The community as a whole is completely oblivious. It's pretty funny to see the youtube reviewers get all worked up over how nvidia and amd are going at it again and such. As if gaming is what's driving this battle. Anyone working in computer science knows the battle is over machine learning, not first person shooters.
Soon headless, socketed solutions will be the preferred form factor for HPC. I image the desktop and server product lines will diverge at that point. It'll be curious to see what will happening to PC gaming at that point.
The gaming hardware junky community is aware, if only as a result of most Titan Black/Z reviews arriving at the conclusion, "a gamer's money is better spent elsewhere, as all a Titan really provides over the latest consumer offerings is good workstation performance (double precision floating point)."
For reference:
Titan Z DP FP: 2707 GFLOPS
ATI 5870 (released sept 2009): 544 GFLOPS
Titan X (current generation - NVidia recognized that gamers don't value DP performance): 192 GFLOPS
I sometimes wonder how it came to be that the Titan Z preceded the Titan X...
E: to clarify, review sites are aware that STEM people need double precision and 6/12GiB GPU memory for something
Soon headless, socketed solutions will be the preferred form factor for HPC. I image the desktop and server product lines will diverge at that point. It'll be curious to see what will happening to PC gaming at that point.