1 00:00:05,440 --> 00:00:11,920 stereoscopic 3D gaming is one of the one of the ways that you can really take 2 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:15,679 advantage of the extra horsepower available in gpus even with games where 3 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:22,000 you can already Max the resolution you can already Max the details and they're already running okay because what stereo 4 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:24,519 3D effectively has to do especially for 5 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:27,960 games that are not um very well optimized for example you're going to 6 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:33,120 see Crisis 3 is incredibly well optimized for stereo 3D on the gForce 7 00:00:30,439 --> 00:00:39,480 GTX Titan so what it effectively has to do is render the image from two 8 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:41,000 different sides for each eye and then it 9 00:00:39,480 --> 00:00:45,160 works with the NVIDIA driver to only show you one eye at a time with the 10 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:50,800 shutter glasses that that make the whole 3d effect work so I wanted to take Titan 11 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:55,960 and test it against the other solutions that make sense for 3D so 12 00:00:53,120 --> 00:01:00,680 unfortunately I haven't actually tested any AMD cards because the last time I 13 00:00:58,359 --> 00:01:07,320 took a run at stereo 3D with the radon solution with uh with 14 00:01:04,239 --> 00:01:09,159 dddd the 3D sort of third party firmware 15 00:01:07,320 --> 00:01:14,920 it was not a very intuitive setup compared to 3D Vision so I instead stuck 16 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:17,320 with my GeForce set up so I've got the 17 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:21,920 GeForce GTX Titan which is the new card launching today I compare it against the 18 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:26,240 old Flagship the GeForce GTX 680 although it should be noted the GeForce 19 00:01:23,360 --> 00:01:29,320 GTX 680 isn't really making its way down the stack it's not like the Titan is 20 00:01:27,799 --> 00:01:34,000 coming in and replacing it at the same price point Titan is significantly more 21 00:01:31,439 --> 00:01:38,920 expensive than a GTX 680 so it's still kind of a flagship but then Titan's like 22 00:01:35,960 --> 00:01:43,200 a like a super Flagship or something like that and then finally my sort of 23 00:01:41,320 --> 00:01:51,680 you know my my banging for the buck solution which is two GTX 66 TI in SLI 24 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:52,759 so without further Ado here are my 3D 25 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:57,320 Vision benchmarks let's start with the one I 26 00:01:54,680 --> 00:02:04,880 alluded to before so Crisis 3 at 1080p in 3D Vision surround actually only runs 27 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:08,440 about 10% slower in 3D Vision than it 28 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:12,160 does just at 1080p on the GeForce GTX 29 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:16,160 Titan now with that said the GeForce GTX 30 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:18,280 660ti SLI solution actually outperforms 31 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:26,200 the Titan in this particular game in 3D division by about uh you know about 3% 32 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:28,360 or 4% or something along those lines but 33 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:35,440 we do still see a clear separation of the Titan from the previous generation 34 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:39,080 ruler of the roost in Crisis 3 moving 35 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:40,920 along to Skyrim I believe the mods that 36 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:44,840 we've installed kind of messed it up so again you can look at these results but 37 00:02:42,519 --> 00:02:48,440 they're completely meaningless because we installed a bunch of mods that 38 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:52,599 probably broke 3D in a very big way so for example the Shadows uh which are 39 00:02:50,640 --> 00:02:57,280 sometimes a problem with 3D even without modding the game were were definitely an 40 00:02:54,599 --> 00:03:02,200 issue for us Battlefield 3 however did quite well in 3D so you can see Titan 41 00:02:59,159 --> 00:03:05,319 and GTX 660 Ti SLI are neck and neck 42 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:07,319 with the GTX 680 trailing behind so both 43 00:03:05,319 --> 00:03:14,080 of those other Solutions perform about 40% better than the 680 so it's starting 44 00:03:10,959 --> 00:03:17,239 to show it's not King of the 45 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:20,959 castl The Witcher 2 performs better with 46 00:03:17,239 --> 00:03:23,879 GTX 660 Ti SLI than GTX Titan I think 47 00:03:20,959 --> 00:03:28,640 part of this is due to the fact that stereo 3D is more about horsepower and 48 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:35,200 less about necessarily uh the the uh the frame 49 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:37,480 buffer which is what GTX Titan actually 50 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:41,439 has in a big way over any of the other Solutions if we were to run 3D at a 51 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:46,799 higher resolution hypothetically because right now we don't have any solutions 52 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:48,680 that are above 1080p uh stereo 3D then I 53 00:03:46,799 --> 00:03:53,040 think that Titan would start to just absolutely demolish the other cards but 54 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:57,840 right now we don't really see that so it looks like something like dual 660 Ti 2 55 00:03:55,560 --> 00:04:01,599 gigs or even 3 gigs in SLI looks like the ultimate solution for 3D well not 56 00:04:00,239 --> 00:04:06,799 quite ultimate I mean you could throw a couple Titans at it and that would be 57 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:09,280 more ultimate but in terms of at $1,000 58 00:04:06,799 --> 00:04:14,760 or less um something like a couple 660s or a couple 670s 660 Ti rather would be 59 00:04:12,439 --> 00:04:19,720 a great solution thanks for checking out my 3D Vision Benchmark video of the GTX 60 00:04:18,239 --> 00:04:24,840 Titan don't forget to subscribe to lineus Tech tips for unboxings reviews 61 00:04:21,239 --> 00:04:24,840 and other computer videos