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

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]Ananan[/nom]I remember back in the day when the 8800 Ultra was rumored to be released at $1000 and everyonwe went crazy. IIRC it ended up coming out around $800.Now the $1000 price point has been broken, and there's no looking back. I'm assuming all "fastest " video cards will start around there from now on.[/citation]

I don't think so. Titan is not a main production card in the same way as the cards from the numbered series ( that it isn't part of any series in branding seems like fairly convincing evidence of this), so chances are that it won't set any more precedent than Intel's EE CPUs set for their lower end *cousins*.

 

[cmi86]

Ooh ahh yay ahh. Nvidia releases another goliath $1000 GPU that 99.999% of the consumer market can't afford.

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]cmi86[/nom]Ooh ahh yay ahh. Nvidia releases another goliath $1000 GPU that 99.999% of the consumer market can't afford.[/citation]

Another? When was the last time they released a $1000 single-GPU card?

 

[smokeybravo]

Dat bias against AMD. Oh Tom's hardware, you not credible.

 

[mikenygmail]

2 $240 AMD 7870 LE's in crossfire for $500 performs much better than titan, for less than half the price.

 

[cmi86]

Another? When was the last time they released a $1000 single-GPU card?

When Did I ever say anything about GPU count? The point I'm making is nvidia is putting all of this effort into making massively high end cards that nobody can afford in the premium $500 and up price point meanwhile AMD is slaughtering nvidia in the sub $400 Price point that people can actually afford. This is what I was getting at.

 

[blazorthon]

When Did I ever say anything about GPU count? The point I'm making is nvidia is putting all of this effort into making massively high end cards that nobody can afford in the premium $500 and up price point meanwhile AMD is slaughtering nvidia in the sub $400 Price point that people can actually afford. This is what I was getting at.

Well, you did say GPU instead of graphics card, so at least technically, you did specify GPU count...

 

[sarinaide]

$600 for average around 40% more performance than a HD7970 and GTX680. Bearing in mind that Nvidia and AMD are releasing new generation cards this year touted to be 40-45% faster than the previous generation all costing less than this Titan card. It seems a very steep price to pay.

I would have liked to see this card go up against the HD7970GE Toxic Edition 6GB card at really high resolutions after all that is the only benefit to 6GB VRAM and that is what you are ultimately paying for.

 

[hail]

RADEON 7970 GHZ vs TITAN.

I think I rather spend money on two RADEON 7970GHz or yet buy Geforce 690 which is same price as titan and yet gives much better performance. I think nVIDIA is just making money off poor gamers and hypo kids. I myself use MSI 680 and quite happy with it. I was planning to buy Titan but now I think I am about to spend my money on 690 instead.

 

[pete123edgar]

It's funny how everyone on here is a GPU experts, saying cut down memory, keep SMX here and there, lower down the price etc. Do you know how pricing is based on? Sure $1000 is pretty expensive, who knows it cost maybe $900, $950 to make the card. Then what you expect them to price it at $600 for you bunch of poor people so they can earn a negative profit? If you ain't happy go open a company and sell them and be happy with negative profit.

 

[army_ant7]

Bearing in mind that Nvidia and AMD are releasing new generation cards this year touted to be 40-45% faster than the previous generation all costing less than this Titan card. It seems a very steep price to pay.

Just sharing in case you haven't caught this news yet (not to be offensive). AMD Clarifies 2013 Radeon Plans

 

[cmi86]

Well, you did say GPU instead of graphics card, so at least technically, you did specify GPU count...

Ok so should I say 2X 7970 LE's which will smash on titan and 690 for half the price ? No the point I am making is nvidia cant compete in a practical price so they are focusing on monster cards trying to get people to but the hype, kinda like apple. Inferior product for more money, buy it.

 

[Thorak]

From a Watercooling point of view the 7970 noisy cooler is a non issue !!

 

[thecolorblue]

[citation][nom]ElMoIsEviL[/nom]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.[/citation]
this. Anandtech's compute benchmarks are idiotic. Relevant for a tiny sliver of a tiny fraction of a sub-fraction of academic number crunchers.

Anandtech never provides info on the kind of compute that most people who care about compute care about... namely CAD, 3D apps, Photoshop, After effects, etc.

usually Tom's has some of this kind of info in their testing but not this time.
I wonder if Nvidia Banned Toms & Anandtech from releasing info on those apps as a pre-condition for being able to test the cards early.

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]cmi86[/nom]Ok so should I say 2X 7970 LE's which will smash on titan and 690 for half the price ? No the point I am making is nvidia cant compete in a practical price so they are focusing on monster cards trying to get people to but the hype, kinda like apple. Inferior product for more money, buy it.[/citation]

I'm not sure about incapable. I think that it was more of a refusal than an incapability.

 

[downhill911]

Because of new consoles getting better hardware I reckon nVidia and AMD will have to make their next gen VGAs much more powerful, otherwise the gap between consoles graphics and PC graphics will be too narrow to satisfy cards such as titan priced at 1000USD or even new gen. cards (GeForce 7XX and AMD 8XXX) riced at about 500 USD, but that would and probably will make look Titan by the end of the year the worst price/performance priced card ever.

 

[technoholic]

[citation][nom]blazorthon[/nom]I think that it was more of a refusal than an incapability.[/citation]
i think this is the best sentence to summarize Nvidia's base of strategy. they simply try to maximize their profit and base all their efforts on this idea (which is an ideal business concept to make more money). Not that they cant make better products, but that they want to make more profit

 

[lradunovic77]

People miss point...you go ahead and enjoy stuttering problems with crossfire or sli configuration while single Titan will smoke things. Point is that for single chip this is bloody good card and beats anything out there.

 

[technoholic]

[citation][nom]lradunovic77[/nom]People miss point...you go ahead and enjoy stuttering problems with crossfire or sli configuration while single Titan will smoke things. Point is that for single chip this is bloody good card and beats anything out there.[/citation]actually we are trying to understand why one should shed his/her money on a Titan while we are only months away from the new generation flagship cards that will probably perform similarly and will be priced decently (relative to titan).

 

[downhill911]

[citation][nom]lradunovic77[/nom]People miss point...you go ahead and enjoy stuttering problems with crossfire or sli configuration while single Titan will smoke things. Point is that for single chip this is bloody good card and beats anything out there.[/citation]
Titan is great @ 1080p, but incapable run games on ultra @ 1440p.
Also, I have dual GPU (GTX 690) and enjoy no stuttering, but you would have known that if you actually owned one.
P.S. Tomshardware did stuttering test with dual GPU cards so you may want to google it and educate yourself.

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]downhill911[/nom]Titan is great @ 1080p, but incapable run games on ultra @ 1440p.Also, I have dual GPU (GTX 690) and enjoy no stuttering, but you would have known that if you actually owned one.P.S. Tomshardware did stuttering test with dual GPU cards so you may want to google it and educate yourself.[/citation]

Even the Radeon 7970/7970GHz and GTX 670/680 cards can run most games in 1440p maxed out very well. Some of the newest, most intensive games will not do it, but most will. I doubt Titan will struggle in most games at 1440p. Games such as Crysis 3 may prove too much, but most will not.

 

[downhill911]

[citation][nom]blazorthon[/nom]Even the Radeon 7970/7970GHz and GTX 670/680 cards can run most games in 1440p maxed out very well. Some of the newest, most intensive games will not do it, but most will. I doubt Titan will struggle in most games at 1440p. Games such as Crysis 3 may prove too much, but most will not.[/citation]
Well I should have said that I mean most performance demanding games using (DX11, OpenGl2.0) such as Crysis 3, Bettelfield 3, Far Cry 3 etc. @ 40+FPS.
Why 40+ FPS? I find anything below very choppy and not really playable.

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]downhill911[/nom]Well I should have said that I mean most performance demanding games using (DX11, OpenGl2.0) such as Crysis 3, Bettelfield 3, Far Cry 3 etc. @ 40+FPS.Why 40+ FPS? I find anything below very choppy and not really playable.[/citation]

Radeon 7970 and such can do BF3 MP just fine in 1440p maxed out. Crysis 3 and Far Cry 3 will need much more, but BF3 is not as intensive as they are.

 

[sarinaide]

[citation][nom]army_ant7[/nom]Just sharing in case you haven't caught this news yet (not to be offensive). AMD Clarifies 2013 Radeon Plans[/citation]

I am fully aware of AMD and Nvidia delaying the new architectures until Q4 or Q1 2014 due to a number of reasons. AMD will have the lower end HD8000 parts out due to Kaviri being out first and mobile so yes, there are also a few OEM rehashes of a 7950 rebranded a 8950 but it isnt. HD8800 and 8900 generation will only be out in 2014 but bellow that by years end.

Since that article lacks any performance speculations, refer to older fud, the HD8750 is touted at 47% faster than the HD7850, that was the only test sample given but we can assume if that so it will be similar through out. HD8970 and GTX780 will probably match and beat the Titan and retail cheaper.

 

[Wisecracker]

My head is spinning from all these Titan threads it's hard for an old man to keep up

this. Anandtech's compute benchmarks are idiotic. Relevant for a tiny sliver of a tiny fraction of a sub-fraction of academic number crunchers.

Anandtech never provides info on the kind of compute that most people who care about compute care about... namely CAD, 3D apps, Photoshop, After effects, etc.

usually Tom's has some of this kind of info in their testing but not this time.
I wonder if Nvidia Banned Toms & Anandtech from releasing info on those apps as a pre-condition for being able to test the cards early.

Instead of going that far, I'll just say that over time they seem to be bending over more and more to cast their favorites in the best light possible. It's their site and their prerogative, but certain biases seem to leap out not only from content but the way they headline articles. Even the *Bench* (which could have been a great resource) is more ___________ (insert your own, here, but I'm going with propaganda).

If they bend over much further, they will be smooching their own junk