Review And Testing Gigabyte GeForce GTX TITAN Z: Dual-GPU Luxury, Fast, and Powerful

In the midst of questions among PC users around the world will be the emergence of dual-GPU graphics card on the line GeForce GTX 700 Series, NVIDIA responded by introducing models of graphics cards that have never previously suspected. NVIDIA finally introduced dual-GPU graphics card and the latest differently than similar products from the previous generation, the GeForce GTX TITAN Z. Not until there are, surprises continued with the announcement NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN selling price of Z $ 2,999 to redeem it.

GeForce GTX TITAN Z does have a uniqueness that no dual-GPU graphics card like the previous generation GeForce GTX 690 or GeForce GTX 590. Like the graphics card NVIDIA GeForce other TITAN series, GeForce GTX TITAN Z is not only designed to deliver maximum gaming experience in high image resolution and detail settings the best graphics, the graphics card also inherited the ability of NVIDIA Tesla in high Performance Computing (HPC). It is therefore not surprising that the GeForce GTX TITAN Z sold at a price premium and become a GeForce graphics card with the highest sale price in history. However, given the GeForce GTX TITAN Z is a combination of two GeForce GTX TITAN Black on a single PCB, I am quite curious why GeForce GTX TITAN Z has three times the price of GeForce GTX TITAN Black.

GeForce GTX TITAN Z is a competitor of the dual-GPU graphics card from AMD's latest Radeon R9 295X2 is. Interestingly, the Radeon R9 295X2 is offered by the selling price is only half of the GeForce GTX TITAN Z is $ 1,499. However, with such a price, the Radeon R9 295X2 is only designed as a gaming graphics card and does not have the ability to offer more as the GeForce GTX TITAN Z.

In this article, I finally get a chance to test the ability of the GeForce GTX TITAN Z where time is represented by products from GIGABYTE. As to whether the ability of GeForce GTX TITAN Z and excellent feature what he has will I present the following review.

Testing Platform GIGABYTE GeForce GTX TITAN Z

Processor: Intel Core i7 3960X @ 4.5 GHz
Motherboard: ASUS X79 Pro
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon R9 200 / R7 200 / HD 7000 / HD 6000 / HD 5000 Series

NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN / GTX 700 / GTX 600 / GTX 500 Series

Memory: 4x 2GB Kingston HyperX blu. (@ 1600 MHz; 1.65 V)

Storage: Kingston HyperX 3K SSD

Power Supply: Corsair AX1200

CPU Heatsink: Corsair H100

Casing: Corsair 500R

Monitor: LCD LG 24 inch 4K

Architecture

GeForce GTX TITAN Z is powered by two chip GPU GK110 GPU which each chip has 15 units SMX active. Of course you are familiar considering the GPU chip has been used on two models of other high-end graphics card like the GeForce GTX 780 Ti and GeForce GTX TITAN Black. GK110 GPU chip with 15 active units SMX has 2880 CUDA Cores, 240 Texture Units and 48 ROP Units. As a result overall, GeForce 5760 GTX TITAN Z include CUDA Cores, 480 Texture Units and 96 ROP Units. To build a GK110 GPU chip, it takes 7.1 billion transistors packed into a size of 561 mm² using 28 nm fabrication process.

Specification

Although using the same GPU chip with a GeForce GTX 780 Ti and GeForce GTX TITAN Black, each chip GPU on the GeForce GTX TITAN Z operates at a lower clock specifications. Chip GPU GeForce GTX TITAN Z has a base clock of 705 MHz GPU and boost GPU clock of 876 MHz. The use of GPU clock specification as it is often found in the graphics card of type dual-GPU. This is usually done to keep the temperature and power consumption of graphics cards is maintained in the normal range that has been determined by the manufacturer of the GPU chip. Fortunately, NVIDIA retains memory clocked GeForce GTX TITAN Z at 7000 MHz as well used by the GeForce GTX 780 Ti and GeForce GTX TITAN Black.

GeForce GTX TITAN Z is equipped with a memory bandwidth of 384-bit size for each chip GPU. Not until there are, the GeForce GTX TITAN Z also features a total memory capacity of 12 GB or 12288 MB. The memory capacity as it makes GeForce GTX TITAN Z is ready to handle memory-hungry games in image resolution Ultra HD / 4K or multi-monitor configurations NVIDIA Surround.

In testing the GeForce GTX TITAN Z this time I will use products from GIGABYTE where the graphics card is still using the same specification with the type of reference.

Double Precision

One of the distinctive graphics card NVIDIA GeForce TITAN series is much more powerful ability to handle double precision computing. Such capabilities typically found in professional-class graphics card like the NVIDIA Tesla K20, K20X and K40. Double-precision computing is usually used in fields such as computer aided design (CAD), defense and intelligence, media and entertaintment, medical imaging, physics, oil and gas / seismic, wheater climate, and much more.

To enable the computing capacity double precission GeForce GTX TITAN Z, activate the setting "Double Precision" on the NVIDIA Control Panel> Manage 3D Settings> Global Settings. Setting "Double Precision" will not appear on the graphics card non-TITAN. At the time of Double Precision feature is active, the GeForce GTX TITAN Z will use the 960 CUDA Cores (1/3 CUDA Cores per-SMX) on each chip GPU to perform the computing process. The number of CUDA Cores to perform the computations, far more than the NVIDIA GeForce graphics card with a non-TITAN 1/24 CUDA Cores per-SMX.

GeForce GTX TITAN Z Features

Microsoft DirectX 12 (feature level 11_0)
NVIDIA GPU Boost 2.0
NVIDIA GPU Boost 2.0: Display Overclocking
NVIDIA Adaptive VSync
NVIDIA G-SYNC
NVIDIA Surround
NVIDIA 3DVision
NVIDIA 3DVision Surround
NVIDIA PhysX
NVIDIA CUDA
NVIDIA TXAA
NVIDIA FXAA
NVIDIA SHIELD-ready
PCI Express 3.0 x16
Dual-link DVI
HDMI 1.4a
Display Port 1.2

Conclusion

Overall, GIGABYTE GTX TITAN Z managed to bring out the best in both the gaming and computing capacity double precision. If price is not an issue, such as the GeForce GTX TITAN Z of GIGABYTE this time is the choice fastest gaming graphics card today from NVIDIA and a solution that is quite cheap for the want of computing capabilities of its double precision. Meanwhile if dissatisfied with the performance of NVIDIA's reference cooling system, users can override 3rd-party cooling system of the which is usually based watercooling.