Discussion Does the titan RTX make any sense in 2024?

[Order 66]

I realize that as far as performance, it would probably still hold up with its 24GB of VRAM, but as far as price, I mean the MSRP is $2500 and it gets absolutely destroyed by the 4090 which is about double the performance. Heck, the titan RTX gets beat by the RTX 4070 by 5%.

 

[Eximo]

Well, you would be able to load large things into it, but it is still same performance as a 2080 Ti, which isn't bad. 4608 CUDA cores is bested by a 3060Ti.

Then you wander into the 40 series where the clock speeds went up drastically and there isn't much contest.

I wouldn't throw one out, but I wouldn't buy one for gaming. I would probably seek out a 3090 or 3090 Ti for 24GB VRAM on the cheap.

 

[Order 66]

Well, you would be able to load large things into it, but it is still same performance as a 2080 Ti, which isn't bad. 4608 CUDA cores is bested by a 3060Ti.

Then you wander into the 40 series where the clock speeds went up drastically and there isn't much contest.

I wouldn't throw one out, but I wouldn't buy one for gaming. I would probably seek out a 3090 or 3090 Ti for 24GB VRAM on the cheap.

Would it be good for 4k since it is VRAM hungry? I'm unsure. I know it has 24GB of VRAM, but I'm not even sure that it would be able to utilize all of it at 4k.

 

[Eximo]

VRAM is only one factor. Being able to process high resolution textures and actually generate an acceptable frame rate is the major concern.

When that card was new, the top gaming cards had 8GB and 11GB and that was sufficient for the types of loads the GPUs could handle.

This is why you see cards like the 4060Ti 16GB reviewed so poorly. Sure they 16GB, but the GPU isn't any faster as a result and you see nearly identical performance between it and the 8GB version, except in rare circumstance where the extra memory is useful.

 

[stonecarver]

Maybe some day when the card is worthless and sitting on the used market for $40.00 it would be fun to play with and or if one fell into your lap dirt cheap today than maybe again fun to play with but even on the used market people have them priced to high.

Just because Titan is in the title in the heap of parts it's just another part.

 

[Order 66]

Maybe some day when the card is worthless and sitting on the used market for $40.00 it would be fun to play with and or if one fell into your lap dirt cheap today than maybe again fun to play with but even on the used market people have them priced to high.

Just because Titan is in the title in the heap of parts it's just another part.

I wonder how good the titan RTX was at overclocking.

 

[Eximo]

Like most recent Nvidia products, very limited. Voltage control was taken away by this point.

Typical GPUs of that time could reach between 1900 and 2100 Mhz boost clock under ideal conditions. When compared to the advertised boost clocks it seems like a lot, but most of the cards would reach 1950 as long as there was decent airflow. Typically the largest cards faired a little worse since the increased core count meant less power budget per core.

One of the reasons the 40 series is so performative is the switch to recent TSMC nodes that allowed for very high frequencies, coupled with the architectural improvements. And why Nvidia was able to get away with downsizing the GPUs at each tier. (GTX 4060 is 'larger' than a 1080 Ti)

 

[mihen]

There was an architectural change with the 3k series. It would work well if you already own one, but not worth it to buy one.