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Nvidia releases $3000 Titan Z

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Re: Nvidia releases $3000 Titan Z

#41

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...

New benchmarking scheme: "Entire available computing power on the planet in year XXXX"

Awesome.

Re: Nvidia releases $3000 Titan Z

#42
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?

It's a product that raises perceived quality of the rest of the brand.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect#Halo_effect_and_bra...

Re: Nvidia releases $3000 Titan Z

#43
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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Re: Nvidia releases $3000 Titan Z

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post #21

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?

Whatever he wants :)

Re: Nvidia releases $3000 Titan Z

#45
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?

I believe orik is referring to the halo effect, a term used in marketing. It's the idea that when a customer has a positive experience with a companies products, they will likely choose that companies products in the future simply because of the past positive experience.

The idea is the customer thinks: "Look at this amazing product Nvidia is producing! They must have great engineers working on bleeding edge technology!".

Even if they don't buy the $3000 GPU, they now associate Nvidia with high quality GPUs which may influence them to buy Nvidia product in the future.

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/halo-effect.asp

Re: Nvidia releases $3000 Titan Z

#47
post #21

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?

Heavily modded skyrim.

Re: Nvidia releases $3000 Titan Z

#48
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?

An iPhone is a good example. Real life example: my wife bought an iPhone, I was impressed and bought one, which led to me buying a MacBook to do dev work (and because "hey, they do make good machines"), which led to a whole house full of Macs and various Apple gear.

Because they made what I thought was a decent phone at the time, they sold some other gear as a result.

Re: Nvidia releases $3000 Titan Z

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post #46

>TITAN Z is engineered for next-generation 5K and multi-monitor gaming 5K? "all the way to 11" or somebody just didn't proof-read the copy?

Pro video cameras record beyond 5K - eg. RED Dragon does 6K. Shortly (probably at NAB this year) we'll be seeing theater projectors and studio monitors at that resolution.

Re: Nvidia releases $3000 Titan Z

#50

The only reason to by this card is to get full QHD/4K porn in 3D, to pass the time while simultaneously mining bitcoin.

The Bitcoin network is currently hashing at nearly 500 exa-flops (estimated). This thing has what, 8 tera-flops? Not very effective.

interesting what human computing endeavor has first crossed 10-20 exa-flops - the estimate of computing power of the brain. 500 exa-flops is something that would be enough to emulate the brain.
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