Gtx 780ti to be faster than Titan, will battle R9 290x

[boxleitnerb]

I don't own any Nvidia stock. Why should I care about what segment generates the most revenue? We are here to discuss news about real video cards (for instance). No one posting here is going to be buying a $200 video card any time soon. Do any of us really care what slow cards are being sold in that segment? It's just not important to any "enthusiast". So it makes a lot money. Whoopie. I could not care less. Those cards simply don't matter in any real sense. Not in terms of technology or progress. They certainly aren't news except maybe to Nvidia stockholders, which is something that I would *never* be.

That is your right not to care about anything but enthusiast cards. Yet your statement about Maxwell was wrong, that's all I illustrated.

GeForce GTX 780 Ti stock performance within ~3-5 % of a heavily (read: maxed out) air OC'd Radeon R9 290X in 3DM11.

This information is very difficult to classify:

• Performance or Extreme preset? Most reviews see the 290X match or exceed Titan in P-Preset but behind it in X-Preset.
• What clocks for both cards? In 3DM11 there is no difference between Quiet and Uber mode for the 290X but about a 6% difference between a stock Titan (warmed up) and a Titan@1 GHz (power and temp target raised but still warmed up). Question is if Nvidia raised the 80C temp target vs Titan or not and if/how that affects boost clocks.
• Within as in "below" or "above"?