The Titan Z... What is it?
Okay, we are all familiar with the Titan, the most powerful workstation GPU right now. It is incredibly powerful and hasn't been matched in performance. The Titan Z tops the charts in return of the Titan series GPUs.
What is the Titan Z? It has a total of 5760 Cuda cores, 12 GB VRAM, and a price of $3000. Another interesting thing about this is that the performance was not made through one GPU, it is dual chip architecture, hence the drastic change in the looks of the cooler. This can be compared to a few pairs of modern NVIDIA chipsets:
Two 780 Ti's in SLI: 5760 Cuda cores, 3GB VRAM, $1200
Two Titan Blacks in SLI: 5760 Cuda Cores, 6GB VRAM, $2000
Initially, it looks as if the Titan Z would be a complete waste of money. This, however, is not the case. The Titan Z has its place in the market of workstation GPUs and even in the high-end GPU ranks.
What does the Titan Z have that other cards do not? For one, it is the only up-to-date NVIDIA card with SLI, basically taking the conventional two-card setup and putting it on one card. Secondly, for a single card to have 12GB VRAM is astounding. I have only seen 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6 GB variants of GPUs and NVIDIA bumps that up to 12GB. It is, at-least marketed to be, extremely power efficient while keeping the noise down.
How does this card apply to the marketplace? For one, businesses don't mind nudging out another $1000 for a nicer GPU as long as it improves what they are doing and gives them a profit. Secondly, if one person wanted to create the ultimate ITX machine, this would be the card, no doubt.
Do you want it? If you want to make the best of the best workstation PC, you want the Titan Z. If you want to make an insane ITX rig, you want the Titan Z. If you care at all about the use of your money and effectiveness of the card for the money spent, you do not want the Titan Z.
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Resources:
http://anandtech.com/show/7894/nvidia-gtc-2014-keynote-live-blog
http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2014/03/25/titan-z/
http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/announcing-the-geforce-gtx-titan-z
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Friday, March 14, 2014
Google Docs add-ons, are they worth it?
Google just recently added the ability of Add-ons for Google docs web-based editors. Are they worth it? In a word, not-totally-worth-it. Let me explain.
Due to the recent release of this add-on function, not many add-ons have been made. As it is in the early stages of development for most people, it doesn't seem that big of an issue, but it is. Many add-ons are cumbersome. Some made to create diagrams, others made for outlining, and more made for highlighting. Quite frankly, add-ons have worked splendidly with many of the other applications from Google from Hangouts and the option to add certain elemental functions otherwise impossible on its contenders, like Skype, and in total the countless tons of add-ons available to the Chrome browser. It is a mystery as to why add-ons, so far, are not having the impact that they were perceived to get.
Even some diagram makers are a bit awkward. It isn't a simple drag-and-drop diagram that you fill or a simple diagram maker, but instead an awkward interface that doesn't allow for the functionality that it should. The only diagram maker that is worth-while is Lucidcharts diagrams. While it is easy and incredibly flexible, it has to take you to a different website and no longer is in docs, which others would find perfectly fine, but I find it annoying.
Simply put, docs is a text editor. That is it. While it lets others join and edit text with you, it is still a text editor and that is shown in its core. The issue being that it needs to be incredibly flexible to make some of these add-ons worth-while. Highlighting add-ons are cumbersome and still don't feel like a highlighter. One still has to select an area and click the color that is appropriate. Highlighters lets one trace what they want out of the document and it is immediate. While this isn't a real highlighter and it still has plenty of ways to improve, it is a start.
Like many other add-ons, they is limited by what Google has made available through its program. And until the inner core of the application has changed, it will be limited to very basic functions.
This has been Nickster258
Due to the recent release of this add-on function, not many add-ons have been made. As it is in the early stages of development for most people, it doesn't seem that big of an issue, but it is. Many add-ons are cumbersome. Some made to create diagrams, others made for outlining, and more made for highlighting. Quite frankly, add-ons have worked splendidly with many of the other applications from Google from Hangouts and the option to add certain elemental functions otherwise impossible on its contenders, like Skype, and in total the countless tons of add-ons available to the Chrome browser. It is a mystery as to why add-ons, so far, are not having the impact that they were perceived to get.
Even some diagram makers are a bit awkward. It isn't a simple drag-and-drop diagram that you fill or a simple diagram maker, but instead an awkward interface that doesn't allow for the functionality that it should. The only diagram maker that is worth-while is Lucidcharts diagrams. While it is easy and incredibly flexible, it has to take you to a different website and no longer is in docs, which others would find perfectly fine, but I find it annoying.
Simply put, docs is a text editor. That is it. While it lets others join and edit text with you, it is still a text editor and that is shown in its core. The issue being that it needs to be incredibly flexible to make some of these add-ons worth-while. Highlighting add-ons are cumbersome and still don't feel like a highlighter. One still has to select an area and click the color that is appropriate. Highlighters lets one trace what they want out of the document and it is immediate. While this isn't a real highlighter and it still has plenty of ways to improve, it is a start.
Like many other add-ons, they is limited by what Google has made available through its program. And until the inner core of the application has changed, it will be limited to very basic functions.
This has been Nickster258
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