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[QUOTE="homeboylizard"]First up, what the hell does lower binned even mean? If it means dumbed down, then Nvidia has already done it, it's called GK104, the 600 series chip. A 700 series can either be a fully optimized refresh of GK104, or Maxwell. Making a chip that's only a bit better than GK 104, and worse than GK110 seems like a waste of time and money.homeboylizard
A binning is seperating a specific ASIC into groups based upon certain characteristics. Those characteristics are based upon the ASIC's market, generally higher quality silicon goes to the professional market, Tesla/Quadro and FirePro/FireStream, while the lower bins go to gaming cards, Geforce and Radeon HD.
An example of those characteristics are; functional units, speed, volatage, thermals, etc.
There is no reason why Nvidia couldn't be stockpiling GK110 chips that can't be used as a K20 in the professional market for a later release as a Gerforce. This would allow Nvidia to keep selling the Titan at it's $1000 pricepoint and not killing consumer relations while still offering something branded as a Geforce card that offers a decent performance increase over GTX680.
The way I see it GK 110 was never intended to be a Geforce chip, nor should it try to be one. It should have remained purely as proffesional Tesla chip used for computing, not rendering. If anything, Titan is low end computing card, that with the minor tweaking Nvidia did, can be a high end Graphics Card using only 1 GPU, instead of 2 (GTX 690, ROG Ares II).Also, Nvidia killed themselves pricing 1000$ for Titan. Why? A GTX 690, which also costs 1000$ generaly does a better job that it was primarily made for, rendering 3D animation by 20%-30%. So Titan should have costed around 750$.
Nvidia may feel that they don't make enough money on Titan at $700-800 each. I know that is a sad statement, but it may be true. They may have created a monster chip that just doesn't perform well enough in games to justify the price that they have to charge to make money on it. When they sell GK110 as a computing part, they can jack the prices way up for the enterprise sector. They make tons of money on them there. What we are left with is a card that costs over twice the price of cards that Titan can only beat by 20-30%.
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