welcome to my performance review at 1080p resolution for the GeForce GTX
Titan this card is in a class of its own it has over 2500 Cuda course overclocked
and we run all of our Graphics benchmarks overclocked we were able to
run it consistently at well over 1.1 GHz
around 1.13 to 1.4 GHz with GPU boost it
features GPU boost 2.0 which basically
amounts to more customizability in terms of the fan profiles as well as the Boost
clocks of the card and even overvolting options that we've never seen before and
I think you guys are going to be pretty impressed with the performance this is based on the same Kepler architecture as
the GK 114 or GTX 680 which was the
previous ruler of the roost in terms of the Invidia stack but this one comes in
at a much higher performance level and a much higher price has 6 gigs of RAM
which probably won't benefit it much at 1080p but you can check out my other
videos at 2560 x600 as well as 5760 x
1080 in three ways surround in order to get some idea of what you think about
the 6 gig frame buffer now the contenders for this video this is meant
to be a heavyweight Showdown there are no no mid-range Graphics Solutions
included so we've gone with 660ti SLI to
show sort of what two better value but lower performance cards in SLI might be
able to do we've gone with a 7970 which is the best single GPU card from the AMD
Camp to go up against NVIDIA's best single GPU card however they're in very
different price ranges we've got a GTX 680 which is NVIDIA's previous top
top-of-the-line single card and to represent dual 797s since we did take
two lower-end gpus from NVIDIA and run them in SLI we have an ASUS Aries 2 so
this is 27970 GHz Edition gpus this
one's pretty expensive but the results should be pretty close to what you'd get
with two normal cards as well so let's
start with our first game which is Crisis the old joke can it run crisis
the answer is yes yes indeed it can the GeForce GTX Titan destroys crisis it
beats the Aries 2 which is priced about $500 higher for an actual Aries 2 or
pretty similarly if you buy a couple 797s it beats 660 Ti SLI and leaves the
7 970 and the 680 the other only single
GPU Solutions in the dust Crisis 3
obviously just launched so this is another one ha can it but but can it run
Crisis 3 the answer is once again yes it can the only solution that beats out the
GTX Titan in Crisis 3 is the GTX 660ti
SLI solution so it beats the 680 by a
handy 25 to 30% beats the Aries 2
handily and the 7970 you can see here the Aries 2 didn't scale very well in
Crisis 3 probably not optimized yet for
dual GPU on AMD it wasn't much faster than a single
7970 moving right along Far Cry 3 another popular title that's actually
pretty new as well and something you might notice about all these graphs is
we've labeled what settings we're running at so you can reproduce the results if you want and we've gone with
higher settings than we normally do because this is a heavyweight battle so
the Titan comes out on top again in Far
Cry 3 Beating out the Aries 2 the 7970
660 Ti SLI really didn't Fair very well in Far Cry 3 barely scaling at all and
just edging out the GTX 680 which comes in at the bottom of the Heap for this
particular uh game Skyrim now Skyrim
we're doing things quite a bit differently in the past we've run a bone
stock Skyrim with just the high-res texture pack that's gone completely out
the window we are running 18 mods from the Steam Workshop and Slick's going to
be creating a Skyrim benchmarking guide hopefully sometime in the next couple
weeks so you guys can check out how we run Skyrim exactly because it gives it
it makes it much more demanding and gives it more of a more of a PC like uh
well makes it so there's a point having a high-end graphics card to run it gives
you more of a PC gaming experience rather than dumbed down console Graphics
lots of trees better textures on everything looks absolutely fantastic so
the Titan comes out on top in Skyrim and uh the Aries 2 is only beat by the Titan
then the single GPU Solutions fall a little bit down and GTX 660 Ti SLI
really didn't scale that much from 680 well the thing that I do notice here is
that we still don't see maybe as much performance difference in Skyrim as we
could if we added even more mods so by the time we do our performance guide
it's possible we'll have changed to this Battlefield 3 is getting to be a bit of
an older title but it's still very graphically demanding AMD Crossfire X
scales incredibly well in this game so you can see the Aries 2 actually
performs about double as well as a 797
it's so rare to see perfect Crossfire scaling then the Titan performs
similarly to a 660 Ti SLI so this is where that discussion about do you want
a single GPU or do you want a dual GPU solution really comes to comes to a head
because dual GPU Solutions like this where the Aries 2 just destroys
everything else look pretty compelling grab a couple of these you're going to
get the best possible gaming experience in Battlefield 3 hands down however the
Titan because it's a single GP is consistent across the board it
consistently performs better than the 680 and the 7970 single gpus whereas
sometimes those dual graphics card Solutions perform the same or just a
little bit better and sometimes they leave the single gpus in the dust our
last two games are Metro 2033 which is
also an older title but does continue to scale well which did incredibly well in
crossfire again with the Aries 2 leaving everything behind the Titan still beats
out the 660ti and destroys the GTX 680
this seems to be more of an AMD favoring title uh in spite of the the way it's
meant to be played branding on the title but you see that happen from time to
time Witcher 2 is our last one we're using the ultra preset including Uber
sampling now one of the things that made Uber sampling unappealing in the past
was the fact that it was extremely demanding on the graphics card memory at
a time when most graphics cards were shipping with one to 1 and a half gigs
of vram not a big deal anymore six gigs of
RAM you can run Witcher two at Ultra presets at pretty much whatever
resolution you want that's what makes the Titan ready for not only current
generation games but future generation games and future resolutions even
surround was no big deal in terms of the memory usage on the GTX Titan so that
pretty much wraps it up in terms of 1080p performance the conclusion is
pretty simple if you're looking for the best possible performance from a single
GPU card then go for it however it's not cheap and unlike what you're going to
see in our other performance review at 2560 x600 the Titan doesn't really
stretch its legs until you get to those higher resolutions with that said we did
run the games at more demanding settings than we usually do with lower-end cards
in order to show you that even at 1080p the Titan does distance itself from
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