FFS, don't listen to Tom's. It's so bad these days. They don't even understand what they are doing half the time, and the other half are too lazy to run repeat benches for consistency. It's total trash.
Also, better 95th and 99th percentile frame times than the 690 at 1080p. I knew the FPS benches would be hiding this. This is, for all intents and purposes, a better performing card than the 690.
I looked over them more, and you're right.
But what they aren't showing is how badass the Titan is *always*, even at 1080p.
That's because speculation is a bad thing to do in a review that is otherwise supposedly based on empiricism.
They don't use frame latency graphs. Those are just FPS over time. *edit* Unless I'm not understanding you properly here, which I think is the case.
The thing is radial fans would just blow air out the top. Imagine that... white thing is a radial fan. The arrows show where the air would go. The actual airflow is more curved and in a blower card the air is directed one way. Don't know how the Titan doesn't blow too much air out the rear, but I'm guessing it is much easier for the air to go over the big heatsink (tighter fins over the VRM) to force the majority to cool the GPU.
BTW, that pic took way too much effort. I gave the center "fan" 1024 edges and thanks to the cycles rendering with 150 samples and a huge ring lighting everything up it took my 3570k 35 seconds to render that simple graphic
The white backgound is a part of the light source with rays being rendered and reflected and it's still flawed with some random dots because 150 samples wasn't quite enough. As you can see I need a Titan
IMO the best thing would be getting rid of the thin coolers and giving GPUs proper cooling à la what you see on CPUs. That will probably not happen in the near future though
I suck at modelling :/
Most non-reference coolers are extremely similar to CPU coolers in design premise.IMO the best thing would be getting rid of the thin coolers and giving GPUs proper cooling à la what you see on CPUs. That will probably not happen in the near future though
Are you thinking about a thinner fan that could draw air from top and bottom like this very accurate GPU shroud?
Seriously. It makes every other website p'much obsolete.
All the TechReport benches are at 1440p.
It's growing in popularity, but becomes extremely unwieldy and ugly as soon as you have two cards in the system.
As Kharma said, they will not be allowing non-reference design outside of specialized EVGA waterblocks (which are not great).
I'd be worried about breaking the PCB where it goes into the PCI-E slot with that.
I don't have 3 27" monitors though
.I actually prefer ASUS in general when it comes to video cards...but no ROG DCU cooler :| . I'm really not a fan of duct coolers like the one used on that reference card, but I hear this one might do ok in terms of noise.
just f'n w ya. 
