NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX Titan Review, Part 2: Titan's Performance Unveiled
by Ryan Smith & Rahul Garg on February 21, 2013 9:00 AM ESTSleeping Dogs
Another Square Enix game, Sleeping Dogs is one of the few open world games to be released with any kind of benchmark, giving us a unique opportunity to benchmark an open world game. Like most console ports, Sleeping Dogs’ base assets are not extremely demanding, but it makes up for it with its interesting anti-aliasing implementation, a mix of FXAA and SSAA that at its highest settings does an impeccable job of removing jaggies. However by effectively rendering the game world multiple times over, it can also require a very powerful video card to drive these high AA modes.
Sleeping Dogs is another game that AMD cards have done rather well at, leaving the GTX 680 quite a way behind. The sheer increase in functional units for Titan means it has no problem vaulting back to the top of the list of single GPU cards, but it also means it’s crossing a sizable gap.
In the end, at 2560 at the High (second-highest) AA settings, Titan is just shy of 50% faster than the GTX 680, but a weaker 17% ahead of the 7970GE. As we drop in resolution/AA, so does Titan’s lead, as the game shifts to being CPU limited.
Notably, no single card is really good enough here for 2560 with Extreme AA, with even Titan only hitting 35fps. This is one of the only games where even with a single monitor there’s real potential for a second Titan card in SLI.
Meanwhile the gap between Titan and our dual-GPU cards is roughly as expected. The GTX 690 takes a smaller lead at 18%, while the 7990 is some 42% ahead.
Due to its built-in benchmark, Sleeping Dogs is also another title that is a good candidate for repeatable and consistent minimum framerate testing.
While on average Titan is faster than the 7970GE, the minimum framerates put Titan in a rough spot. At 2560 with high AA Titan is effectively tied with the 7970GE, and with extreme AA it actually falls behind. It’s not readily apparent why this is, whether it’s some kind of general SSAA bottleneck or if there’s something else going on. But it’s a reminder that at its very worst, Titan can only match the 7970GE.
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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...