whatswithjeff.com: "NVIDIA‘s flagship graphics card for 2013 has finally been revealed, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan, based on Nvidia’s GK110 GPU. The GTX Titan sports 2688 CUDA cores with 12 SMX clusters, and has a clock speeds of 837Mhz, with 376 boost clock speeds. It has 6GB of GDDR5 clocked at 6000MHz with a 384-bit memory interface. It can perform 4,500 Gigaflops of performance with 7.1 Billion transistors. This card sure is a monster and it is expected to perform faster than the GTX 680, and might be on par with GTX 690 dual GPU graphics card. See more details below."
But it's just too expensive right now =(
18 months from now everyone will be buying Titan level performance cards in the mainstream. This is step one for the next level of performance, as always.
New consoles also ensure that the fidelity of games takes a jump as devs aim a lot higher.
They are not.