I'm going by the tradition of reference designs exhausting the heat out of the case. If they abandon that then yes they could have simply used the Titan Z cooler or similar.
Would love to see a review of the Titan X water-cooled and heavily OC'd edit: and with an unlocked power limit...
I wouldn't be surprised to see the value of this card drop far faster than the previous Titan cards due to the lack of FP64.
If a tech-site has one or two to giveaway, I'm signing up!
I really enjoyed Ryans Anandtech review.
I liked the updated games list, it's good to get some modern and demanding games in the review.
I wonder why there are only minimums in 2 games out of the whole list.
I think that we should really have frametimes so we can accurately see where the single gpu is actually superior to the multi gpu solution, from averages the 295x2 shines out of that list (best price/performance by far). AT should really get an aftermarket 290x, although on the other hand it keeps shaming AMD into doing something about it. Even the reference 290x shows up quite well for a $300ish card.
The only GPU I'd buy over a <$300 290x is the 295x2. It does very well, at least by average FPS. The titan is horribly overpriced and gets beaten quite easily by the $600 (sales) 295x2. Sure you suffer from the multi-gpu side affects, but from my experience XDMA crossfire works pretty well.
I still can't get over the fact that they have simply renamed the GTX 580 successor to "titan x" and bumped the price up $450. We need some competition to get rid of this gouging. The funny thing is that maxwell has cut out the computing portions to be a lean gaming gpu and now they charge you $1k for that pleasure.
It looks like titan x is already at it's low thermal limits since it can't keep it's max boost clock in any games. I'm also surprised that the system power consumption is around the the 290x levels (not that I care as the performance is there but it will be interesting to see the flip flopping of that "hot and power hungry" 290x complaints). It overclocks decently but the cooler and low tdp limits are right there keeping it throttling back. It also gets quite loud, clearly that cooler is around the limit that it can handle quietly.
It'd be a fun card without voltage neutering though!
If only it wasn't such a rip off! I really like the card but despise the price gouging.
Why would anyone (someone who wants to buy extreme high end) looking to buy a R295X/Titan Z or any CF/SLi setup over this though? With a Titan X..
1) You dont have to worry about CF support/compatibility especially when a whole slew of new AMD cards get released (Old gen normally gets left behind).
2) Your not restricted to 4GB for 4K.
3) Your going to run across alot more frame inconsistency (game dependent) with dual GPU setups than a single GPU setup even if its getting higher FPS.
4) +500W venting out of your case just from the videocard.
5) Can add another Titan X down the road..
I really hope these do not sell well. Not because I dislike Nvidia (I have no feeling for any company for anything) but because it hurts us as consumers
Mmmmmm.... Deep Learning....
Not a fan of the Titan X. Original Titan I could give a pass on the $999 price tag because of yield issues and DP performance solidifying it as a prosumer option which has helped keep much of its value.
However Titan X is not only lacking that prosumer punch, its a product on the cusp of Pascal's monster memory bandwidth which will likely destroy Maxwell's resell value, as we're likely looking at a jump in performance that should rival that of the jump to 256bit with the 9700Pro
Of course, the better AMD's competing offering performs, the more Nvidia will feel compelled to cut prices, just as they cut the GTX 780 price by $150 after AMD released the R9 290X.
I think for $1000 Titan X should have come with a premium cooler. Premium price, premium cooling solution. But you just know there will be better versions down the road which is why to me buying T-X is not very smart right now unless you are putting it under water and don't care about costs at all.Reading hardware.fr Titan X review, they noted that it can do impressive OC to 1.4ghz boost, they said its not sustained as the temp/TDP target is reached and it throttles back. So anyone who wants to spend big bucks on Titan X, definitely put it on water, it'll make for a killer SLI/Quad SLI setup thats "future-proof".
An interesting time warp back to the reference R290X launch. Worse mistake ever in a long time from AMD to ship such a great GPU with such a crap cooler, recycled from the 7970 where it was already bad, which was recycled from the 6970 where it was barely enough, recycled from the 5870 which it was made for (runs cool & quiet).
You feel that way because you can't afford one and are jealous of those who can? I don't get how it hurts anything. They can charge what they want, which is the way every industry is. There's an option at every budget level.
You feel that way because you can't afford one and are jealous of those who can? I don't get how it hurts anything. They can charge what they want, which is the way every industry is. There's an option at every budget level.
I don't think you understand my post. :'($300 isn't even a real GPU. It would die gasping at 1080p with settings upped.
Has anyone noticed how effective Maxwell's color compression is?
http://techreport.com/review/27969/nvidia-geforce-gtx-titan-x-graphics-card-reviewed/3
That is quite impressive/effective. Also surprised that Kepler too had some sort of a color compression algorithm.