NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX Titan Review, Part 2: Titan's Performance Unveiled
by Ryan Smith & Rahul Garg on February 21, 2013 9:00 AM ESTBattlefield 3
Our final action game of our benchmark suite is Battlefield 3, DICE’s 2011 multiplayer military shooter. Its ability to pose a significant challenge to GPUs has been dulled some by time and drivers, but it’s still a challenge if you want to hit the highest settings at the highest resolutions at the highest anti-aliasing levels. Furthermore while we can crack 60fps in single player mode, our rule of thumb here is that multiplayer framerates will dip to half our single player framerates, so hitting high framerates here may not be high enough.
AMD and NVIDIA have gone back and forth in this game over the past year, and as of late NVIDIA has held a very slight edge with the GTX 680. That means Titan has ample opportunity to push well past the 7970GE, besting AMD’s single-GPU contender by 52% at 2560. Even the GTX 680 is left well behind, with Titan clearing it by 48%.
This is enough to get Titan to 74fps at 2560 with 4xMSAA, which is just fast enough to make BF3 playable at those settings with a single GPU. Otherwise by the time we drop to 1920, even the 120Hz gamers should be relatively satisfied.
Moving on, as always multi-GPU cards end up being faster, but not necessarily immensely so. 22% for the GTX 690 and just 12% for the 7990 are smaller leads than we’ve seen elsewhere.
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CeriseCogburn - Monday, March 4, 2013 - link
That's all you've got ?Did you at least look at the links, or have a failed brainfart of an idea for a rebuttal ?
No, of course you did not. Another mindless, insulting fool, without a single anything other than of course, and insult.
I would feel better about agreeing with you if you had any facts or even an opinion on anything else.
swing848 - Friday, May 17, 2013 - link
I believe the review was for gaming machines. In that regard HD 7970s and GTX 680s trade blows as one card is faster in some games and the other faster in some games.So, gamers should pick a card that will perform the best for the games they play.
Microsoft FSX is very old now, yet a person needs a very powerful gaming computer to run it with all of the goodies turned up [with lots of code fixes], including overclocking an Ivy Bridge to 4.5GHz+ [this is because when the game was developed it was believed that Moore's Law was valid and single core CPUs would be running at 10GHz by 2012]. And, yes, FSX was coded for NVIDIA.
coilpower - Thursday, February 21, 2013 - link
Well that is where nvidia's attempted marketing falls apart. Compute in their flagship gpu brought to geforce lineup is nothing new. Now they think they can go $1000 on it, doubling the price.Techpowerup was apt when they said this is the most overpriced video card in 25 years.
Nvidia has dropped the ball here on the price, heck, they have thrown it down the street. Too bad, now they will lose more face with the price drops needed to get these off shelves.
CeriseCogburn - Saturday, February 23, 2013 - link
They're sold out, already.So much for you being correct, you're already an incorrect failure.
Nice try amd fansvengaliboy
Alucard291 - Sunday, February 24, 2013 - link
All 100 of them? :)CeriseCogburn - Tuesday, February 26, 2013 - link
You forgot the k fool.Alucard291 - Friday, March 8, 2013 - link
Proof? :)In any case, please stop shitposting. This is not 4chan or engadget.
CeriseCogburn - Tuesday, March 12, 2013 - link
They're still sold out, ROFL.CeriseCogburn - Thursday, March 21, 2013 - link
From Anand Brain etc in the current article: " 12:16PM EDT - GK110 in general seems to be supply constrained right now. NVIDIA has previously told us they're selling every Tesla K20 and Titan card they can make""Thank you Cerise, I'm sorry, I Alutard291 was wrong, and you are right. I challenged you and lost miserably. In the future I will shut my lying piehole and learn from you, Cerise, instead."
LOL - No you won't Alutard, you will never be correct.
CeriseCogburn - Saturday, February 23, 2013 - link
$4500 from appreciative clients, or a grand from whining disgruntled crybabies ?Hmmm... what should a company do... ?
http://www.excaliberpc.com/622885/nvidia-tesla-k20...
I think they should take the extra $3500, and let the crybabies squeal and wail and fill their diapers.