1 00:00:05,960 --> 00:00:11,880 so what is Titan actually for if not 2 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:18,480 high resolution gaming such as the kind that you would do if you had triple 3 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:22,840 monitors so our triple monitor setup for 4 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:25,119 testing Titan was actually three 1920 by 5 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:29,160 1200 monitors so for all intents and purposes our results are going to be 6 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:33,360 pretty similar to what you'd see running 3 108 P monitors it's a little bit more 7 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:36,760 demanding but you can kind of extrapolate down a little bit and it 8 00:00:34,719 --> 00:00:41,320 gives you some idea how this solution's going to perform so the Titan's main 9 00:00:39,079 --> 00:00:46,320 advantage when running high resolution is that it has 6 gigs of video memory so 10 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:52,879 that's in addition to the 2500 some OD Cuda cores the large 7.1 billion 11 00:00:49,399 --> 00:00:56,039 transistor GPU and just generally 12 00:00:52,879 --> 00:00:59,160 overall Beast design ours ran at 13 00:00:56,039 --> 00:01:01,120 1.13 GHz or so consistently with GPU 14 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:04,239 boost that's on air cooling with water cooling it'll do more so it's got a lot 15 00:01:02,559 --> 00:01:08,520 going for it but what it doesn't have going for it is the fact that it is only 16 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:13,520 one GPU and it does have to go up against competing dual GPU Solutions so 17 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:19,640 the main contenders for this one actually well all the solutions that we 18 00:01:14,960 --> 00:01:24,200 ran were the GTX Titan the ASUS Aries 2 19 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:27,000 so this is a dual 7970 GHz Edition card 20 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:33,960 that actually is a very very very custom card very expensive but we used that to 21 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:36,280 represent 7970 Crossfire as well as just 22 00:01:33,960 --> 00:01:40,240 sort of that you know what graphics card out there actually costs more than a 23 00:01:38,119 --> 00:01:43,680 Titan well this one and you know see how see how those stack up against each 24 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:50,719 other we ran a single 7970 with its three gigs of video memory 25 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:53,880 7970 often often often gets recommended 26 00:01:50,719 --> 00:01:57,960 over GTX 680 for surround setups and 27 00:01:53,880 --> 00:02:01,000 last but not least we ran two GTX 660 Ti 28 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:03,280 and SLI to see how these are two gig 29 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:08,599 cards only to see how those stack up just having more GPU power and actually 30 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:15,360 last that one wasn't last we ran a GTX 680 so that's a 3 gig card so that gives 31 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:17,720 us some idea how that rather 2 gig card 32 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:23,560 excuse me so that gives us some idea how these still high performance similar to 33 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:26,319 a 7970 but uh more frame buffer limited 34 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:32,560 cards will perform so without further Ado oh this is all on our 3930k at 4 GHz 35 00:02:29,920 --> 00:02:37,160 test bench with 16 gigs of RAM and all cards are overclocked you can find the 36 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:40,720 card overclocks in the shared Google document that I share so that you guys 37 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:46,200 can see what our cards are clocked at they're all at very reasonable clocks that should be attainable by you pretty 38 00:02:44,159 --> 00:02:51,200 much pretty easily all right so let's start with crisis can it run crisis ha 39 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:56,519 ha haa the joke that never gets old on the internet uh until it takes an arrow 40 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:59,920 to the knee and dies or retires or does whatever it does that's that's funny 41 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:05,480 right and planking planking is still funny I don't know forget about it so 42 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:07,440 crisis okay Advantage Aries 2 the Aries 43 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:13,040 2 absolutely walks away with Crisis crisis is an older game so the textures 44 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:17,920 are not as not high resolution enough that Titan would benefit from its 6 gigs 45 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:22,840 of video memory so Aries 2 goes yeah okay we want more GPU horsepower also 46 00:03:20,879 --> 00:03:28,200 excellent Crossfire scaling helps the Aries 2 perform more than twice as well 47 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:29,959 as a 7970 something that uh early on in 48 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:33,120 my crossfire testing days would have said oh that's that's an anomaly there's 49 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:37,439 no way that can be possible you know what sometimes it actually happens it's 50 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:42,319 very very bizarre so for single GPU Solutions 680 and 7970 are pretty close 51 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:46,480 again no Advantage for the 7970 with its 3 GB frame buffer but the Titan leaves 52 00:03:44,799 --> 00:03:54,200 them both behind out performing them both by about 50% 660 tili demonstrates 53 00:03:51,319 --> 00:03:58,040 why sometimes a dual GPU solution is not a great one so while Titan may be very 54 00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:02,360 expensive sometimes it can be worthwhile to run a single GPU because driver 55 00:03:59,959 --> 00:04:06,680 issues can force an otherwise theoretically more powerful solution to 56 00:04:04,159 --> 00:04:12,239 not really do very well now we just saw Crisis 3 launch so we also ran Crisis 3 57 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:17,359 where Titan stole the show so Titan outperformed everything else in Crisis 3 58 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:21,799 including the 660 Ti and SLI although it should be noted that 660 Ti and SLI are 59 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:27,000 significantly less expensive than a Titan destroyed the GTX 680 destroyed 60 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:32,960 the Aries 2 which actually performed worse than the 7970 so this is an 61 00:04:29,280 --> 00:04:35,360 example where 660ti demonstrated that 62 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:40,039 it's all about drivers so on our previous game crisis 1 AMD benefited 63 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:46,320 from Dual GPU while NVIDIA didn't at all and in Crisis 3 NVIDIA benefits from 64 00:04:42,280 --> 00:04:49,680 Dual GPU at 5760 by by 1080 or rather by 65 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:51,120 12200 whereas AMD doesn't at all so it 66 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:58,639 comes down to the individual games you're going to play whereas a single GPU solution always performs well and we 67 00:04:55,280 --> 00:05:01,400 see that with the Titan Far Cry 3 68 00:04:58,639 --> 00:05:06,919 another hot title Aries 2 just runs away with this one Far Cry 3 generally runs 69 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:09,800 better on AMD cards and that Trend 70 00:05:06,919 --> 00:05:14,639 continued and nothing really unexpected here it performs almost twice as fast as 71 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:21,560 a single 7970 and it takes the GTX 660 Ti and SLI 72 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:26,360 to even I mean they're not even close GTX 660 Ti and SLI are only slightly 73 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:31,199 faster than a Titan which is significantly faster than GTX 680 and 74 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:36,800 7970 but you can see the AMD optimizations that have gone into this 75 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:38,960 particular game Skyrim was an 76 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:43,880 interesting one this is a bit of a challenge with surround gaming in 77 00:05:40,840 --> 00:05:45,280 general game support is not always there 78 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:51,280 even for games that are extremely modable so Skyrim is uh is very modable 79 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:56,360 our our stock test configuration for Skyrim has 18 mods installed from Steam 80 00:05:53,400 --> 00:06:00,560 Workshop but it didn't actually work on either our NVIDIA or our AMD test 81 00:05:58,759 --> 00:06:03,440 platforms to get it going in surround there was a there was a patch that used 82 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:08,639 to work but then there's a newer patch of Skyrim now it doesn't work anymore so 83 00:06:06,039 --> 00:06:12,759 I'm really excited about 4K displays one to help us really push these gpus 84 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:18,120 because that's even higher resolution than 3x 1080 and the other is um the 85 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:23,400 fact that we don't have to deal with surround to get just super high 86 00:06:20,759 --> 00:06:26,759 resolution images and higher pixel density is another good thing as well 87 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:33,440 moving right along to Battlefield 3 Titan steals the show again just 88 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:35,520 narrowly edging out 660 tili by about 5% 89 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:42,000 which beat Aries 2 as well so this is a game that sort of like uh Far Cry 3 was 90 00:06:38,840 --> 00:06:45,639 for AMD this one favors NVIDIA pretty 91 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:48,960 immensely so GTX 680 walks all over 7970 92 00:06:45,639 --> 00:06:51,759 and then the Dual GPU Solutions um 93 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:55,479 actually do the same thing to each other that the single GPU Solutions did to 94 00:06:53,280 --> 00:07:00,080 each other with only the Titan sort of emerging on top and I mean you look at 95 00:06:58,039 --> 00:07:04,960 the GPU that the Dual GPU scaling actually AMD scales well but didn't have 96 00:07:03,479 --> 00:07:10,560 great performance to begin with whereas NVIDIA didn't scale quite as well but 97 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:13,000 had better performance to begin with 98 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:16,800 next up is Metro 2033 which is the first game where we really see the higher 99 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:21,879 frame buffer gpus pull away from the lower frame buffer gpus so the 680 and 100 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:25,639 the 660ti both look like they ran out of memory because the performance just 101 00:07:23,319 --> 00:07:29,560 falls off a cliff compared to where they were hanging with their equivalent 102 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:35,000 Solutions throughout most of our testing so while we don't necessarily need all 103 00:07:32,759 --> 00:07:39,120 six gigs that you have on the Titan for this particular bench it does show that 104 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:43,800 there are modern games or even older games that at higher resolutions like 105 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:48,520 when 4K displays start showing up will benefit from more memory so yeah three 106 00:07:46,199 --> 00:07:53,000 gigs is is enough for this particular game but what if we did scale to 4K what 107 00:07:50,759 --> 00:07:57,800 if uh you know uh what if an upcoming title scales to 4K maybe 6 gigs will be 108 00:07:55,479 --> 00:08:00,560 needed in the near future um especially if you want to run it the very very 109 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:05,360 highest detail I mean I guess needed is sort of a strong word but uh anyway in 110 00:08:03,039 --> 00:08:11,919 this one Aries 2 steals the show Titan comes in exactly where it belongs and 111 00:08:07,599 --> 00:08:15,280 moving on to Witcher 2 so Witcher 2 made 112 00:08:11,919 --> 00:08:17,159 that point again this was the first game 113 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:21,440 that we encountered where it looks like with Uber sampling on so we were running 114 00:08:19,599 --> 00:08:26,960 on the ultra preset including Uber sampling none of the cards were actually 115 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:30,039 even able to run the game in surround 116 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:32,240 except for GTX Titan now on the AMD card 117 00:08:30,039 --> 00:08:37,200 that's partly due to the fact that CD project red does not allow AMD 118 00:08:34,839 --> 00:08:41,800 configurations to run in ifinity in their surround uh setup and that's for 119 00:08:40,159 --> 00:08:45,519 whatever reason that they decided toimplement that because there was a 120 00:08:43,959 --> 00:08:49,680 hack at some point and then they turned it off for whatever reason um but 121 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:53,640 neither of the other NVIDIA Solutions were even able to launch the game so 122 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:57,360 this is one where we are actually benefiting from not only the horsepower 123 00:08:55,240 --> 00:09:03,040 of Titan but also the huge frame buffer and this brings into the picture how 124 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:07,839 Titan is intended to be used so it's low it's low noise it's relatively small for 125 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:11,000 a high performance GPU I mean it's 10.5 in which is I guess pretty big but it's 126 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:16,040 not the biggest GPU ever made that's for sure and it is quiet so you can either 127 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:19,519 put it in a small high performance system or you can take a bunch of them 128 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:23,600 and stack them together wicher two scales extremely well even up to 129 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:30,120 three-way SLI we've shown this in the past with GTX 660 Ti so what that means 130 00:09:27,959 --> 00:09:36,959 is you could take a few of these guys you could probably eek out around 45 to 131 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:39,320 50 FPS with Witcher 2 at 5760 by 1080 132 00:09:36,959 --> 00:09:43,079 Ultra preset and have enough video memory to do it so it's a very unique 133 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:48,000 solution that way a very futuristic solution that way although maybe not 134 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:50,360 necessarily the most coste effective one 135 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:55,480 thank you for checking out our video on surround gaming with the latest high-end 136 00:09:53,519 --> 00:10:01,000 gpus don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and 137 00:09:57,399 --> 00:10:01,000 other computer videos