Benchmarking GeForce GTX Titan 6 GB: Fast, Quiet, Consistent

[ilysaml]

Buy a GeForce GTX Titan when you want the fastest gaming experience possible from a mini-ITX machine like Falcon Northwest’s Tiki or iBuyPower’s Revolt

I could upgrade my system to a full ATX and never buy a Titan for $1K. LOL

 

[Wisecracker]

Even after what, 1 year, your XFire 7970's are still the best looking setup.

This is **nVidia Titan Week** ...

but, I would have loved seeing HD7970 CrossFire in the benchies.

 

[raxman]

See some other reviews on the Titan. For SGEMM, DGEMM, and FFT on CUDA Titan does much better than AMD with OpenCL. However, it does not do better than twice the 7970 and it costs more than twice as much and it has crap OpenCL support.

 

[aberkae]

my 690 is still king!

 

[lradunovic77]

Crossfire and SLI stuttering is such a nightmare that makes games unplayable no matter what bench numbers say. So i'd say Geforce Titan is better value than Crossfire 7970 or SLI 680 or GTX690 by mile.

 

[golfdk]

WTF...... the world has gone grazy a 680 is now a midlevel gamercard

 

[CaptainTom]

So my $400 7970 (Non GHz) that is highly overclocked is sometimes trading blows with this $1000 card? This is hilarious. I am sorry anyone who gets this card is just plain stupid. Period.

 

[danielmunhato]

well, what can i say? First of all, CONGRATULATIONS to nvidia since it´s a wonderful card, very powerful, and power friendly, you WON the title "fastest single gpu on the planet".
BUT, it´s way overpriced, like the ASUS ARES II.
here in Brazil the GTX TITAN will cost to us something like 3000 dollars or more. SO, at least here, it wont sell. I would prefer to buy another 7970 to crossfire with mine. or 2 and make a tri crossfire, it would still be cheaper than the titan.

 

[aoneone]

"Please for future reference, never EVER benchmark on Windows 8 ever again. You wouldn't have those problems earlier with 3-way or 4-way SLI setups. From now on just solely on Windows 7 x64 ~ Thank you!" - a very disappointed PC geek. ^_^

 

[maxinexus]

Nvidia should have scale down the price in comparison to 690. So Titan should be ~$749 or $799. That would make more sense. I just don't see reason why Nvidia or AMD keeps pushing the envelop higher and higher every-time they come up with new product.
Titan is a great card but at $1k no thank you I rather CF my 7970 for $350...and please dont tell me about bad acoustics because it is a bs.

 

[jaquith]

No Brainer - CF HD 7970 over GTX Titan -- and I'm an nVidia fanboy, not to mention saving yourself $200+.

I wish they'd lower the prices on the GTX 600 series by a solid 20% or more!!!

 

[lord hircine]

Like others said, this card should had been about 700-800 bucks than i would actually look into buying it.

 

[maxinexus]

[citation][nom]Hazle[/nom]Titan? don't you mean a(n overpriced) GTX 680Ti?probably not (for now), but you'd get a better value out of it.[/citation]

Yes you can! CF 7950 or maybe even 7870 and you have Titan performance for much less

 

[atikkur]

dont even think to get this card.. this is only for the show.

*back off, i'm security guard to protect this card, that's enough for today's exhibition.

 

[Au_equus]

% increase in FPS over TH's 6 game benchmarks from 680 to Titan

1080p 1600p 3x1200p
avg 16.6 40.2 44.0
sd 14.7 6.14 4.43

Given that the person buying the titan (or anything above 680/7970) would not be gaming on just 1080p (or 1200p) disregard the 1080p fps average. At 1600p and 3x1200p, you can see at least justification for a 40% price increase over the 680 in which reference and OC versions are going for $480 or less. Strictly going off of price/gaming performance that would put the titan at $672. The $328 difference is due to the compute, new item, and e-peen status.
BTW, to the editors: typo on GP-compute page. last line on the paragraph beneath the first graph. prevision --> precision

 

[rantoc]

Its simply to expensive for its performance even when its the fastest single gpu card, traditionally nVidia have had this kind of monolithic gpu's but in the price range of the current 680. Today's 680 is not a real card worthy of the name 680 - let me explain! Both 480 & 580 were the compute AND 3d gfx cards. The 680 is stripped down computing wise and aimed mostly as 3d card. The titan should have been the real 680 but nVidia lacked the competition at the time of release so they could delay the "real 680" and set the stripped down 680 at the full price area (for both compute and 3d card) to milk the series longer and when they finally released the real card its done at a price point that's far above the usual monolithic SINGLE gpu cards, no wonder why Amd does better and better in the 3d arena...

Use to end up with 2x of the best single gpu cards in my rigg's from both camps but no way ill buy a single gpu card at that price point, its like many have said - Its more of an e-peen price point than value.

FYI i own both 680's sli and 7970's xf in my rigs - Both does great!

 

[technoholic]

This card is good when you consider high computing capability + (relatively) low power consumption in the same package but is definitely not worth $1k. And don't tell me about its gaming performance cause if we had GTX 780 / HD 8970 today, we would have similar performance for like half the price. So this seems like an early attempt by Nvidia to milk the consumer. So, here is your GTX 780 which costs double just because it is released much earlier

 

[tmk221]

[citation][nom]spentshells[/nom]I feel 2 7970's should have been included in the multi card setups.[/citation]

Agree, 2x 7970 GE cost less then Titan...

 

[shikamaru31789]

[citation][nom]aofjax[/nom]I wonder if I can build a whole new $1000 rig that can match/exceed a single Titan.....[/citation]

I believe you can. I believe dual 7870 LE's might just match a titan. They cost $240 each. So $480+$230 for a 3570k = $710. Keep the other parts cheap and you could easily match a single titan for considerably cheaper.

 

[ElMoIsEviL]

[citation][nom]Memnarchon[/nom]Actually Chris Angelini has already answered this.Also Anandtech made some tests also and revealed that Titan is better at compute power: Anandtech[/citation]
Anandtech used apps nobody uses. Apps that are for the Business oriented environments as well as professional environments.

They're pretty much useless in terms of real world performance.

 

[pete123edgar]

[citation][nom]downhill911[/nom]If titan costs no more than 800USD, then really nice card to have since it does not, i call it a fail card, or hype card. Even my GTX 690 make more since and now you can have them for a really good price on ebay.[/citation]
No man, the drivers isn't fully supported yet, give it 1month or two and you'll see

 

[yeeahnick]

Way too expensive for the performance it brings. Just wait for the Maxwell chip

 

[ubercake]

I love Nvidia cards, but see no real market for the Titan.

If I have $1000 to blow on video cards, it's 2 680s or a 690, because the performance is better than one Titan.

If I have $2000 to blow, I'm getting 4 680s (pending a mobo upgrade to support this config) or a 690, because the performance is better than two Titan's.

Do they think there's a real market out there for gamers dropping $3K on 3 Titan's? I could be wrong, but it would seem market research would tell them there is not.

I'll be waiting for the 700-series or if they skip the 700s (like they did with the 300s on desktop), I'll look for the 800s. I mean seriously?

 

[ubercake]

[citation][nom]pete123edgar[/nom]No man, the drivers isn't fully supported yet, give it 1month or two and you'll see[/citation]
Let's hope so, but by that time, as we've seen Nvidia do in the past, they'll release a Titan Lite edition offering up 2fps less for $700.

 

[geok1ng]

we request 2560x1440 @120Hz numbers in single and triple monitor setups.
No one spending 3k for 3 titans would waste it play at 60hz. as the initial article said, this card was made to make people at 120hz.net happy.

the benchmark is relevant because over the last moths it was proved that nether twins 690 nor qus 7970 could run triple 1400p monitors at 120Hz. can tri-way titans do the trick?