True, it still gets beaten by an r9 295x2 (which costs much less) but what's really impressive with this card is the 250w tdp. only one 6-pin and one 8-pin connector required (my 280x needs two 8-pin connectors) all the while still having more cores, more memory, more memory bandwidth, higher clocks but within the same tdp is impressive.
At the end of the day, maxwell has staked it's claim as the fastest single gpu, now we wait for amd to respond.