this card would be like buying a piece of art or a classic car. I dont need it, it just looks cool. We are the only species on the planet who appreciates things because they exist and not cause we need them. It is apart of our humanity and it is healthy in moderation.
 
This should be a $2k card.

690-Basically 2 680's
Costs $1000, 1 680 costs $500 (Time of release)

Titan Z-Basically 2 Titan Blacks
Costs $3000, 1 Titan costs $1000

It doesn't translate well in price to me. You could buy 3 Titans and pay the same amount for ~25-35% more performance.

Nvidia will drop the price on this...or they won't sell any. It's worth ~$2000-2200
 
This is a complete waste of money. If you're a pro, why not go Tesla or K series instead of this bloated double float gaming card? And then they purposefully disable double power on the gaming cards (600x on, 500x was great). I laughed in NVidia's face at SIGGRAPH 2012 at the show and their parties for doing that. Pros would never desaturate the T or K market, only enthusiasts would have a small bridge to learn on.
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This is a complete waste of money. If you're a pro, why not go Tesla or K series instead of this bloated double float gaming card? And then they purposefully disable double power on the gaming cards (600x on, 500x was great). I laughed in NVidia's face at SIGGRAPH 2012 at the show and their parties for doing that. Pros would never desaturate the T or K market, only enthusiasts would have a small bridge to learn on.
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I think you should look at the price on the Tesla or k series equivalent.... you'll see why
 


If this showed up on my doorstep for free, I'd turn around and sell it right away.... lol
 


Oh how I wish I could choose this as best answer! LOL
 
Only reason you should even consider this card is if you're a game developer. Other than that this shouldn't be classified as a gaming GPU because the price vs performance as far as gaming goes is out of this world and you'd be an idiot to buy this just to play BF4 or some other game that is on the next-gen market.
 
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