WEBVTT 00:00:05.960 --> 00:00:11.880 so what is Titan actually for if not 00:00:09.280 --> 00:00:18.480 high resolution gaming such as the kind that you would do if you had triple 00:00:15.400 --> 00:00:22.840 monitors so our triple monitor setup for 00:00:18.480 --> 00:00:25.119 testing Titan was actually three 1920 by 00:00:22.840 --> 00:00:29.160 1200 monitors so for all intents and purposes our results are going to be 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 00:00:31.560 --> 00:00:36.760 demanding but you can kind of extrapolate down a little bit and it 00:00:34.719 --> 00:00:41.320 gives you some idea how this solution's going to perform so the Titan's main 00:00:39.079 --> 00:00:46.320 advantage when running high resolution is that it has 6 gigs of video memory so 00:00:43.600 --> 00:00:52.879 that's in addition to the 2500 some OD Cuda cores the large 7.1 billion 00:00:49.399 --> 00:00:56.039 transistor GPU and just generally 00:00:52.879 --> 00:00:59.160 overall Beast design ours ran at 00:00:56.039 --> 00:01:01.120 1.13 GHz or so consistently with GPU 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 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 00:01:06.240 --> 00:01:13.520 one GPU and it does have to go up against competing dual GPU Solutions so 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:19.640 the main contenders for this one actually well all the solutions that we 00:01:14.960 --> 00:01:24.200 ran were the GTX Titan the ASUS Aries 2 00:01:19.640 --> 00:01:27.000 so this is a dual 7970 GHz Edition card 00:01:24.200 --> 00:01:33.960 that actually is a very very very custom card very expensive but we used that to 00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:36.280 represent 7970 Crossfire as well as just 00:01:33.960 --> 00:01:40.240 sort of that you know what graphics card out there actually costs more than a 00:01:38.119 --> 00:01:43.680 Titan well this one and you know see how see how those stack up against each 00:01:41.640 --> 00:01:50.719 other we ran a single 7970 with its three gigs of video memory 00:01:46.520 --> 00:01:53.880 7970 often often often gets recommended 00:01:50.719 --> 00:01:57.960 over GTX 680 for surround setups and 00:01:53.880 --> 00:02:01.000 last but not least we ran two GTX 660 Ti 00:01:57.960 --> 00:02:03.280 and SLI to see how these are two gig 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:08.599 cards only to see how those stack up just having more GPU power and actually 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 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:17.720 us some idea how that rather 2 gig card 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:23.560 excuse me so that gives us some idea how these still high performance similar to 00:02:20.280 --> 00:02:26.319 a 7970 but uh more frame buffer limited 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 00:02:29.920 --> 00:02:37.160 test bench with 16 gigs of RAM and all cards are overclocked you can find the 00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:40.720 card overclocks in the shared Google document that I share so that you guys 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 00:02:44.159 --> 00:02:51.200 much pretty easily all right so let's start with crisis can it run crisis ha 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 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 00:02:58.360 --> 00:03:05.480 right and planking planking is still funny I don't know forget about it so 00:03:02.200 --> 00:03:07.440 crisis okay Advantage Aries 2 the Aries 00:03:05.480 --> 00:03:13.040 2 absolutely walks away with Crisis crisis is an older game so the textures 00:03:10.480 --> 00:03:17.920 are not as not high resolution enough that Titan would benefit from its 6 gigs 00:03:15.040 --> 00:03:22.840 of video memory so Aries 2 goes yeah okay we want more GPU horsepower also 00:03:20.879 --> 00:03:28.200 excellent Crossfire scaling helps the Aries 2 perform more than twice as well 00:03:25.120 --> 00:03:29.959 as a 7970 something that uh early on in 00:03:28.200 --> 00:03:33.120 my crossfire testing days would have said oh that's that's an anomaly there's 00:03:31.840 --> 00:03:37.439 no way that can be possible you know what sometimes it actually happens it's 00:03:35.280 --> 00:03:42.319 very very bizarre so for single GPU Solutions 680 and 7970 are pretty close 00:03:39.920 --> 00:03:46.480 again no Advantage for the 7970 with its 3 GB frame buffer but the Titan leaves 00:03:44.799 --> 00:03:54.200 them both behind out performing them both by about 50% 660 tili demonstrates 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 00:03:56.000 --> 00:04:02.360 expensive sometimes it can be worthwhile to run a single GPU because driver 00:03:59.959 --> 00:04:06.680 issues can force an otherwise theoretically more powerful solution to 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 00:04:09.920 --> 00:04:17.359 where Titan stole the show so Titan outperformed everything else in Crisis 3 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 00:04:20.400 --> 00:04:27.000 significantly less expensive than a Titan destroyed the GTX 680 destroyed 00:04:25.040 --> 00:04:32.960 the Aries 2 which actually performed worse than the 7970 so this is an 00:04:29.280 --> 00:04:35.360 example where 660ti demonstrated that 00:04:32.960 --> 00:04:40.039 it's all about drivers so on our previous game crisis 1 AMD benefited 00:04:38.080 --> 00:04:46.320 from Dual GPU while NVIDIA didn't at all and in Crisis 3 NVIDIA benefits from 00:04:42.280 --> 00:04:49.680 Dual GPU at 5760 by by 1080 or rather by 00:04:46.320 --> 00:04:51.120 12200 whereas AMD doesn't at all so it 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 00:04:55.280 --> 00:05:01.400 see that with the Titan Far Cry 3 00:04:58.639 --> 00:05:06.919 another hot title Aries 2 just runs away with this one Far Cry 3 generally runs 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:09.800 better on AMD cards and that Trend 00:05:06.919 --> 00:05:14.639 continued and nothing really unexpected here it performs almost twice as fast as 00:05:13.360 --> 00:05:21.560 a single 7970 and it takes the GTX 660 Ti and SLI 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 00:05:24.400 --> 00:05:31.199 faster than a Titan which is significantly faster than GTX 680 and 00:05:28.680 --> 00:05:36.800 7970 but you can see the AMD optimizations that have gone into this 00:05:33.720 --> 00:05:38.960 particular game Skyrim was an 00:05:36.800 --> 00:05:43.880 interesting one this is a bit of a challenge with surround gaming in 00:05:40.840 --> 00:05:45.280 general game support is not always there 00:05:43.880 --> 00:05:51.280 even for games that are extremely modable so Skyrim is uh is very modable 00:05:48.520 --> 00:05:56.360 our our stock test configuration for Skyrim has 18 mods installed from Steam 00:05:53.400 --> 00:06:00.560 Workshop but it didn't actually work on either our NVIDIA or our AMD test 00:05:58.759 --> 00:06:03.440 platforms to get it going in surround there was a there was a patch that used 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 00:06:06.039 --> 00:06:12.759 I'm really excited about 4K displays one to help us really push these gpus 00:06:10.720 --> 00:06:18.120 because that's even higher resolution than 3x 1080 and the other is um the 00:06:16.960 --> 00:06:23.400 fact that we don't have to deal with surround to get just super high 00:06:20.759 --> 00:06:26.759 resolution images and higher pixel density is another good thing as well 00:06:25.080 --> 00:06:33.440 moving right along to Battlefield 3 Titan steals the show again just 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:35.520 narrowly edging out 660 tili by about 5% 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 00:06:38.840 --> 00:06:45.639 for AMD this one favors NVIDIA pretty 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:48.960 immensely so GTX 680 walks all over 7970 00:06:45.639 --> 00:06:51.759 and then the Dual GPU Solutions um 00:06:48.960 --> 00:06:55.479 actually do the same thing to each other that the single GPU Solutions did to 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 00:06:58.039 --> 00:07:04.960 the GPU that the Dual GPU scaling actually AMD scales well but didn't have 00:07:03.479 --> 00:07:10.560 great performance to begin with whereas NVIDIA didn't scale quite as well but 00:07:07.560 --> 00:07:13.000 had better performance to begin with 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:16.800 next up is Metro 2033 which is the first game where we really see the higher 00:07:14.720 --> 00:07:21.879 frame buffer gpus pull away from the lower frame buffer gpus so the 680 and 00:07:19.120 --> 00:07:25.639 the 660ti both look like they ran out of memory because the performance just 00:07:23.319 --> 00:07:29.560 falls off a cliff compared to where they were hanging with their equivalent 00:07:27.440 --> 00:07:35.000 Solutions throughout most of our testing so while we don't necessarily need all 00:07:32.759 --> 00:07:39.120 six gigs that you have on the Titan for this particular bench it does show that 00:07:37.080 --> 00:07:43.800 there are modern games or even older games that at higher resolutions like 00:07:41.280 --> 00:07:48.520 when 4K displays start showing up will benefit from more memory so yeah three 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 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 00:07:55.479 --> 00:08:00.560 needed in the near future um especially if you want to run it the very very 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 00:08:03.039 --> 00:08:11.919 this one Aries 2 steals the show Titan comes in exactly where it belongs and 00:08:07.599 --> 00:08:15.280 moving on to Witcher 2 so Witcher 2 made 00:08:11.919 --> 00:08:17.159 that point again this was the first game 00:08:15.280 --> 00:08:21.440 that we encountered where it looks like with Uber sampling on so we were running 00:08:19.599 --> 00:08:26.960 on the ultra preset including Uber sampling none of the cards were actually 00:08:23.720 --> 00:08:30.039 even able to run the game in surround 00:08:26.960 --> 00:08:32.240 except for GTX Titan now on the AMD card 00:08:30.039 --> 00:08:37.200 that's partly due to the fact that CD project red does not allow AMD 00:08:34.839 --> 00:08:41.800 configurations to run in ifinity in their surround uh setup and that's for 00:08:40.159 --> 00:08:45.519 whatever reason that they decided toimplement that because there was a 00:08:43.959 --> 00:08:49.680 hack at some point and then they turned it off for whatever reason um but 00:08:48.080 --> 00:08:53.640 neither of the other NVIDIA Solutions were even able to launch the game so 00:08:51.760 --> 00:08:57.360 this is one where we are actually benefiting from not only the horsepower 00:08:55.240 --> 00:09:03.040 of Titan but also the huge frame buffer and this brings into the picture how 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 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 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 00:09:14.320 --> 00:09:19.519 put it in a small high performance system or you can take a bunch of them 00:09:17.800 --> 00:09:23.600 and stack them together wicher two scales extremely well even up to 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 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 00:09:32.480 --> 00:09:39.320 50 FPS with Witcher 2 at 5760 by 1080 00:09:36.959 --> 00:09:43.079 Ultra preset and have enough video memory to do it so it's a very unique 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:48.000 solution that way a very futuristic solution that way although maybe not 00:09:44.920 --> 00:09:50.360 necessarily the most coste effective 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