The NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan X Review
by Ryan Smith on March 17, 2015 3:00 PM ESTGRID Autosport
The final game in our benchmark suite is also our racing entry, Codemasters’ GRID Autosport. Codemasters continues to set the bar for graphical fidelity in racing games, delivering realistic looking environments with layed with additional graphical effects. Based on their in-house EGO engine, GRID Autosport includes a DirectCompute based advanced lighting system in its highest quality settings, which incurs a significant performance penalty on lower-end cards but does a good job of emulating more realistic lighting within the game world.
Even with everything cranked up to max, the GTX Titan X makes easy work of GRID at 4K, hitting 71.7fps at 4K Ultra and making it the only single-GPU card to crack 60fps. Even in GRID the GTX Titan X’s performance advantage over other cards continues to be substantial, beating the GTX 980 by 34%, the GTX 780 Ti by 49%, and the R9 290XU by 59%.
Otherwise racers looking for the 120fps experience can drop to 1440p, in which case the GTX Titan X is comes within inches of the 120fps mark, delivering an average framerate of 117.5fps.
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cmoney408 - Tuesday, March 24, 2015 - link
can you please post the settings you used for the 295x2? not the in game settings, but what you used in catalyst.FlushedBubblyJock - Thursday, April 2, 2015 - link
" and the Radeon R9 295X2, the latter of which is down to ~$699 these days and "I knew it wouldn't be $699 when i clicked the link...
its frikkin $838 , $ 1,176 $990, $978 ...
Yep, that's the real amd card price, not the fantasy one.
gianluca - Sunday, April 5, 2015 - link
Hi!Just a question: Do you suggest me to buy r9 295x2?
Thx
Kyururin - Wednesday, April 8, 2015 - link
Umm I find it pointless to compare AMD R9 290x with GTX 980, R9 290x is build to be competitive to Nvidia's stock 780 not 780ti and sure as hell not GTX 980, it's dumb, it's like trying to ask a grandma(R9 290x) to compete with supermodel(GTX 980) in a beauty pageant, of course Nvidia is going to win, but it's not like the winning gap is spectacular or something to be astonished about. Last but not least GTX 980's lead over the grandma is the largest sub 2k, let's not forget that both the GTX 980 and the grandma are build to handle 4k so given the time Nvidia has to prepare the GTX980, it should had obliterated the grandma in 4k but the performance gap is not that fricking big and deserved to be woved, especially FarCry 4. Fanboys always bash AMD for their terrible drivers but it's not like they are ignored you dumb witt, they are slowly improving their drivers. Did AMD ever said We are going to pretend that our driver don't suck and so we are not going to fix it.alexreffand - Monday, May 18, 2015 - link
Why is the GTX 580 in the tests? Why not the Titan Z or even the 970?ajboysen - Monday, July 25, 2016 - link
I'm not sure if the specs have changed since this post but they list the boost clock speed as 1531 MHz, Not 1002