Titan Z Destroyed by Radeon R9 295X2? Benchmarks

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ElMoIsEviL

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To be honest we don't know the Titan Z clock speeds. What we do know is the 8 GigaFlops of Single Precision performance that nVIDIA mentioned. In order to hit 8GigaFlops you need a clock speed of 700MHz.

As for watercooling, that's not a downside... that's a plus. A BIG plus. Who would think that watercooling is a negative? Likely someone just fishing for negatives (not saying you per-say saying anyone bringing up these points about the 295X2).

Extra fan slot? How so? Every case has a rear fan slot pretty much... and its not extra... the slot is there. Also the radiator, depending on how you install it, will act as either an exhaust or intake point. Air passes through a radiator FYI.

500W of power is not important when you consider the performance you're getting as well as the watercooling aspect of the whole card (keeps temps in check). Its an enthusiast class product... we don't care about power usage tbh. That's something non-enthusiasts care a lot about. I mean GTX 480? or 8800 Ultra anyone? Enthusiast do not care about such things. Fake enthusiasts who claim to be enthusiasts but are really just nVIDIA fans will care... because they can rationalize, to themselves, that the brand they support has the superior product by lying to themselves. (AMD fans do much the same FYI)

Do you have any real negatives aside from the $1,500 price tag?
 
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cst1992

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TBH I don't think that a "simulated" benchmark is of any use in indicating how a card will perform in the real world.
Let it launch, then we'll see.
I'd still say 500W is a negative if real world performance of the TitanZ is comparable to the Radeon. The 780Ti in itself is faster than the 290x even if its FP performance is less on paper.
 
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How can they even simulate the dam thing? Even if they down clock the cards GPU Boost 2.0 with overclock the cards back up. There is no way to stop the dam thing. Trust me i tried.

By the way to people complaining about the extra fan slot needed for 295x keep forgetting that the titan z is a triple slot monster cooler. It does the job on ait true. But it's dam big and heavy. I would not want that thing to hang on my GPU board.
 
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Karadjgne

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500w is chump change. It takes that to run 780's in sli, so in a single card? No biggie.

Those 2 cards are not for enthusiasts. They are for extremists. Enthusiasts are happy to have bragging rights with friends and neighbors... Owning even 1 of those cards would give someone bragging rites in States.

But I don't suffer from "little man syndrome", so if someone else wants one of those cards but can't justify the expense, or it won't fit in their favorite case, or they are just plain jealous because their precious 780ti just became 2nd class, does it bother me? Nope. If you can afford these cards, then go for it, and I'll be happy for you and I hope that they give you hours of enjoyment, because honestly, bitching about 3 slots or whining that its clc'd is absolutely pointless.
 
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cst1992

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Wow.
well, it was immediately evident when the specs were released, 8 vs 11.5 TFlops.
And elmoisevil, yeah, so I now know those things won't matter. But I'm real curious to see what NVIDIA come up with.
BTW as the 790 was described earlier, it'd be slower than the Titan Z. I wonder what they'll do to it, perhaps intoduce a Maxwell in there to ease out the TDP and fit more performance?
(Imagine a Maxwell 300W, given the performance of the 750Ti).
 
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ElMoIsEviL

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It would be nice to have a Dual Maxwell... but from what I've heard TSMC is having issues with the 20nm process to be used for Maxwell. So we likely won't be seeing many Maxwell cards until end of 2014 beginning of 2015.
 
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