And after this, Nintendo has the funds in order to make a deal with Intel and Nvidia for the upcoming console.

The new console will have core i7 (Kaby Lake or Skylake) CPU + GTX1080 (mobile edition with lower clocks) GPU.

It will easily smoke competition (this setup is near twice as powerful as scorpio) and Nintendo will become king of the hill again.

The tiny problem is that a console of this magnitude will cost at least $800.

And the other tiny small pico problem is that its not going to happen. :P

@ello432: Well, if thats the case, then my bad. I wanted to say that Nvidia will sell more than one (hence the plural) TItanX Pascal FE GPUs from their store. :P

My apologies.

@kyelo: This isn't true. With PS3, they had a top GPU (RSX) inside which it was as fast as a flagship GPU from Nvidia (7800GTX). They were actually the same chip (G70).

What happened and consoles cannot compete from 2006-2008 and after is simple.

GPUs manufacturers (Nvidia and AMD) decided that they are going to use as much power as they can in order to provide monster GPUs.

So back then 7800GTX had only 1x6pin which soft limits the GPU to 150w.

Today Titan X Pascal will have 1x6pin and 1x8pin which soft limits the GPU to 300w.

Consoles use around 150w (original PS3: 180w, original XB360: 160w, XB1: 115w, PS4: 140w) the last decade for the whole system (CPU and GPU and RAM etc etc). With GPUs barely consuming 100w (most of the times less)

In order to compete with today's high end you need 3x-4x times more efficient architecture while PC GPUs will probably be the same or more generations ahead. Thats is impossible with earth technology.

So you can see the evolution came threw moar (electrical) POWAH! :P

@chiefwiggum16: And usually, AMD GPU need 25%-33% more TFLOPs to provide the same performance as Nvidia GPUs.

So an AMD GPU needs around 14TFLOPs in order to compete with this GPU.

Scorpio has 6TFLOPs. You can do the math. :P

edit: Full Vega 10 might be able to compete with this, but AMD said they will release it in October...

@ello432: You linked GTX1080 Founders Edition.

They are sold from 3rd parties.

But for this Titan X Pascal edition, things changed again:

This is from Anandtech:

As for pricing and availability, NVIDIA’s flagships have always been expensive, and NVIDIA Titan X even more so. The card will retail for $1200, $200 more than the previous GTX Titan X (Maxwell 2), and $500 more than the NVIDIA-built GTX 1080 Founders Edition. Given the overall higher prices for the GTX 1000 series, this isn’t something that surprises me, but none the less it means buying NVIDIA’s best card just got a bit more expensive. Meanwhile for distribution, making a departure from previous generations, the card is only being sold directly by NVIDIA through their website. The company’s board partners will not be distributing it, though system builders will still be able to include it.

I think its pretty clear that this Titan X will be sold only from Nvidia website.

@gamefreak215jd: +1.

I bought my GTX970 G1 (a couple of months after release) for 400 euro (near $500).

Prices in EU are $##$^%^#$%#$^%^%$.

:P

"Note that Nvidia has also called it "the biggest GPU ever built" so it might be worth checking if it'll fit your build before making a purchase."

I am 99,99999999% sure (lets not be absolute here :P) that by saying "the biggest GPU ever built", Nvidia was talking about transistor count...

:P

@Derpalon: What are you talking about?

Founders Editions are only sold by Nvidia in the same price and the price will never fall nor rise.

Meanwhile for distribution, making a departure from previous generations, the card is only being sold directly by NVIDIA through their website. The company’s board partners will not be distributing it, though system builders will still be able to include it.

@spartanx169x: If you would ask in our forums, we are saying in the last 2-3 months that new generation is coming and people should wait. :)

@kyelo: Non-reference GTX1060 start from £229 in UK shops