1080 is a mobile chip, not a power hungry, high end chip for the desktop.
980 was the same while the 980ti was a real high end desktop part.
don't let nvidias marketing team mind fuck you into thinking high price = high end part.
titan is the flagship.
Are you drunk, trolling, or serious? Either way, it makes no sense. The only reason Nvidia is ahead of the game right now is exactly because they can provide 1080's performance level at a 180w TDP budget. And competitors who cannot get that efficient release a Vega that caps at 300W for similar perf. Yeah, please, give me that mobile part, thanks! Titan is indeed the flagship, and also the nonsensical product in the Geforce line up, with its ever changing position in the market. It fundamentally has NO place in Nvidia's normal product stack, it serves as a 'can do' product, GV100 being the perfect example and proof of that. The full Gx100 die simply represents the 'concept/prototype car' for each gen. It is a product always
looking for a market, preferably a new one. When Titan launched, that was the pro user that also did some gaming and wanted both but didn't need Quadro/Tesla. As many mindless idiot gamers bought Titans, and then felt 'ripped off' because a 780 followed suit (lol!) the next couple of Titans lost their compute and went for the raw gaming performance. Now, GV100 is a massive boost in deep learning, again, because the top end of the marketplace is asking for it, and suddenly we won't see much of Volta / Titan V in the gaming space.
Its not high price that makes it a high perf part, its the high perf that does that. And any combination with high efficiency is bonus.
As for GPU prices, thank you
@Fluffmeister for a dose of reality. It seems lacking, and its shocking to see some of the comments here, some people have no grasp whatsoever of what they're talking about apparently.
As for the ideas of
@las about what should be high end... It is what it is.
The SKU within each product stack of each gen determines its position in the stack. NOT the price of that SKU - price is determined by the marketplace. So by that logic, yes, your old Riva TNT still is a high end product, it just doesn't perform like one today. Same goes for RAM, CPU, and even storage.
Nvidia's stack has NOT changed since Kepler. We have Gx106, Gx104, Gx102 which is and always has been: mid range, high end, enthusiast. And entry/budget for all the crappy stuff below that. So I'll make an even stronger statement: GTX 1070 (GP104) is also a high end part. Yes. Really. The budget oriented one - and again - always been like that. GTX 670 was the high end budget version of a 680, and HD7950 was the high end budget part of a 7970, 970 that of the 980, etc.
Another statement then, to wipe all arguments about pricing off the table: consider inflation, and then look at prices again from the chart above. GPUs (MSRP that is) have become progressively cheaper.
