wolfNvidia clears out all (or virtually all) 10 series stock

They could certainly just restock 10 series at the prices they are at and leave the 20 series where they are to continue this pricing model until AMD releases something. Lord help us all if it doesn't compete.

efikkanNo, the first Titan was released along with the 700 series.
The top model of the 600 series was the GTX 690, having two GK104 chips.

Yes, the original titan was released with the 7 series, but both use the kepler architecture. In fact, the 680 and 770 are identical, sans for a small clock speed increase in favor of the 770 (1045 vs 1006Mhz). You can even flash a 680 to 770 and vice versa (if the cards use the same pcb like say a reference design).

efikkanI have to correct you there.
GK100 was bad and Nvidia had to do a fairly "last minute" rebrand of "GTX 670 Ti" into "GTX 680". (I remember my GTX 680 box had stickers over all the product names) The GK100 was only used for some compute cards, but the GK110 was a revised version, which ended up in the GTX 780, and was pretty much what the GTX 680 should have been.

You have to remember that Kepler was a major architectural redesign for Nvidia.

No. GK100=GK110. The reason for the extra "1" is the name change from 6 series to 7 series - try to make it look like a new product. Kepler also has GK2xx branded chips witch do contain small architectural improvements, mostly for the scheduler and power efficiency. Again, and for the last time - the 680 is NOT GK100 - it's GK104. Nvidia did not release any GPU with the GK100 codename, not even in the professional market. There were rumors and the tech press did speculate that GK100 would be reserved for the (then) new Tesla, but that never happened. This is the complete list of Kepler GPUs, both 6 and 7 series, and including the Titan, Quadro and Tesla cards:

• Full GK104 - GTX 680, GTX 770, GTX 880M and several profesional cards.
• Cut down GK104 - GTX 660, 760, 670, 680M, 860M and several professional cards
• GK106 - GTX 650ti boost, 650ti, 660, and several mobile and pro cards.
• GK107 - GTX 640, 740, 820 and lots of mobile cards
• GK110 - GTX 780 (cut down GK110), GTX 780ti and the original Titan, as well as the Titan Black, Titan Z and loads of Tesla / Quadro cards like the K6000
• GK208 - entry level 7 series and 8 series cards, both Geforce and Quadro branded
• GK208B - entry level 7 series and 8 series cards, both Geforce and Quadro branded
• GK210 - Revised and slightly cut-down version of the GK100/GK110. Launched as the Tesla K80
• GK20A - GPU built into the Tegra K1 SoC

I know from a trustworthy source (nvidia board partner employee) that nvidia had no issues whatsoever with the GK100. If fact internal testing showed what a huge leap in performance Kepler was over Fermi. This is THE REASON why nvidia decided to launch the GK104 mid-range chip as the GTX 680 - the GK104 is 30 to 50% faster then the GF100 used in the GTX 480 and 580. Some clever people in management came up with this marketing stunt - spread Kepler over two series of cards, 600 and 700 series, and release the GK104 first, and save the full GK100 (GK110) for the later 700 series and launch it as a premium product, creating a new market segment with the 780ti and original titan. GK110 is simply the name chosen for launch, replacing the GK100 moniker, mainly to attempt to obfuscate savvy consumers and the tech press. As nvidia naming schemes go, the GK110 should have been an entry level chip: GK104>GK106>GK107 -> the smaller the last number, the larger the chip. The only Kepler revision is named GK2xx (see above) and only includes entry level cards.

While true, gk110 had two versions too. GK110 and GK110b, latter could clock a bit higher. All gtx780 "AIBs GHz editions" used the gk110b version of that chip. Going back to that ancient history, everybody knows that gtx780ti had aged pretty bad mostly because of 3GB vram. But how has GTX 780 6GB version aged?

I told y’all the power plug was on the side lol