I wonder how much bit coin you could mine with a whole rack of these.
Nvidia releases $3000 Titan Z
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Re: Nvidia releases $3000 Titan Z
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I disagree - I think that's a confused example of what a halo product is.
I am not sure that Apple has a halo product, but if they did, it would be the new mac pro. (regardless of how you feel about the new mac pro...)
Re: Nvidia releases $3000 Titan Z
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I disagree - I think that's a confused example of what a halo product is. I am not sure that Apple has a halo product, but if they did, it would be the new mac pro. (regardless of how you feel about the new mac pro...)
It was the iPod that device that really demonstrated the value of a halo product.
Re: Nvidia releases $3000 Titan Z
#54I wonder how much bit coin you could mine with a whole rack of these.
Not a whole lot. Nvidia cards are not as efficient at mining compared to AMD ones.
1. Single gtx titan gets 300 mh/s [0].
2. There are two gtx titan chips in this card, so let's say 600 mh/s.
3. A rack should fit around 60 of these. This gives us 36 gh/s (gigahashes a second).
4. According to this[1] calculator you will get a whooping 0.00361597 BTC per day, which would be worth around $2.12. Tomorrow expected payout drops to $2.09. Electricity should cost you at least an order of magnitude more.
[0] http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-titan-perfor...
Re: Nvidia releases $3000 Titan Z
#55I'm on 660TIs in SLI which are not the newest horse in the stable and can run just about anything out maxed (16x AA etc.) @ 1080p. You won't need this card unless you're going multi monitor and / or retina level.
I think this card is aimed at the compute crowd. However, there is an extension of "multi monitor" that's probably going to become a big thing: VR gaming. VR gaming demands both more pixels and a consistent, high framerate, and could percolate more quickly down from "most hardcore of the hardcore" to "many people who enjoy gaming own one" than 4K displays or huge monitor stacks have. This particular GPU is a multi-GP…
Wouldn't you render the two frames at the same time on separate cards?
Re: Nvidia releases $3000 Titan Z
#56That'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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_supercomputing#Histo...
Another fun one. At 8 Teraflops it makes it equivalent to the top supercomputer of 2000. So our desktops (in terms of raw computing capability) are only about 14 years behind supercomputers, and that gap is closing rapidly.
Re: Nvidia releases $3000 Titan Z
#57Most 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?
A halo product is something that isn't there to be the real flagship that's driving the revenue, but instead to be the ultra-cool item that people really lust after, associate that with the brand, then buy one of the lower end models.
For example, the Ford Shelby GT500 http://www.ford.com/cars/mustang/trim/shelbygt500/ is probably not even turning a profit for Ford, but when someone picks up an automotive magazine with an article about the car, it makes them more likely to buy the entry level Mustang at 40% of the cost, or any other Ford product.
Re: Nvidia releases $3000 Titan Z
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's a halo product?
A halo product is something that isn't there to be the real flagship that's driving the revenue, but instead to be the ultra-cool item that people really lust after, associate that with the brand, then buy one of the lower end models. For example, the Ford Shelby GT500 http://www.ford.com/cars/mustang/trim/shelbygt500/ is probably not even turning a profit for Ford, but when someone picks up an automotive magazine wi…
The Dodge Viper is probably a better example, as it's a totally custom chassis, body, etc.
The GT500 still shares a LOT with a production Mustang, and al the economies of scale that imparts. It's also producded in very high quantities, 5000+ yearly. They're making money or they wouldn't buiild that many.
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#59This 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.
One of the worst things about owning a high-end gaming rig is watching it's inevitable decline to a 'standard desktop'. Bittersweet.
Re: Nvidia releases $3000 Titan Z
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I disagree - I think that's a confused example of what a halo product is. I am not sure that Apple has a halo product, but if they did, it would be the new mac pro. (regardless of how you feel about the new mac pro...)
Initially the iPhone 8GB sold for $600 on-contract, which worked out to an ASP of around $800 or higher, and average TCO over 2 years of $3k.
Also it was announced 6 months prior to release, was often sold out after it's release, and completely unavailable in most countries until months or years after initial release.
It was very much a halo product (at release, less so over time).
In fact, I would probably consider it as one of the most successful halo products ever - as it not only cast it's halo over the entire Mac+iPod product line, but it eventually became the revenue driver of the entire company.