Tuesday, May 13th 2014
$2,999 Price of GeForce GTX TITAN-Z Not Justifiable: Review
Here's why NVIDIA still hasn't launched the GeForce GTX TITAN-Z at the $2,999 price-point it so boldly announced at GTC 2014 - it's not worth its price by a long shot, at least not when stacked up against the Radeon R9 295X2, according to a review published by Hong Kong based print magazine E-Zone. In most tests, the two are evenly matched, with the R9 295X2 even outperforming it by a significant margin in some. In tests where the GTX TITAN-Z leads the R9 295X2, the lead isn't significant, at least nowhere close to justifying its price. The only way NVIDIA can sell the GTX TITAN-Z, if these numbers hold true, is by delivering on its 375W TDP figure.
The review finds that a system running a single GTX TITAN-Z draws 33W less power than the same system running two GTX 780 Ti cards in SLI, and 60W less power than the same system running a single R9 295X2 (tested at FireStrike Extreme load). Unless you plan on future-proofing yourself for the next decade, the lower power draw doesn't justify the $1,500 higher price. So what explains the delay in launching the GTX TITAN-Z? Either a redesign with higher clocks (and proportionately higher power draw), or development of faster drivers.
Source:
LinusTechTips Community
The review finds that a system running a single GTX TITAN-Z draws 33W less power than the same system running two GTX 780 Ti cards in SLI, and 60W less power than the same system running a single R9 295X2 (tested at FireStrike Extreme load). Unless you plan on future-proofing yourself for the next decade, the lower power draw doesn't justify the $1,500 higher price. So what explains the delay in launching the GTX TITAN-Z? Either a redesign with higher clocks (and proportionately higher power draw), or development of faster drivers.
82 Comments on $2,999 Price of GeForce GTX TITAN-Z Not Justifiable: Review
Titan Z
706 / 876 / 1058
780 Ti
875 / 928 / 1019
39mhz boost more and still coming up short in every comparison.
It needs a complete overhaul, its not going to do well with just a clock boost in all honesty unless the cooler can keep up under load.
Not! :p
I could've told you that a month ago... Oh wait, I already did:
AMD Radeon R9 295 X2 8192 MB:slap:
Granted 290X was almost half the price for all of 48hrs after its release, I'm glad I got my 290Xs at lower than retail value while some dumb suckers were caught paying north of $699 or $799 for them :p
Anyway, at $2999 Nvidia shot itself in the foot, I hope this knocks them back to their senses and the card is priced more reasonably or they invest on a better cooling solution...
I'm not trying to play devil's advocate, there's just certain laws of thermodynamics that cannot be easily broken :p
However, Nvidia lost the plot with Titan Z. They absolutely deserve scorn for such a terribly arrogant attempt at price manipulation. Not saying it's not a free market but the fact AMD have a far better option at half the price puts Nvidia to shame. The compute argument is also pretty lame. Hardware enabled but software crippled, Titan is not a bona fide compute card - it isn't complete in that sense. I'm sure it's missing ECC and other things.
They need to swallow their pride and knock it down to a dual Titan price point.
Not that i would buy a R9 295X2 either, but this card is just an even greater insult to one's intelligence...
I would buy a couple of R9 290/GTX 780 instead (in the remote case i wanted to have a crossfire/sli config.)
Maybe it'll settle down a bit soon?Imagine the price on that one though!!! :D
For the price they were gonna ask, it should be easy to include 4 high end chips and AMD wouldn't stand a chance against this would-be quad SLI monster!
Aaaaaaaalllrighty then, Back to reality.