Would you pay 900 Euros for two (used) Titan Blacks now?

[cisto1999]

Would you pay 900 Euros for two (used) Titan Blacks now? The Titans are from Palit, used but in very good condition. I need one ore more GPUs for Blender Cycles Rendering.

My other option would be a new 980ti or waiting for an Amd Fury X.

[SeanBond]

Would you pay 900 Euros for two (used) Titan Blacks now? The Titans are from Palit, used but in very good condition. I need one ore more GPUs for Blender Cycles Rendering.

My other option would be a new 980ti or waiting for an Amd Fury X.

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yes. Aren't they like 1100 pounds for one? Less than half of for cards that are just a few months old? Take it if it's a reputable seller.

[Trik'Stari]

I would, if I had 900 Euros and the money to pay for them to be imported to the US.

 

Then I would turn around and sell one for 500, because I don't need two just for gaming on triple 1080p monitors at 60hz

 

 

.....or do I?

[Oshino Shinobu]

Definitely. I have two (bought both for around £800 each) and they're still powerful cards, both for gaming and productivity workloads. For around the price of one new, you can get two. 

[cheeze_tartz]

Heck the the freakin' yea!

[salecar3]

that is a good deal just find a good seler to buy from 

[GlassBomb]

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yes. Aren't they like 1100 pounds for one? Less than half of for cards that are just a few months old? Take it if it's a reputable seller.

 

You're thinking of Titan X, I think.

 

But €450 each for Titan Blacks are still a reasonable price. But I don't know. No warranty and such is kind of a big deal for me.

[PineappleHolidays]

Buy them or give me his number !

450€ each is ok, not very good but still fine.

Maybe argue them down to 800 and you're golden.

[SeanBond]

You're thinking of Titan X, I think.

 

But €450 each for Titan Blacks are still a reasonable price. But I don't know. No warranty and such is kind of a big deal for me.

Oh whelp. That would be it, it's been so long since I seen the word titan black. In that case it's not that amazing of a deal. But still worth thinking over. A titan black won't stand up too well vs a 980ti which is more efficient and not too much more.

[Sauron]

I wouldn't spend 900$ on gpus. But if I needed them for work, yes, sure. It's a decent price for what you get especially in terms of computing (whereas for gaming you could just get two 970s and call it a day, the performance would be very similar).

[cisto1999]

A titan black won't stand up too well vs a 980ti which is more efficient and not too much more.

 

That is also my consideration... and maybe the 980ti will be a little bit cheaper than now when fury hits the market and i could wait this long... i don´t need the GPU immediatly (but in a about 4 weeks).

[SeanBond]

That is also my consideration... and maybe the 980ti will be a little bit cheaper than now when fury hits the market and i could wait this long... i don´t need the GPU immediatly (but in a about 4 weeks).

Considering the price and performance of 980ti and fury x, someone is going to drop pricing...

[LamboLaddy]

Would you pay 900 Euros for two (used) Titan Blacks now? The Titans are from Palit, used but in very good condition. I need one ore more GPUs for Blender Cycles Rendering.

My other option would be a new 980ti or waiting for an Amd Fury X.

Shit yeah

[GlassBomb]

@cisto1999

I'm really curious of how many people here mistake the Titan Black for Titan X...

 

If you are looking at used Titan Black and REALLY need the double precision performance that those cards have, then go with the Black's. If you don't need it, then you are better off buying used 780ti's. Or maybe even GTX 970/R9 290x.

[handymanshandle]

I mean I don't have €900 [uS$1022,59] nor the funds to pay shipping and duties to the US (also I'd rather import from France just because then obviously working with the seller is a lot easier if you speak the same language, or at least can understand their language). Though I guess if all of those pre-requisites were met then sure I could see a benefit from those cards though I like the way Motion and FCPX look  so a Mac Pro would be better for me personally.

I honestly think the better investment would be one or two R9 Fury's would benefit in your application as Blender IIRC works better with OpenCL/OpenGL than CUDA and that's where AMD cards shines is in OpenCL/OpenGL applications.

[handymanshandle]

I wouldn't spend 900$ on gpus. But if I needed them for work, yes, sure. It's a decent price for what you get especially in terms of computing (whereas for gaming you could just get two 970s and call it a day, the performance would be very similar).

€ not US$  though €900,00 is US$1022,59 so I mean it is over $900.

 

The Titan Black is good for 3D work and gaming, a 970 is good for just gaming.

Similar story on the AMD side the Fury line is good for 3D Work and Gaming but the 200 and 300 series are good for gaming.

[ManWithBeard1990]

I wouldn't unless that Blender thing uses CUDA. If it's OpenCL (which nVidia also supports) I'd go AMD. As much as they lag behind nVidia in the DirectX department, they are ahead in compute.

[handymanshandle]

I wouldn't unless that Blender thing uses CUDA. If it's OpenCL (which nVidia also supports) I'd go AMD. As much as they lag behind nVidia in the DirectX department, they are ahead in compute.

AMD 300 series and Fury series are fully DX12. The Nvidia 900 series was full DX12 just because of the time they were launched [late 2014]. Though yes AMD is ahead of Nvidia in terms of OpenCL/OpenGL which Linux and OS X benefit from [since both are technically open source except Apple sort of betrays the open source nature of the kernel they based their OS off of.]

[Kalevro]

If you really need 2 titan blacks and you can run them, it's a good deal

[ManWithBeard1990]

AMD 300 series and Fury series are fully DX12. The Nvidia 900 series was full DX12 just because of the time they were launched [late 2014]. Though yes AMD is ahead of Nvidia in terms of OpenCL/OpenGL which Linux and OS X benefit from [since both are technically open source except Apple sort of betrays the open source nature of the kernel they based their OS off of.]

When I said AMD is behind on DirectX I wasn't referring to DX12 support, but rather the lower performance per watt. For compute tasks, the opposite is true.

[handymanshandle]

When I said AMD is behind on DirectX I wasn't referring to DX12 support, but rather the lower performance per watt. For compute tasks, the opposite is true.

Ah ok.

[Sauron]

€ not US$  though €900,00 is US$1022,59 so I mean it is over $900.

 

The Titan Black is good for 3D work and gaming, a 970 is good for just gaming.

Similar story on the AMD side the Fury line is good for 3D Work and Gaming but the 200 and 300 series are good for gaming.

 

Not really, the fury line are gaming graphics cards. If they are also good at 3d work it's a side effect (not that we have any benchmarks yet). As I said, a titan black is worth it if you need the computing capabilities; otherwise 970s or a 980ti are a better deal.