Three 4k monitors

[Swordfish9921]

Im looking into the new samsung 28in 4k monitor well its uhd. Im looking to run 3 of them.on 3 780 ti or 3 titan blacks? Still deciding?? My question was if the cards cards cant push high end games at 4k across 3 screens could i lower the setting to say 1440p across the 3 screens in order to max out settings and still have full screen? Would it still look real good? Sorry if its a stupid question thanks

 

[paitjsu sadff]

a monitor that is not running on its native resolution always looks funky, no you will not like that...and 3 monitor on 4k res will requier a lot more than 3 gb of vram so forget about the 780ti they will not make it...

 

[hapkido]

Yes you can lower resolution and/or settings and you will probably have to with 3x 2160p monitors in most new games.

It's best to run games at native resolution if you can, and lower settings until you get an acceptable framerate.

 

[biflash]

hi,
if it is just for gaming your better of with 3 of those in portrait http://
top of the line contrast, pixel response and image quality, if you want 4k, you may have to lower a bit the resolution in which case it will look a bit fuzzy but not that bad, try lowering the resolution on a high density display to see for yourself.
wup, 3 gb wouldn't cut it, there are some 780ti with 6Gb on the way, those would better

 

[paitjsu sadff]

no its 780 6gb on the way no ti as they would be the same as titan black...titan black is a 6gb 780ti...

 

[biflash]

no its 780 6gb on the way no ti as they would be the same as titan black...titan black is a 6gb 780ti...

ups my mistake, that makes sense.

 

[Swordfish9921]

Thanks for responses as i have seen the nvidia video where they ran 4 titans on 3 4k monitors n i dont think even 4 can push more drmainding games i think we will need to wait till next year n gen 2 maxwells i guess. I think im better off just getting 3 1440 monitors i wish the new asus w g sync were coming out sooner. Will g sync make a huge improvement?

 

[gumbykid]

There is no point to buy 4k monitors if you're going to be reducing the resolution. The majority of your money is going into the pixel count.

 

[Swordfish9921]

Also if i was to just get 3 high quality 1440 screens any recommendations? And also should i still use 2 or 3 titan blacks or go with 2 or 3 780ti

 

[paitjsu sadff]

titan black 2 way sli should push acceptable framerates at 1440p on 3 monitors but you might need to lower the settings in some games to get solid 60fps...also i would point out that 2 way sli is optimal...getting a 3rd card will only boost performance by 10 to 15% at best in most games...

 

[gumbykid]

Titans perform better at higher resolutions than the 780s. Games aren't optimized well enough for triple 1440p displays. Tek Syndicate ran SLI GTX 780s on it, only getting 25 FPS on Crysis maxed out. It takes a LOT of bandwidth to run at max settings.

Even with triple Titans you'd drop to 25-30 FPS on Crysis 3. This was at 5760x1200 with the best CPU you can buy:

 

[paitjsu sadff]

Titans perform better at higher resolutions than the 780s. Games aren't optimized well enough for triple 1440p displays. Tek Syndicate ran SLI GTX 780s on it, only getting 25 FPS on Crysis maxed out. It takes a LOT of bandwidth to run at max settings.

Even with triple Titans you'd drop to 25-30 FPS on Crysis 3. This was at 5760x1200 with the best CPU you can buy:

crysis 3 is pretty much the ONLY game where such low FPS will be shown and this is because crysis 3 is an overdemanding game and should not be considered as FPS benchmark when buying a new system cause 99.9% of the games out there does not came even close to be as demanding as crysis 3...a good game to refer would be battlefield 4 as it sits in the middle of the packs, has nice graphics and is well optimized on pc...and on that king of configuration (2way sli titans black) battlefield 4 for example will exibit over 60fps most of the time on 3 x 1440p displays...and yes going with 16:10 ratio monitors like kevin mentionned makes a ton of sence and actually that's what i would do if i had that kind of money to spend on a new system...or i would get a projector that can do 1600p and get a 8foot wallsize trully epic gaming system...

 

[Swordfish9921]

Yes possible kevin would 3 way titan blacks handle 3 16:10 screens? So i guess titan black is def way to go over a high end non reference 780 ti

 

[paitjsu sadff]

Yes possible kevin would 3 way titan blacks handle 3 16:10 screens? So i guess titan black is def way to go over a high end non reference 780 ti

since the memory on the cards does not add up in SLI the 780ti 3gb would be pointless at those resolutions on 3 monitors cause they will run out of memory in no time...6gb cards is required...and as i mentionned i would not do 3 way SLI the 3rd card will be pointless it will give you 10-15% boost MAX in games...so get 2x GTX titans black and 3x 16:10 - 1600p (2560×1600) monitors and youll be as good as it gets...

 

[gumbykid]

Titans perform better at higher resolutions than the 780s. Games aren't optimized well enough for triple 1440p displays. Tek Syndicate ran SLI GTX 780s on it, only getting 25 FPS on Crysis maxed out. It takes a LOT of bandwidth to run at max settings.

Even with triple Titans you'd drop to 25-30 FPS on Crysis 3. This was at 5760x1200 with the best CPU you can buy:

crysis 3 is pretty much the ONLY game where such low FPS will be shown and this is because crysis 3 is an overdemanding game and should not be considered as FPS benchmark when buying a new system cause 99.9% of the games out there does not came even close to be as demanding as crysis 3...a good game to refer would be battlefield 4 as it sits in the middle of the packs, has nice graphics and is well optimized on pc...and on that king of configuration (2way sli titans black) battlefield 4 for example will exibit over 60fps most of the time on 3 x 1440p displays...and yes going with 16:10 ratio monitors like kevin mentionned makes a ton of sence and actually that's what i would do if i had that kind of money to spend on a new system...or i would get a projector that can do 1600p and get a 8foot wallsize trully epic gaming system...

The average FPS for most games are fine. I was referencing the drops, which the poster said he would like a stable 60FPS. Also, this is NOT on 1440p. The resolution are lower in these tests, making the differences even greater when the new resolution is used.

 

[paitjsu sadff]

Titans perform better at higher resolutions than the 780s. Games aren't optimized well enough for triple 1440p displays. Tek Syndicate ran SLI GTX 780s on it, only getting 25 FPS on Crysis maxed out. It takes a LOT of bandwidth to run at max settings.

Even with triple Titans you'd drop to 25-30 FPS on Crysis 3. This was at 5760x1200 with the best CPU you can buy:

crysis 3 is pretty much the ONLY game where such low FPS will be shown and this is because crysis 3 is an overdemanding game and should not be considered as FPS benchmark when buying a new system cause 99.9% of the games out there does not came even close to be as demanding as crysis 3...a good game to refer would be battlefield 4 as it sits in the middle of the packs, has nice graphics and is well optimized on pc...and on that king of configuration (2way sli titans black) battlefield 4 for example will exibit over 60fps most of the time on 3 x 1440p displays...and yes going with 16:10 ratio monitors like kevin mentionned makes a ton of sence and actually that's what i would do if i had that kind of money to spend on a new system...or i would get a projector that can do 1600p and get a 8foot wallsize trully epic gaming system...

The average FPS for most games are fine. I was referencing the drops, which the poster said he would like a stable 60FPS. Also, this is NOT on 1440p. The resolution are lower in these tests, making the differences even greater when the new resolution is used.

the thing is we don't really know for sure how the benchmarks where done, what areas of the games where used for example...how often does that minimum framerate was recorded...how long where the walkthroughs in the benchmarks and what was going on on the screens at the time it happened...it is really impossible to say for sure
...of course he will see framerates bellow 60fps at times at those resolution there is no miracle here...but one thing for sure with those average FPS shown here the games are fully playable and maybe just lowering a settings (Set MSAA to 2x instead of 4x wich makes no differences at those resolution but would greatly impact the framerates) so all that being sais i think that 2x Titan black would puch more frames than 3x Titan vanila in those games and i would think the OP would be happy with his results.

first off where those benchmarks comes from? teksyndicate? if that is the case then they are good benchmarkers Logan always select the most demanding sections of the games he test to make sure to represent worst key scenarios and clutch moments in games...so i would assume that those lows where the absolute lowest framerates the OP would see in games...

 

[gumbykid]

It was tested by HardOCP.

For Crysis: "Our run-through takes place in "Safeties Off" level. We utilize the entire level by using no damage so that we can run-through the entire level from start to finish. We start at the beginning cut-scene and run all the way to the end of the level before you get on the lift to head down to the facility. There are a lot of explosions, every bit of the games graphical features tested including tessellation, ambient occlusion, shadowing, lighting, depth of field, high particle count, and vegetation."

They also included a ton of analysis for each game
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2013/04/22/nvidia_geforce_gtx_titan_3way_sli_review/1#.UzV-FvldV1E

I think the OP will be satisfied too, but he should understand that there will be some drops to 30-40 FPS.

 

[Swordfish9921]

titan black 2 way sli should push acceptable framerates at 1440p on 3 monitors but you might need to lower the settings in some games to get solid 60fps...also i would point out that 2 way sli is optimal...getting a 3rd card will only boost performance by 10 to 15% at best in most games...

i understand what your saying bc my mobo is the asus rampage iv black. 2 way sli is 16x, 16x when you goto 3 way it becomes 16x, 8x, 16x so your right in saying the 3rd card doesnt make a huge difference like the 2nd card does im assuming bc the 3rd slot is not 16x

 

[Swordfish9921]

Titans perform better at higher resolutions than the 780s. Games aren't optimized well enough for triple 1440p displays. Tek Syndicate ran SLI GTX 780s on it, only getting 25 FPS on Crysis maxed out. It takes a LOT of bandwidth to run at max settings.

Even with triple Titans you'd drop to 25-30 FPS on Crysis 3. This was at 5760x1200 with the best CPU you can buy:

ok thanks this is the reason im going to get 2 evga titan black superclocked instead of 2 evga 780 ti kingpins

 

[Swordfish9921]

It was tested by HardOCP.

For Crysis: "Our run-through takes place in "Safeties Off" level. We utilize the entire level by using no damage so that we can run-through the entire level from start to finish. We start at the beginning cut-scene and run all the way to the end of the level before you get on the lift to head down to the facility. There are a lot of explosions, every bit of the games graphical features tested including tessellation, ambient occlusion, shadowing, lighting, depth of field, high particle count, and vegetation."

They also included a ton of analysis for each game
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2013/04/22/nvidia_geforce_gtx_titan_3way_sli_review/1#.UzV-FvldV1E

I think the OP will be satisfied too, but he should understand that there will be some drops to 30-40 FPS.

i selected best answer by accident .... but thank you for all the info do you have a link to the same info by with titan blacks in 2 way?

 

[Swordfish9921]

Also if i was to just get 3 high quality 1440 screens any recommendations? And also should i still use 2 or 3 titan blacks or go with 2 or 3 780ti

What about the 16:10 ratio monitors instead of the 16:9 (like the 30" models)? This would give you a lot of extra vertical space, which will just make them look a lot bigger (and give you more room to work with in non-gaming situations. Also, you are already adding tons of horizontal space already by having 3 monitors, so a 16:9 would just elongate the horizontal space more.

Or maybe you are worried about the ability to run those extra pixels?

It was tested by HardOCP.

For Crysis: "Our run-through takes place in "Safeties Off" level. We utilize the entire level by using no damage so that we can run-through the entire level from start to finish. We start at the beginning cut-scene and run all the way to the end of the level before you get on the lift to head down to the facility. There are a lot of explosions, every bit of the games graphical features tested including tessellation, ambient occlusion, shadowing, lighting, depth of field, high particle count, and vegetation."

They also included a ton of analysis for each game
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2013/04/22/nvidia_geforce_gtx_titan_3way_sli_review/1#.UzV-FvldV1E

I think the OP will be satisfied too, but he should understand that there will be some drops to 30-40 FPS.

Yes they seem to be a good option...i will be looking at those and 2 1440p monitors but i think i should prob hold off a little to wait for 120hz to come out. i mainly play FPS . thanks fo all this info its really helping out to understand more and more and my options

 

[gumbykid]

Those were tested with 3 Titans. I don't have info for 2.

The x8 slot will not make a difference in terms of speed. 120Hz would only matter if you were able to run games at 120 FPS, which would not happen on triple 1440p displays yet (you also can't notice the difference between 60 and 120).

3-way SLI is recommended if you wanted 3 monitors. I'm not sure how 2 would work, probably medium-high settings.

 

[Swordfish9921]

Those were tested with 3 Titans. I don't have info for 2.

The x8 slot will not make a difference in terms of speed. 120Hz would only matter if you were able to run games at 120 FPS, which would not happen on triple 1440p displays yet (you also can't notice the difference between 60 and 120).

3-way SLI is recommended if you wanted 3 monitors. I'm not sure how 2 would work, probably medium-high settings.

Thanks for clearing up the hz question...as i wanted to get the asus swift but seems they wont be available till mid june so i was looking at the asus pb278q and the samsung s27a850d but werent sure bc of the 60hz as far as 1440p