The NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan X Review
by Ryan Smith on March 17, 2015 3:00 PM ESTFar Cry 4
The next game in our 2015 GPU benchmark suite is Far Cry 4, Ubisoft’s Himalayan action game. A lot like Crysis 3, Far Cry 4 can be quite tough on GPUs, especially with Ultra settings thanks to the game’s expansive environments.
At 4K Ultra this happens to be another case where the GTX Titan X delivers framerates around 40fps, in this case coming in at 42.1fps. To get a single-GPU card up to 60fps we need to drop to Medium settings, which gets the GTX Titan X to 60.5 at a fairly significant hit to image quality.
Compared to NVIDIA’s other high-end cards, Far Cry 4 puts the GTX Titan X in a very favorable light. Along with the customary 35% performance lead over the GTX 980 at 4K Ultra, the newest Titan beats the GTX 780 Ti and GTX Titan by 60% and 80% respectively, highlighting the architectural efficiency improvements in Maxwell. On the other hand the lead over the R9 290XU is only 29%, making it one of the smallest leads for the GTX Titan X and highlighting how as always AMD and NVIDIA’s relative performance shifts with the game in question.
Dropping down from 4K to 1440p, the GTX Titan X continues to do well, becoming the only single-GPU card to surpass 60fps even at this lower 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