The NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan X Review
by Ryan Smith on March 17, 2015 3:00 PM ESTDragon Age: Inquisition
Our RPG of choice for 2015 is Dragon Age: Inquisition, the latest game in the Dragon Age series of ARPGs. Offering an expansive world that can easily challenge even the best of our video cards, Dragon Age also offers us an alternative take on EA/DICE’s Frostbite 3 engine, which powers this game along with Battlefield 4.
Once again turning down Frostbite’s performance-crushing MSAA, what we find at 4K with Ultra quality is that the GTX Titan X is once more hitting framerates in the 40fps range. At 41.7fps the GTX Titan X is the only single-GPU card to average better than 30fps at these settings, with the next-closest card being the GTX 980 at exactly 30fps. Overall the GTX Titan X does particularly well at 4K Ultra, beating the GTX 980 by 39%, the GTX 780 Ti by 53%, and the R9 290XU by 44%.
Users looking for higher framerates can either turn down the quality setting one notch to high, which gets us 54.4fps from the GTX Titan, or drop down to 1440p, which is good for 79.3fps. Meanwhile our multi-GPU configurations once again make their presence felt. At 4K High quality both the GTX 980 SLI are over 60fps, however the GTX Titan X unexpectedly beats the R9 295X2 at 1440p.
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chizow - Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - link
And custom-cooled, higher clocked cards should? It took months for AMD to bring those to market and many of them cost more than the original reference cards and are also overclocked.http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Sub...
Like I said, AMD fanboys made this bed, time to lie in it.
Witchunter - Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - link
I hope you do realize calling out AMD fanboys in each and every one of your comments essentially paints you as Nvidia fanboy in the eyes of other readers. I'm here to read some constructive comments and all I see is you bitching about fanboys and being one yourself.chizow - Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - link
@Witchunter, the difference is, I'm not afraid to admit I'm a fan of the best, but I'm going to at least be consistent on my views and opinions. Whereas these AMD fanboys are crying foul for the same thing they threw a tantrum over a few years ago, ultimately leading to this policy to begin with. You don't find that ironic, that what they were crying about 4 years ago is suddenly a problem when the shoe is on the other foot? Maybe that tells you something about yourself and where your own biases reside? :)Crunchy005 - Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - link
@chizow either way you don't really offer constructive criticism and you call people dishonest without proving them wrong in any way and offering facts. You are one of the biggest fanboys out there and it kind of makes you lose credibility.Crunchy005 - Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - link
Ok wanted to add to this, I do like some of the comments you make but you are so fan boyish I am unable to take much stock in what you say. If you could offer more facts and stop just bashing AMD and praising the all powerful Nvidia is better in every way, despite the fact that AMD has advantages and has outperformed Nvidia in many ways, so has Nvidia outperformed AMD, they leap frog...if you did that we might all like to hear what you have to say.FlushedBubblyJock - Thursday, April 2, 2015 - link
I know what the truth is so I greatly enjoy what he says.If you can't handle the truth, that should be your problem, not everyone else's, obviously.
chizow - Monday, March 23, 2015 - link
Like I said, I'm not here to sugarcoat things or keep it constructive, I'm here to set the record straight and keep the discussion honest. If that involves bruising some fragile AMD fanboy egos and sensibilities, so be it.I'm completely comfortable in my own skin knowing I'm a fan of the best, and that just happens to be Nvidia for graphics cards for the last near-decade since G80, and I'm certainly not afraid to tell you why that's the case backed with my usual facts, references etc. etc. You're free to verify my sources and references if you like to come to your own conclusion, but at the end of the day, that's the whole point of the internet, isn't it? Lay out the facts, let informed people make their own conclusions?
In any case, the entire discussion and you can be the judge of whether my take on the topic is fair, you can clearly see, AMD fanboys caused this dilemma for themselves, many of which are the ones you see crying in this thread. Queue that Alanis Morissette song....
http://anandtech.com/comments/3987/amds-radeon-687...
http://anandtech.com/show/3988/the-use-of-evgas-ge...
Phartindust - Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - link
Um, AMD doesn't manufacture after market cards.dragonsqrrl - Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - link
"use less power"...right, and why would these non reference cards consume less power? Just hypothetically speaking, ignoring for a moment all the benchmarks out there that suggest otherwise.
squngy - Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - link
Undervolting?