Nvidia releases $3000 Titan Z

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Post by Aeolus98 » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 5:35 PM UTC

Nvidia releases $3000 Titan Z
blogs.nvidia.com

Re: Nvidia releases $3000 Titan Z

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Post by TrainedMonkey » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 6:02 PM UTC

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.

Re: Nvidia releases $3000 Titan Z

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Post by Aeolus98 » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 6:08 PM UTC

IMHO the only reason you'd want this is to save on a PCIe slot when you absolutely need the double-precision floating point operations to run at full speed.

Re: Nvidia releases $3000 Titan Z

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Post by imperialdrive » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 6:13 PM UTC

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

Re: Nvidia releases $3000 Titan Z

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Post by breischl » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 6:13 PM UTC

I don't track gaming GPU requirements that much, but this strikes me as past high end. Is this even useful for gaming, or is it really aimed at doing crypto, cryptocurrency mining, simulations, etc?

Re: Nvidia releases $3000 Titan Z

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Post by augbot » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 6:13 PM UTC

Mmmmmm, OpenCL.

Re: Nvidia releases $3000 Titan Z

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Post by makmanalp » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 6:13 PM UTC

Wow, I bet the cost / benefit ratio on this one is not so great for most applications. Just wait a year till a minutely pared-down version is available for 10% the price.

Re: Nvidia releases $3000 Titan Z

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Post by Aqwis » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 6:14 PM UTC

It mentions supercomputers, but also gaming. Supercomputers aren't known for being particularly good for gaming, to put it that way. Is this product just a new gaming GPU, or is it aimed at a different market, even altcoin miners?

Re: Nvidia releases $3000 Titan Z

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Post by kenrikm » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 6:15 PM UTC

I'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.

Re: Nvidia releases $3000 Titan Z

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Post by Aeolus98 » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 6:16 PM UTC

breischl wrote: post #5

I don't track gaming GPU requirements that much, but this strikes me as past high end. Is this even useful for gaming, or is it really aimed at doing crypto, cryptocurrency mining, simulations, etc?

Its mainly used for the DP floating point that isn't limited artificially. The titan supercomputer at ORNL uses an older version of these. So heavy compute.