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Originally Posted by Avonosac 
Its a marketing / sales question, if you are familiar at all with the history of 3DFX, you would know why you don't release something right away when its done, if there is no market competition for it. NVidia was perfectly fine with the 680 sitting in 2nd place as far as single card goes, because they had the 690 out for the trump card as the "best card available" and simply point, the 7970 reached its max when they released the GE bios. The 680 was still close enough to not merit a newer release in the GeForce 600 series. They don't have the issue marketing a dual GPU card, like AMD does, because in the kepler architecture, they crippled the compute capabilities of the card, so it would not compete with its industrial offerings.
A) GK110 being priced at 900$ is losing them money. They are selling the chips in the Tesla series for $2,500+, the only reason to sell these chips at this lower price point, is they have been binned badly on TDP. The option is to sell off the chips after crippling the compute section, or simply trash the core. 900$ then makes it a viable way to get rid of the excess and still make money.
B) Scarcity drives up price and hype. There is a ton of other reasons, hell maybe they only have a certain limited amount binned they want to sell as a titan, and not a lower clocked tesla.
Its a marketing / sales question, if you are familiar at all with the history of 3DFX, you would know why you don't release something right away when its done, if there is no market competition for it. NVidia was perfectly fine with the 680 sitting in 2nd place as far as single card goes, because they had the 690 out for the trump card as the "best card available" and simply point, the 7970 reached its max when they released the GE bios. The 680 was still close enough to not merit a newer release in the GeForce 600 series. They don't have the issue marketing a dual GPU card, like AMD does, because in the kepler architecture, they crippled the compute capabilities of the card, so it would not compete with its industrial offerings.
A) GK110 being priced at 900$ is losing them money. They are selling the chips in the Tesla series for $2,500+, the only reason to sell these chips at this lower price point, is they have been binned badly on TDP. The option is to sell off the chips after crippling the compute section, or simply trash the core. 900$ then makes it a viable way to get rid of the excess and still make money.
B) Scarcity drives up price and hype. There is a ton of other reasons, hell maybe they only have a certain limited amount binned they want to sell as a titan, and not a lower clocked tesla.
I'm not getting your point
What has changed in terms of competition since the 680 was released? Where is the market competition for Titan now?
Is it not much more likely that Titan simply is a limited edition card because it's only feasible if it's produced in such limited quantities?
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