Originally Posted by
tetrisGOAT
I am posting just to provide the other perspective:
I have never had a GeForce chip that didn't have trouble with both hardware AND drivers.
I have only had "one" (actually two HD6970 and HD6950 running in crossfire) AMD-card, but during my time having it, the only problems I had were user-inflicted.
I currently have a GTX 680, and I have finally, since I got the card in mid/late 2012 had three drivers in a row where neither were a total trainwreck. Before that, I often had several in a row. Now it's working without a hitch. Well, except the coil whine.
Despite this experience of mine, I will say that both companies probably have as many issues and faults. AMD was admittedly poor at doing drivers. For a while. This time has passed. They are still horrible at making nice user-friendly GUIs and programs, but the functions and drivers work great. If you can navigate their software that is.
That aside, I still think that the R9 295x2 should be matching against the Titan-Z, not the Titan Black Edition. Otherwise, it's not even going to be a close race.
If Black Edition versus the R9 295x2 is the actual and only "either or" scenario, the choice simply is that R9 295x2 has far more horsepower in games that can use both GPUs.
It also is more of a wonder in terms of engineering.
But, remember, I think Crossfire still doesn't always work in windows mode. I had trouble with this during the 6900-series at least.
The extra money spent on Titan Black over the GTX 780 Ti probably results in 0% gaming performance increases. When accounting for extra cooling and overcloking in aftermarket solutions for the latter, it's probably worse.
Please don't throw away money for the sake of it.