The Titan X requires 24GB RAM minimum

[mr91]

I was being gentle when i used the word doubt.

Getting a solid 60 fps with a 290x on ultra with hair works before recent patches is not possible with a 290x.

Getting a solid 60 fps with a 290x with ultra settigns with or without MSAA is not possible.

I agree that 8 GB is the sweet spot for gaming @ 1440p with a Single Monitor however because the of the 384 bit memory bus the options are 3, 6 or 12.

12 might be nice in the future however only time will tell...

 

[GObonzo]

I was being gentle when i used the word doubt.
Getting a solid 60 fps with a 290x on ultra with hair works before recent patches is not possible with a 290x.
Getting a solid 60 fps with a 290x with ultra settigns with or without MSAA is not possible.

sorry to disappoint the nvidia club. but it's been happening with Wild Hunt since May 20th when it installed.
and unless DX12 does the total opposite of what they claim it will only improve.

 

[mr91]

According to Tomshardware the AVG fps on ultra @ 1440p is 43.69, my friend with the card is getting similar results.
He says it's unplayable with hair works enabled..

"The average fps is for the 290x"

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-ti,4164-5.html

You're saying that tomshardware and my friend are wrong?

You're getting solid 60 fps with hairworks on day one... " I find this hard to believe"

 

[mr91]

I was being gentle when i used the word doubt.
Getting a solid 60 fps with a 290x on ultra with hair works before recent patches is not possible with a 290x.
Getting a solid 60 fps with a 290x with ultra settigns with or without MSAA is not possible.

sorry to disappoint the nvidia club. but it's been happening with Wild Hunt since May 20th when it installed.
and unless DX12 does the total opposite of what they claim it will only improve.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxzpcmvnPJU

Seems like you're the only one...

I think hair works is disabled in the video....

 

[GObonzo]

According to Tomshardware the AVG fps on ultra @ 1440p is 43.69, my friend with the card is getting similar results.
He says it's unplayable with hair works enabled..

"The average fps is for the 290x"

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-ti,4164-5.html

You're saying that tomshardware and my friend are wrong?

You're getting solid 60 fps with hairworks on day one... " I find this hard to believe"

yes.

and it's funny that it's always some nvidia user that just bought the most expensive card available that tries to claim an AMD card can't achieve something. there's an infinite amount of steam, crytek, cdpr, etc threads with AMD users showing awesome benchmarks and then a page of fools trying to claim that for some reason it's impossible because they just purchased some ridiculously priced nvidia card that only does the same or a little better. same with processors.
they will link to a hundred benchmarks but when the conversation turns the other way on em they're all "benchmarks mean nothing, it's all in-game that matters".

by the way, i'm not and never did say you were wrong for, or should regret, purchasing that card. if you're die hard nvidia the only way to get a good amount of vram is with that card. and it does do very well, but price vs performance for most users it is ridiculous. but, i've had the same thing said for my 4790K and for "bothering" with the 8GB GPU.
and i give the same reply that i'm sure most Titan users give is: if you have the money, then why not?

 

[mr91]

Can you prove this?

You implied...

 

[mr91]

Before the 980 ti the Titan X was good value however still not the price performance leader.

The price performance leaders would be the gtx 970 & 290x for $300 US dollars in my opinion.

 

[mr91]

According to Tomshardware the AVG fps on ultra @ 1440p is 43.69, my friend with the card is getting similar results.
He says it's unplayable with hair works enabled..

"The average fps is for the 290x"

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-ti,4164-5.html

You're saying that tomshardware and my friend are wrong?

You're getting solid 60 fps with hairworks on day one... " I find this hard to believe"

yes.

and it's funny that it's always some nvidia user that just bought the most expensive card available that tries to claim an AMD card can't achieve something. there's an infinite amount of steam, crytek, cdpr, etc threads with AMD users showing awesome benchmarks and then a page of fools trying to claim that for some reason it's impossible because they just purchased some ridiculously priced nvidia card that only does the same or a little better. same with processors.
they will link to a hundred benchmarks but when the conversation turns the other way on em they're all "benchmarks mean nothing, it's all in-game that matters".

by the way, i'm not and never did say you were wrong for, or should regret, purchasing that card. if you're die hard nvidia the only way to get a good amount of vram is with that card. and it does do very well, but price vs performance for most users it is ridiculous. but, i've had the same thing said for my 4790K and for "bothering" with the 8GB GPU.
and i give the same reply that i'm sure most Titan users give is: if you have the money, then why not?

To make things clear, the 980 beats the 290x slightly.

The Titan X decimates the 290x.

 

[Muzammil_1]

they updated the RAM requirements on their website it is now Minimum 8GB and recommended 16 or more
http://www.geforce.com/geforce-gtx-titan-x/buy-gpu

Manual:
http://www.nvidia.com/content/geforce-gtx/GTX_TITAN_X_User_Guide.pdf

i am personally using Titan X with 8Gb in my system and i have no issue at all in gaming. all games run smoothly on ULTRA/MAX settings. only thing i notice is that windows showed wrong amount of video memory in DXDIAG display section.

but you can see actual graphic card VRAM in nvidia control panel -> help -> system information where it show correct amount 12GB no matter how much ram you installed.

 

[rcald2000]

Muzammil agreed. I don't personally own the Titan X however I've contacted both Nvidia and EVGA about this in the past. They both acknowledge that the initial 24 GB system RAM requirement was a marketing error made during launch.

 

[xtionfuse]

Hello!

Just to confirm, the Titan X does in fact, need 24GB of RAM minimum to work "stably" and that's just for gaming. For processes other than that (heavier work) you may need more. I just spoke to someone from NVidia itself and he/she clarified it for me.

I just thought I'd let you guys know because there is a lot of doubt going on all over the place that it was just a typo and that the manual was correct. That's not the case, 24GB is a minimum requirement for the card to run STABLE.

EDIT: Here is the exact thing they told me:

"GeForce GTX Titan X is itself a 12 GB card. So minimum amount of RAM required to support this card is 24 GB. If you have lesser amount of RAM, the card will still run but the entire GPU memory will not get utilized.It will get limited to 4 GB or lesser amount.We received some users who had less than 24 GB of RAM installed and the PC was showing up VRAM only as 4 GB. The OS will limit the VRAM if the system RAM is less than 24 GB. So as a result, it will be of no use having a 12 GB card installed in the machine. The system RAM will not be able to support 12 GB VRAM. And it will yield only 4 GB VRAM as available dedicated graphics memory. Since you are going to get such a powerful card with 12 GB VRAM, it will be of no use running it on 8 GB ( however, 8GB is really a good amount for other NVIDIA cards). So best is to get the RAM upgraded and enjoy the performance of the card."?

Trolled through the entire thread... did you figure out how much RAM is required for the Titan x? I am trying to get two in SLI, what would be recommended?

 

[azzazel_99]

This was over a year old thread. You can run whatever amount of ram you want. Most people i believe were running 8 or 16

 

[xtionfuse]

This was over a year old thread. You can run whatever amount of ram you want. Most people i believe were running 8 or 16

Thanks man... getting two titan for a extremely cheap price from one of my friends. But is there any chance of bottleneck with RAM with the two Titan X? nvidia says it should be 24-36 GB, any thoughts on this?

 

[azzazel_99]

In gaming the only thing you would have to worry about would be CPU bottleneck. Have 16gb ram and you should be fine. Hell ram is so cheap anyways these days