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ASUS Announces the GeForce GTX Titan Z Dual GPU Graphics Card - Or rather not

Kaapstad said:
Or let EVGA launch it as part of their watercooled classified range, that will be 1 - 0 to NVidia with AMD having nowhere to go.
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Really? Surely they could just allow 1 of their board partners (PowerColor have a watercooled range) to release a 295X2 with a block for a lot, LOT less than Titan-Z.
 
Kaapstad said:
No I am quite happy with the old Titans.

With 4 cards the biggest problem is a CPU bottleneck which means 4 x GTX780/Titan's/780ti's/Titan Blacks will all be pretty close to each other in a lot of things. CPUs and drivers make a lot more difference.

This time next year I will be building something interesting though but the only thing I know for sure is it is going to be watercooled.:D
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With 4 Titans, CPU is indeed a bottleneck, unless you get into very high res monitors with surround.
 
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New GTX TITAN-Z Launch Details Emerge

NVIDIA's GeForce GTX TITAN-Z missed the bus on its earlier 29th April, 2014 launch date, which was confirmed to the press by several retailers, forcing some AIC partners to content with paper-launches of cards bearing their brand. It turns out that the delay is going to be by just a little over a week. The GeForce GTX TITAN-Z is now expected to be available on the 8th of May, 2014. That will be when you'll be able to buy the US $3,000 graphics card off the shelf.

A dual-GPU graphics card based on a pair of 28 nm GK110 GPUs, the GTX TITAN-Z features a total of 5,760 CUDA cores (2,880 per GPU), 480 TMUs (240 per GPU), 96 ROPs (48 per GPU), and a total of 12 GB of GDDR5 memory, spread across two 384-bit wide memory interfaces. Although each of the two GPUs is configured identical to a GTX TITAN Black, it features lower clock speeds. The core is clocked at 705 MHz (889 MHz on the GTX TITAN Black), with GPU Boost frequencies of up to 876 MHz (up to 980 MHz on the GTX TITAN Black); while the memory remains at 7.00 GHz. The card draws power from a pair of 8-pin PCIe power connectors, and its maximum power draw is rated at 375W. It will be interesting to see how it stacks up against the Radeon R9 295X2 by AMD, which costs half as much, at $1,500.
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http://www.techpowerup.com/200390/new-gtx-titan-z-launch-details-emerge.html

Unless they get the clockspeeds sorted out the performance will be as big a joke as the price.
 
Bryan Del Rizzo just lost his job :D

Although HCP are windup merchants. They knew the Card was delayed, and in contrast, NV probably don't want to be seen to be being out shined by a Frankenstein product like the 295x in the dB / heat department. Which nobody in this thread is going to buy either. 20mn needs to get here fast lol.


Couldn't give a hoot about Titan Black at this point, leave alone 3000 dollar 3 year old dual GPU
 
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Nvidia needed to go with an AIO cooler and instead got stupid. It will likely take a significant amount of time to design, fit, test, validate, get produced in volume then ship a AIO version so they've missed the boat pretty much.

The AIO cooler lets the 295x2 dissipate, well I've seen up to 650W, most sites have it running between 60-70C load, which is awesome. Average power usage is good, 225W for a 780ti, 258W for a 290x and 430W for a 295x2 with bigger fans, more fans and one or two pumps as well. [H] had it overclock to 1100Mhz and still not break 71C load with near silent fan speeds. Techpower up has pretty much the same.

a triple slot aircooler with a single low cfm fan can't remotely compete with that.


I still wonder if the delay is about upping speed, or if there was a genuine issue running two of these cards in sli. The new bracket enforcing a bigger air gap between the cards. It really could just be a serious problem with temps, cooling and running them in sli was a serious problem for the card and you know some websites will test sli.

I said earlier, you can't design a card for 375W tdp, with cooling and power circuitry to match(with a little overhead but that overhead based on 375W still), then just up the card to 450W/higher clock speeds.
 
For what nVidia want to charge for this, they need to get it right and even then, I would be surprised if they sell many. The clocks they had advertised are too slow and if that is down to the cooler, then they need to sort it out.....

Will they still charge 3k even if it beats the 295x2? Time will tell I guess.
 
Gregster said:
For what nVidia want to charge for this, they need to get it right and even then, I would be surprised if they sell many.
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They prob don't expect it to sell many, they were genuinely shocked when the original Titan decimated GTX690/HD7990 sales, Titans were/are designed as a niece product for people who either want a compute card but also want to do some gaming or people who just want a lightweight compute card on the cheap (yes I know some people do buy Titans just to game but their not the target audience).
 
What a lemon. Hopefully they have a 790 incoming with all the compute cut out at a more reasonable price with some bigger clocks.
 
ubersonic said:
They prob don't expect it to sell many, they were genuinely shocked when the original Titan decimated GTX690/HD7990 sales, Titans were/are designed as a niece product for people who either want a compute card but also want to do some gaming or people who just want a lightweight compute card on the cheap (yes I know some people do buy Titans just to game but their not the target audience).
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I wouldn't argue but even I was surprised at the amount of Titan owners who do game (looking around various forums). The market was so stale when the Titan was released and nVidia picked a great time to hit. If the Titan and 780 had been released at the same time, I would have jumped on a pair of 780's and saved a few hundred but knowing what I know now, even if they had released at the same time, I am glad I got the Titans.

Titan Z just doesn't sound right either :D
 
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/foru...md-radeon-r9-295x2-performance-review-19.html

There is one small hiccup in the grand scheme of overclocking this card: in order to remain under a predetermined TDP threshold, the cores have been limited to 75°C. Anything higher and they’ll begin to throttle. That’s a far cry from the R9 290X’s stratospheric 90°C operating temperature but we can understand AMD’s hesitation to unleash these cores. Luckily, the water cooling design keeps temperatures around 62°C under normal operating conditions so there’s still nearly 13°C of room before worrying about down-clocking.
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Found it 75c
 
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