What in the 24GB of...

Railgun · Mar 24, 2015

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-098-BG&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1576

Just when you thought it couldn't get any dumber...

Blacksun · Mar 24, 2015

What a joke!

petteyg359 · Mar 24, 2015

we do advice a minimum of two in SLI for above 4k gaming. Of course for the ultimate experience 4-way SLI is the way the forward.

Yes, yes, of course you recommend a minimum of two USD$2000 (pre-tax) cards and tell us that we really should get four USD$2000 (pre-tax) cards for future-proofing. Where's my R10 399X8?

Blacksun · Mar 24, 2015

I am all the more excited to see the 390X in action.

caddi daddi · Mar 24, 2015

what's the bid deal, at the shop I use the pny 12gig quadro for cfd work, 24 gigs might help.
who knows what's coming down the pike? I for one am starting to think all compute should be run on the gpus.
for an idea why just go folding and the picture becomes quite clear.

petteyg359 · Mar 24, 2015

caddi daddi said:
what's the bid deal, at the shop I use the pny 12gig quadro for cfd work, 24 gigs might help.

Companies buying for rendering workstations don't buy Geforce or Radeon cards. They buy Quadros or FirePro, just as in your example, and they sure as heck don't buy "OC" cards, and as you mentioned Quadro and FirePro already offer cards with huge amounts of memory. (Quadro M6000 with 12 GB and FirePro W9100 with 16 GB).

caddi daddi said:
who knows what's coming down the pike? I for one am starting to think all compute should be run on the gpus.
for an idea why just go folding and the picture becomes quite clear.

An uncompressed 4k image at 32-bit color requires 253 MiB (and nothing these days is uncompressed - lossless compression is too cheap to not use). If you're not running a wall grid of 4k displays (in which case even SLI isn't going to get you the processing power for a nice framerate and AA/AF), that much VRAM is a silly waste of money (and electricity).

Janus67 · Mar 25, 2015

I thought bfg died years ago

ATMINSIDE · Mar 25, 2015

Janus67 said:
I thought bfg died years ago

Linked page says:
"BFG Returns exclusively to OcUK"

EarthDog · Mar 25, 2015

That's.. yeah.

Janus67 · Mar 25, 2015

A little early for april fools, no?

Railgun · Mar 25, 2015

Janus67 said:
I thought bfg died years ago

I thought the exact same thing.

Does seem strange since they were HQ'd in Illinois.

synthetic_fenix · Mar 25, 2015

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/44153/bfg-trolls-geforce-gtx-titan-xxx-24gb-ram-300w-oc/index.html

Railgun · Mar 25, 2015

While I suppose it could be an early April fools joke, bad form on them for releasing it so early.

Bishoff · Mar 25, 2015

Out of stock. Expected by 4-1-2015

caddi daddi · Mar 25, 2015

is this aimed at gamers? how would 24 gigs help in game?

petteyg359 · Mar 25, 2015

Bishoff said:
Out of stock. Expected by 4-1-2015

Guess somebody at OCUK just failed their reading-the-darn-calendar test and needs their joke license revoked.

EarthDog · Mar 25, 2015

caddi daddi said:
is this aimed at gamers? how would 24 gigs help in game?

It wouldn't... unless you plan to run 3x 4K monitors and even then, who knows if the 12GB the original comes with is even used...

I don't know where the Titan X is aimed at with its 12GB none the less this 24GB mess...

... that I am still hoping is an early April Fool's joke.

jaymz9350 · Mar 25, 2015

petteyg359 said:
Guess somebody at OCUK just failed their reading-the-darn-calendar test and needs their joke license revoked.

I'm pretty sure we here in the US are the only ones who do MM/DD/YYYY the UK is DD/MM/YYYY

gkline · Mar 25, 2015

Perhaps it's a ploy to distract from the GTX970 memory allocation issue! :clap:

petteyg359 · Mar 26, 2015

jaymz9350 said:
I'm pretty sure we here in the US are the only ones who do MM/DD/YYYY the UK is DD/MM/YYYY

Huh what? This is neither January 4th nor April 1st (hence poor calendar-reading skills for an "April 1st" joke).

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