Nvidia just posted this on Twitter: This is TITAN X

[patrickjp93]

but nvidia didnt take that path and they decided to nerf their clocks

 

Nvidia took the sane path, the one where its cards could go into smaller form factor PCs. To rely on liquid cooling as your reference design is a failure in engineering. No two ways about it. If AMD had offered a proper air cooler alongside it at a cheaper price point we wouldn't even be having this discussion.

[AxelRantila]

I'm confuzz'd...

384 bit bus... 

The 980 has a 256 bit memory bus... x2 would be 512... so this isn't 2 chips in one card or changed memory? 

Or is it a monster of a single card?

Seems to be a powerful single card, considering that it was 2-sloted

[spartaman64]

Nvidia took the sane path, the one where its cards could go into smaller form factor PCs. To rely on liquid cooling as your reference design is a failure in engineering. No two ways about it. If AMD had offered a proper air cooler alongside it at a cheaper price point we wouldn't even be having this discussion.

if titan z released at full clock speed it would need a water cooler also

[patrickjp93]

"Greatly overclocked"

 

1018Mhz is greatly overclocked? A whole 18 Mhz higher than an R9 290X?

 

Wow, what a HUGE overclock!

 

Because the R9 295X2 can't overclock any more at all right?

eyeroll* Every dual chip card in history has had lower stock clocks than the single chip cards. AMD could only manage this feat because they put their card under water. If you put the Titan Z under water you can push it to 1100+MHz fairly easily. AMD failed to engineer a cooling solution for their card and had to have asetek bail them out. It's one thing to offer it as a premium and entirely another to rely on it.

 

[Uwillparish]

Please let this drive 980 prices down

[patrickjp93]

lol it took up 3 slots i wouldnt call that small form factor

 

The cooler doesn't. You can also change the bracket rather easily. With AMD's decision there's no mini-ITX case you can fit the 295x2 inside due to needing a 120mm fan mount.

[Meladath]

eyeroll* Every dual chip card in history has had lower stock clocks than the single chip cards. AMD could only manage this feat because they put their card under water. If you put the Titan Z under water you can push it to 1100+MHz fairly easily. AMD failed to engineer a cooling solution for their card and had to have asetek bail them out. It's one thing to offer it as a premium and entirely another to rely on it.

 

And again, if you put an R9 295X2 under water (or just use the stock cooling) its totally impossible to overclock right?

 

Oh wait.

[Victorious Secret]

But it isn't. They are literally the same value. The proportional markup of two individual GPUs over Nvidia/AMD's amalgamation was pretty damned identical. Stop pretending that AMD doing the exact same thing as Nvidia was any better.

 

It is better because people here defiantly couldn't afford 1+1=3 so when they saw AMDs 0.5 + 0.5 = 1.5 they thought it was better value even though they still couldn't afford it. 

 

/enthusiastlogic 

[spartaman64]

The cooler doesn't. You can also change the bracket rather easily. With AMD's decision there's no mini-ITX case you can fit the 295x2 inside due to needing a 120mm fan mount.

im pretty sure every case can mount a 120mm fan mount unless its a case with no case fans

[LtRoyalShrimp]

Remember folks, only 11.5GB Vram will be usable. /s 

[Meladath]

The cooler doesn't. You can also change the bracket rather easily. With AMD's decision there's no mini-ITX case you can fit the 295x2 inside due to needing a 120mm fan mount.

 

What the fuck am I reading.

You are just defending nvidia tooth and nail at this point dude.

 

"The cooler doesn't" Just what? Have you even seen a Titan Z? It's cooler CLEARLY takes up the entire 3 slots.

 

 

And the R9 295X2 cant fit in a case with no 120mm fan mount, a very valid point.

All those cases that don't have 120MM fan mounts? Yeah all those 0 cases?

 

[ErickS89]

3072 Maxwell Cuda and 12GB VRAM as total overkill... I´ll buy 3!

I'll do 1 better, I'll buy 4!

But is this a dual gpu or single? If single I will buy 4!

[asim1999]

Hey look, its my video!

Is that ur voice?

If so, its great!

 

I can imagine a green Aventum III with 4 of these bad boys in quad-SLI

Gonna be Epic 

[spartaman64]

I'll do 1 better, I'll buy 4!

But is this a dual gpu or single? If single I will buy 4!

i think its single and be ready to pay 1300-1500 for each one

[zappian]

It is better because people here defiantly couldn't afford 1+1=3 so when they saw AMDs 0.5 + 0.5 = 1.5 they thought it was better value even though they still couldn't afford it. 

 

/enthusiastlogic

No just because it had almost the same performance(about 2% difference) and costed 1.5 K less.

And it had better temps

[Pomfinator]

I'll do 1 better, I'll buy 4!

But is this a dual gpu or single? If single I will buy 4!

I believe it's single, the price was a rumor from last month, nothing is confirmed yet.

[asim1999]

Please let this drive 980 prices down

Yeah so i can get a second one to drive my 1280x1024 monitor!

[spartaman64]

No just because it had almost the same performance(about 2% difference) and costed 1.5 K less.

And it had better temps

well titans aren't really good in price to performance in the first place

[DildorTheDecent]

Shame there's no back plate

 

[Victorious Secret]

No just because it had almost the same performance(about 2% difference) and costed 1.5 K less.

And it had better temps

 

@patrickjp93 explained this well. Better temps due to water. Put a Z under water, see what ends up on top. 

 

What you and a lot of "enthusiasts" don't get is you also pay for the brand. Specifically, the Titan brand. There was no reason for the Z to be 3 grand other than hype and epeen measuring. You paid for a name, thats it. All AMD did was take a haircut on their profit margins to undercut the Titan Z. 

[asim1999]

Seems to be a powerful single card, considering that it was 2-sloted

But EVGAs ACX Titan Z is dual slot 

[Arct1c0n]

This GPU is a neckbeard underwear dropper....

[Pomfinator]

Shame there's no back plate

That sucks, though Nvidia never included them ever...for some reason.

[asim1999]

Ok so, if anyone has money floating around and want to get me one on release day. All I say is, I won't refuse it.

I sure will

JK

[Arct1c0n]

That sucks, though Nvidia never included them ever...for some reason.

 

Thats why you never buy reference designs. Ever.