Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan-Z review [Guru3D]

Hello GeForce GTX Titan-Z Newman...

We review the dual-GPU GeForce GTX Titan Z. The card is much talked about as Nvidia introduced the product at prices that are incredibly steep, and then, much like the Titan Black, Nvidia refused to send out samples to the media. To this day that fact has remained the same, however once cards get into retail they inevitably will end up with the media regardless of what Nvidia wants. We had to pull a string or two here and there, but we are proud to report that today we will review the GeForce GTX Titan Z. A card that created a lot of controversy, as such we'll go in-depth once again to see whether or not this 2850 EUR product even has a chance to compete with the 1300 EUR AMD Radeon R9 295x2. We test the product with the hottest games like Thief, Watch Dogs, Battlefield 4 and many more. We'll look at Ultra HD gaming, thermal imaging and heat response, we'll overclock it, we'll fire off FCAT at it. In short, you are in for a 30 page treat today.

[F4sterTh4nFTL]

The very definition of horrible pricing.

[NovusTerminus]

I still say, nVidia should have put two of the 780 ti together. Then they would have the strongest card, but the Titan is way to slow for this. It's build like a work station card.

[OpenGL]

The Titan Black is the fastest single GPU card on the market, the GTX 780 Ti and GTX Titan Black are both based on GK110 and have the same number of stream processors. The only difference is that the Titan black has 2x the memory, a slightly higher clock speed, and much much better FP64 performance.

The original Titan was slightly slower than the GTX 780Ti but that was because it came out almost a year earlier, and by the time the 780Ti manufacturing had improved enough to enable the extra stream processors.

Putting two GTX 780Tis onto one card would arguably be a downgrade because this is two Titan Blacks, not the original GTX Titan that released in early 2013. Of course, this is running at a lower clock speed, but if they were 780Tis they'd be underclocked as well to lower the TDP for a single card.

[Th3o]

I do agree with you for the most part, don't forget that for general gaming the difference between a titan black and a Ti is minimal.

So putting 2 780 tis together might not have the workstation results and the memory we would want for 4k gaming, the memory upgraade could just be done by partners.

So have an 1500$ Titan Z using ti's would yeild better sales in long run than selling 1 titan z priced at double merely for double precision and double the memory (which could easily be fixed since there are 780 tis with 4 GB or more).

[Kenshin_BATT0USAI]

Titan Z is suppose to be a workstation and gaming card. Sadly this means it has drawbacks from both sides too. But it also has the positives from both sides.

[Milesprowers]

Wait for the next generation of Nvidia cards

[Kenshin_BATT0USAI]

I have 2 of these in SLI, they're pretty decent.