14 DAY TRIAL // The NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan Z dual-chip graphics adapter has become rather infamous, and not just because of going on sale for $4,000 instead of “just” $3,000. The card has also been delayed repeatedly.
Now, though, it's said that the company is finally ready to formally release it, even though the price hasn't gotten any smaller.
Sure, that $4,000 / €4,000 deal was a one-time thing, a move on a retailer's part to try to make quick cash (well, more than already assured).
However, the dual-GPU video card won't be getting any cheaper than $3,000 / €3,000, not for the first year anyhow.
A real shame, since AMD's video card, the Radeon R9 295 X2, has a price of only $1,500 / €1,500 even now.
Sure, it has only 8 GB of GDDR5 VRAM instead of 12 GB, but it matched NVIDIA's board in most benchmarks so far.
Then again, the company (NVIDIA, not AMD) has been holding off on the release because it wanted to complete a new driver, so presumably the monster board will work a lot better after launch.
That said, the 375W card has 5,760 CUDA cores (2,880 x 2), 876 MHz top clock speed, and the 12 GB of VRAM split in 2 (6 GB per GPU, 7 GHz frequency). Shipments should start in a few days, standalone and as part of gaming PCs.