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Titan Z price slashed

Price correction, bringing it in line with what it probably should be. At $3K no one was buying. I didn't expect them to cut the price in half though. We should see the Quadro K6000Z (dual Quadro K6000 on one card) soon and GTX 990 (dual GTX 980 on one card) sometime early next year. Next-gen 20nm GPUs from nVidia and AMD are more like Q3 '15...
 
My single Titan box has been running nicely. I think my next box will likely use a Z.
 
I think a lot of people are looking at the specced up variants of the Maxwell based 980 GPU due to its excellent ratio of TDP to compute power. The top spec cards (like Titan Z) from each vendor generally get a premium as they offer more to apps that can only utilize one GPU. FWIW, based on some guesswork about the actual metrics of the bumped up 980 variants, it might not be much more in cost or power/heat handling to use 2x GTX980s vs one Titan Z. That should be a good comparo for someone to do once the up spec 980's get to Anandtech/Tom's/etc. If you have the slots...

I also think a Titan Z replacement isn't far off, since new product is the mother's milk of this category - typically gamers.

Cheers - #19
 
There definitely is a Titan replacement card coming out soon, with the second-gen Maxwell GPU. The Titan cards should really shine once we get Pascal and it's revolutionary tech.
 
I have a Titan Black siting (with a quadra for gui) in a HP workstation... it is quick and stable for basic Resolve work.

Has anyone got a Titan Z in a HP workstation?

On paper I like the idea of:

New HP Z840 (maybe Dual 10 or 12 core with fast memory and big PSU)
Quadra for Gui and stability in some applications
Titan Z for Resolve

I do need to get in a 10gig card and BM IO as well...

Anyone doing something similar with a Zitan Z and a Z820 at the moment... I am worried about how much power it needs?

thanks

Michael
 
Titan Z is a monster, but for applications that can only use one GPU it's no help as the systems still see it as dual Titans, they're just on a single card. Price wise, until yesterday, it made far more sense to use two individual Titan cards. Came out $1K cheaper and two of them can be clocked faster. The down side is it takes up two double-width slots and a bit more power.

In your situation, adding another titan would make more sense than swapping for a Z. However, in an HP Z820 the slot layout makes that difficult and you would have to provide supplementary power. You can get rid of the Quadro card for GUI use. Current Titan drivers are pretty darn stable and the performance penalty for running your GUI off a compute card in the current versions (10+) of Resolve is minimal. I run a SuperClocked Titan in my Z820. That's the only GPU in the system, but it fits that computer's needs alright. It's not my primary Resolve system, but works acceptably well if used as such. It was my primary Resolve system until I built a 20-core monster late last year.

If I didn't already have a Titan or something close to it in the Z820 and were looking for a GPU, the Titan Z would be ideal in that situation. All because of the slot layout and power issues outlined above. One Z will fit in a single double-width space and fit within the power profile of the Z820. I would happily live with the slightly slower clock to get the second GPU in that situation.
 
Hey Jeff

Thanks for the info...

In my situation I would buy a new z840 (when available) and a titan z to go in it... I was just concerned that, either for power reasons, or some other challenge it wont work... Annoyingly I see many Titan Zs take up 3 slots..

Thanks again

M

Ps I once tried two identical GX cards and allowing GUI GPU processing.... it choked on 10bit RT processing but was fine on 8bit... May be user error but my current setup is almost as fast both ways
 
Jeff Kilgroe said:
Price correction, bringing it in line with what it probably should be. At $3K no one was buying. I didn't expect them to cut the price in half though. We should see the Quadro K6000Z (dual Quadro K6000 on one card) soon and GTX 990 (dual GTX 980 on one card) sometime early next year. Next-gen 20nm GPUs from nVidia and AMD are more like Q3 '15...
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Can't wait for Q3 '15!
 
Jeff Kilgroe said:
Titan Z is a monster, but for applications that can only use one GPU it's no help as the systems still see it as dual Titans, they're just on a single card. Price wise, until yesterday, it made far more sense to use two individual Titan cards. Came out $1K cheaper and two of them can be clocked faster. The down side is it takes up two double-width slots and a bit more power.

In your situation, adding another titan would make more sense than swapping for a Z. However, in an HP Z820 the slot layout makes that difficult and you would have to provide supplementary power. You can get rid of the Quadro card for GUI use. Current Titan drivers are pretty darn stable and the performance penalty for running your GUI off a compute card in the current versions (10+) of Resolve is minimal. I run a SuperClocked Titan in my Z820. That's the only GPU in the system, but it fits that computer's needs alright. It's not my primary Resolve system, but works acceptably well if used as such. It was my primary Resolve system until I built a 20-core monster late last year.

If I didn't already have a Titan or something close to it in the Z820 and were looking for a GPU, the Titan Z would be ideal in that situation. All because of the slot layout and power issues outlined above. One Z will fit in a single double-width space and fit within the power profile of the Z820. I would happily live with the slightly slower clock to get the second GPU in that situation.
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Jeff, so for CS6 Premiere which only uses one GPU would I only have access to half the CUDA cores?
 
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