Arkam
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yes. we all just got placed in the third world....so to speak.
Fine piece of hardware. Can't wait to see that as mid tier in five years.
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GTX TITAN Z announced $2999
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yes. we all just got placed in the third world....so to speak.
Fine piece of hardware. Can't wait to see that as mid tier in five years.
quantumnerd
Member
Probably not.
Hey, who are you calling crazy!?
4K Surround FTW!
I'm using 4-Way GTX-Titan SC.
The Titan "Z" is the GTX-690 version of the Titan Black. It still has 'only' 6GB per GPU (still not enough for 4K Surround) and since it's on the same PCB (dual GPU), it's OC'ing ability will be stunted compared to two separate GTX-Titan Blacks in SLI.
To top it off, this "Z" is $1000 more than two GTX-Titan Black. LOL.. same compute performance, same VRAM, and same number of CUDA cores.
Poor Jen-Hsun, he needs gas money for his Koenigsegg CCX. XD
A bit off topic, I really like your setup but don't the black borders between the screens get annoying?
I don't have a portrait setup like his, but I do have a landscape multi monitor setup. After a while you don't notice the bezels. The entire picture fills your field of view and so it's pretty easy to get immersed into what is going on. Here's a pic I took of BF4 some time ago:
the bezels are what people naturally gravitate to when they see these setups...but once you have something like the image above in front of you...they tend to fade away and your eyes adjust. It's hard to explain without seeing it in person. These are also the types of cards that the 780ti/Titan/Titan Z are made for. You're able to play at extremely high resolutions, keep settings high, and enjoy high frame rates.
I don't have a portrait setup like his, but I do have a landscape multi monitor setup. After a while you don't notice the bezels. The entire picture fills your field of view and so it's pretty easy to get immersed into what is going on:
the bezels are what people naturally gravitate to when they see these setups...but once you have something like the image above in front of you...they tend to fade away and your eyes adjust. It's hard to explain without seeing it in person.
Peripheral vision don't need to be as good. I would love something like that. If it was more popular you could probably develop a method where you run the side screen at lower resolution with lower effects since that is mostly for spotting enemies trying to flank you. If your GPU can't handle them all at full resolution.
I like the idea of this, but wouldn't you need at least a 3 monitor setup for this? One for each flank, it sounds harder to split up 2 screens in 3 zones than 3 screens in 3 zones. That said I don't know anything about this at all.
Any ways we're getting off topic.
Has there been any word on pricing for different currencies? Aud shouldn't be to different I suppose.
Isn't it just two Titan Black slapped together?
Well for the setup he is showing yes you do need an odd number of m onitors. I don't say three because I have seen five.
But you could show other stuff. Battlefield 4 I think can show map and stuff on secondary monitor. It is not the same thing but I hope more developers understand that a lot of people have more than one monitor and should let us use it.
The maps in RTS games i something I have always wanted on a secondary screen. You can do it yourself by recording that area and then making it bigger on a secondary screen. but it is not the same.
Sir Blaming
Member
edit:NOPE, IT'S OVER 9000
I've had a related idea that would require considerably more tech, but possibly be worth it especially for VR: use super high speed eye tracking to identify what the user is looking at, and render only that portion of the view with the highest accuracy, with everything else being rendered at sufficient accuracy that peripheral vision can't tell the difference. This wouldn't have to be just resolution adjustment, but e.g. switching to simpler shaders that omit fine detail while retaining approximately correct average color and brightness for small areas of pixels. You could also selectively render e.g. moving things at high resolution even outside focus since peripheral vision is good at picking up motion.
I have also thought about that but I think the delay would be to much. But using more shaders and AA in the middle of the screen in FPS games should be possible. But yeah. Dem algorithms man.
It is not for regular consumers. Professionals working with CAD, animation and other graphics heavy engineering work. Would love to run my week long simulation on one of these instead of the pc I am using now
justsomeguy
Member
SLI the Titan Zs, you're not thinking big enough ;-)
michaelius
Banned
2x 780 Ti will be probably faster - you can bet this card will be downclocked to even fit into any sane thermals while 2x780ti = 2x250Watts
Also imho it is amazing shoving of engineering to even fit two fully unlocked GK110 chips into one card without it melting pc
bronzodiriace
Member
3000$ ?????
hahahahha you win
metareferential
Member
It's a dual gpu anyway.
I'm curious to see how it performs against two Titan Black in SLI.
I'm curious to see how it performs against two Titan Black in SLI.
Damigos
Member
Damigos
Member
It'll perform worse.
Schweinehund
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ashecitism
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Hawk269
Member
Someone needs to make a DisplayPort to HDMI 2 adapter. I am a member at the AVS Forums and there are a lot of PC gamers that have 4k sets, but since no one other than Panasonic has a 4k set with DisplayPort, everyone is waiting for GPU that has HDMI 2.0. If someone would make an adapter, they would sell pretty damn good imho. I would pay a premium price for such a device.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
I think it's coming next year at the earliest. It will look like a steal compared to the Z. That's part of the reason why they're marketing this towards gamers.
MrTroubleMaker
Gold Member
wow
HighJumpBoots
Banned
:lol
HighJumpBoots
Banned
Double post; please have mercy on my soul
It's labeled as GeForce, GeForce is their gaming brand. Welcome to the new high end!
The GPU itself was brought from their professional compute line of cards for servers (Tesla). So the GPU wasn't originally built out for gaming, but they brought it into their gaming line with the Titan cards and further cut it down for the 780Ti and 780.
So yeah - the Titan line was intended for gaming. They sell it as a gaming card, and advertise it to gamers. They found there is apparently quite a sizeable market for people who will buy $1000 GPUs (although I suspect the reasonably cheap compute performance attracted non-gamers too) - and have just kept trying to find the ceiling from there on.
dr_rus
Member
If I had to guess I'd say $600 and $500. Why?
Interesting graph... even more interesting when you look at the far left, where the PS3 was released, seemed like the PS3 was equivalentish to a high end PC GPU. Is that accurate?
That picture needs updating.
Doesn't bode well for this generation in terms of pushing the graphics envelope in years to come.
I didn't know there were any 4K sets with DisplayPort, so that Panasonic can do 60Hz?
See You Next Wednesday
Banned
Is Titan a new addition to the Z fighters?
I don't have a portrait setup like his, but I do have a landscape multi monitor setup. After a while you don't notice the bezels. The entire picture fills your field of view and so it's pretty easy to get immersed into what is going on. Here's a pic I took of BF4 some time ago:
the bezels are what people naturally gravitate to when they see these setups...but once you have something like the image above in front of you...they tend to fade away and your eyes adjust. It's hard to explain without seeing it in person. These are also the types of cards that the 780ti/Titan/Titan Z are made for. You're able to play at extremely high resolutions, keep settings high, and enjoy high frame rates.
beautiful.
Do you have more images of BF4 or any other games like this?
Looks soooo good.
By the time PS3 launched, Nvidia launched his legendary 8 series, the 8800 to be more specific, wich was slightly better than both GPUs on the 360 and PS3.
These were off of SLI Titans...which is what the Titan Z will be:
Metro Last Light:
Tomb Raider:
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
For a different perspective, here's FXGuide's writeup for Day 1:
http://www.fxguide.com/quicktakes/gpu-tech-conference-day-1-report/
On the new Titan card:
http://www.fxguide.com/quicktakes/gpu-tech-conference-day-1-report/
On the new Titan card: