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 - Sunday, February 24, 2013 - link
He's the jerk off liar you sucked up whole bud.chizow - Sunday, February 24, 2013 - link
At least he can put together a coherent sentence but compared to you, he looks like a saint.CeriseCogburn - Sunday, February 24, 2013 - link
you're his little altar boy, you should knowchizow - Monday, February 25, 2013 - link
Sounds like suppressed scars and emotions from a troubled past, you should see someone about that, can't be healthy for you. Might result in lashing out uncontrollably in public ...oh wait.CeriseCogburn - Tuesday, February 26, 2013 - link
LOL - The big hate filled price crybaby conspiracist, lashing out for near a year now, the OWS mirror must be extremely painful.CeriseCogburn - Thursday, February 21, 2013 - link
The crybaby fool liar amd fanboy has nothing else to offer but the exemplary issuing of brainfarts on a most regular basis, despite the corrections attempted by other for years on end.Forget the facts, the raging amd fanboy is blissful, but does not mean a word they say, either, and will never follow through.
A dry empty, stupid threat of nothing.
One can only hope the idiots grasp tightly on the rump cheeks of amd and never let go, thus when it falls into gehennna precious fanbioy will be gone with it too.
CeriseCogburn - Saturday, February 23, 2013 - link
They don't need your money they've got BILLIONS.AMD needs your money red fanboy, but then you don't have any to give them, as the amd fanboy tightwads have proven, they can destroy their own favorite company with their constant demand for free and cheap.
We don't want crybaby loser tightwads like you supporting nVidia. Your company is the in debt failing and fired amd. Enjoy the ghetto.
CeriseCogburn - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - link
So nVidia is pulling in about 10% profit in the video card area, as recent and past years show.
So how exactly is that greed ? This whole past year of 600 series left them with that same pathetic profit margin.
They charge ten percent over their costs on average. Ten percent.
You people are obviously rage filled hate bots without a clue. Ten percent is not some unreasonable scalp price.
UzairH - Thursday, February 21, 2013 - link
I am upgrading shortly, and for me Skyrim is a big deal when it comes to graphics performance. Vanilla Skyrim plays great on GTX 580/HD 7850 and up, but one can load a dozen hi-res texture mods and high-quality ENB mod on top of Skyrim ot make it look an order of magnitude better than vanilla Skyrim, with a consequent massive performance drop. Skyrim is also a game that does not do SLI/Crossfire well,. so it would be interesting to see what a single powerful GPU can do in it.Ryan Smith - Thursday, February 21, 2013 - link
We've tested Skyrim with the high res texture pack and it's still CPU bound on high-end video cards. As for mods, as a matter of editorial policy we do not include mods in our testing due to the very frequent changes and relatively small user base.