NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX Titan Review, Part 2: Titan's Performance Unveiled
by Ryan Smith & Rahul Garg on February 21, 2013 9:00 AM ESTTotal War: Shogun 2
Our next benchmark is Shogun 2, which is a returning favorite to our benchmark suite. Total War: Shogun 2 is the latest installment of the long-running Total War series of turn based strategy games, and alongside Civilization V is notable for just how many units it can put on a screen at once. Even 2 years after its release it’s still a very punishing game at its highest settings due to the amount of shading and memory those units require.
Shogun has us seeing one of Titan’s best games almost right away. The 50% performance gain over the GTX 680 at 2560 almost exactly mirrors Titan’s 50% increase in memory bandwidth, which given the game’s nature as a memory eater shouldn’t come as too great a surprise. In this case it’s enough to push Titan to nearly 60fps at 2560 even with everything cranked up, or a bit past 30fps at 5760.
This happened to be a game the GTX 680 was already doing modestly well at relative to AMD’s cards, so the Titan/7970GE matchup is even more lopsided, with Titan surpassing the 7970GE by over 60% at 2560. It’s not entirely clear what Shogun is doing that favors Kepler over GCN so much, but the result is the single biggest performance gap we’ll see all day.
Moving on to the dual GPU cards however, we are reminded that for raw framerates a dual-GPU card can almost never be beat. Titan is effectively tied with the 7990, but the GTX 690 and the multi-card configurations surpass it by at least 17%. As we’ve stated before, Titan’s forte will not be raw framerates, but rather slightly lower framerates without the pitfalls of SLI/CF. The only thing that’s really being determined here is how big this gap will be.
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piiman - Saturday, February 23, 2013 - link
Yes a $1000.00 GPU is a luxury. Don't want luxury use the on board GPU and have a blast! :-)CeriseCogburn - Sunday, February 24, 2013 - link
ANY GPU over about $100 to $150 bucks is a LUXURY PRODUCT.Of course we can get you a brand spankin new gpu for $20 after rebate DX11 capable with a gig of ram, GTX 600 series, ready to rock out, even fit in your HTPC.
So stop playing so stupid and so ridiculous. Why is stupidity so cool and so popular with you puke brains ?
A hundred bucks can get one a very reasonable GPU that will play everything now available with a quite tolerable eye candy pain level, so the point is dummy, THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF NON LUXURY GPU's, JUST LIKE THERE ARE ALWAYS A FEW DOZEN LUXURY GPU's.
So your faux aghast smarmy idiot comment about I thought GPU's were commodities fits right in with the retard liar shortbus so stuffed to the brim with the clowns we have here.
You're welcome, I'm certain that helped.
Ankarah - Thursday, February 21, 2013 - link
Could then you care to explain why any of those ultra enthusiasts would choose this card over the 690GTX, which seems to be faster overall?And let's leave the power consumption between the two out of this discussion - if you can drop a grand on your graphics card for your PC, then you can afford a big power supply too.
sherlockwing - Thursday, February 21, 2013 - link
You haven't seen the SLI benches yet.This card in SLI will perform better than GTX 690 in SLI due to bad scaling for Quad SLI.
sherlockwing - Thursday, February 21, 2013 - link
Correction: It will be better than GTX 690 SLI if you overclock the Titan to 1Ghz, 690 don't really have that much OC headroom.CeriseCogburn - Saturday, February 23, 2013 - link
did you say overclock ?" In our testing, NVIDIA’s GK110 core had no issue hitting a Boost Clock of 1162MHz but hit right into the Power Limit, despite it being set at 106%. Memory was also ready to overclock and hit a speed of 6676MHz. As you can see in the quick benchmarks below, this led to a performance increase of about 15%. "
So, that's the 27mhz MAX the review here claims...LOL
Yep, a 15% performance increase, or a lousy 27mhz, you decide.... amd fanboy fruiter, or real world overclocker...
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canu...
Alucard291 - Thursday, February 21, 2013 - link
Well as Ryan said in the article its "removed from the price curve" which in human language means: Its priced badly and is hoping to gain sales from publicity as opposed to quality.Oxford Guy - Thursday, February 21, 2013 - link
Hence the "luxury product" meme.trajan2448 - Thursday, February 21, 2013 - link
Learn about latencies and micro stuttering, driver issues, heat and noise. Almost 50% better in frame latencies than 7970. Crossfire,don't make me laugh. here's an analysis.http://www.pcper.com/reviews/G...
CeriseCogburn - Thursday, February 21, 2013 - link
correcting that link for you again, that shows the PATHETIC amd crap videocard loser for what it ishttp://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/NVIDIA...