Maybe alot of people can afford $10,000 in just vga cards...thats a car...i figure in 4 years time it will cost someone for a medium end gaming system $10,000..prices are just getting out of hand, i could see throwing that type of money at a build if i were in the graffix industry or some kind of cad design or in the music buisness to run all monitors and tons of hardware...but for gaming...ha!...ill just sit back with popcorn and watch all the rich overclockers...
 

Some rumors talk about GTX790, some pure gaming cheaper variant of dual card but I'm not sure.
You know R9-295X with some tubes and all in one system I don't like. But R9-295X under full cover block it's incredible card.
With this block cost about 1650-1750$ depend of shop or brand. 
EKWB and Koolance fullcover blocks for Radeon R9-295X.
 

 

 
This Koolance block look crazy, because R9-295X is immediately after buy to remove craps from him. 
 
 It's bad because with all AMD manufacturer you must to remove screws with some textile over screwdriver to avoid possible marks because they can easy avoid to replace your card. It's lot of money and I'm not so brave to pay such price to any manufacturer.
I mean really now excuse, about Titan Z we can talk as 2% better or 2 worse, or 5% better and 5% worse any of them is same when you can pay Caselabs Case, AX1500i and very expensive DDR4 kit for Haswell E only for money difference between R9-295X and Titan Z.
That's reality. If someone ask me what you want I would say you use stronger 3000$ cards I will weaker and that stuff, Oppps but your is not stronger. I got everything else and stronger card...
I mean that's only possibility, you can buy what you want ...5960X and best most expensive X99 motherboard.
You can buy 1000$ custom loop and best EVGA Power Supply with cables, only for difference in money and you have stronger card or same, or 2% weaker no matter at all.
And it's not only AMD, for 1500$ and with NVIDIA cards with 6GB you can beat Titan Z, 3 way GTX780 6GB.
 

i'll start betting on lottos starting monday next week (hoping to win)

3K for a video card lol 

jisbell12

Jediexpress
No longer can they say that the titans were not designed for gaming..  Both here, and on Nvidia's website state's that it was...  Tbh, it's not worth the price.. And I fear this card will go the way of the 7990... Its priced 1k to much.. 

Titan's were, and always will be designed for gaming.  They were the only Nvidia cards that came with the premium 6gb of memory for the longest time and Nvidia knew they could charge premium for it while justifying that price because of some double precision mumbo jumbo.  Only after Nvidia has sold most of it's stock of Titan's/Titan Blacks, do we now get the 780 6gb versions to choose from.
 
Forget double precision, 99% of the people that bought these were benchmark addicts and gamers.  True professional cards have ECC memory to help support all that extra precision and customized drivers where Titan's use standard Geforce drivers.  If I had the money to burn, and wanted the very best quality card for professional work, I'd go with the Quadro K6000 any day with its 12gb of total memory, not 6gb per core like the new Titan Z.  And the K6000's also support SLI (note the SLI headers in the pic).  Too bad the Geforce Drivers won't support them...
 
Do you think 12gb would be enough for all the 4k gamers touting that 6gb is "required" for some of today's current games?
 

Not sure if you deal with gpu rendering on a daily basis, but the K6000 has the same amount of cores as the Titan Black. The Titan has 1/2 the memory, but it's also 1/5th the price of the Quadro. It is a well known fact that the higher end geforce cards perform extremely well with gpu renderers like Octane, and are more cost effective than their "professional workstation graphics" equivalent. The only people I've seen with quad-Titan set ups are the ones who do use gpu rendering software, because the Titans scale better than one $5,000 Quadro. So these might be marketed for "gamers", but Nvidia has essentially created a new market for these without cutting into their "pro" market. 
 
As far as the $3,000 Titan Z goes...Its pretty much over-priced by a thousand dollars. I don't think that the card will satisfy either gamers, or professionals. 

Vlada011
When you look motor for BMW and graphic card parts you ask self what happen with people. 
How much testing and working is investing in one motor and how many parameters they measure and try to improve. 
Card cost 100-200$ for production but that's normal for all things, producer try to pull from card biggest price.
Maybe Titan Z become complete fail for NVIDIA, and maybe they start to look more real on whole thing and to stay on ground.
Lot of bad comments, lot of bad comments, Radeon owners joke with people, but maybe NVIDIA decide to save AMD.
Imagine someone who say Father buy my 1500$ card, he will tell him you are crazy, but in shop when retailer tell to him she is stronger than 3000$ cards than he will think maybe is not so bad idea. Who give you today for half price better. With NVIDIA we will never beat with performance 100$ more expensive Radeon card not 1500$.
If NVIDIA sell only 50 cards, they cover production of 500 and they didn't lose nothing. This is experiment for them, on us. 
I can say I would avoid and R9-295X and Titan Z and bought Titan Black SLI and put under water.
And AMD can dream to beat Titan Black SLI, that's lies if someone say such things.
 
Most of them work on 1100MHz base clock with own 8+6pin power connectors and R9-295X can't work without liquid at all.
 
 

I wasn't gonna post about this, but what the above said is true. Nvidia is doing this as an animal like test to see who will be stupid enough to buy these things. Nvidia had to know that 3k is a shot in the dark to nowhere. Bad thing is Nvidia has other stuff they could've made for half the cost that could outperform the Titan Z.
 
People remember this not much more than a test to see how many ppl will buy a Card that they know the the money does Not justify the price when Nvidia can make other GPUs a lot better.

Rebelismo

jisbell12

Jediexpress
No longer can they say that the titans were not designed for gaming..  Both here, and on Nvidia's website state's that it was...  Tbh, it's not worth the price.. And I fear this card will go the way of the 7990... Its priced 1k to much.. 

Titan's were, and always will be designed for gaming.  They were the only Nvidia cards that came with the premium 6gb of memory for the longest time and Nvidia knew they could charge premium for it while justifying that price because of some double precision mumbo jumbo.  Only after Nvidia has sold most of it's stock of Titan's/Titan Blacks, do we now get the 780 6gb versions to choose from.
 
Forget double precision, 99% of the people that bought these were benchmark addicts and gamers.  True professional cards have ECC memory to help support all that extra precision and customized drivers where Titan's use standard Geforce drivers.  If I had the money to burn, and wanted the very best quality card for professional work, I'd go with the Quadro K6000 any day with its 12gb of total memory, not 6gb per core like the new Titan Z.  And the K6000's also support SLI (note the SLI headers in the pic).  Too bad the Geforce Drivers won't support them...
 
Do you think 12gb would be enough for all the 4k gamers touting that 6gb is "required" for some of today's current games?
 

Not sure if you deal with gpu rendering on a daily basis, but the K6000 has the same amount of cores as the Titan Black. The Titan has 1/2 the memory, but it's also 1/5th the price of the Quadro. It is a well known fact that the higher end geforce cards perform extremely well with gpu renderers like Octane, and are more cost effective than their "professional workstation graphics" equivalent. The only people I've seen with quad-Titan set ups are the ones who do use gpu rendering software, because the Titans scale better than one $5,000 Quadro. So these might be marketed for "gamers", but Nvidia has essentially created a new market for these without cutting into their "pro" market. 
 
As far as the $3,000 Titan Z goes...Its pretty much over-priced by a thousand dollars. I don't think that the card will satisfy either gamers, or professionals. 

Not sure what you were trying to get across, but I'm well aware of specs on Titans, Geforce's, and Quadros, and I know what they're used for.  The point was Titan's were designed to be and are marketed as gamer cards, period, no matter what they can be are or are used for. 
 
I've never really seen any Quad Titan setup outside of benchmarking, and would be a waste for gamers.  Titan's may be used for certain applications, but they still use GEFORCE drivers.  NVidia only justified the high cost of the Titans with their "double precision" performance enabled with the card's firmware.  But without ECC memory, and in true professional applications and 3D simulations where precision and accuracy really do matter, the Titans just won't cut it.  Do some 3D simulations in the medical or engineering field for days with a Titan (if the software app even supports it) and have the results tainted because of too many memory errors, and you'll wish you had used a Quadro.  If your job relies on how accurate your work can be, it doesn't matter how much the card costs, you will buy the best for the money.  And that is the Quadro.  SLI those Quadro's and stick a Tesla in there for good measure.  You'll get performance.  Quadro's also support Quad SLI.
http:// www.nvidia.com  / object / quadro-sli-technology.html
(had to use spaces as I'm not worthy enough yet to post links.)
 
With the minimal cost of memory and with AMD cards having on average more memory than their NVidia counterparts, NVidia should have put more memory standard on their cards.  Honestly, since the K6000 does support 12gb of memory and is the same as the Titan Black, which is also the same as the 780 Ti (minus precision), why didn't the other cards come with more memory?  The Titan Black could have easily come with 12gb of memory and the 780 Ti could have easily came with 6gb.  This would have satisfied a lot of people and given the extreme gamers their ultimate "gamer card" with the Titan Black 12gb, and give the rest of use the 780 Ti 6gb that all of us have been asking for over many months.
 
The Titan had 6gb, the Titan Black should've had 12gb.
 
The 780 had 3gb, the 780 Ti should've had 6gb standard.
 
Titan Z?  It should've had AT LEAST 12gb per core.  It seems 6gb is old news and I'm surprised NVidia's now "Top of the Line" card debuts with only 6gb per core.  Thanks to a member's diligent testing, we've seen on this forum already that Watch Dog's can use more than 6gb on highest settings.  That limitation coupled such a high price tag (again due to the double precision feature which few will even use), killed this beast before it even hit the stores.

When I try to buy 2 GTX Titan Z from amazon the Estimated tax to be collected: $532.50

sangoor
When I try to buy 2 GTX Titan Z from amazon the Estimated tax to be collected: $532.50

If you can afford to buy 2 GTX TITAN Z i'm sure an extra 532.50 isn't going to hurt you much. 
 
Why don't you just buy them from newegg? 

sangoor
Actually I was plan to buy 2 GTX Titan Z to replace 2 GTX 690 but this thread make me feel that if I make it I'll be fool :(

You would be better off buying two 295x2 GPU's. If you want the Z's though and can justify the price to performance go for it.

INSANE $3,000.00 and $6,000.00 for SLI YIKES  im buying a new boat instead !!!!

JJVAL
INSANE $3,000.00 and $6,000.00 for SLI YIKES  im buying a new boat instead !!!!

Or a nice 2nd hand car to build up :)

 
What a beast of a card!                 

Hilarious.
Nvidia can keep these cards.
WHat bragging rights? You just lost $3000 on owning a GPU that really is not necessary. Probably loose another $700 in a few months trying to sell it.
Forget it!!!

warrior10

sangoor

Sajin

sangoor
When I try to buy 2 GTX Titan Z from amazon the Estimated tax to be collected: $532.50

If you can afford to buy 2 GTX TITAN Z i'm sure an extra 532.50 isn't going to hurt you much.  Why don't you just buy them from newegg? 

Actually I was plan to buy 2 GTX Titan Z to replace 2 GTX 690 but this thread make me feel that if I make it I'll be fool :(

I really hate to say this, and don't take offence plz. But it would be foolish to buy 2 Titan Zs, and just 1 R-295x2 is only $1500.00 with what?? 6 or 12gigs each. Just 1 R-295x2 will do circles around the Titan Z. Buy 2 R-295x2's and you could have either 12 or 24Gigs in Crossfire.
 
I hate saying this because i'm usually always on Nvidias side, and usually know what Nvidia can or will produce GPU wise, but Nvidia went too far, and they're using ppl as test dumbies, and i don't want ppl to be like that.
 
In the 90s' and early 2,000s I was an avid Pro-ATI man, but when i got Nvidia they had more drivers and usually better service.

Well, if you have got the coin to even consider spending that much on just video cards.  Then cost to performance is most likely pretty low on the scale.  If I lived in a 5000sqft house and drove $120k+ cars a couple of TitanZ's would be on my purchase list.