stereoscopic 3D gaming is one of the one of the ways that you can really take
advantage of the extra horsepower available in gpus even with games where
you can already Max the resolution you can already Max the details and they're already running okay because what stereo
3D effectively has to do especially for
games that are not um very well optimized for example you're going to
see Crisis 3 is incredibly well optimized for stereo 3D on the gForce
GTX Titan so what it effectively has to do is render the image from two
different sides for each eye and then it
works with the NVIDIA driver to only show you one eye at a time with the
shutter glasses that that make the whole 3d effect work so I wanted to take Titan
and test it against the other solutions that make sense for 3D so
unfortunately I haven't actually tested any AMD cards because the last time I
took a run at stereo 3D with the radon solution with uh with
dddd the 3D sort of third party firmware
it was not a very intuitive setup compared to 3D Vision so I instead stuck
with my GeForce set up so I've got the
GeForce GTX Titan which is the new card launching today I compare it against the
old Flagship the GeForce GTX 680 although it should be noted the GeForce
GTX 680 isn't really making its way down the stack it's not like the Titan is
coming in and replacing it at the same price point Titan is significantly more
expensive than a GTX 680 so it's still kind of a flagship but then Titan's like
a like a super Flagship or something like that and then finally my sort of
you know my my banging for the buck solution which is two GTX 66 TI in SLI
so without further Ado here are my 3D
Vision benchmarks let's start with the one I
alluded to before so Crisis 3 at 1080p in 3D Vision surround actually only runs
about 10% slower in 3D Vision than it
does just at 1080p on the GeForce GTX
Titan now with that said the GeForce GTX
660ti SLI solution actually outperforms
the Titan in this particular game in 3D division by about uh you know about 3%
or 4% or something along those lines but
we do still see a clear separation of the Titan from the previous generation
ruler of the roost in Crisis 3 moving
along to Skyrim I believe the mods that
we've installed kind of messed it up so again you can look at these results but
they're completely meaningless because we installed a bunch of mods that
probably broke 3D in a very big way so for example the Shadows uh which are
sometimes a problem with 3D even without modding the game were were definitely an
issue for us Battlefield 3 however did quite well in 3D so you can see Titan
and GTX 660 Ti SLI are neck and neck
with the GTX 680 trailing behind so both
of those other Solutions perform about 40% better than the 680 so it's starting
to show it's not King of the
castl The Witcher 2 performs better with
GTX 660 Ti SLI than GTX Titan I think
part of this is due to the fact that stereo 3D is more about horsepower and
less about necessarily uh the the uh the frame
buffer which is what GTX Titan actually
has in a big way over any of the other Solutions if we were to run 3D at a
higher resolution hypothetically because right now we don't have any solutions
that are above 1080p uh stereo 3D then I
think that Titan would start to just absolutely demolish the other cards but
right now we don't really see that so it looks like something like dual 660 Ti 2
gigs or even 3 gigs in SLI looks like the ultimate solution for 3D well not
quite ultimate I mean you could throw a couple Titans at it and that would be
more ultimate but in terms of at $1,000
or less um something like a couple 660s or a couple 670s 660 Ti rather would be
a great solution thanks for checking out my 3D Vision Benchmark video of the GTX
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