Maxwell Gen 1

[John P. Myers]

So, where are we on this? Any of these new cards single slot?

Not yet :/ Believe me, i'm checking daily. I did have a chat with EVGA a couple days ago and asked about it. I was told they won't be making a single slot, which isn't surprising because they never do anyway on the lower cards. Pretty much what i expected. I did find out that the Titan Black will have a liquid version coming soon with the waterblock made by EK.

When the single-slots happen, 99% chance it'll be by Zotac. Maybe 70% chance from Gigabyte.

Edit: The reason it's taking so long is Nvidia was nice enough to redesign the screw hole spacings so any available cooler no longer fits. They're now 44 x 44mm when previously they've been 53.2 x 53.2mm or 58.4 x 58.4mm. So now all the GPU manufacturers have to design new heatsinks from scratch. Nvidia screws us over once again :/

[zombie67]

What about AMD? How good is their best single slot GPU?

[John P. Myers]

What about AMD? How good is their best single slot GPU?

The HD 7750 is AMd's best which is about equal to a GT 640 Rev2.

[conf]

Sapphire Radeon R7 250 ??
http://geizhals.at/sapphire-radeon-r...-a1070502.html
Seems to be equal but is a new card from 2014.

[FourOh]

What about AMD? How good is their best single slot GPU?

The HD 7750 is AMd's best which is about equal to a GT 640 Rev2.

Sapphire Radeon R7 250 ??
http://geizhals.at/sapphire-radeon-r...-a1070502.html
Seems to be equal but is a new card from 2014.

Yes, best single slot from the Radeon series will be 7750 or R7 250 (or possibly 6850), but the FirePro series has some way more powerful single-slot cards. Best single-precision is FirePro W7000 with 2432 GFLOPS, best SP/DP card is V7900 with 1860/464 GFLOPS.

[Fire$torm]

XFX FX-775A-ZNP4 Radeon HD 7750 Core Edition

Amazon: $100.74 w/Free Shipping

[conf]

The FirePros are too expensive anyway. Maybe one can find a used one on Ebay.

Edit. one v7900 found at Ebay for 399,- Euro, not so bad as I thought it would be.

[Al]

So, are any of these going to be available in, 1) low profile and 2) no need for and additional power connector? I'm looking for the best card to put in my servers to replace my aging 430s.

[Fire$torm]

So, are any of these going to be available in, 1) low profile and 2) no need for and additional power connector? I'm looking for the best card to put in my servers to replace my aging 430s.

The XFX unit I linked to doesn't require any PCIe power cables. Found a nice overview vid of that card (Here)

Edit: It looks like there is currently a premium attached to the low-profile versions of the 7750. VisionTek's is $30~$40 more then the XFX single slot.

[Al]

I assume the low profile kit he mentioned is a low profile kit for that card? If so, that would work. I'll look around and see if I can find anything to give me an idea on the performance increase I might expect over the 430.