If you're going to call something "TITAN" - it better be able to back it up !!! 

Tommy Trauma

aka_STEVE_b

If you're going to call something "TITAN" - it better be able to back it up !!! 

And they also said the "Titanic" was unsinkable.

^ This. Love it

I thought that someone (Goldmember?) mentioning in another thread that based on his inside information, the Titan will annihilate the 690.

The only "rumor" I hear about Titan that would make me consider it over a 690 is the 6GB of VRAM. At the same time, I don't believe anything until I see it available for purchase. 

Based off my own calculations titan will not be faster than a GTX690 but will be about 87% as fast as the GTX690 in it's stock form, which is great considering it's a single GPU card and comes with 6GB of VRAM.  A GTX680 Classy is about 60.7% as fast as a GTX690 in it's stock form.

Titan may have higher minimum frame rates than GTX690 (higher CUDA cores and higher memory bandwidth per GPU), but the average will be lower (it has less total CUDA cores).  GTX690's pair of GK104's that act like 2-way SLI 2GB GTX670's.  One Titan is faster than one GTX670, hence higher minimum frame rates.
 
But despite being slightly slower card than GTX690, Titan has at least a 3-way SLI scaling capability and rumored to run at 240W draw each compared to the 300W draw of GTX690, so it will cost more than GTX690 for those extra perks, logically speaking.  So far I'm guessing $1099 for the Titan.
 

armando666
I tend to agree with you, and that's why I think that 690 prices will be dropping like a rock once the Titan comes out. 

Not if Titan remains a limited run.  It isn't even called into the main series to imply some kind of confidence to give it an official model number, neither GTX600 or GTX700; what incentive does nVidia have to drop prices?  Only competition makes them drop prices to protect their share of the market and sales, that is the whole idea.  But neither GTX690 (there are a few unofficial HD7990's, but they aren't faster and use more power) nor Titan has any competition.  nVidia isn't going to drop prices to be nice to us, because it isn't about us.
 
Don't take competition for granted that you've come to expect newer stuff to make older stuff cheaper, price drops and more SKUs were only in reaction to a competitor or a competitor intention; if there was no competition at a particular product junction, what threat to their bottom-line is there to drop prices in order to get sales back?  None; hence Titan.
 
I don't care if any of you claim to be nVidia fans, if you don't pay attention to what AMD does or doesn't do, then you won't have a clue what and why nVidia does and doesn't do anything.  Early on I thought Titan didn't exist because there was no AMD competitor, but that turned out to be the reason why it still could be possible and explains the potential price.  
 
It can be a gamble really; what if AMD silently came up with something closer in performance for way cheaper, a la RV770 for those of you that remember?  AMD would need a 2560-stream processor GPU running at 1240MHz to match the Titan GPU.  I guess we'll see what happens over the next few months.
 
I don't believe the claim that there are no new AMD Radeons this year, both nVidia and AMD must have better entry-level competitors for Intel's Haswell IGP at least by June, they aren't going to let that slide.  With those new updated desktop and laptop systems that don't reply on integrated video, nVidia and AMD will want to take advantage to help their sales.  But seeing  how AMD rebranded their OEM HD7000's to HD8000, I suppose nVidia might do the same.  Doesn't help for retail though.