Nvidia’s new graphics card is $3,000, painted gold, and not meant for graphics

Although Nvidia launched its 21 billion transistor Volta GPU architecture back in May, until now the chip has been used exclusively in compute cards—specifically, the Tesla V100 cards, which cost about $10,000 for the PCIe version.

It's inevitable that some deep-pocketed gamers will pick up a Titan V and use it as nothing more than a graphics card, but that's certainly not the core market.