5K Nvidia GeForce Titan X SLI Performance Benchmarks
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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4K is all the rage we got the 4K movie
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pictures 4K gaming pictures 4K screen
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savers 4K small hamsters running on Wheels in my basement to power the
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machine that I'm planning to do actually I probably shouldn't talk about that you know what screw 4K anyway I'm over 4K
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I'll see your 4K and I'll raise you 1K
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to 5K and then I'll sweeten the pot with two NVIDIA GTX Titan X graphics cards
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and SLI and well I guess you probably see where this is headed now 5K titanx
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SLI performance
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baby fractal design listens and the Define R5 case was made with feedback
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from you the community click right there to learn more about
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that so let's start with a quick recap
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of the Titan X just so we're all on the same page it's $1,000 and out performs
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the previous fastest single GPU card on the planet the GTX 980 by anywhere from
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25 to 40% or more it's also got a
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massive 12 Gigabyte gddr5 frame buffer
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that I and probably many other reviewers and gamers are looking at going okay
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that's cool but why and other than because we can the
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best answer that I can come up with is the same one that prompted NVIDIA to put
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6 gigs of RAM on the original Titan at the time when the highest end gaming
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cards had 2 to three being ready for
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higher resolutions and higher quality Textures in the future but the future is
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a long way away and I might be dead by then so forget waiting we still haven't
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gotten around to sending back the Dell up 275k 5K yes 5120 x 2880 14 freaking
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megapixel monitor so when the Titan X rolled in the first thing I said was
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well can you send me another one so I can run SLI on this 5K display and
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NVIDIA was like no what what this is like the coolest
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thing ever and you're saying no well they stuck by their no and uh so
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when that whole attempt didn't work for me the instant I got that email I
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started calling everyone I knew and within a few minutes
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EVGA stepped up and overnighted their Titan X card to us so we could try out
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the future of highresolution gaming and let you guys know all about it so I'm
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going to hand off to Luke to give you the rundown on the 5K titanx SLI gaming
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experience and thank you evj because holy this is
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awesome this was my first time playing on 5K on a proper display and it's a
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wondrous thing to behold due to the Titan X's SLI performance I was able to
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smoothly Run games at an average of 50 FPS and above while getting nowhere
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close to the 12 GB frame buffer and not even being overclocked with settings for
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most games sitting at Ultra or equivalence my FPS counter never dipped
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below 40 for minimums on any of my benchmarking runs and Crisis 3 the only
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game that I didn't run at Max settings could have actually had it settings
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crank to the max as well if I was willing to sacrifice some FPS but I kind
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of thought that if you're spending two grand on your graphics cards that you're
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probably going to want a better experience than 30fps gaming please note
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that the default SLI profile for Shadow of Mordor is a little wonky on its own
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and I would recommend following weed drunken guide on the Steam Community
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Forums on how to easily fix this issue I was having quite a few problems with
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really awkward frame rates before using this fix and even at relatively low
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settings but after this fix everything was super smooth and if super smooth is
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something that you're looking for well this pretty much actually sums up the
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to- Run game at a massive resolution make no settings compromises and still
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run at a beast frame rate speaking of
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do you guys think about the crazy Overkill dual Titans you think you'll need something like this for valve Vive
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or Oculus or whatever because you'll need some pretty high resolutions at some pretty high frame rates while you
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overkill do you guys think this is something you'll need for really really
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