TitaN X announced

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JRPGfan said:

I read that some are saying its the biggest gpu die nvidia has ever made.
So their saying its gonna be like ~610mm^2 and cost 1500$+.

Price goes up exponentially with the die size increase. The bigger die the more costly to make, and thus the sales price.
To me thats quite a investment. Ive always kinda wondered who buys these insane GPUs that cost north of 1,000$.

Both things are possible.

The first Titan had 7.1 billion transistors and was a 551mm^2 chip so the Titan X (which is made on the same 28nm process), with 8 billion transistors will be bigger than that.

And in regards to price, premium products always cost more, and Nvidia has charged a hefty premium for years with no problems. Let's remember that the first Titan was a $999 card and buyers could only buy one (at each store) at launch to avoid big shortages. And those 12GB of RAM give them the excuse to go the extra mile and charge $500 more, although I doubt they'll go as far.

I guess that they'll go with $999 - $1,299 and leave enough room for a $799 GTX 980Ti with 6GB of RAM to compete with AMD's 390X.