Synthetics

As always we’ll also take a quick look at synthetic performance. In the case of GTX Titan X and its GM200 GPU, what we should see here is a pretty straightforward 30-40% increase in performance, owing to GM200’s evenly scaled out Maxwell 2 design.

Synthetic: TessMark, Image Set 4, 64x Tessellation

At over 300fps even with TessMark’s most strenuous test case, the GTX Titan X is unsurprisingly the top card at tessellation performance. Designed to deliver up 24 triangles/clock, theoretical geometry throughput stands at a staggering 24B triangles/second.

Synthetic: 3DMark Vantage Texel Fill

Synthetic: 3DMark Vantage Pixel Fill

Meanwhile 3DMark’s fillrate tests reiterate Maxwell’s biggest and smallest improvements over Kepler. With a decrease in ALU:TEX ratios, overall texture throughput on the GTX Titan X is very similar to the GTX 780 Ti. On the other hand thanks to improved memory compression GTX Titan X has a pixel fillrate unlike anything else. This in turn is a big part of the reason NVIDIA is pushing that GTX Titan X be paired up with 4K monitors, as it offers the kind of fillrate necessary to drive such a high resolution.

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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

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