The NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan X Review
by Ryan Smith on March 17, 2015 3:00 PM ESTTotal War: Attila
The second strategy game in our benchmark suite, Total War: Attila is the latest game in the Total War franchise. Total War games have traditionally been a mix of CPU and GPU bottlenecks, so it takes a good system on both ends of the equation to do well here. In this case the game comes with a built-in benchmark that plays out over a large area with a fortress in the middle, making it a good GPU stress test.
In creating Attila, the developers at Creative Assembly sought to push the limit of current generation video cards, and this is no more evident than at 4K Max Quality. At 23.5fps even the GTX Titan X is foiled here, never mind the GTX 980 and GK110 cards. To get single card performance above 30fps we have to drop a notch to the “Quality” setting, which gets the GTX Titan X up to 44.9fps. In any case, at these settings the GTX Titan X makes easy work of the single-GPU competition, beating everything else by 30-66%.
Alternatively we can drop from 4K to 1440p and still run Max Quality, in which case the GTX Titan X delivers a very similar 47.1fps.
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joeh4384 - Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - link
Old news.joeh4384 - Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - link
I bet if you overclock the crap out of this, its TDP shoots north of 300 watts.cmdrdredd - Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - link
People buying this don't care about TDP.Kutark - Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - link
Which means even with OC it would still be at or under a 290x. I'm failing to see the problem here.TDP is really only super important for compute cards that will be running for hours on end at 100% load.
FlushedBubblyJock - Thursday, April 2, 2015 - link
I didn't care either, my $800 FX9590 loved 320 watts and my "uber" two niner zeroX loved double dipping that 320 watts, so I converted my carbon arc Linclon 220 welder to handle the AMD juice load and my DVD/RW/DL/LS melted tight to my CM heavy tower and dripped bubbling fire plastic drops through my liquid AMD loop... bye bye overclockshing3232 - Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - link
It does not make anything, because 290x is a old CardStuka87 - Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - link
You can't take those numbers seriously though, as they are wrong. Anandtech is *STILL* using reference cards for these tests. You have not been able to buy reference cards for over a year now. The current cards are run MUCH cooler, MUCH quieter, use less power, and have better performance.Stuka87 - Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - link
Quick edit, it seems XFX is still selling a reference 290X. No clue why, but they are. You can get custom cooled AIB cards for less. Could just be leftover stock though I suppose.Ryan Smith - Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - link
Using reference cards is consistent with our long-standing policy to use them. Aside from the immediate definition of reference, I believe that it is very important not to cherry pick results. The results you in our reviews should be equal to or lower than the results you will get with a retail card - we specifically want to avoid publishing results higher than what the buyer can get.* We don't want to overstate the performance of a card.* Using the same testbed hardware as us of course.
beginner99 - Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - link
Still it shows the 290(x) in a way poorer light than is actually true. At least that should be stated but better would be to add a AIB card to the reviews,