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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Urizane - Monday, March 23, 2015 - link
660 and 660 Ti are different chips entirely, with 660 Ti not fully enabled.chizow - Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - link
@stun you're in for a huge upgrade either way. Makes sense to wait though, but I am not sure if 390X will change current pricing if at all. But Nvidia may also launch a cut down GM200 in that timeframe to give you another option in that $500+ range.Da W - Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - link
Usually, the last one out is the fastest.furthur - Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - link
you're an absolute idiot if you jump on this crap. grab a 290 in the mean time and a 390x on release,Michael Bay - Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - link
Maybe he doesn`t need an equivalent of a room heater in his case like you do, brah.Phartindust - Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - link
At 83c, you're not exactly making ice cubes with titan.cactusdog - Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - link
Im not convinced about this TitanX and the last titan turned out to be a bad investment for the $1,000 asking price. Last time, Titan came out (at $1,000) then a matter of weeks later , the 780TI came out with the same performance for $300 less. This time, we have the 390X soon but no doubt Nvidia have a 980TI up their sleeve, so the value of these highend $1,000 cards disappears quickly making it a bad investment. I expect a $1,000 card to hold the performance crown for at least 6-12 months not a few weeks, then get out performed by a card that costs $300 less.Laststop311 - Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - link
it wasn't weeks later it was many months laterD. Lister - Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - link
@cactusdog"Titan came out (at $1,000) then a matter of weeks later , the 780TI came out with the same performance for $300 less."
Actually the 780Ti, having a lot more CUDA cores, destroys the original Titan in gaming performance. The 780Ti equivalent was the "Titan Black", with the same amount of cores, but twice the VRAM, slightly higher default core clock, and fully unlocked compute.
Phartindust - Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - link
^This