Wednesday, May 14th 2014
Drivers Holding Back GTX TITAN-Z Launch
It turns out that drivers are holding back launch of NVIDIA's GeForce GTX TITAN-Z flagship graphics card. That's not to say that drivers for the card don't exist. When tested with ones that do, performance numbers yielded by Hong Kong-based tech print magazine E-Zone, reveal that the card trades blows with AMD's R9 295X2 in too many tests to warrant double its price at $2,999; and that it's also slower in some. The only way NVIDIA can sell the GTX TITAN-Z at that price, is by either making it significantly faster, or reducing the price. It looks like NVIDIA is trying the former, and not by tinkering with hardware specifications, but drivers. NVIDIA believes it can yet salvage the $2,999 pricing of the GTX TITAN-Z, by developing drivers that make the card convincingly faster than AMD's $1,499 offering. Retailers and distributors are being told not to sell their GTX TITAN-Z inventory until NVIDIA releases these drivers. The company didn't mention a date to these retailers. Given its track-record with performance-enhancing drivers, one can give NVIDIA the benefit of doubt. It may yet prevent a "GTX TITANIC-Z" from happening.
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85 Comments on Drivers Holding Back GTX TITAN-Z Launch
Just get over with it Nvidia, release the damn card at half the price.
There's no way a driver release can make it much faster than what it is now unless they tinker with IQ settings.
If it exceeds 100% of AMD R9 290X2 (1slot !) would not put so much of it . I canot !!. Namely the Europa gets R9 AMD 290X 2 for only € 1,200.,(However, this is put up! shood be 700$) and the price is falling!
At such prices will be very little sold.! Stock will not gonna sell! And Maxvell will continue deliberately to be delayed !
Where you get the impression that deliberately working against the customer. Only for their own profit, and who we can do something.! I wish success to AMD just to deliver greedy iNvida a lesson.
I could write this soap opera better than them and im a gramma assassin.
On water where the card run 1100+ on the boost they beat the 295X 90% of the time, I would not be shocked to see them change the drivers so the temps don't cause such a huge clock speed lose as we do now.
And there is not much headroom left in there, considering this is an air cooled graphics card. If they raise clocks above what they are now they can forget their 375W TDP.
Machine translation is not always reliable, right? (locked clockeng? What the hell, man? You made my day :laugh:)
This $3K card again? It's really a slow day.
Anyway I hope - and I really do hope - Maxwell will make it on time. I'll be pissed if Maxwell is getting sidelined because of this stupid thing. :shadedshu:
Sometimes I think NVIDIA will be better off without JHH...
The 2 biggest sins of mister Jen-Hsun Huang. I wanted to say stupidity also, but is not a sin, is more of a quality nowadays...
(that was a compliment)
I still think they should call it a Quadro and lose some respectability but not more if they leave it as a Geforce.
The probable problem is that after a few minutes the thing throttles back and performance tanks.
Will they tune the boost settings to boost just long enough to complete a benchmark?
AMD was wise to go for liquid cooling.
Cut the price of the card in half and call it a day. There is no way they will be able to improve the driver by that much to warrant the $3k price tag.
As for blaming the drivers for the delay of the Titan-Z? I don't buy that, the card is just two GK110 in one board, my GK110s in SLI have been rock steady for over a year now, yes you need to create new fan profiles and throttle algorithms when your dealing with dual GPU cards, but Nvidia announced this card months ago, they've had plenty of time to do that.
Also, I fully agree that going for dual 780Ti (or 290Xs for that matter) makes a lot more sense :)