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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piiman - Saturday, February 23, 2013 - link
Yes a $1000.00 GPU is a luxury. Don't want luxury use the on board GPU and have a blast! :-)CeriseCogburn - Sunday, February 24, 2013 - link
ANY GPU over about $100 to $150 bucks is a LUXURY PRODUCT.Of course we can get you a brand spankin new gpu for $20 after rebate DX11 capable with a gig of ram, GTX 600 series, ready to rock out, even fit in your HTPC.
So stop playing so stupid and so ridiculous. Why is stupidity so cool and so popular with you puke brains ?
A hundred bucks can get one a very reasonable GPU that will play everything now available with a quite tolerable eye candy pain level, so the point is dummy, THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF NON LUXURY GPU's, JUST LIKE THERE ARE ALWAYS A FEW DOZEN LUXURY GPU's.
So your faux aghast smarmy idiot comment about I thought GPU's were commodities fits right in with the retard liar shortbus so stuffed to the brim with the clowns we have here.
You're welcome, I'm certain that helped.
Ankarah - Thursday, February 21, 2013 - link
Could then you care to explain why any of those ultra enthusiasts would choose this card over the 690GTX, which seems to be faster overall?And let's leave the power consumption between the two out of this discussion - if you can drop a grand on your graphics card for your PC, then you can afford a big power supply too.
sherlockwing - Thursday, February 21, 2013 - link
You haven't seen the SLI benches yet.This card in SLI will perform better than GTX 690 in SLI due to bad scaling for Quad SLI.
sherlockwing - Thursday, February 21, 2013 - link
Correction: It will be better than GTX 690 SLI if you overclock the Titan to 1Ghz, 690 don't really have that much OC headroom.CeriseCogburn - Saturday, February 23, 2013 - link
did you say overclock ?" In our testing, NVIDIA’s GK110 core had no issue hitting a Boost Clock of 1162MHz but hit right into the Power Limit, despite it being set at 106%. Memory was also ready to overclock and hit a speed of 6676MHz. As you can see in the quick benchmarks below, this led to a performance increase of about 15%. "
So, that's the 27mhz MAX the review here claims...LOL
Yep, a 15% performance increase, or a lousy 27mhz, you decide.... amd fanboy fruiter, or real world overclocker...
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canu...
Alucard291 - Thursday, February 21, 2013 - link
Well as Ryan said in the article its "removed from the price curve" which in human language means: Its priced badly and is hoping to gain sales from publicity as opposed to quality.Oxford Guy - Thursday, February 21, 2013 - link
Hence the "luxury product" meme.trajan2448 - Thursday, February 21, 2013 - link
Learn about latencies and micro stuttering, driver issues, heat and noise. Almost 50% better in frame latencies than 7970. Crossfire,don't make me laugh. here's an analysis.http://www.pcper.com/reviews/G...
CeriseCogburn - Thursday, February 21, 2013 - link
correcting that link for you again, that shows the PATHETIC amd crap videocard loser for what it ishttp://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/NVIDIA...