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http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/nvidia_geforce_gtx_titan_z_review,1.html
Nice to see a review turn up on this card. Confirms that nvidia is refusing to give anyone a sample and guru3d turned to an etailor to get a loaner.
TitanZ shows abysmally in this review. Only uses 30W less power than 295X2, runs at a low clock rate to keep within the 80C temp target, overclocks poorly and is slower than the 295X2 as well. Plus it costs twice as much. They also note it makes no sense for CUDA and double precision work as well with the dual Titan Black solution being 2/3 the cost while also delivering more performance.
I knew in advance that the conclusion page would be a difficult one to write. I tried to find some sort of euphemism or analogy if you will to word the sentiment that is the GeForce GTX Titan Z. I ended up with Seinfeld. In fact, if you have noticed the first chapter title, you would have read 'Hello Newman'. Newman was the fat, slightly obtrusive character that Seinfeld didn't like but always was a friend of somehow. Somehow I have that feeling with the Titan Z. I do tend to like the product but the second I think about its pricing my eye-brows frown upon it. The overall performance is massive I mean let's face it, this is a beast of a garphics card. But it does remain slightly below par compared to the alternatives at hand. The card is running relatively nicely at 80 degrees C on the GPUs, it's silent enough... but dumps too much heat inside and outside the PC chassis. I mean, it's two Kepler GPUs tied together, backed up by 12 GB of memory and 5760 processing cores in total -- what's not to like would be my first reaction. Well yeah, I need to get back to pricing, 3000 USD / 2850 EURO is just too much by any standard. My advice would be for you to get two GTX 780 / 780 Ti or Titan / Titan Blacks and go SLI. No-matter how advanced you configure stuff you'll save a lot of money. Of course you could go team AMD as well, AMD has proven that enthusiast dual-GPU gaming doesn't have to cost an arm and a leg and then a kidney too. And as such, the Radeon R9 295x2 outclasses the Titan Z by a factor of two in pricing. In fact, I have seen them sell for as low as 1250 EUR I just realized, that's including liquid cooling, man. Nvidia emphasizes that both the GeForce GTX Titan Black and Titan Z are intended for the professional market, those who need double precision, meanwhile all Nvidia partners have launched and announced Titan Z as their ultimate gaming card. And that I am afraid will be the conclusion of this article, I cannot in good conscience recommend the GeForce GTX Titan Z. If it had been priced at the 1500 EURO mark things would have been very different, even then it would still be too expensive, the reality is that it remains to be an impressive product. But that price... it just doesn't make any sense.
That said, some serious thanks go out to Tones.be! As stated, Nvidia refuses to send out Titan Black and Titan Z samples, for obvious reasons. So we had to fall back to distribution and etail. Please give Tones.be a visit as lending out a component worth 2850 EUROs whilst getting heat and raised eye-browses from Nvidia was a gentlemanly thing for them to do.
Nice to see a review turn up on this card. Confirms that nvidia is refusing to give anyone a sample and guru3d turned to an etailor to get a loaner.
TitanZ shows abysmally in this review. Only uses 30W less power than 295X2, runs at a low clock rate to keep within the 80C temp target, overclocks poorly and is slower than the 295X2 as well. Plus it costs twice as much. They also note it makes no sense for CUDA and double precision work as well with the dual Titan Black solution being 2/3 the cost while also delivering more performance.