{"video_id":"Qw24094REh0","title":"GeForce GTX Titan NVIDIA Surround Performance Review Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2013-05-07T14:53:29Z","duration_s":600,"segments":[{"start_s":5.96,"end_s":11.88,"text":"so what is Titan actually for if not","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":9.28,"end_s":18.48,"text":"high resolution gaming such as the kind that you would do if you had triple","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":15.4,"end_s":22.84,"text":"monitors so our triple monitor setup for","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":18.48,"end_s":25.119,"text":"testing Titan was actually three 1920 by","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":22.84,"end_s":29.16,"text":"1200 monitors so for all intents and purposes our results are going to be","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":26.96,"end_s":33.36,"text":"pretty similar to what you'd see running 3 108 P monitors it's a little bit 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it's","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":215.28,"end_s":222.319,"text":"very very bizarre so for single GPU Solutions 680 and 7970 are pretty close","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":219.92,"end_s":226.48,"text":"again no Advantage for the 7970 with its 3 GB frame buffer but the Titan leaves","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":224.799,"end_s":234.2,"text":"them both behind out performing them both by about 50% 660 tili demonstrates","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":231.319,"end_s":238.04,"text":"why sometimes a dual GPU solution is not a great one so while Titan may be very","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":236.0,"end_s":242.36,"text":"expensive sometimes it can be worthwhile to run a single GPU because driver","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":239.959,"end_s":246.68,"text":"issues can force an otherwise theoretically more powerful solution to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":244.159,"end_s":252.239,"text":"not really do very 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have enough video memory to do it so it's a very unique","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":581.44,"end_s":588.0,"text":"solution that way a very futuristic solution that way although maybe not","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":584.92,"end_s":590.36,"text":"necessarily the most coste effective one","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":588.0,"end_s":595.48,"text":"thank you for checking out our video on surround gaming with the latest high-end","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":593.519,"end_s":601.0,"text":"gpus don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":597.399,"end_s":601.0,"text":"other computer videos","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"so what is Titan actually for if not high resolution gaming such as the kind that you would do if you had triple monitors so our triple monitor setup for testing Titan was actually three 1920 by 1200 monitors so for all intents and purposes our results are going to be pretty similar to what you'd see running 3 108 P monitors it's a little bit more demanding but you can kind of extrapolate down a little bit and it gives you some idea how this solution's going to perform so the Titan's main advantage when running high resolution is that it has 6 gigs of video memory so that's in addition to the 2500 some OD Cuda cores the large 7.1 billion transistor GPU and just generally overall Beast design ours ran at 1.13 GHz or so consistently with GPU boost that's on air cooling with water cooling it'll do more so it's got a lot going for it but what it doesn't have going for it is the fact that it is only one GPU and it does have to go up against competing dual GPU Solutions so the main contenders for this one actually well all the solutions that we ran were the GTX Titan the ASUS Aries 2 so this is a dual 7970 GHz Edition card that actually is a very very very custom card very expensive but we used that to represent 7970 Crossfire as well as just sort of that you know what graphics card out there actually costs more than a Titan well this one and you know see how see how those stack up against each other we ran a single 7970 with its three gigs of video memory 7970 often often often gets recommended over GTX 680 for surround setups and last but not least we ran two GTX 660 Ti and SLI to see how these are two gig cards only to see how those stack up just having more GPU power and actually last that one wasn't last we ran a GTX 680 so that's a 3 gig card so that gives us some idea how that rather 2 gig card excuse me so that gives us some idea how these still high performance similar to a 7970 but uh more frame buffer limited cards will perform so without further Ado oh this is all on our 3930k at 4 GHz test bench with 16 gigs of RAM and all cards are overclocked you can find the card overclocks in the shared Google document that I share so that you guys can see what our cards are clocked at they're all at very reasonable clocks that should be attainable by you pretty much pretty easily all right so let's start with crisis can it run crisis ha ha haa the joke that never gets old on the internet uh until it takes an arrow to the knee and dies or retires or does whatever it does that's that's funny right and planking planking is still funny I don't know forget about it so crisis okay Advantage Aries 2 the Aries 2 absolutely walks away with Crisis crisis is an older game so the textures are not as not high resolution enough that Titan would benefit from its 6 gigs of video memory so Aries 2 goes yeah okay we want more GPU horsepower also excellent Crossfire scaling helps the Aries 2 perform more than twice as well as a 7970 something that uh early on in my crossfire testing days would have said oh that's that's an anomaly there's no way that can be possible you know what sometimes it actually happens it's very very bizarre so for single GPU Solutions 680 and 7970 are pretty close again no Advantage for the 7970 with its 3 GB frame buffer but the Titan leaves them both behind out performing them both by about 50% 660 tili demonstrates why sometimes a dual GPU solution is not a great one so while Titan may be very expensive sometimes it can be worthwhile to run a single GPU because driver issues can force an otherwise theoretically more powerful solution to not really do very well now we just saw Crisis 3 launch so we also ran Crisis 3 where Titan stole the show so Titan outperformed everything else in Crisis 3 including the 660 Ti and SLI although it should be noted that 660 Ti and SLI are significantly less expensive than a Titan destroyed the GTX 680 destroyed the Aries 2 which actually performed worse than the 7970 so this is an example where 660ti demonstrated that it's all about drivers so on our previous game crisis 1 AMD benefited from Dual GPU while NVIDIA didn't at all and in Crisis 3 NVIDIA benefits from Dual GPU at 5760 by by 1080 or rather by 12200 whereas AMD doesn't at all so it comes down to the individual games you're going to play whereas a single GPU solution always performs well and we see that with the Titan Far Cry 3 another hot title Aries 2 just runs away with this one Far Cry 3 generally runs better on AMD cards and that Trend continued and nothing really unexpected here it performs almost twice as fast as a single 7970 and it takes the GTX 660 Ti and SLI to even I mean they're not even close GTX 660 Ti and SLI are only slightly faster than a Titan which is significantly faster than GTX 680 and 7970 but you can see the AMD optimizations that have gone into this particular game Skyrim was an interesting one this is a bit of a challenge with surround gaming in general game support is not always there even for games that are extremely modable so Skyrim is uh is very modable our our stock test configuration for Skyrim has 18 mods installed from Steam Workshop but it didn't actually work on either our NVIDIA or our AMD test platforms to get it going in surround there was a there was a patch that used to work but then there's a newer patch of Skyrim now it doesn't work anymore so I'm really excited about 4K displays one to help us really push these gpus because that's even higher resolution than 3x 1080 and the other is um the fact that we don't have to deal with surround to get just super high resolution images and higher pixel density is another good thing as well moving right along to Battlefield 3 Titan steals the show again just narrowly edging out 660 tili by about 5% which beat Aries 2 as well so this is a game that sort of like uh Far Cry 3 was for AMD this one favors NVIDIA pretty immensely so GTX 680 walks all over 7970 and then the Dual GPU Solutions um actually do the same thing to each other that the single GPU Solutions did to each other with only the Titan sort of emerging on top and I mean you look at the GPU that the Dual GPU scaling actually AMD scales well but didn't have great performance to begin with whereas NVIDIA didn't scale quite as well but had better performance to begin with next up is Metro 2033 which is the first game where we really see the higher frame buffer gpus pull away from the lower frame buffer gpus so the 680 and the 660ti both look like they ran out of memory because the performance just falls off a cliff compared to where they were hanging with their equivalent Solutions throughout most of our testing so while we don't necessarily need all six gigs that you have on the Titan for this particular bench it does show that there are modern games or even older games that at higher resolutions like when 4K displays start showing up will benefit from more memory so yeah three gigs is is enough for this particular game but what if we did scale to 4K what if uh you know uh what if an upcoming title scales to 4K maybe 6 gigs will be needed in the near future um especially if you want to run it the very very highest detail I mean I guess needed is sort of a strong word but uh anyway in this one Aries 2 steals the show Titan comes in exactly where it belongs and moving on to Witcher 2 so Witcher 2 made that point again this was the first game that we encountered where it looks like with Uber sampling on so we were running on the ultra preset including Uber sampling none of the cards were actually even able to run the game in surround except for GTX Titan now on the AMD card that's partly due to the fact that CD project red does not allow AMD configurations to run in ifinity in their surround uh setup and that's for whatever reason that they decided toimplement that because there was a hack at some point and then they turned it off for whatever reason um but neither of the other NVIDIA Solutions were even able to launch the game so this is one where we are actually benefiting from not only the horsepower of Titan but also the huge frame buffer and this brings into the picture how Titan is intended to be used so it's low it's low noise it's relatively small for a high performance GPU I mean it's 10.5 in which is I guess pretty big but it's not the biggest GPU ever made that's for sure and it is quiet so you can either put it in a small high performance system or you can take a bunch of them and stack them together wicher two scales extremely well even up to three-way SLI we've shown this in the past with GTX 660 Ti so what that means is you could take a few of these guys you could probably eek out around 45 to 50 FPS with Witcher 2 at 5760 by 1080 Ultra preset and have enough video memory to do it so it's a very unique solution that way a very futuristic solution that way although maybe not necessarily the most coste effective one thank you for checking out our video on surround gaming with the latest high-end gpus don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos"}