NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX Titan Review, Part 2: Titan's Performance Unveiled
by Ryan Smith & Rahul Garg on February 21, 2013 9:00 AM ESTCivilization V
Our final game, Civilization V, gives us an interesting look at things that other RTSes cannot match, with a much weaker focus on shading in the game world and a much greater focus on creating the geometry needed to bring such a world to life. In doing so it uses a slew of DirectX 11 technologies, including tessellation for said geometry, driver command lists for reducing CPU overhead, and compute shaders for on-the-fly texture decompression.
Maxing out at 2560, even with everything turned up none of our high-end cards have a problem here. Somewhat surprisingly we’re not completely CPU limited here, but even at 2560 everything north of the GTX 580 gets 60fps.
Nevertheless Titan completely clobbers the competition on our final game, delivering 60% better performance than both the GTX 680 and 7970GE. Even the 7990 can at best tie Titan here, giving us a case for when one GK110 is as good as two Tahiti GPUs. It’s not clear what exactly Civ V favors about Titan, but it’s clearly something that makes Titan different from GTX 680 and other GK104 cards.
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CeriseCogburn - Thursday, February 21, 2013 - link
LMHO - yes by the time the amd fanboy actually declares his amd fanboyism, amd won't be around anymore....Yes, you're done.
Alucard291 - Friday, March 8, 2013 - link
And naturally you're not a fanboy... Dear god... you cannot be that stupid...MrSpadge - Thursday, February 21, 2013 - link
Don't buy it, period.CeriseCogburn - Saturday, February 23, 2013 - link
Another amd fanboy control freak loser.I won't be taking your "advice".
Alucard291 - Saturday, February 23, 2013 - link
Yup you really DO need to grow up a little. Or a lot. Your choice.CeriseCogburn - Saturday, February 23, 2013 - link
Nope, you crybabies and poorboy whiners are the sad little tropes that need adulthood desperately.Adults earn money and have a grand to spend.
Crybaby children do not.
Alucard291 - Sunday, February 24, 2013 - link
Looking at the way you're expressing your impotent rage all over this review's comment section you sound roughly old enough to be my son's class mate :)DemBones79 - Thursday, February 21, 2013 - link
Wow... did no one read the first part of this article? I think it's pretty obvious from the price/performance ratio that NVIDIA is trying to scare away all but the most truly insane enthusiasts and the compute-on-a-budget crowd.My guess is that yields are still abysmally low and they're still reeling from the backlog of Tesla orders that resulted from the Titan supercomputer contract win. Given that, they probably do not have sufficient supply yet to meet "enthusiast" demand, so they priced it more into the "you've got to be insane to pay this much for this little" bracket.
Whereas computer scientists and others who could benefit from the compute tech on the card could probably more readily convince their Finance depts. to loosen the purse strings for this as opposed to a Tesla proper.
Don't be fooled. This may be labeled as a "consumer" card, and it certainly is a performance bump over the 680, but it was not brought into this world for the express purpose of playing games.
CeriseCogburn - Saturday, February 23, 2013 - link
You people are all lying freaks.A day before this, many of you screamed buy 2x of the top end, and when amd was charging $599 for one, you were all good with that.
Now like stupid crybaby two year olds, you've all copped the same whine.
You're all pathetic. All liars, too. All sheep that cannot be consistent at all.
Alucard291 - Saturday, February 23, 2013 - link
Stop being so rude and abusive.Take a break. Stand up go outside, take some deep breaths. Stay away from the internet for a bit.
Might do you some good.