Nvidia = Stupid?

[theereal]

So, unless youve been living under a rock, you know that Nvidia recently released the 980Ti, my question is, why would they destroy their Titan X sales by releasing a card that is almost as powerful and so much cheaper?

[Arty]

So, unless youve been living under a rock, you know that Nvidia recently released the 980Ti, my question is, why would they destroy their Titan X sales by releasing a card that is almost as powerful and so much cheaper?

They still get more $$ overall.

[Guest]

Because the Titan has more cuda cores, and it's black  :wub:

[Counter-Strike Player]

Because they already know the price competitiveness with the Fury X card.

[Bogica]

Because the Titan has more cuda cores, and it's black  :wub:

RACIST!!!  /jk

They didn't, Titan sales weren't that great, the 980Ti sells a lot better, which in the end = more profit!

[Comessy]

Needed to stay competitive with AMD

[AnnoyedShelf]

So, unless youve been living under a rock, you know that Nvidia recently released the 980Ti, my question is, why would they destroy their Titan X sales by releasing a card that is almost as powerful and so much cheaper?

The Titan X will still sell very well for those that can use as many CUDA cores as possible, and the extra VRAM.  For computational purposes mainly, not so much for gaming.

[theereal]

Why not just make the Titan X cheaper?

[QueenDemetria]

So, unless youve been living under a rock, you know that Nvidia recently released the 980Ti, my question is, why would they destroy their Titan X sales by releasing a card that is almost as powerful and so much cheaper?

Because Fury X, they had to release something competitive(price and performance).

[Castdeath97]

Because if they haven't the fury X will rape them in terms of price to performance.

[Tim Drake]

They waited until sales from the Titan X died down then got a shit load of money by releasing the 980 Ti after.

 

AFAIK

[Castdeath97]

Why not just make the Titan X cheaper?

It will be hard to get a 350 dollar price drop in a card, how do you expect retailers to suddenly drop their prices.

[Aurora906]

They probably made a ton with that card, now they wanna do the same for the 980ti is my guess.  The whole "milk it for all its worth" thing comes to mind lol.

[BiG StroOnZ]

They aren't actually stupid.

 

GM200 is a 601mm2 die size (the chip used in the Titan X). Which even though the 28nm process is mature it is still quite a large chip, which means yields aren't perfect. So for every Titan X they make, they will have many chips that are defective that quite cant be used for a Titan X. So what they do is take those defective chips, cut them down slightly, and then sell them as 980 Ti's. It's a recycling process to increase profits.

[Eugene Yap]

No because they are people really dump enough to buy TitanX despite 980ti is better choice in terms of dollar and titanX does not have double precision as prevouse gen has it.

 

Nvidia is not dumb, because they are talking advange of dumb people who buys it.

[IateMApoo]

Titan X still is a power house for work flow applications like video editing n stuff. Linus chose it for his 36 core build for a reason.

[VagabondWraith]

Why not just make the Titan X cheaper?

They did, it's called the 980 Ti.

[Thunderpup]

While the Titan X and the 980 Ti are roughly neck and neck in gaming performance

 

The Titan X supposedly has a clear advantage in other tasks such as video editing and content creation.  I've not seen any benchmarks about this, but that's where a lot of folks are saying the difference exists.

[centurion_08]

Needed to stay competitive with AMD

AMD has nothing....

[Comessy]

AMD has nothing....

 

Fury X

[maizenblue]

So, unless youve been living under a rock, you know that Nvidia recently released the 980Ti, my question is, why would they destroy their Titan X sales by releasing a card that is almost as powerful and so much cheaper?

The radeon fury x is why. That and there's a limiTed number of people willing and able to spend 1000 on a gpu.

[Jey R.]

Titan x are not for average consumers. It's a card more for top end business and extravagant industries.

[MMKing]

Because it didn't sell all that well, which Nvidia knew even before they released it. Even still, the impressive performance lured in the enthusiasts before they announced the 980Ti which performs just about the same if not better overclocked.

 

Once the most hardcore enthusiasts spent their money, they released the 980Ti to get the ''second tier'' enthusiasts to spend their money.