Friday, August 29th 2014
NVIDIA Cuts GeForce GTX TITAN-Z Price by 37 Percent, But for OEMs Only
With a price-tag of US $2,999, the GeForce GTX TITAN-Z from NVIDIA is the most expensive consumer graphics card in recent times. You needn't be a Vulcan to tell that it's overpriced by a lot, and that NVIDIA is selling these cards at a gargantuan margin. In a bid to see more system builders sell the card to their high-paying customers, NVIDIA cut prices of the card, by as much as 37 percent. An OEM partner will now be able to source a GTX TITAN-Z from NVIDIA for as less as $1,830. What they do with the cards - such as charging the full $2,999 for the option, is their business. DIY users will still have to cough up three grand for one of these illogical cards.
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28 Comments on NVIDIA Cuts GeForce GTX TITAN-Z Price by 37 Percent, But for OEMs Only
Product for the rich and stupid that they do not know what they are buying. Only the $ 600 price I would be interested. 900 series is at the door ! Kepler goodbye .I hope it was a good lesson when and for how much to sell 2 GPU card in future.
Nvidia fanboy 24/7 on the internet fighting the red guys without sleep, food and... toilet: $2999
What they want？
Sadly, a GTX 780 Ti SLI setup is cheaper and performs better than a GTX Titan-Z on 1080p, and in some cases, GTX Titan-Z does better at 4K resolutions to an extent. R9-295x does about the same or better than GTX Titan-Z on both 1080p and 4K for roughly 1/3 of the price. GTX Titan-Z, GTX Titan Black, and GTX 780 Ti all have the same Cuda Cores Count.
Again, I believe this card should have been advertised and made as a Quadro successor, or an in-between-er before a K7000 Quadro card. Yes, you only have 6 GB Framebuffers to 1 GPU, but you have twice the GPU horsepower with twice the 64bit floating point precision action at around the same price as a AMD Firepro 9100 Accelerator Card. Pop a few more $$$ on to it, and it would sale like hot cakes.
NVidia is clearly saving face by not lowering the price publicly, and I can't blame them. Even if the card was priced cheaper in retail than the R9 295X2, the number of additional sales they would get at this point would be inconsequential (most of the market that buys these products at retail doesn't have price as its first priority). And lowering the price publicly would be a net negative PR move; not only would it admit that the Titan-Z is overpriced in the first place, but it would not resolve the negativity aimed at it in initial reviews and online communities like TPU and would anger the people who already spent $3000 on one. Still, it's not like it matters to the gaming crowd since the GTX 900 series will be available within a month.
OMG! Rolex charge $20 000 for a watch, a freaking watch man, they want to rape my babies and burn the moon. They worship Satan and march on Iraq with IS.
IT'S A GODDAMNED PRODUCT YOU ARE NOT FORCED TO BUY.
FTR, I bought an initial Titan, I also bought a 780ti Classsified. (I also gave the Titan away to the crunchers/folders). I didn't buy a Titan Z because it was silly expensive but at no point did it make me cry and think how bad the world is. You think PC component pricing reflects the morality of the world, go and watch the news FFS!
Go and denigrate Intel, they've just released another $1000 chip. :D
But in my full honest, since I do not wanna nvidia to be doing well, maybe I should really be happy that they release relatively poorly recognised products. ;)
... or maybe after all, I am not that bad and want them releasing fast affordable products.
And by the way, I am already sick of that stupid argument about no one forcing you. Actually I do wish this product but they don't give it to me at decent and fair price. :D rofl
I can see one fanboy doing his usual crying because his favorite company is getting made fun of.Lol indeed, everyone though whether it be about making fun of it or crying because they don't want people to make fun if it get worked up beyond belief.I think the biggest problem at least in my book was always the idea behind the card made no sense. In the past dual GPU cards normally conform (reference) to a 2 slot form factor and while performing as well or slightly worse than the single GPUs they are based on fit a price point fitting enough to be worth saving the extra space for the tiny machine builds (or running quad with 2 cards) and many other scenarios.
This one just never met that criteria which completely ruins many if the reason to buy a dual gpu card. 3 slot design reference, significant lower performance than 2 single GPU variants, and cost of 3 single gpu variants. It just did not fit any ideas properly except in a few small situations where it could fit in some MITX cases. Not to say 295X2 had its flaws and was still hard to work with as well along with a high price (almost 3x the gpu it was based on).
It's probably the best move for nvidia to do this in all honesty because the only people who would probably want this either want a special small case machine or do not want to build their own.
Pricing at the high end seldom makes sense at a performance PoV - or depreciation for that matter considering we're only 6-8 months from seeing a new lineup from both companies. FWIW, 16nmFF already has production underway, and the follow-on 16nmFF+ will be qualified next month - from TSMC's Q2 2014 earnings transcript (PDF)Does any kind of major high-end graphics expenditure now make that much sense?According to some sources, the dual GK 110 will be offered as the Quadro K80