ASUS Announces their GTX Titan Z, Full Specifications revealed

[WYP]

PRESS RELEASE

ASUS today announced the GTX Titan Z, a brand new high performance graphics card with dual NVIDIA® GeForce® graphics processing units (GPUs) and GPU Tweak for real-time graphics tuning. Additional features like 12GB GDDR5 memory and NVIDIA GPU Boost™ 2.0 provides users with the visual performance required for today’s cutting-edge games.

Real-time graphics tuning for gamers
The high performance GTX Titan Z graphics card comes with GPU Tweak – an ASUS-exclusive interface that allows users to tune graphics parameters in real-time. This intuitive tool helps modify clock speeds and voltage levels, as well as cooling fan speeds to let gamers overclock the GTX Titan Z graphics card with confidence. The addition of an online streaming function lets users share their gaming action live with friends.

Dual GPUs and 12GB onboard memory for multi-monitor configurations
The GTX Titan Z graphics card boasts two NVIDIA GeForce GPUs running at 876 MHz boost clock, 12GB GDDR5 on-board memory, and a combined total of 5760 CUDA cores to give fast and smooth stutter-free visuals even when powering multi-monitor gaming rigs or 4K/UHD (ultra-high definition) monitors.

NVIDIA-boosted gaming performance
NVIDIA GPU Boost 2.0 provides users with an intelligent tool to actively monitor clock speed and ensure the GPU is constantly at peak performance to run games at their highest frame rates. GPU Boost 2.0 also offers new levels of customization, letting users set GPU temperature targets, overclocking, and unlocked voltages.

The GTX Titan Z is also NVIDIA® G-Sync™-ready to provide users with a fast and smooth gaming experience. NVIDIA G-Sync synchronizes display refresh rates to the NVIDIA GPUs to eliminate screen tearing and minimizes display stutter and input lag.

AVAILABILITY & PRICING

ASUS GTX Titan Z dual GPU graphics card will be available worldwide from 29th April, 2014. Please contact your local ASUS representative for further information.

SPECIFICATIONS

Graphics Engine: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX TITAN Z
Bus Standard: PCI Express® 3.0
OpenGL: OpenGL® 4.4
Video Memory: 12GB GDDR5
GPU Boost Clock: 876 MHz
GPU Base Clock: 705 MHz
CUDA Cores: 5760
Memory Clock: 7000 MHz
Memory Interface: 768 bit
Output: 1 x Native DVI-I, 1 x Native DVI-D,1 x Native HDMI, 1 x Native DisplayPort 1.2

Personal opinions on the specs

As we can see from the specs, this is a dual Titan Black GPU which has a Boost Clock which is lower than the Titan Black's Base Clock of 889MHz. This means that users would actually be much better off buying two Titan Blacks or, not just for much better pricing but also for better performance.

It is rather disappointing given AMD's R9 295X2 runs at higher clocks than it's single GPU counterpart and also is priced much more competitively than the Nvidia's solution.

Performance wise, I don't know which GPU will come out on top here, while the 780Ti beats the R9 290X, the Titan Z runs reduced clocks and the R9 295X2 runs with increased clock speeds. Pricing aside the performance battle here could be close, but my money is on AMD here, unless the Titan Z can overclock like a beast.

Please post your thoughts below and as always thanks for reading.

Source - ASUS

 

[Meladath]

I was fairly certain the Titan Z could never beat the R9 295X2 since it runs at higher clocks and the Titan Z would undoubtedly run at lower clocks than their single GPU counterparts simply because there is no way the cooler could handle it.

Regardless, most benchmarks show the R9 295X2 beating dual 780Ti's AND certain ones show it beating 2 Titan blacks (or at least, neck and neck with).

If the Titan Z does somehow bench higher even with these much lower clocks, there is something funky going on.

Reduced clocks + insane price tag? won't stand up to the R9 295X2 and twice the price. Any gamer that buys this is a complete moron and a monumental fanboy. The only people I can see it being useful for are CUDA developers that for some reason don't use OpenCL that need double precision performance, that can't afford quadros or for some reason decide not to switch to AMD and OpenCL since their double precision performance is always higher than nvidia. OR people who want to watercool and for some reason go for this over multiple other cards and just love to throw money away.

Which is about the smallest market possible. FP64 is actually used for very few things, and anything it is used for will have enough money to buy quadros, not to mention they get workstation drivers which are the important thing, the cards themselves are incredibly similar to their geforce counterparts. Titan is an e-peen/fanboy/moron/incredibly incredibly niche developer card imo.

 

[Silver Sparrow]

What niche market is this card aimed for? For $3000 USD you can get a lot more for your money (and better product) either in a workstation or gaming environment from both discreet GPU manufacturers. I had been thinking this might be for the well off looking into a small itx build but now it's a triple slot cooler design that is out.

It will be interesting to see this card under water and overclocked then it will contend with what AMD has out on the market, but that's extra cost for a solution that's already bloated in price and comes standard on the competitors product. I love the cooler design (just copy/paste from the 690 but fatter!) and the backplate is a nice touch (and should be for the $$) and that's about it for me.

The only person(s) I can think that this product is aimed at is someone that has money, gullible and a 'nVidia for life' outlook on the graphics industry.

p.s 'Supercomputer under your desk' lol! nVidia really have dropped the ball on this one.

 

[CreatiXx]

that card just looks like one huge beast imo! Havent really been following this lately but it does look like there's a big battle going on between Nvidia and AMD atm ^^

 

[SieB]

I think these specs are from before Nvidia made the delay, there is a thread on another forum about it.

At 705mhz and boosting to 876mhz is definitely to low. A GK110 chip, 780Ti for arguments sake is around 10-15fps faster (where it is faster) than a Hawaii chip at 976mhz, so at over 200mhz less it is going to be just as fast or slower.

I'm guessing this is why Nvidia went back to the drawing board.

 

[Damo666]

Sorry but for the price it is probably going to be, I would rather buy a Cross Desk and full water cooling kit for it

 

[SieB]

New specs are out, 876mhz standard clock boosting up to 1058mhz.

Apparently the delay was over an unfinished driver and not cooler issues, at least that is what they are now saying.

 

[WYP]

New specs are out, 876mhz standard clock boosting up to 1058mhz.

Apparently the delay was over an unfinished driver and not cooler issues, at least that is what they are now saying.

Where did you get this info? because that pic you have lists boost clocks for all the Nvidia cards as core clocks and not the base clocks.

I'll use the Titan Black as an example here as it's boost clock is 980MHz (as listed on Nvidia's website), as listed in your pic, so i assume the Titan Z is also listing the boost clock.

 

[SieB]

Where did you get this info? because that pic you have lists boost clocks for all the Nvidia cards as core clocks and not the base clocks.

I'll use the Titan Black as an example here as it's boost clock is 980MHz, as listed in your pic, so i assume the Titan Z is also listing the boost clock.

There is a thread on OCUK which is where I saw it, but the source was from wccftech and Chinese site called hkepc.

 

[dpark189]

The r9 295x costs $1500 usd, and the titanz costs 3000. Why not just buy two 295x's? At that point, unless the titanz can outperform 2 295x's in crossfire it wouldn't be worth it. And with two 295x's you would have 16gb of gddr5 ram, so just on that it would have an advantage in terms of higher resolutions. And I doubt that one titanz will be able to beat that. So if I were to win the lottery I wouldn't bother with a titanz at all.

 

[Mysterae]

2x 295x's in Crossfire - $3,000
2x Titan Z's in SLI - $6,000

The Law of Diminishing Returnz.

 

[QuietOne]

2x 295x's in Crossfire - $3,000
2x Titan Z's in SLI - $6,000

The Law of Diminishing Returnz.

My 57 plate Astra isn't worth as much as a pair of their overpriced Titan Z. If you want something with a Z on it, get a 350Z or a 370Z. More fun too.

 

[Dicehunter]

Wasn't this news released days ago and coincides with the postpone ? Or are they still releasing this low clocked version for a stupid amount of cash ?

 

[NeverBackDown]

The r9 295x costs $1500 usd, and the titanz costs 3000. Why not just buy two 295x's? At that point, unless the titanz can outperform 2 295x's in crossfire it wouldn't be worth it. And with two 295x's you would have 16gb of gddr5 ram, so just on that it would have an advantage in terms of higher resolutions. And I doubt that one titanz will be able to beat that. So if I were to win the lottery I wouldn't bother with a titanz at all.

Its still only 8GB per card and still 4GB per GPU core... so technically on the Vram amount side of things the titanZ still has the advantage but on the actual frame buffer the 295x2 has the advantage. They cancel eachother out in advantages. These cards will end up coming down to clock speeds to determine a winner.

 

[WYP]

Its still only 8GB per card and still 4GB per GPU core... so technically on the Vram amount side of things the titanZ still has the advantage but on the actual frame buffer the 295x2 has the advantage. They cancel eachother out in advantages. These cards will end up coming down to clock speeds to determine a winner.

I wouldn't exactly say that either of them is a winner TBH. Both are overpriced given the two single cards pricing.

As for which of the two is better, well the R9 295X2 is HALF THE PRICE!!! Even if the Titan Z wins in the benchmarks, can anyone actually recommend the card to anyone?

 

[Dicehunter]

The Titan Z is a ripoff, Low clock speeds and twice the amount of it's competition.

 

[corasla]

I wouldn't pay that much for a titan Z. If I would actually be in the market for some 4K gaming (which is just starting to actually get mainstream, not there yet) I would rather have the Crossfire of 295x2's that also look awesome and are cool n quiet than a single Titan Z.

This time the win is all of AMD with their beautiful dual core card.

And I'm not a fan of either brand!

 

[NeverBackDown]

I wouldn't exactly say that either of them is a winner TBH. Both are overpriced given the two single cards pricing.

As for which of the two is better, well the R9 295X2 is HALF THE PRICE!!! Even if the Titan Z wins in the benchmarks, can anyone actually recommend the card to anyone?

A winner as in performance.

 

[Kaapstad]

It does not matter whether you prefer AMD or NVidia the best option is single cards for a uber setup. Not only are they cheaper but they are also faster than their dual card stable mates.