Most of the current comments are along the lines of "You will only need this card if you are doing _____". ie "Gaming at 4k", "Parallel Compute".<p>I think it's pretty clear this is a halo product, but I want to point out that having two non-crippled gpu's on a stick is an impressive technical achievement. Sure they will be throttled when the heat constraints kick in, but I am excited to see this sort of technology trickle down into the next "Asus 760 Mars" product.
That's pretty impressive. According to the announcement this card will sport 8 Teraflops (or about 112 GIPS), which corresponds to the entire available computing power on this planet in 1990<i>. Let's play some Counterstrike :D<p></i><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/05/xbox-one-our-servers-will-have-more-power-than-all-the-computers-in-1999-us-really-expert-almost/276131/" rel="nofollow">http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/05/xbox-o...</a>
I definitely see a need for graphics cards like these with virtual reality around the corner.<p>I haven't bought a new graphics card in 5 years because even next gen games play well enough. But I can see VR changing that with the need to render the same scene twice (one for each eye).<p>I wonder how much money you'd have to drop today to have a rig that can push 4K to each eye? There isn't a headset that can support that yet but I'd imagine its atleast in the next 5-10 years.
This card is more expensive than all the hardware in my current PC, and I am running pretty high end gaming rig with 900D, GTX 680, 3700K, xonar, 16 GB of RAM, roomy SSD, velociraptor, Johny Guru 5 star rated PSU, and custom built water cooling.
I don't track gaming GPU requirements that much, but this strikes me as past high end. Is this even useful for gaming, or is it really aimed at doing crypto, cryptocurrency mining, simulations, etc?
Dual-GPU...so not very good for VR gaming. The <i>only</i> reason you'd want such an expensive high-end GPU is to be future proof with VR gaming at 4k/120fps. But dual-GPUs aren't great for VR gaming.<p>Nvidia needs another card between the normal Titan and this one, that's a single card, and is targeted at VR gaming, and costs $1500 at most.
Pascal seems a lot more interesting: <a href="http://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/nvlink-pascal-stacked-memory-feeding-appetite-big-data/" rel="nofollow">http://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/nvlink-pascal-stac...</a><p>(Although I am dreading having to type all those begins and ends.)
It mentions supercomputers, but also gaming. Supercomputers aren't known for being particularly good for gaming, to put it that way. Is this product just a new gaming GPU, or is it aimed at a different market, even altcoin miners?
I'm on 660TIs in SLI which are not the newest horse in the stable and can run just about anything out maxed (16x AA etc.) @ 1080p. You won't need this card unless you're going multi monitor and / or retina level.
Wow, I bet the cost / benefit ratio on this one is not so great for most applications. Just wait a year till a minutely pared-down version is available for 10% the price.
IMHO the only reason you'd want this is to save on a PCIe slot when you absolutely <i>need</i> the double-precision floating point operations to run at full speed.
>TITAN Z is engineered for next-generation 5K and multi-monitor gaming<p>5K? "all the way to 11" or somebody just didn't proof-read the copy?