Source:
Hagedoorn, Hilbert, 05-30-2015, EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti SKU lineup leaks with prices:
http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/evga-leaks-geforce-gtx-980-ti-sku-lineup-and-prices.html
Above is bolded to support my point in this post. With the NVidia GTX 980 Ti going between $799.99 and $827.99 for the drop in performance to a GTX Titan-X, taking into consideration what I've bold up above, it's a safe bet that this will be true. Also, this is the worst case scenario, but this is also taking account that GTX 980 Ti was never going to beat AMD R9-390x Aka Rage by much on performance differences or averages.
I've always suspected a head of time before the announcement of D3D12.0 that for the CPU side, there has always been a bottleneck of some form. This is what brought performance down for PC Games. On the GPU side, I believe it's the framebuffer speeds. Taking into account that there are other areas besides CPU bottleneck and framebuffer speeds that drop performance. Other areas that slow down performance: The CPU does a lot of other renderings like Shadows, Particle Effects, Physics, etc... If these things could be offloaded to the GPU, performance would go up even further. D3D12.0 aka DirectX 12.0 is a solution to the CPU bottleneck, and in some ways, utilization of HBM is a solution to the gain in performance for Discrete Graphic Cards. Implementation of HBM now for AMD is going to be to their benefit for this generation, and this is probably the defining x-factor that's making NVidia sell their units faster in comparison to previous generations. So yes, in conclusion, NVidia will possibly start thrusting out their products faster, this generation, before AMD goes live with their Flavor of the Generation, to make a quick buck.
Back to the post:
The Rage Branding is nothing more than a marketing gimmick. Gimmicks don't sell, even with a history of lacking performance and issues for AMD's past. It works for NVidia because they have a track record of churning out products that work, or have a higher rate of not failing, or consumers are happier with NVidia products over AMD products. NVidia sells on gimmicks because it has a past history of delivering or meeting expectations probably over 75% to 90% of the time. This is why NVidia can sell products at a higher price on marketing gimmicks. AMD, I feel you are getting a little ahead of yourself with this. Build a reputation of products that work, that bring the performance, and are idiot-proof for consumers. Once you make a big deal about that, then you can start selling your consumers the b.s. that NVidia is good at for the past 10 years.
Just for the record, Uranus or Ouranos isn't a Titan. He's a Primordial God. The Titan's are just the reject inbreeds that were brought into existence between the Primordial Gods. A lot of people believe that Uranus is related to the Zodiac Gemini because Ouranos represents Heaven, and Heaven is in the air. This ideology is false. What Gemini represents as a Zodiac, or a connection to God or Gods, is the ideology of Duality. Duality is exerted or intertwined on everything. If Taurus represents Mother Earth aka Gaia (Gaea), than Uranus is possibly the dualistic opposite of Gaia.
The whole Titan History and Mythology is just an interpretation of how things came to existence that they (pre-greeks) can't explain and didn't fully understand. In addition, Greek Mythology is just refined religion and information that they got from the Mesopotamian (Bablyonian and Assyrians). The Hebrews did it with the Abraham-God in relation to the Babylonian God, Anu, (who is the chief god, the god who created the Heavens and Creation itself).
For NVidia, the Titan name-brand is nothing more than a marketing gimmick. AMD is just following NVdia's idea of it with the Rage gimmick.
