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Nvidia Corp. plans to reconsider the price of its single-chip flagship graphics card when it launches its new GeForce GTX Titan later this quarter. According to a media report, the new ultra-high-end graphics adapter will cost whopping $1349, which is considerably higher than the price of its predecessors.
The GeForce GTX Titan family of graphics cards have never offered great price-performance ratio because they are overpriced and are designed to deliver the best performance possible at any cost. The GeForce GTX Titan and Titan Black graphics cards cost $999 and were not the best choices for the money. Apparently, the upcoming GeForce GTX Titan powered by the code-named GM200 graphics processing unit will be priced at $1349, an unprecedented price for a consumer-class graphics board, reports Expreview web-site.
The media report claims that the new GeForce GTX Titan can feature either 6GB or 12GB GDDR5 memory, which partly explains its high price. GPU configuration of the new GeForce GTX Titan is unknown, but it is believed that the “Big Maxwell” graphics processing unit will feature 3072 stream processors, 192 texture units, 96 raster operating pipelines and 384-bit memory bus.
It is expected that the new GeForce GTX Titan will be considerably faster than its predecessors in video games thanks to the second-generation Maxwell architecture, higher amount of stream processors as well as high clock-rates.
Nvidia did not comment on the news-story.
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KitGuru Says: The rather extreme price of the new GeForce GTX Titan could mean two things: Nvidia does not care about the price of the graphics solutions and is not interested in selling tens of thousands of such graphics cards. The new GeForce GTX Titan “Big Maxwell” offers performance that is considerably higher than that of its arch-rival, the new AMD Radeon R9 graphics card.
Well.. it’s that time again when people can start selling body parts to get a GPU. 🙂
Not surprising and this time it wont have anything to do with how AMD Caribbean islands perform. These dies are massive as it is increasing the risk of lower yields when certain dies are not salvageable, the side effects of aggressive tweaks of the Design rules in order to get Maxwell to do it’s TDP lowering magic on average. The yields must be pretty bad on these. If AMD pulls out a rabbit and handily challenges the GM200s these prices won’t go down by much because they simply can’t.
just imagine buying 4 of this to build an sli system
Im more excited about the R9 390x
Somebody has to subsidize Tegra.
this thing is really is poor man tesla. currently newegg are selling titan black north of $1200 (and they were out of stock probably to make way of new titan). way above it’s original MSRP at $1000. even the original titan did not inflate that much when nearing it’s end. but a few weeks ago where there is still plenty of titan black stock from several AIB the price was way above $1000. maybe nvidia saw this chance to increase the MSRP for the next titan.
Awesome, it has a reputation of being overpriced, so why not increase the price again? It does make the potential buyer’s decision easier.
I already have 980…I can beat this one with just one more 980. 4K would run like a dream…
Poor article not to even mention the non-gaming reasons to buy this card and the relative performance in those tasks.
Nope. I’d be better off to get a set of 980s in SLI.
Take off the cooler it’s not worth the $140 BOM cost your paying for it. Just let 3rd partys add there own.
There is none now Titan X has no benefit to non gamers Nvidia has Nerfed it’s performance in other tasks. No proper FP64 support, no real benefit to CUDA devs over TitanZ no reason to replace a Quadro with it. It’s a pure gaming card nothing more.