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Re: Nvidia releases $3000 Titan Z

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Post by dragontamer »

boyaka wrote: post #17
United857 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Real-time shading/rendering is essentially a massively parallel operation -- the exact type of problems that GPUs (and supercomputers in general) are good for. In fact, many of the top supercomputers today use GPUs.

Yep. And it would probably be good for altcoins indeed. It just can't be a good bitcoin miner because the ASICs are already out there. If an altcoin can be mined with an ASIC (I believe the purpose of some, like litecoin, are not to be?) then it is near pointless to mine with a GPU (unless in a pool). Also, I would assume the reason behind supercomputers not being good for gaming is that they are parallelized in ways…

The best performance/watt altcoin miner is the NVidia 760 right now, although the R9 290x has a case for being the best well-rounded altcoin miner (Once you factor the fact that you'll need 3 or 4x the 760s to keep up with a single R9 290x).

Re: Nvidia releases $3000 Titan Z

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Post by ThePhysicist »

That's pretty impressive. According to the announcement this card will sport 8 Teraflops (or about 112 GIPS), which corresponds to the entire available computing power on this planet in 1990. Let's play some Counterstrike :D

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/05/xbox-o...

Re: Nvidia releases $3000 Titan Z

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Post by trekky1700 »

izzydata wrote: post #20
jjcm wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Keep in mind that even if you're maxing the in-game settings, you aren't maxing out the image quality fully. You can still go beyond that with supersampling (essentially rendering at a higher resolution, then downscaling to your monitor's resolution in order to prevent aliasing). Standard anti-aliasing tries to detect edges in order to find specific parts of the image to supersample, but it isn't perfect. If you want…

Personally I find having a higher frame rate in faster paced game is far more important than having a diagonal line be perfectly smooth. In the middle of a game you'd never be concerned with how perfect the image looks.

The point of this card is there are some people who want both.

Re: Nvidia releases $3000 Titan Z

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Post by soperj »

fourmii wrote: post #21
TrainedMonkey wrote: post #2

This card is more expensive than all the hardware in my current PC, and I am running pretty high end gaming rig with 900D, GTX 680, 3700K, xonar, 16 GB of RAM, roomy SSD, velociraptor, Johny Guru 5 star rated PSU, and custom built water cooling.

Out of interest, what do you play on this rig?

probably 2048.

Re: Nvidia releases $3000 Titan Z

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Post by mentos »

I definitely see a need for graphics cards like these with virtual reality around the corner.

I haven't bought a new graphics card in 5 years because even next gen games play well enough. But I can see VR changing that with the need to render the same scene twice (one for each eye).

I wonder how much money you'd have to drop today to have a rig that can push 4K to each eye? There isn't a headset that can support that yet but I'd imagine its atleast in the next 5-10 years.

Re: Nvidia releases $3000 Titan Z

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Post by selectodude »

mentos wrote: post #36

I definitely see a need for graphics cards like these with virtual reality around the corner. I haven't bought a new graphics card in 5 years because even next gen games play well enough. But I can see VR changing that with the need to render the same scene twice (one for each eye). I wonder how much money you'd have to drop today to have a rig that can push 4K to each eye? There isn't a headset that can support that…

It looks like two GeForce Titan Blacks in SLI can do one 4K screen. So if you did two monitors each with its own SLI, it would work for about $4000 in GPUs as of right now.

Re: Nvidia releases $3000 Titan Z

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Post by DontGiveTwoFlux »

higherpurpose wrote: post #13

Dual-GPU...so not very good for VR gaming. The only reason you'd want such an expensive high-end GPU is to be future proof with VR gaming at 4k/120fps. But dual-GPUs aren't great for VR gaming. Nvidia needs another card between the normal Titan and this one, that's a single card, and is targeted at VR gaming, and costs $1500 at most.

Why is Dual-GPU not ideal for VR?

Intuitively, one GPU per eyeball sounds like a good fit.

Re: Nvidia releases $3000 Titan Z

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Post by jksmith »

fourmii wrote: post #21
TrainedMonkey wrote: post #2

This card is more expensive than all the hardware in my current PC, and I am running pretty high end gaming rig with 900D, GTX 680, 3700K, xonar, 16 GB of RAM, roomy SSD, velociraptor, Johny Guru 5 star rated PSU, and custom built water cooling.

Out of interest, what do you play on this rig?

Goat Simulator will be off the hook.

Re: Nvidia releases $3000 Titan Z

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Post by sillysaurus3 »

orik wrote: post #15

Most of the current comments are along the lines of "You will only need this card if you are doing _____". ie "Gaming at 4k", "Parallel Compute". I think it's pretty clear this is a halo product, but I want to point out that having two non-crippled gpu's on a stick is an impressive technical achievement. Sure they will be throttled when the heat constraints kick in, but I am excited to see this sort of technology tri…

What's a halo product?
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