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Titan Z reviews
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At least with the 690 the extra we payed for having them on a single card wasn't so extreme, Compare it to this gen's dual card. Charging so much sucks.
Mind you the 690 was crap for it's own set of reasons like how much ram they provided.
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Mind listing the reasons?
The ram in some scenario's is still enough today, and the card has been around now for what well over 2 years now. Back then 2GB was more than enough for most uses.
It was better than the next best thing which was 2x680's due to having less/no microstutter compared to the 2 680 setup.
It looked much better than anything else too !
I don't think there are any 780ti, 780, Titan, Titan BE, 290X or 290P cards that will come out on top against a GTX 690 or even two of the above against two GTX 690s in a review up to 1600p.
Even on LN2 cooling the GTX 690 is quite a bit faster than an EVGA Kingpin 780ti lol.
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Another Titan-z review [PCPER]
Another review,have fun arguing.
In March of this year, NVIDIA announced the GeForce GTX Titan Z at its GPU Technology Conference. It was touted as the world's fastest graphics card with its pair of full GK110 GPUs but it came with an equally stunning price of $2999. NVIDIA claimed it would be available by the end of April for gamers and CUDA developers to purchase but it was pushed back slightly and released at the very end of May, going on sale for the promised price of $2999.
The specifications of GTX Titan Z are damned impressive - 5,760 CUDA cores, 12GB of total graphics memory, 8.1 TFLOPs of peak compute performance. But something happened between the announcement and product release that perhaps NVIDIA hadn't accounted for. AMD's Radeon R9 295X2, a dual-GPU card with full-speed Hawaii chips on-board, was released at $1499. I think it's fair to say that AMD took some chances that NVIDIA was surprised to see them take, including going the route of a self-contained water cooler and blowing past the PCI Express recommended power limits to offer a ~500 watt graphics card. The R9 295X2 was damned fast and I think it caught NVIDIA a bit off-guard.
http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-TITAN-Z-Review
Another review,have fun arguing.
In March of this year, NVIDIA announced the GeForce GTX Titan Z at its GPU Technology Conference. It was touted as the world's fastest graphics card with its pair of full GK110 GPUs but it came with an equally stunning price of $2999. NVIDIA claimed it would be available by the end of April for gamers and CUDA developers to purchase but it was pushed back slightly and released at the very end of May, going on sale for the promised price of $2999.
The specifications of GTX Titan Z are damned impressive - 5,760 CUDA cores, 12GB of total graphics memory, 8.1 TFLOPs of peak compute performance. But something happened between the announcement and product release that perhaps NVIDIA hadn't accounted for. AMD's Radeon R9 295X2, a dual-GPU card with full-speed Hawaii chips on-board, was released at $1499. I think it's fair to say that AMD took some chances that NVIDIA was surprised to see them take, including going the route of a self-contained water cooler and blowing past the PCI Express recommended power limits to offer a ~500 watt graphics card. The R9 295X2 was damned fast and I think it caught NVIDIA a bit off-guard.
http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-TITAN-Z-Review
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This card was marketed for and intended for the compute industry.
*Sits back and waits for the flames*
*Sits back and waits for the flames*
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If the Titan-Z can be somehow clocked to 1100 on the core *As can nearly every 780/780 Ti/Titan/Titan Black* then yes it is a good card but not for that amount of money.
Why Nvidia thought to charge for 3 Titan Blacks I will never know, They could have easily just charged a tiny bit more than 2 x Titan Blacks cost and still made a huge profit.
Yes if it can be clocked to meet a Titan Black it will be a nice card but not at that price, I would seriously questions someones IQ if they bought this over 2 Titan Blacks.
Why Nvidia thought to charge for 3 Titan Blacks I will never know, They could have easily just charged a tiny bit more than 2 x Titan Blacks cost and still made a huge profit.
Yes if it can be clocked to meet a Titan Black it will be a nice card but not at that price, I would seriously questions someones IQ if they bought this over 2 Titan Blacks.
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I already posted it in the TitanZ vs 295x2 thread, but ill copy pasta my post over anyway seeing as you made a new thread. Nvidia frame variance takes another bashing.
LtMatt said:TitanZ Vs 295x2 Vs 780TI SLI
Nvidia users might want to look away.
There are loads more graphs with more games tested and frame variance checked. So definitely check out the review.
What happened to the Nvidia frame variance? The 295x2 is not even using Mantle.
Full Article
http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-TITAN-Z-Review
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Caporegime
This card was marketed for and intended for the compute industry.
*Sits back and waits for the flames*
Nvidia said:
Caporegime
I do look forward to seeing user benching on the Titan Z and 295x2.
Caporegime
I've seen quite a few user 295x2 benches at OC.Net and one or two here, i wouldn't hold out much hope for the TitanZ though Greg.
Although I really dislike the Titan Z if it was user benched I would expect it to come out on top v a 295X2.
That AIO cooler on the 295X2 is really limiting once you start thinking about extra volts whereas the air cooler on the Titan Z although not as good as the AMD card is not thermally limited to 75C.
Another thing to consider is the Titan Z uses less watts than the AMD card which leaves more headroom to ramp it up.
Now all we need is someone to do their best to blow up a 2.5 grand card.
Caporegime
Give me one and I will have a try Kaap
Soldato
AMD hardware is cheaper because their drivers and support are crap and their hardware explodes!! Avoid!!
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Its £895 for the R9 295X2 though.
Plus,RMA back to the US sounds expensive,unless you can fib and get support from the UK offices of the OEMs.