Product Showcase

Product Showcase

Nvidia is using two fully fledged 150 Watts 8-pin PEG (PCI EXpress Graphics) connectors. Another 75 to 150 Watts is delivered though the PCI slot and thus motherboard. And as you can see, the GeForce GTX Titan Z is looking a lot like the GeForce GTX 690 in terms of design. It's just wider (eats away three PCI slots) and there is a massive backplate as well.

If we look at the PCB a little closer we can see one SLI connector, two cards in SLI GPU mode are supported. Quad GPUs however is difficult and often a maze of driver problems. Nvidia has never really recommended or actively supported quad-SLI. The GeForce GTX Titan Z will have its price set at 3000 USD. We spotted the product for roughly 2850 EUR here in Europe.

The card itself, as stated, is the first Nvidia triple slot cooling solution. It is vapor chamber based just like the GTX 780 (Ti) models. The fan is outfitted with a special design, its airflow is carefully directed to take in air from the PC and exhaust it outside the PC, in order to optimize cooling efficiency while minimizing noise causing restrictions. The heatsink shell is made from cast aluminum and an injection molded magnesium alloy. This is a good conductor of heat plus it helps out in isolating noise. And preventing noise. Nvidia tucked away 12 GB of graphics memory on this card (clusters of 6 GB per GPU), this is high density GDDR5 memory. 

Yeah -- it's unlikely to hear you guys complain about the lack of framebuffer anytime soon.

The card is 10.5 Inches in length which is like 27 cm for those that like and reside in the Metric system. I really need to find me one of them cool CSI rulers, that would look so much better, eh? Power connectors are located at the top side, so with 27 cm you'd have enough clearance in your chassis.
 

So overall you are going to witness some pretty interesting stuff in this review. Here we have the card on our test bench.