Tuesday, April 29th 2014
GeForce GTX TITAN-Z Market Availability Delayed?
NVIDIA's flagship dual-GPU graphics card, the GeForce GTX TITAN-Z, was expected to go on sale later today. That launch is now delayed, according to a SweClockers report. The three thousand Dollar question is why. According to some sources, NVIDIA is effecting a last minute design change that sees a meatier cooler on the card, than the one Jen-Hsun Huang rafikied to the press at GTC 2014.
There may have been a last-minute realization at Santa Clara, that the card - as presented at GTC - may not cut it in the ring against AMD's Radeon R9 295X2, or at least it won't be able to warrant its vulgar $3000 price tag, against the R9 295X2's $1500; despite AMD's rather messy three-piece approach to its liquid-cooled product (the card itself, a radiator, and coolant tubing), and so NVIDIA could be redesigning the GTX TITAN-Z with an even bigger cooler, to facilitate higher clock speeds.So, what's changed? Eagle-eyed market sleuths noticed a difference between the press-shots NVIDIA released at GTC, and the ones online retailers put up to solicit pre-orders. The card "originally" had a 2.5-slot thick cooler; while the one in the press-shots retailers put up appears to have a full 3-slot thick one. There is no word on when NVIDIA will make this beefier, sweatier GTX TITAN-Z available for people with three grand to spend on a graphics card.
Sources:
VideoCardz, SweClockers
There may have been a last-minute realization at Santa Clara, that the card - as presented at GTC - may not cut it in the ring against AMD's Radeon R9 295X2, or at least it won't be able to warrant its vulgar $3000 price tag, against the R9 295X2's $1500; despite AMD's rather messy three-piece approach to its liquid-cooled product (the card itself, a radiator, and coolant tubing), and so NVIDIA could be redesigning the GTX TITAN-Z with an even bigger cooler, to facilitate higher clock speeds.So, what's changed? Eagle-eyed market sleuths noticed a difference between the press-shots NVIDIA released at GTC, and the ones online retailers put up to solicit pre-orders. The card "originally" had a 2.5-slot thick cooler; while the one in the press-shots retailers put up appears to have a full 3-slot thick one. There is no word on when NVIDIA will make this beefier, sweatier GTX TITAN-Z available for people with three grand to spend on a graphics card.
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Seems funny to be asking for a card at this point.
As far as Nvidia's marketing pages are concerned, it seems mainly confined to their own sites various blogs. Clever marketing indeed if Nvidia have convinced the masses to bookmark their various portals.
Seems like a lot of effort from a bunch of people who have one thing in common - none of them will be buying the card I think you'll find that sticking two GPUs on the same PCB allows you to charge three times the single card price. ....Pay for three, Get twois the new black.
1: They are refining the card
2: They don't want comparisons because its not as good
3: They don't care
4: They do not like to compare Quad and tri on their cards.
Nvidia does not even list in many cases that their video cards can run in a quad setup. They really don't support 3 and 4 card setups with their drivers which causes poor scaling in games and such. They probably do not care to show that and would rather show numbers on things where it might actually have an advantage.
The point of this card is nill, its situations where it would work well are over shadowed by its size and cooler design along with the low professional grade support, non-ECC ram, and the fact its components are not rated for the heavy workloads/24/7 use that would be associated with this level of computing.
An extra slot space between the card will greatly improve cooling.
Slide 52, Scheduling in OptiX (SIGGRAPH presentation) (PDF) Yup. Rarely, an AIB has made exceptions to the iron rule of Nvidia, but not recently to my recollection. I do rememberEVGA enabling quad SLI on the GTX 285 Classywhen the 285 officially only supported triple SLI
Plus the cooler again is not going to work in a rack mount which ruins the whole CGI render card route that Titan sorta filled.
/Cool story bro
Looks premium to me.