Nvidia Geforce Titan

**HeavyG** · 02-20-13, 09:42 PM

Originally Posted by rush2049

With quad SLI you only get a 10-20% boost from the 4th card..... where you gain about 30-50% from the third, and 50-80% from the second all depending on the game/driver/card generation..... very diminishing returns.

The point here is would 2 x GTX 690s beat 2 x GTX Titans? I am running a single 2560x1440 resolution monitor and run most games without a hitch a this resolution.

**rush2049** · 02-21-13, 12:57 PM

Looking at the benchmarks.... I am disappointed with the performance of 1 Titan, but 2x Titans seems to beat everything out there including 2x 690s

and the 3x titans and 4x titans is also an option for more....

That and if you fold or use CUDA for anything the Titan is easily 4x faster than anything.

**HeavyG** · 02-21-13, 03:29 PM

Hmm.. not what I saw on the stream, but I will look again when I am home. To mee, it looked like 2 690s against 2 Titans, the 690s win. Add a third Titan, and the 3 will beat the 2 690s in quad SLI.

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**HeavyG** · 02-21-13, 04:43 PM

There is a great review of the Titan over at TechPowerUp. They did the SLI comparisons that I was looking for.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN SLI & Tri-SLI Review | techPowerUp

A single 690 is 13% better than the Titan (Relative performance based 2560x1600 resolution and in summation of the benchmarks conducted).
Two GTX 680s are 17% better than the Titan.
Two Titans are 48% better than a single Titan.
Two GTX 690s are 52% better than a single Titan
Two GTX 690s are 4% better than two Titans.
Three Titans pretty much trump everything, being 18% better than two GTX 690s.

It is looking like a second GTX 690 is the route to go for me to maintain the high resolution gaming with the current titles. I will continue to read more. Tom Peterson said that both the 690 and Titan will be available for the foreseeable future, so I shouldn't have a problem snagging one in May.

**SapiensErus** · 02-21-13, 06:00 PM

Wow... Glad I did not spend that tax money I got yet; looks like Titan is the way for me. If I could only throw down enough for 2 (since it is limited release and will vanish soon). Mainly I am thinking that the 6gb of memory is the way to go for future proofing between this and a 690. Just reading about it and looking at the specs and pics it looks like the Titan is built like the 690; which is overengineered compared to all other GPU's infrastructure.

1 Titan... wish I could afford 2 now...

**Alundil** · 02-21-13, 07:37 PM

I don't think it's a limited release though.

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**WileECyte** · 02-21-13, 09:05 PM

Titan is not a limited release part.

**rush2049** · 02-22-13, 01:13 PM

Yup, Nvidia shot that rumour down..... so buy one now..... buy another later......

Most likely the titan will be more powerfull than the GTX 780 whenever that comes out.
Also something to keep in mind, drivers haven't matured for the titan yet, but have for the 690......... you can see anywhere between 10-40% increase between driver updates sometimes.

**DJ Ms. White** · 02-23-13, 01:50 AM

Trying to remember what game, but a few months ago, Nvidia released drivers that had a 50% increase in performance for that game. o.O

**RhysJD3** · 02-23-13, 09:51 AM

Originally Posted by HeavyG

There is a great review of the Titan over at TechPowerUp. They did the SLI comparisons that I was looking for.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN SLI & Tri-SLI Review | techPowerUp

A single 690 is 13% better than the Titan (Relative performance based 2560x1600 resolution and in summation of the benchmarks conducted).
Two GTX 680s are 17% better than the Titan.
Two Titans are 48% better than a single Titan.
Two GTX 690s are 52% better than a single Titan
Two GTX 690s are 4% better than two Titans.
Three Titans pretty much trump everything, being 18% better than two GTX 690s.

It is looking like a second GTX 690 is the route to go for me to maintain the high resolution gaming with the current titles. I will continue to read more. Tom Peterson said that both the 690 and Titan will be available for the foreseeable future, so I shouldn't have a problem snagging one in May.

I think that there would be good reasons for someone to go with two titan's vs two 690's. Heat, power, noise being factors. I thought the titan scaled better in more games in sli than 690's would in quad sli. However, if you already have one 690, buying two Titans wouldn't be an optimal solution. Unless you have money to burn..

Forgot about the RAM. The additional RAM in the Titan's may be very beneficial down the road.