WCCFTitan Z SLI Vs R9 295X2 Crossfire 4K Benchmarks Finally Appear

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http://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-titan-z-four-way-sli-benchmarks-surface/

I noticed is that Digital Storm was able to overclock it to a most impressive extent and in a few cases even make it beat the R9 295X2 Crossfire

 

[Silverforce11]

From what I've seen it can't handle even stock boost clocks at 1058mhz for long before throttling back down to base clocks after a few minutes.

So sure, if you do quick benches it looks great.

Otherwise, for NV ecosystem lovers, its no contest for a SLI 780ti or Titan Black for those "prosumers" who want CUDA but don't care for ECC memory or pro drivers.

Just remember, TitanZ isn't just competing against the R295X2, its competing against very good products in the 780/ti.

 

[KaRLiToS]

This card would be an extraordinary card if it was priced accordingly. 1600$ and it would sell like hot freakin cakes.

 

[Erenhardt]

From what I've seen it can't handle even stock boost clocks at 1058mhz for long before throttling back down to base clocks after a few minutes.

So sure, if you do quick benches it looks great.

Otherwise, for NV ecosystem lovers, its no contest for a SLI 780ti or Titan Black for those "prosumers" who want CUDA but don't care for ECC memory or pro drivers.

Just remember, TitanZ isn't just competing against the R295X2, its competing against very good products in the 780/ti.

Given its price, it competes against 2x R9-295X2. LOL

 

[Lepton87]

Great Titan Z after OC and 295X2 only at stock, doesn't matter really it's faster at stock then OCed Titan Z. Titans are the worst gamer cards ever for the performance you get per dollar. Value is non-existent. At 1100-1200$ without that useless DP to the vast majority it would be a card to consider.

 

[KaRLiToS]

Great Titan Z after OC and 295X2 only at stock, doesn't matter really it's faster at stock then OCed Titan Z. Titans are the worst gamer cards ever for the performance you get per dollar. Value is non-existent. At 1100-1200$ without that useless DP to the vast majority it would be a card to consider.

IF you consider the Titan early adopters in February 2013, I think these guys did a great purchase considering they had the best cards on the market for around 8 months and more.

 

[RaistlinZ]

This card would be an extraordinary card if it was priced accordingly. 1600$ and it would sell like hot freakin cakes.

Even at $1,600 the Titan Z would still be $100 more expensive than the 295X2 and perform worse at stock speeds.

But at $3,000 the card is a complete joke.

 

[KaRLiToS]

Even at $1,600 the Titan Z would still be $100 more expensive than the 295X2 and perform worse at stock speeds.

But at $3,000 the card is a complete joke.

Yes but everyone knows that a Nvidia card just a tad slower that an AMD card will still be more expensive. ^_^

 

[Lepton87]

IF you consider the Titan early adopters in February 2013, I think these guys did a great purchase considering they had the best cards on the market for around 8 months and more.

Depending on the perspective 40% less (780OC version performed the same) for 8 months of waiting might or might not be worth it but not everybody could buy a Titan at release.

 

[Cloudfire777]

This card would be an extraordinary card if it was priced accordingly. 1600$ and it would sell like hot freakin cakes.

Do you understand the ramifications if they did that?
GTX Titan Black sales will plummet
Tesla/Quadro sales will plummet

Nvidia have two lines
Titan cards with full GPGPU performance
GTX 7xx cards with GPGPU neutered

Price the Titan cards as 7xx cards and they ruin their whole pricing strategy
Their only choice to keep this strategy is by introducing a cheaper neutered GTX 790 that doesnt affect the GPGPU cards

 

[Attic]

Kyle at [H] said nVidia wouldn't even respond to repeated emails asking for a Titan Z to do a review with.

So nVidia knows this card can't hang for gamers or they don't want it widely known before the card hits the streets. I'm a bit stunned nVidia stuck to the $3000 price after AMD dropped the 295x2 for $1500.

I can see where someone who would pay $2000 for this card would probaly pay $3000, the card isn't a a great value at either price, so nVidia might as well charge not based on value but based on prestige or some other motivator for folks to have this card. If the supply will be severly limited, likely, and the card is unique then nVidia does not really need to compete in a traditional sense of pricing, they can more or less charge what they want and that appears to me what they've done. Sell x cards at $2000, or sell x cards at $3000. They all sell regardless, and pricing it at $1500 or less dries up their supply to quick.

Titan Black in mGPU remains king for nVidia, but we are in really outrageous pricing here for 295x2, and particularly for Titan Blacksx2 and TitanZ. This given the 290 xfire provides similar performance for <$800.

Interesting card regardless, but in a wth kind of way. $3k,.. for this?, at this time with the 295x2 launched?

That'd being said, i'd probably rattle things pretty hard to scrounge up $1k to have one of em. I think it's worth a premium.

 

[KaRLiToS]

Do you understand the ramifications if they did that?
GTX Titan Black sales will plummet
Tesla/Quadro sales will plummet

Nvidia have two lines
Titan cards with full GPGPU performance
GTX 7xx cards with GPGPU neutured

Price the Titan cards as 7xx cards and they ruin their whole pricing strategy
Their only choice to withhold this strategy is by introducing a cheaper GTX 790 that doesnt affect the GPGPU cards

Yes yes I understand all that. Thank you.

That's why I'm totally against Nvidia pricing.

 

[lavaheadache]

honestly though, as a 295x2 owner I would take a titan z over the x2 if price were equal. This is only because I am meticulous about making wires and stuff disappear. The Titan Z is asthetically more appealing to me. I would trade a little performance for a cleaner look.

 

[Techhog]

Without knowing the length of the benchmarks, this is completely useless. Still, you can bet that certain people will be using these graphs to prove the Titan Z's power in arguments.

 

[Techhog]

honestly though, as a 295x2 owner I would take a titan z over the x2 if price were equal. This is only because I am meticulous about making wires and stuff disappear. The Titan Z is asthetically more appealing to me. I would trade a little performance for a cleaner look.

But then you could get the Devil 13 dual 290X instead.

 

[dn7309]

honestly though, as a 295x2 owner I would take a titan z over the x2 if price were equal. This is only because I am meticulous about making wires and stuff disappear. The Titan Z is asthetically more appealing to me. I would trade a little performance for a cleaner look.

I thought the X2 look cleaner :$

 

[SirPauly]

Do you understand the ramifications if they did that?
GTX Titan Black sales will plummet
Tesla/Quadro sales will plummet

Indeed! The higher price, to me, was to offer balance and not cannibalize their other double precision Sku's.

 

[Grimbones]

So what you're saying is that at my 350-400 dollar GPU price point, i can not expect to be gaming on 4k anytime soon...

 

[tviceman]

Anyone buying the Titanz is retarded, when Titan Blacks in SLI will perform better and cost $1000 less. On the same note, anyone buying a 295x2 is also equally contributing to these newer extremely high premiums we are now seeing.

 

[Kenmitch]

Alright, I have to say this. The amount of money involved in these benchmarks is mind boggling. And thats not it, this is the inevitable Crossfire Vesuvius (R9 295X2) vs GTX Titan Z SLI benchmarking showdown and you can literally (not really) see the $$$ flying all over the place. It also makes me want to go cry in a corner.

Too funny.

 

[SlickR12345]

This card would be an extraordinary card if it was priced accordingly. 1600$ and it would sell like hot freakin cakes.

No they won't! It will be about $100 more expensive than the faster 295x, it doesn't support 4 monitors and is louder and hotter.

The Titan Z would have to sell for about $1200 to be a better value than the 295x

 

[S.H.O.D.A.N.]

Anyone buying the Titanz is retarded, when Titan Blacks in SLI will perform better and cost $1000 less. On the same note, anyone buying a 295x2 is also equally contributing to these newer extremely high premiums we are now seeing.

Wait, so getting double Titan Black for 2k is fine, but getting a single 295x2 is "contributing to high premiums"? Am I missing something?

 

[Skurge]

http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-TITAN-Z-Review

 

[rituraj]

Can we return to our Grandpa's days when the top end model used to be $500 and the dual GPU one was $999?

 

[TreVader]

IF you consider the Titan early adopters in February 2013, I think these guys did a great purchase considering they had the best cards on the market for around 8 months and more.

Titan itself proved to be a reasonable purchase. I don't think Titan Z, even at 1600, is really an intelligent purchase merely because you can do better spending $700 on R290 CF.


The throttling is the problem. Where is the brigade of people complaining about this card being hot and loud? For 3k you would think nvidia could throw a decent closed loop on it so it would work properly.