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

[rgallant]

you can get it with a water block for a small price bump to 3349.00 only $350.00 over the base model - what a deal.
http://www.evga.com/Products/Produc...Force+TITAN+Series+Family&chipset=GTX+TITAN+Z

 

[KaRLiToS]

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.

I agree, there was a lot more bashing when the reference R9 290x cards released.

you can get it with a water block for a small price bump to 3349.00 only $350.00 over the base model - what a deal.
http://www.evga.com/Products/Produc...Force+TITAN+Series+Family&chipset=GTX+TITAN+Z

Only 350$ for a water block on a 3000$ card?

I didn't know the price of blocks were exponantial with the price of the cards.

 

[SolMiester]

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

I dont think someone who drops $1.5k on GPUs, is going to worry too much about $100.
I am curious about it not supporting 4 monitors though!, AFAIK, every Kepler supports 4, and I dont understand why a semi-pro card would not!
As for thermals, any air cooled card is going to run louder and hotter than an closed loop cooling solution.

 

[Lepton87]

What annoys me to no end in NV drivers is that you can't pair different cards in SLI even if they have the same GPUs. I want at least TITAN SLI performance and never have I used it's FP64 capability. Why can't I buy an FP64 castrated GK110 and enjoy the same performance as two TITANS. Only greed from NV explains that. QUAD SLI scaling is also not very good so TITAN Z with a TITAN BLACK could be a good buy for an NV enthusiast with a thick wallet or TITAN-Z + 2x780TI if someone wants QUAD SLI and save some money. Of course none of that is possible in NV land, they are like Apple and they know better then you what's best for you.
There is one thing I would like to warn you about potential benchmarks, unless they are done with the card already warned up they are useless the card can lose 15-30% of performance in 10 minutes. Fortunately it can be mitigated on a regular Titan by increasing temperature target and fan speed but I don't know if you can keep full boost without making the card very noisy.
ps. this is not GTX590 it's not a bad card I hope its PCB is robust enough to not blow itself. I like the card a lot but I hate the price even more.

 

[3DVagabond]

What annoys me to no end in NV drivers is that you can't pair different cards in SLI even if they have the same GPUs. I want at least TITAN SLI performance and never have I used it's FP64 capability. Why can't I buy an FP64 castrated GK110 and enjoy the same performance as two TITANS. Only greed from NV explains that. QUAD SLI scaling is also not very good so TITAN Z with a TITAN BLACK could be a good buy for an NV enthusiast with a thick wallet or TITAN-Z + 2x780TI if someone wants QUAD SLI and save some money. Of course none of that is possible in NV land, they are like Apple and they know better then you what's best for you.
There is one thing I would like to warn you about potential benchmarks, unless they are done with the card already warned up they are useless the card can lose 15-30% of performance in 10 minutes. Fortunately it can be mitigated on a regular Titan by increasing temperature target and fan speed but I don't know if you can keep full boost without making the card very noisy.
ps. this is not GTX590 it's not a bad card I hope its PCB is robust enough to not blow itself. I like the card a lot but I hate the price even more.

Hardware.fr increases the power/temp targets (106% and 95°) and increases fan to 85% to maintain boost clocks the same as when the cards are cool.

 

[Sohaltang]

Am I the only on disturbed to see 3000$+ of GPU's only push 70 fps @4k in games? Just shows how far we are from 4k.

 

[3DVagabond]

Am I the only on disturbed to see 3000$+ of GPU's only push 70 fps @4k in games? Just shows how far we are from 4k.

That's because it's not really $3000 worth of GPU's, as much as nVidia would like us to believe it is. As has been pointed out you could get 2x 780 or 290 for $1000 or less and have the same, or better performance. Add a 3rd GPU (3x290 ~$1200), something you can't do with Titan-Z and you're probably right about in the sweet spot for 4K gaming.

 

[Lepton87]

Hardware.fr increases the power/temp targets (106% and 95°) and increases fan to 85% to maintain boost clocks the same as when the cards are cool.

If it's as loud as a regular Titan at 85% then it's unusable.

 

[3DVagabond]

If it's as loud as a regular Titan at 85% then it's unusable.

Sorry, I was talking reference GK110 cards, Titan, 780, 780 ti. I wasn't referring to Titan-Z. They haven't AFAIK tested a Titan-Z yet. Titan-Z would likely be worse, but until they get ahold of one, we won't know for sure. Their testing technique is a bit unique. It's to allow in their opinion for a fairer comparison of nVidia and AMD reference cards. Since AMD cards run so much louder and hotter.

There is one thing I would like to warn you about potential benchmarks, unless they are done with the card already warned up they are useless the card can lose 15-30% of performance in 10 minutes. Fortunately it can be mitigated on a regular Titan by increasing temperature target and fan speed but I don't know if you can keep full boost without making the card very noisy.

I was specifically responding to this part of your post.

 

[Creig]

Titan itself proved to be a reasonable purchase.

IMHO, no $1,000 video card for playing games could ever be called "reasonable".

 

[Sohaltang]

That's because it's not really $3000 worth of GPU's, as much as nVidia would like us to believe it is. As has been pointed out you could get 2x 780 or 290 for $1000 or less and have the same, or better performance. Add a 3rd GPU (3x290 ~$1200), something you can't do with Titan-Z and you're probably right about in the sweet spot for 4K gaming.

I was more referring to the dual 295X setup. Would take 4 500$ GPU's to even get close the the 2 295x's

the Titan Z SLI cant even push 60 FPS