X Marks the Titan.
admin | April 1st, 2015 - 4:59 amVoice of Slight Logic: On the topic of games. How do you account for Big Maxwell’s not so small deficit.
Nvidia Apologist: In relation to your hellacious Hawaii’s?
Voice of Slight Logic: The very same.
Nvidia Apologist: Look, higher frame rates are worthless if they come at the expense of fluidity. The litany of latency issues that plagues multi chip cards is a law unto itself, even we have struggled to suppress it, why do you think Gsync was invented? But of those fiery devils, they made stuttering into an art. It’s simple, if you chunks of choppiness, fluffed frames, rudimentary responsiveness and anything else likely to incur your wrath at pivotal points in death matches of every age and team wars of all varieties, feel free to submit to a scarlet chaos.
Voice of Slight logic: Oh Please, play the world’s smallest violin. Two years ago that sizzling sermon might have been valid. Now it’s ill-founded propaganda. The riddle of the runt frame was deciphered long before the Hawaii was a pink tinge in the clouds, by none other than your fine friend Ryan Shrout at PC Per…using your very own software. Don’t you remember his investigation?
Nvidia Apologist: As if it were yesterday.
Voice of Slight Logic: The techniques he used to determine whether or not measured frame rates coincided with a players perceptions?
Nvidia Apologist: Of course, we were as enthusiastic as him.
Voice of Slight logic: Well? Now we have fancy coloured curves that divulge the fruits of every graphics card’s labours. Fast, slow and average frame rates, purged or incomplete frames, frame variance by percentage and even individual frame intervals. They’ve become the industry standard. So, I ask you, they expose any gross deviations between the recorded and the observed. No, the traces were perfect clones. Is the 295X really a dire dirge of stutter and strife when compared to the Titan X?
Nvidia Apologist: No, but it’s frame variance is significantly greater.
Voice of Slight Logic: By how much
Nvidia Apologist: On average between 1 and 2 milliseconds
Voice of Slight Logic: Oh Horror, I am humbled and humiliated, my entire argument has spontaneously collapsed. What’s that in frame pacing terms? A week? A century? An ice age? Enough time for a ZX81 to render the Milky Way?
Nvidia Apologist: You’d be surprised what the human eye can Perceive.
Voice of Slight Logic: Especially if its green…
Nvidia Apologist: No need for flippancy. Why don’t you ask me about profiles. We haven’t discussed those yet.
Voice of Slight Logic: The ones you keep on all your customers?
Nvidia Apologist: No. Crossfire profiles, the ones imperative to extract the benefits of your chosen one. Notice how tardy that ruddy rabble is when it comes to keeping them in trim? Over four months and no stable release. That means every game released between then and now will likely be deprived of multi-gpu support. You’ve cited one review, allow me to direct your attention to another. Note the results for 4k. Nine games tested and four with broken implementations with no guarantee of any timely fixes. Does $699 seem like such a bargain now?
Voice of Slight Logic: Hmm. Well. Congratulations you’ve stopped me in my tracks. Nine benchmarks, eighteen iterations , eight with the 295X hobbling along at half pace and yet, the Titan X still slower by 15% at 1440p and 2% at 4K. Was this supposed to be evidence of Big Maxwell’s worth? Inferior performance despite a crippled opposition? Look, it even when over clocked in Middle Earth it came up short, and that was with the 295 at stock.
How or why those Canucks concluded they’d rather fritter grand for the sake of four games than pocket $400 and play the remaining 10721 Steam titles 20% faster is a greater mystery than the Marie Celeste. They appear to be ignoring their own results, perhaps in a desperate ploy to sleep with their review sample.
Nvidia Apologist: An outrageous statement. What’s there to suggest there wouldn’t be other games besides those four? One also pays for our service my friend. Superior engineering and quality control at least, I would argue. Frequent and potent drivers. SLI support for key titles on the week of release. You do realise there are some whose rendering needs revolve around a single piece of software.
Voice of Slight logic: And thank heavens for if there weren’t your Titans would be fit for landfill. You’re playing to the paranoid, the kinds of people who update their drivers every hour, to fix everything that isn’t broken. The tortured pix-elites that waste so much time stressing over benchmark kudos, gawking at pre-rendered foliage, using their 3Dmark rank as a foundation for personal morale and evoking elation from dancing digits, wavy lines and coloured bars, that they leave not a second to relish the joys of one solitary jaunt through Skyrim.
Meanwhile, back in the Halls of the Damned
Giant Greeneyes: Bah. I only included double precision to lend credence to my claims that consumers were receiving a Cuda coo for their coinage. They coughed up a cool grand for the Titan, they willingly parted with a monkeys for my less capable Keplers and magnificent maiden Maxwell. Hence, now that I have succeeded in instilling the notion that $1000 has become the customary fee for a humble consumer to command peak pixel proliferation, I can innocently preserve my fast Fourier fineries as a special feature for professional clientèle, as it has always been their nature to best serve. Praise be, for I have carved for myself a brand new genre of graphics card that guarantees nothing specific other than a $1000 toll. Welcome the age of the “Hyper Flagship”.
Gient Redbeard: You speak not the truth my verdant varlot. The fact is, you withdrew the function furtively and for no other reasons than your grotesque greed and lack of competence when challenged by the compute credentials of my own creations. Just look at the history. My Cayman cards attained legendary adulation amongst communities of bitcoin miners.
Entire render farms have been devised by aspiring amateurs in their modest garden sheds and duly built upon a backbone of Tahities. I made that possible, I alone brought the joys of industrial strength compute to the masses. Recall if you will my HD 6990? A four year old veteran that will vanquish, with vehemence, your finest offerings when it comes to the excellence of 64bit executions. And what of my 7990, a maligned masterpiece, that I’ll wager in would wipe the proverbial screen clean of tiresome corporate antagonism.
And not a moment too soon. One interesting fact to emerge from this round of pixel predicated profiteering was Nvidia’s disclosure that it did not intend to complement its latest creation with a doubled up counterpart, as it had done by fusing a pair of fully fortified Keplers to form the infamously exorbitant Titan-Z.
The official explanation pertained to the physical difficulties in accommodating two such expansive dies on the same stretch of circuitry, as well as the traditional complexities encountered when developing drivers to enable SLI on a single device. If taken in earnest, the result of our emerald ogre’s remarkable show of restraint, was that AMD’s Volcanic virtuoso (AH!, smuggled it in) would continue to reign as the fastest card overall, until either Red-beard excelled his own monstrous ingenuity, or a certain Pascal prevailed against the winds of hell.
Turning to more immediate matters and the imminent threat of AMD’s Fijian counter attack. Nvidia’s strategy when launching its inaugural Tatan was to voluntarily over-pitch, shrewdly survey the competition, backtrack and refine accordingly. Thus, just as the 780ti had heroically defended the honour of its elder in light of the R9 290X’s vicious attack, a 980ti that forfeited stream processors to the avail of core speeds and value was, to any journalist in the techno loop, a veritable formality. The question was, would it be worth another 2000 wilfully chosen words, 1999 of which contained the letter X?
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