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Titan Z drivers, will they benefit the rest of the range ?

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From what I understand of it the delay on the Titan Z is because NVidia are working on the drivers to squeeze more performance out of the card.

What I was just thinking about is the Titan Z will be two Titan Blacks in SLI on the same card. If NVidia succeed in getting more performance for the Titan Z does that mean there will be a knock on effect for the Titan Blacks and any of the other cards using GK110 chips, will they all end up with a performance boost ?
 
I'd assume its a fan speed increase or some such so the Titan Z can maintain a higher core speed without throttling

Hmm unless its a improvement again on the last miracle driver in which case all gk110's might benefit
 
So, nothing to do with AMD releasing a GPU with superior performance at half the price? :)

And, as I said on [H], there is a real issue in that the card has only one DP port.
 
MjFrosty said:
It would take more than an aggressive fan profile to save that card.

There most likely will be performance improvements for SLI users.
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If NVidia were just tweaking the fan profile it would be a quick job, so I suspect there may be more going on with possible improvements.
 
MjFrosty said:
It would take more than an aggressive fan profile to save that card.
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Looking at the images of the card, it appears that the improved cooling does kind of scale with the increased TDP (compared to the cooling/TDP of the GTX690), so the should be room to tweak clocks, the issue will be tweaking them without sounding like a jet turbine :P
 
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No clue how they messed it up TBH, but LOL at above.

A 780Ti is faster/cooler and uses less power than a 290x then it should be same for doubling it up, but then they did not use AIO unit on it but I feel it should have been able to be AC.
 
jh30uk said:
No clue how they messed it up TBH, but LOL at above.

A 780Ti is faster/cooler and uses less power than a 290x then it should be same for doubling it up, but then they did not use AIO unit on it but I feel it should have been able to be AC.
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A 780 Ti consumes more power and generates more heat than a 290x once overclocking starts getting into the picture. Also, Kepler scaling compared to that of Hawaii is lower so as you get into more cards, AMD comes back big.
 
Not from what reviews I have seen, so keep telling yourself that.

Comes back with a GPU hardly any will buy (both are a joke TBH)?
 
jh30uk said:
No clue how they messed it up TBH, but LOL at above.

A 780Ti is faster/cooler and uses less power than a 290x then it should be same for doubling it up, but then they did not use AIO unit on it but I feel it should have been able to be AC.
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If they'd used an AiO unit and keep the pricing a little more sane then tbh it would have owned :cool:
 
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