Titan X

[John P. Myers]

In the interest of keeping people from wasting their money, i've got to recommend not buying a $1000 Titan X. $600-$700 maybe, but not $1000. Unlike the original Titan, the new Titan X does not have unlocked double precision, and even if it did it would still be less than the original Titan. The new Titan X does not come with a backplate to keep the card more rigid when installed. If you're looking for a powerful all-purpose GPU from Nvidia, the Titan Z is actually your best bet. $500 more than an X, but over 13x more FP64 and more than 25% FP32. Or just wait a month or 2 for an AMD 390X. $650 or so and 8.6 TFLOPS FP32. Titan X gets just under 6.2 TFLOPS. And with AMD's track record, FP64 will be better there too. For far less money.

Nvidia will also likely reduce the price of the Titan X when AMD launches their new GPUs. Until then, they're calling the 980Ti a Titan X and charging you Titan prices. Please don't fall for it.

[FourOh]

Sounds like NVIDIA is trying to steer industry users with FP64 needs into the Tesla line. We're "prosumers" now, John!

[cineon_lut]

For Maya and Max, or with CAD applications, the workstation cards are still the way to go it seems. (Quadro or Fire Pro). Sucks because I know the power is there on the fp64 cards.

[DrPop]

I'm definitely looking forward to seeing what that upcoming round of AMD cards can put out!

[John P. Myers]

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[John P. Myers]

With AMD's new GPUs, (300 series and the soon-to-be-released Fury and Fury X) the 7970 is still the winner for FP64. By far.

[zombie67]

Glad to hear, in a way. No compelling reason to spend big money.