Another question from a newbie here. Please go easy on me.
Despite just building a rig, I'm already saving for new cards. I've been looking at the literature for the soon to be released Nvidia "Pascal" and realize how much I still have to learn. The GP100 is touted as being the successor to the GM200 (TitanX), but the technical spec doesn't look to my uneducated eyes like we'll see a massive increase in performance for cracking work. Yes, there are more transistors and more memory, but a lot of the talk is around the improvement for mixed precision (FP16 support) (cracking is more integer work, no?) and better performance per watt. If Pascal looks to completely displace Maxwell, I'll go without new toys for a bit longer and buy Titans once prices drop. If not, I'm waiting for nothing and will just build another system with cards in the price/performance sweet spot.
(Yes, I know... The obvious answer is to just wait and see rather than bet on theoreticals. However, I'll be kicking myself if I hold off for months waiting on Pascal and then Titan doesn't drop in price. I'll also be kicking myself if I let myself get impatient, spend my money on a second GTX970 based system for immediate gratification and then see Titan drop by 50%. First world problems....)
For the experts in the audience: Please educate me. What am I missing, if anything? What is your take?
tl;dr - I'm saving for new cards. Wait for Pascal?
Despite just building a rig, I'm already saving for new cards. I've been looking at the literature for the soon to be released Nvidia "Pascal" and realize how much I still have to learn. The GP100 is touted as being the successor to the GM200 (TitanX), but the technical spec doesn't look to my uneducated eyes like we'll see a massive increase in performance for cracking work. Yes, there are more transistors and more memory, but a lot of the talk is around the improvement for mixed precision (FP16 support) (cracking is more integer work, no?) and better performance per watt. If Pascal looks to completely displace Maxwell, I'll go without new toys for a bit longer and buy Titans once prices drop. If not, I'm waiting for nothing and will just build another system with cards in the price/performance sweet spot.
(Yes, I know... The obvious answer is to just wait and see rather than bet on theoreticals. However, I'll be kicking myself if I hold off for months waiting on Pascal and then Titan doesn't drop in price. I'll also be kicking myself if I let myself get impatient, spend my money on a second GTX970 based system for immediate gratification and then see Titan drop by 50%. First world problems....)
For the experts in the audience: Please educate me. What am I missing, if anything? What is your take?
tl;dr - I'm saving for new cards. Wait for Pascal?