Slimebeast on 25 July 2016
| JEMC said: I'm honestly surprised by this new Titan, and not only for sharing its name with the former one. I simply don't get why is Nvidia launching this card now. They don't have competition in the high end market and can't supply enough GP104 chips to meet the demand for its 1070/1080 cards, and yet they launch this card now? And a card that's not even 50% more powerful than the 1080. I don't get it. |
Yes, a strange strategy. Apart from competing with itself it's a marketing opportunity wasted, that they could have used after AMD announces it's next big card. Even if it's not immediately after, it's always good PR to announce the new king.
Perhaps they want to make use of the very few perfect big chips that the 16nm process already can yield, instead of just making 1080s out of them.
But if the Titan X was 50% faster than a 1080, that would be extremely good and would even justify the $1200 price tag. Instead we're going to see 30% at best.
