Its a THIRD of a titan Z, come on...
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AMD Radeon R9 295X2 8 GB reviews.
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Its a THIRD of a titan Z, come on...
Impressive piece of kit, 8GB also a nice touch, decent start price which will no doubt come down in short order, I reckon my hand would be tipped at around £850 per card.
Nothing negative to say, a first for a new card launch and the first time an AMD Dual-GPU card has shipped un-compromised from its single card sibling, it even has a few extra bells.
With only 2 8-pin connectors I could easily place two of these into my rig without it looking like spaghetti junction.
Nothing negative to say, a first for a new card launch and the first time an AMD Dual-GPU card has shipped un-compromised from its single card sibling, it even has a few extra bells.
With only 2 8-pin connectors I could easily place two of these into my rig without it looking like spaghetti junction.
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You making a massive exaggeration of it as usual, it uses 80 Watts more (entire System) given that it has water pumps ecte... its bound to use more power than one that doesn't. Its also faster than those two 780TIs
http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphi...-Card-Review/Power-Sound-and-Closing-Thoughts
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Power is never irrelevant. A card that uses more power means a higher energy bill. That said, a dual 780 card will use comparatively similar power levels unless they drop the clocks on it.
Its almost 3 times a 290X.
Higher energy bill, how much does that matter in a year? 15 pounds? Come on lol
You are right. Which is why id get multiple separate cards over multi GPU cards any day.
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It is a half the price of a Titan-Z.
It is also easier to install a couple of single 290Xs
I absolutely hate that hybrid cooler, imagine they to install two of these cards and a H100 for the CPU - What a mess.
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You honestly think extra few hundred watts or few of tenth of quids per year matter to people who are dropping over £1,000 on graphic card?
Good stock performance which is impressive but it will be limited when overclocking and I don't think it will be able to match a pair of 290Ps.
As to competing against 780ti's, some of the reviews may show some nice results but the reality is a couple of very overclocked 290Xs can not match the 780ti's doing the same.
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As has already been pointed out Titan-Z is a GeForce card, which is nVidia's gaming brand.
Besides, I was merely correcting the poster who said it was a the 295x2 was a third the price of Titan-Z, which was inaccurate.
A lot of people don't game with two cards heavily overclocked though. One thing to consider in these reviews the 780TI's were up at 84c+ temps whilst the 295x2 does not break 60C and does not go much higher when adding 10-15% overclocks. The 295x2 is also quieter. However i agree in principal with what you're saying if both cards are water cooled.
HardOCP also noted the new Nvidia drivers allow the 780TI's to reach 87C now before throttling.
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A lot of people don't game with two cards heavily overclocked though. One thing to consider in these reviews the 780TI's were up at 84c temps whilst the 295x2 does not break 60C and does not go much higher when adding 10-15% overclocks. HardOCP also noted the new Nvidia drivers allow the 780TI's to reach 87C now before throttling.
So much for overclocking the 780TI to beat the stock 295 x2.
I think this may have been how Gregster blew up his previous GTX Titan. be careful.
A lot of people don't game with two cards heavily overclocked though. One thing to consider in these reviews the 780TI's were up at 84c+ temps whilst the 295x2 does not break 60C and does not go much higher when adding 10-15% overclocks. The 295x2 is also quieter. However i agree in principal with what you're saying if both cards are water cooled.
HardOCP also noted the new Nvidia drivers allow the 780TI's to reach 87C now before throttling.
NVidia cards are easy to keep at 80c even with big overclocks and if you can not be asked to change the fan profile to do this, all you have to do is raise the limit at which the cards throttle to 90c.
