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
Still, new drivers are always welcome :P
What nvidia is saying is that they are trying to find an easily stable driver overclock for the card that will allow the boost clocks to exceed a point to justify the price. Problem is that on a single axial fan it's not going to get to far as is. They are not going to justify the price like this still in the end even if they get the boost clock to 1100mhz (I'd say that would be an extremely best scenario).
To me (and not only) the world is becoming ever worse and it will get even worse.
I am so disappointed with so many things, my vision for the world is completely different. Those assholes who lead the world are so stupid. They thing that there is value in things if they are neither good, nor bad, something in the middle....
nvidia is a shitty company and the only way to stop them from being ever more shitty, is to stop giving them any money.
Oh. and the word architecture denotes the instruction set and register layout of a given finite state machine or processor in this case. Changing the arrangement of components or making them wider/more complex doesn't equate to changing the architecture, it equate to changing the microarchitecture of a given architecture implementation.
I have a feeling the secrete will be in the drivers....can't wait to see what they will do....
Get the abortion over with and learn your damn lesson. No one wants your "engineering feat" crap any more. This driver nonsense is BS, 295X2 takes the cake, but nobody will buy that either because the market is such a small niche.
I am so tempted to find old AMD/ATI threads to post links to where they turned into napalm exhibits from the rabid fanboys, I must say this whole forum is getting clean, almost too clean. :D Even TMM is calm.
/sarcasm
also, that card better come with at least 5 AAA games.
But if you think with logic then you understand that 3k for a gaming gpu is plain extravagant.
Even the 295x2 is overpriced.
I think AMD kept the TDP of the 295X2 a well guarded secret. Even if there were ES versions in the wild that nVidia got reports on, or even working samples, all AMD had to do was have them set to a ~375W TDP. With the dual 8 pin connectors who would have guessed the card, when released, was going to be a 500W card?
The performance target nVidia would have assumed for the Titan-Z would have been way off.It wouldn't be the first time nVidia made that ploy workIt's not the drivers. It's the power/thermal limit.The other GK110 models already do that, I don't think they are going to be able to pull this off this time.Read THIS review. Play real games, not 3 minute benchmarks, so the cards can warm up properly and settle into their stable boost clocks and the 295X2 kills 780 ti SLI.