GeForce GTX Titan 3D Vision Gaming Review Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
·
760 words · ~3 min read
0:05
stereoscopic 3D gaming is one of the one of the ways that you can really take
0:10
advantage of the extra horsepower available in gpus even with games where
0:14
you can already Max the resolution you can already Max the details and they're already running okay because what stereo
0:19
3D effectively has to do especially for
0:22
games that are not um very well optimized for example you're going to
0:25
see Crisis 3 is incredibly well optimized for stereo 3D on the gForce
0:30
GTX Titan so what it effectively has to do is render the image from two
0:35
different sides for each eye and then it
0:39
works with the NVIDIA driver to only show you one eye at a time with the
0:42
shutter glasses that that make the whole 3d effect work so I wanted to take Titan
0:48
and test it against the other solutions that make sense for 3D so
0:53
unfortunately I haven't actually tested any AMD cards because the last time I
0:58
took a run at stereo 3D with the radon solution with uh with
1:04
dddd the 3D sort of third party firmware
1:07
it was not a very intuitive setup compared to 3D Vision so I instead stuck
1:11
with my GeForce set up so I've got the
1:14
GeForce GTX Titan which is the new card launching today I compare it against the
1:19
old Flagship the GeForce GTX 680 although it should be noted the GeForce
1:23
GTX 680 isn't really making its way down the stack it's not like the Titan is
1:27
coming in and replacing it at the same price point Titan is significantly more
1:31
expensive than a GTX 680 so it's still kind of a flagship but then Titan's like
1:35
a like a super Flagship or something like that and then finally my sort of
1:41
you know my my banging for the buck solution which is two GTX 66 TI in SLI
1:48
so without further Ado here are my 3D
1:51
Vision benchmarks let's start with the one I
1:54
alluded to before so Crisis 3 at 1080p in 3D Vision surround actually only runs
2:01
about 10% slower in 3D Vision than it
2:04
does just at 1080p on the GeForce GTX
2:08
Titan now with that said the GeForce GTX
2:12
660ti SLI solution actually outperforms
2:16
the Titan in this particular game in 3D division by about uh you know about 3%
2:22
or 4% or something along those lines but
2:26
we do still see a clear separation of the Titan from the previous generation
2:31
ruler of the roost in Crisis 3 moving
2:35
along to Skyrim I believe the mods that
2:39
we've installed kind of messed it up so again you can look at these results but
2:42
they're completely meaningless because we installed a bunch of mods that
2:46
probably broke 3D in a very big way so for example the Shadows uh which are
2:50
sometimes a problem with 3D even without modding the game were were definitely an
2:54
issue for us Battlefield 3 however did quite well in 3D so you can see Titan
2:59
and GTX 660 Ti SLI are neck and neck
3:02
with the GTX 680 trailing behind so both
3:05
of those other Solutions perform about 40% better than the 680 so it's starting
3:10
to show it's not King of the
3:14
castl The Witcher 2 performs better with
3:17
GTX 660 Ti SLI than GTX Titan I think
3:20
part of this is due to the fact that stereo 3D is more about horsepower and
3:27
less about necessarily uh the the uh the frame
3:32
buffer which is what GTX Titan actually
3:35
has in a big way over any of the other Solutions if we were to run 3D at a
3:39
higher resolution hypothetically because right now we don't have any solutions
3:43
that are above 1080p uh stereo 3D then I
3:46
think that Titan would start to just absolutely demolish the other cards but
3:51
right now we don't really see that so it looks like something like dual 660 Ti 2
3:55
gigs or even 3 gigs in SLI looks like the ultimate solution for 3D well not
4:00
quite ultimate I mean you could throw a couple Titans at it and that would be
4:03
more ultimate but in terms of at $1,000
4:06
or less um something like a couple 660s or a couple 670s 660 Ti rather would be
4:12
a great solution thanks for checking out my 3D Vision Benchmark video of the GTX
4:18
Titan don't forget to subscribe to lineus Tech tips for unboxings reviews
4:21
and other computer videos