large format highres monitors this is
the 30in monitor that we used to get our 2560 x600 or 1600p performance results
you can consider these pretty close to what you'd get if you ran at 2560 by
1440 the difference actually isn't all that much and we are all about the
GeForce GTX Titan today this is the
fastest single GPU card Bar None So what
that means is compared to dual GPU Solutions such as the 660ti SLI that we
also ran and the ASUS Aries 2 which we
also ran which basically amounts to 2 7970 GHz edition cards you will get
consistently good performance so somewhere between a single GPU and two
gpus because those ones rely on driver optimizations one of the other things
that's interesting about Titan from a large format and high resolution
perspective is the fact that it has six gigs of GPU memory which means not only
will One Titan perform extremely well at high res but several Titans will perform
extremely well at high res Titan seeks to do a few things keep Acoustics low
keep temperatures reasonable deliver outstanding performance and do it all
with one GPU and reasonable power
consumption so we're going to be analyzing some of those other things in
other videos and this video is focused on the performance at greater than 1080p
resolution now I did a full 1080p review as well and there's a 5760 by 1080
surround review as well so let's have a
look at crisis so crisis was always a
challenge this is Crisis one by the way not crisis 2 and it continues to be a
challenge so our single GPU card however runs at almost 60 FPS average in Cris 1
at 2560 x600 crisis has officially been conquered this is at directx10 very high
presets eight times msaa with motion blur off the only thing that beats the
Titan in crisis is the Aries 2 so that's
the Dual 7970 solution and you can see that the Titan actually performs almost
twice as well as a GTX 680 part of this
could be due to the fact that it has a much larger frame buffer although I
doubt it because crisis only used up about 1 gig of vram whereas as the rest
of it is probably due to the fact that it has about 2.6 uh rather 7.1 billion transistors
with 2600 Cuda course so moving right along
yeah Titan performs pretty well but it's about the same as GTX 660 SLI which
starts to look like a pretty good value here this is an example of how well
optimized SLI scaling and games that
don't demand too much in terms of video memory can perform really well compared
to the Titan at a lower price crisis three was just released so this one is a
very very interesting case study you can see here the Aries 2 demonstrates why
sometimes dual GP Solutions are not the answer the Titan tops the performance
charts beating out the 660 Ti SLI solution but not by much destroying the
GTX 680 again performing almost D well not quite almost double but 75% better
than a GTX 680 with the Aries 2 actually coming in behind a single 7970 now the
reason for that can be any number of things the Aries 2 uses a special driver
because it's not a standard AMD card so ASUS has their own driver so sometimes
that can be a little bit behind in terms of optimization it could be Crossfire
profiles I've seen online that people are finding better success with you know
using random Crossfire profiles but we were using the default ones
and yeah so sometimes a dual GPU
solution can perform the same as a single one or even worse which is one of
the reasons why I personally always recommend a single GPU solution when you
can however when you look at the performance in this game 660ti looks
like a pretty good value considering it performs 90% as well as a Titan but
actually costs um about 65% as much and
you can also get 660 Ti in 3 gig configurations Far Cry 3 another high
performance title another high resolution result here so the Aries 2
and 660 Ti SLI come out way ahead of any
of the single GPU Solutions probably the most impressive thing on this on this
particular chart right here I think Slick's waiting for a video card here have a 7970 is the 7970 that I just
handed slick the 7970 beats the GTX 680
by almost 30% only losing to the only
other single GPU card in our test which is the Titan and that was only by about
20% so it takes a dual GPU solution both NVIDIA and AMD scaled incredibly well in
this game with NVIDIA getting about almost double the scaling and AMD
getting about about 50 60% scaling so that's
very very very cool stuff to see but definite nod to AMD and definite nod to
dual GPU Solutions here again a game where perhaps the six gig frame buffer
is not a benefit to the Titan Skyrim now Skyrim we're not running the same way we
used to we've added a whole bunch of mods about 18 mods from the Steam
Workshop making it much more demanding than it is in its bone stock
configuration which is what we used to run and that's part of the reason why
when I used to show these performance graphs you'd never really see any difference between the Cards now that
has all changed the big winner here again is 660 Ti SLI with Titan coming up
next GTX 680 coming up next and the AMD cards bringing up the rear so this is a
game that seems to be better optimized for NVIDIA although that could be a
function of the mods we're running actually running better on NVIDIA so we
just selected mods that we thought looked really good and kind of went from
there Battlefield 3 getting to be a bit of an older game but still very telling
so the Aries 3 remember this one has three gigs per GP did I say Aries 3 I
meant Aries 2 has three gigs of RAM per GPU so once again we're running into a
situation where we don't need that 6 gigs yet however as 4K resolution starts
becoming more popular or if you want to run surround that might be more of a
factor but when you don't need the extra RAM more GPU horsepower seems to really
work out for you and in this particular game the Aries 2 performed almost double
as well as a single 7970 making it by
far the ruler of the roost in Battlefield 3 best possible solution you
could get very similar results by using dual 797s at a much more reasonable
price as well which is part of the reason that you shouldn't just completely ignore the Aries 2 on the
graphs because that solution is available for less than the cost of a
Titan not necessarily more the Aries 2
actually costs about $500 $600 more than a GeForce GTX Titan so the Tian comes in
a tie with the 660 Ti SLI which again is
because we didn't need the vram with the other two single GPU Solutions bringing
up the rear once again Metro 2033 is a very interesting case study
excellent scaling again double the performance of a single 7970 with the
Aries 2 highlighting why dual GPU Solutions are often very awesome however
looking at the 660 Ti compared to the 680 we see why dual GPU Solutions aren't
always necessarily that great Titan puts up a great showing again just destroying
the numbers from the GTX 680 beating it by about 50 60%
here Witcher 2 is the last game in our
suite and I made a bit of a mistake on the graph but you guys won't know that
because I'll fix it before I show it to you so don't worry about it uh so Witcher 2 at 1600p Ultra preset
including Uber sampling really didn't give as much of an edge to the Titan as
I had thought because Titan relies on lots of vram and Uber sound Ling just or
rather Titan relies on lots of vram to separate itself from Dual GPU Solutions
um Witcher 2 I thought would demand more vram because of the fact that we had
Uber sampling on but the Aries 2 pulls away from everything else in Witcher 2
just proving that sometimes just more GPU horsepower is better than more
memory or a larger single GPU however the Titan does put up a pretty good
showing again tying the 660 Ti and beating the GTX 680 by about
50% so what do all of this mean it means
that looking at current resolutions like 2560 x600 if you're only running a
single monitor you may actually not get
$1,000 worth of benefit with a GTX Titan
especially when you compare it to Solutions like two GTX 660 Ti in SLI or
two competing cards running in crossfire
however if you were to run a multi-way
configuration Titan would be the solution to go with because running a
multi-way configuration presumably you're running at a very high resolution
whether it's 4K or whether it's in surround and that's where you'll
hopefully start to benefit from the additional RAM and the other situation
where Titan starts to make sense is in a small form factor configuration Aries 2
pulled a good couple hundred more watts from the power supply than Titan that
does show up on your power bill and that does affect both the heat output as well
as the noise of your system so Titan's a
great solution if you're looking to build a compact gaming rig so this is
another situation where dual 660 Ti might not make sense because you need at
least four expansion slots to even fit those so do you have to pay a premium
for that single GPU single card high performance solution yes but if you're
trying to work within a confined space if you're trying to get more vram or if
you're a professional who wants to make use of the fact that the double
Precision floating Point performance of this card is not crippled like it was on
previous generation consumer models then something like a Titan might make sense
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