http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/geforce_gtx_titan_preview_reference,1.html

This...is....TITAAAAN!

2688 shaders, 836MHz base clocks, 6GB VRAM, 384-bit bus, 288GB/s bandwidth, 250W TDP!

Nearly as fast as a GTX690. Was OCed to 1184MHz, 40%.

Have I died and gone to Heaven?

But...but...

999USD.

Damn!


What do you think is happening? What is the rumors are true and the GTX780 planned for Q4 2013 will be slower? What about current yields, future yields? What has AMD got in mind? Were the results of the 28nm poor yields in H1 2012 "stop-gap" cards like the 7970 and moreso, the GTX680 using the GK104 chip, even though they offered around 40% performance higher than previous gen?

Blaaargh.
GTX680 w/ GK104 supposed to be 660Ti originally and GK110 was the real GTX680, they changed their plans when they found that GK110 is too powerful to be launched now while a baby GK104 chip can compete in the market..

Even this GTX-Titan isn't a fully unleashed GK110 monster, the real deal is a GK110 + 512bit memory interface

for 999$...Damn i can get 2x GTX680 Lightnings, clock'em @ 1.3GHz and eat this Titan for launch !
I wrote this a while ago on Guru3D forums:
March 2012. Let's suppose Nvidia's yields are high enough to both be able to release GK104 and GK110. They release GK104 because it's enough to compete with AMD. They do so at a lower price. 7970 costs $550, 680 costs $500. "680 beats 7970, uses less power, costs less". Nvidia have a powerful chip gathering dust. They don't release it because: why would they sell a card that only a few people would buy for such a premium price? It's a loss? What about people who are running multi-monitor and can afford it? Weird.

Fast forward to Feb. 2013. The 7970 has gotten a GHz edition and such driver improvements it's practically a "refresh" of the 7970 released around one year ago. 7970, $400, 680, $500. Nvidia release Titan @$1000.

How is 2013 any different that 2012? They have a more expensive card, the 680, competing with the 7970, and a $1000 card, for premium buyers.

Why not release a hideously expensive Titan for $2000 in 2012 and simply sell their 680s like hotcakes, while maintaining their brand image and selling the $2000 Titan to those who can buy it?

If GK110 was ready back then, they'd have been selling it, plain and simple.

They're not competing with themselves. Any company should know how to avoid just that. It's an invalid assumption.
Also, when did Nvidia and AMD be so far apart? They've been competing for more than a decade now. GF110 to GK110 would have been more than a generation jump; that's more than double the power, and last time that almost happened, it was with the transition from the 7900GTX to the 8800GTX, which had a whole new architecture to begin with, and was the start of the DX10 era.

They've had the fastest single GPU with each generation since that, until 5xx series, but now, things have been different.

Would have Nvidia been content with their GTX680 being slower AND more expensive than the Radeon HD7970 GHz edition, a point which many had realized and chose AMD this time (including me), while having a powerful GK110-based card that is gathering dust?

I'll add to this now: Why would a 512-bit memory interface be the real deal? Look at the compute cards; which one of them is currently 512-bit and based on GK110? Titan is merely an adaptation of the much more expensive Tesla K20X.

Same logic applies to waiting for the GTX980 with a 2048-bit memory interface with XDR2 memory.
The Titan has GPU Boost 2.0, which is just an awesome feature. You can let the card overclock itself to its limits. If you get more cooling, it will overclock itself even more and more until it reaches the limit where it's limited by heat.

Here's some more info on some other features: http://youtu.be/bgQbcQlRoNE
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MohammedSF wroteGTX680 w/ GK104 supposed to be 660Ti originally and GK110 was the real GTX680, they changed their plans when they found that GK110 is too powerful to be launched now while a baby GK104 chip can compete in the market..

Even this GTX-Titan isn't a fully unleashed GK110 monster, the real deal is a GK110 + 512bit memory interface

for 999$...Damn i can get 2x GTX680 Lightnings, clock'em @ 1.3GHz and eat this Titan for launch !

I don't think that GK110 was not launched because it was found to be too powerful. They had most of the chips allocated to their compute business, including over 18000 of those just for the TITAN supercomputer (where this card gets its name from).
Now that they have enough in production to satisfy the lucrative compute business, they bring it back to consumers, and regain the performance crown fro single gpu cards.
999 might be too much for a gaming card, but a bargain for a compute card.
Hehe I am still waiting for a Geforce 650 Ti in Lebanon, Ok getting one from France for 70$ less