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welcome to my performance review at 1080p resolution for the GeForce GTX

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Titan this card is in a class of its own it has over 2500 Cuda course overclocked

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and we run all of our Graphics benchmarks overclocked we were able to

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run it consistently at well over 1.1 GHz

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around 1.13 to 1.4 GHz with GPU boost it

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features GPU boost 2.0 which basically

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amounts to more customizability in terms of the fan profiles as well as the Boost

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clocks of the card and even overvolting options that we've never seen before and

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I think you guys are going to be pretty impressed with the performance this is based on the same Kepler architecture as

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the GK 114 or GTX 680 which was the

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previous ruler of the roost in terms of the Invidia stack but this one comes in

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at a much higher performance level and a much higher price has 6 gigs of RAM

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which probably won't benefit it much at 1080p but you can check out my other

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videos at 2560 x600 as well as 5760 x

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1080 in three ways surround in order to get some idea of what you think about

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the 6 gig frame buffer now the contenders for this video this is meant

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to be a heavyweight Showdown there are no no mid-range Graphics Solutions

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included so we've gone with 660ti SLI to

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show sort of what two better value but lower performance cards in SLI might be

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able to do we've gone with a 7970 which is the best single GPU card from the AMD

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Camp to go up against NVIDIA's best single GPU card however they're in very

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different price ranges we've got a GTX 680 which is NVIDIA's previous top

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top-of-the-line single card and to represent dual 797s since we did take

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two lower-end gpus from NVIDIA and run them in SLI we have an ASUS Aries 2 so

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this is 27970 GHz Edition gpus this

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one's pretty expensive but the results should be pretty close to what you'd get

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with two normal cards as well so let's

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start with our first game which is Crisis the old joke can it run crisis

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the answer is yes yes indeed it can the GeForce GTX Titan destroys crisis it

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beats the Aries 2 which is priced about $500 higher for an actual Aries 2 or

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pretty similarly if you buy a couple 797s it beats 660 Ti SLI and leaves the

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7 970 and the 680 the other only single

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GPU Solutions in the dust Crisis 3

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obviously just launched so this is another one ha can it but but can it run

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Crisis 3 the answer is once again yes it can the only solution that beats out the

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GTX Titan in Crisis 3 is the GTX 660ti

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SLI solution so it beats the 680 by a

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handy 25 to 30% beats the Aries 2

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handily and the 7970 you can see here the Aries 2 didn't scale very well in

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Crisis 3 probably not optimized yet for

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dual GPU on AMD it wasn't much faster than a single

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7970 moving right along Far Cry 3 another popular title that's actually

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pretty new as well and something you might notice about all these graphs is

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we've labeled what settings we're running at so you can reproduce the results if you want and we've gone with

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higher settings than we normally do because this is a heavyweight battle so

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the Titan comes out on top again in Far

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Cry 3 Beating out the Aries 2 the 7970

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660 Ti SLI really didn't Fair very well in Far Cry 3 barely scaling at all and

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just edging out the GTX 680 which comes in at the bottom of the Heap for this

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particular uh game Skyrim now Skyrim

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we're doing things quite a bit differently in the past we've run a bone

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stock Skyrim with just the high-res texture pack that's gone completely out

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the window we are running 18 mods from the Steam Workshop and Slick's going to

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be creating a Skyrim benchmarking guide hopefully sometime in the next couple

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weeks so you guys can check out how we run Skyrim exactly because it gives it

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it makes it much more demanding and gives it more of a more of a PC like uh

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well makes it so there's a point having a high-end graphics card to run it gives

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you more of a PC gaming experience rather than dumbed down console Graphics

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lots of trees better textures on everything looks absolutely fantastic so

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the Titan comes out on top in Skyrim and uh the Aries 2 is only beat by the Titan

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then the single GPU Solutions fall a little bit down and GTX 660 Ti SLI

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really didn't scale that much from 680 well the thing that I do notice here is

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that we still don't see maybe as much performance difference in Skyrim as we

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could if we added even more mods so by the time we do our performance guide

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it's possible we'll have changed to this Battlefield 3 is getting to be a bit of

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an older title but it's still very graphically demanding AMD Crossfire X

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scales incredibly well in this game so you can see the Aries 2 actually

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performs about double as well as a 797

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it's so rare to see perfect Crossfire scaling then the Titan performs

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similarly to a 660 Ti SLI so this is where that discussion about do you want

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a single GPU or do you want a dual GPU solution really comes to comes to a head

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because dual GPU Solutions like this where the Aries 2 just destroys

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everything else look pretty compelling grab a couple of these you're going to

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get the best possible gaming experience in Battlefield 3 hands down however the

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Titan because it's a single GP is consistent across the board it

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consistently performs better than the 680 and the 7970 single gpus whereas

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sometimes those dual graphics card Solutions perform the same or just a

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little bit better and sometimes they leave the single gpus in the dust our

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last two games are Metro 2033 which is

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also an older title but does continue to scale well which did incredibly well in

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crossfire again with the Aries 2 leaving everything behind the Titan still beats

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out the 660ti and destroys the GTX 680

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this seems to be more of an AMD favoring title uh in spite of the the way it's

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meant to be played branding on the title but you see that happen from time to

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time Witcher 2 is our last one we're using the ultra preset including Uber

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sampling now one of the things that made Uber sampling unappealing in the past

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was the fact that it was extremely demanding on the graphics card memory at

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a time when most graphics cards were shipping with one to 1 and a half gigs

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of vram not a big deal anymore six gigs of

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RAM you can run Witcher two at Ultra presets at pretty much whatever

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resolution you want that's what makes the Titan ready for not only current

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generation games but future generation games and future resolutions even

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surround was no big deal in terms of the memory usage on the GTX Titan so that

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pretty much wraps it up in terms of 1080p performance the conclusion is

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pretty simple if you're looking for the best possible performance from a single

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GPU card then go for it however it's not cheap and unlike what you're going to

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see in our other performance review at 2560 x600 the Titan doesn't really

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stretch its legs until you get to those higher resolutions with that said we did

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run the games at more demanding settings than we usually do with lower-end cards

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in order to show you that even at 1080p the Titan does distance itself from

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other single GPU Solutions thank you for checking out this video review on Linus

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