The NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan X Review
by Ryan Smith on March 17, 2015 3:00 PM ESTThe Talos Principle
Croteam’s first person puzzle and exploration game The Talos Principle may not involve much action, but the game’s lush environments still put even fast video cards to good use. Coupled with the use of 4x MSAA at Ultra quality, and even a tranquil puzzle game like Talos can make a good case for more powerful video cards.
At 4K Ultra quality the GTX Titan X won’t quite break 60fps, but at 53.4fps it’s not too far off. Compared to the GTX 980 this is another 35% performance advantage, though the lead over the GK110 cards is a bit smaller than normal at 40% and 47% for the GTX 780 Ti and GTX Titan respectively.
Meanwhile since I haven’t had a chance yet to address how GTX Titan X compares to NVIDIA’s flagship Fermi card, GTX 580, this is a good time. GTX 580 actually holds up decently here, delivering 32fps at 1440p, however GTX Titan X offers 3 times the performance, and more still in VRAM limited situations, showcasing how far ahead Big Maxwell is over Big Fermi over 4 years later.
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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