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Nvidia Corp.’s latest ultra-high-end graphics cards offer unbeatable performance and do not really have direct rivals. Unfortunately, when it comes to prices, not everything looks truly good, especially in Europe. Fortunately, stores like Overclockers UK and their partners this week offer substantial discounts on Nvidia’s flagship product.
The suggested retail price of the Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan X graphics card is £899 in the U.K. Many graphics boards cost more because they come with custom cooling systems and are factory-overclocked, some adapters cost a little less to attract attention. For a limited time only, OcUK, Palit and Zotac will offer their GeForce GTX Titan X graphics cards for £799.
All flagship Titan X graphics boards are made by a contract manufacturer under Nvidia’s supervision. The company then sells add-in-boards to its partners, which is why all GeForce GTX Titan X graphics adapters look similar. As a result it does not really matter what brand name does a Titan X carry: they are all equally good from quality point of view.
The Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan X is based on the GM200 graphics processing unit with 3072 stream processors, 192 texture mapping units, 96 raster operations pipelines and 384-bit bus. All Titan X graphics cards are equipped with 12GB of GDDR5 memory operating at 7GHz.
Keeping in mind that initial demand for Nvidia’s new flagship is over, there is GeForce GTX 980 Ti that offers similar performance and there is AMD’s Radeon Fury incoming, it is about time for resellers to start reconsidering premium prices of the GeForce GTX Titan X.
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KitGuru Says: Without any doubts, the GeForce GTX Titan X remains a very expensive solution. Still, it is good to see that prices are getting a little bit lower.
I think from the start users should have “reconsidered” the price of the Titan X. If it was an actual Titan card with a double precision encoding block, that’d have been “normal”. But it was just a $1000 gaming card, and people bought it like hotcakes.
If only we could have made a statement about price and people had a little bit of patience.
A better plan might be
599 titan X — 499 980 TI — 399 980 and 299 970
I think that Titan X is obsolete from consideration from anyone with half a brain. The only exception being if money really is no object. If you are a gamer, 980ti will do 95%+ of what the Titan X can do, for 75% of the price. It’s not like we’re talking £75 vs £100 here though, it’s literally a £200-£250 difference. You can buy a 4790k for that now. If you are a professional (video editing etc), the Titan X is not the card for you now, due to the lack of double precision encoding. Who is the Titan X for? It’s for the 1% who are either too stupid to know its barely better than a Ti, or gamers who have bottomless pockets.
I’d agree, but the VRAM of 12GB on the Titan X vs the 6GB on the 980ti would give a lot more breathing room at higher resolutions (2160p, Superwide 1440p, etc), which is a big deal in games with large texture files like Shadow of Mordor, AC: Unity, GTAV.
no video game is going to use more than 6gb period.. titan x is a waste of money
The second part of your comment might have some truth to it but the first could look a bit silly some months or a year or two down the line. 4K + some beefy textures could breach the 6GB VRAM barrier sooner rather than later.
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