Titan Results Thread (OC/Performance/Benching)

[lavaheadache]

Originally Posted by f1sherman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdgi4FcUBcE

wc-ed with h60... I think

His card is "prematurely" throttling too

[SolMiester]

Originally Posted by wand3r3r

Are you saying NV's $1000 'uber priced' card is so flimsy and at the limits that it's ready to break with any extra voltage.

Or alternatively are you are beating the NV sales drum which is trying to limit what you can do with the card to enforce their absurd pricing strategy.

Either way it doesn't fly and you're right I won't buy this turd in it's current form. I may have to wait for an 8970, hopefully it will be out within a year (and potentially beat this card into just a bad memory).

Yeah the card itself is fine, but it's neutered and overpriced. I doubt the lightning will even be allowed to resurrect this cards flaws (actually NV's flaws, the card would otherwise likely be capable).

Jesus, if that doesnt sound like a whiny immature fanboi, I dont know what does....LMAO...classic!

[Keysplayr]

Originally Posted by SolMiester

Jesus, if that doesnt sound like a whiny immature fanboi, I dont know what does....LMAO...classic!

Heh, don't tell him, but I had him pegged from his first GTX 690 Borderlands 2 post.

[wand3r3r]

Originally Posted by Keysplayr

Heh, don't tell him, but I had him pegged from his first GTX 690 Borderlands 2 post.

Right, so discussing how the 690 fps tank to less than 20 fps with physx on vs 100+ with it off is wrong? Oh yeah it's wrong to discuss nv's flaws, I'll try to remember m'kay? I still maintain that physx is a joke in BL2, but let's keep that on the hush. $1000 card brought to its knees with physx is pretty pathetic especially when the fps without it was extremely high.

[wand3r3r]

Originally Posted by SolMiester

Jesus, if that doesnt sound like a whiny immature fanboi, I dont know what does....LMAO...classic!

Avoid the points mentioned. Check
Tarnish the poster. Check
Then talk about immaturity?

[Shmee]

Lets play nice guys.

[Grooveriding]

Had a little time to play with mine. I think as a pair they top out at 1170 on the core, one is a little stronger and can do a hair over 1200.

1170/7000

[Rvenger]

Originally Posted by Grooveriding

Had a little time to play with mine. I think as a pair they top out at 1170 on the core, one is a little stronger and can do a hair over 1200.

1170/7000

Can I get your honest opinion... Are you happy with them for the price?

I was thinking about selling my car audio system that has been sitting in my basement for one of these.

[AdamK47]

I've had the Unigine demos last for hours at 7000 memory. 3DMark11 will crash within a minute with the memory at 7000. Even at 6500 I can see artifacts now and then. Looping 3DMark11 is a really good stability test for Titans.

[wand3r3r]

Originally Posted by AdamK47

I've had the Unigine demos last for hours at 7000 memory. 3DMark11 will crashing within a minute with the memory at 7000. Even at 6500 I can see artifacts now and then. Looping 3DMark11 is a really good stability test.

Yeah it seems to stress the card differently or perhaps more in certain ways. The final test will be games either way. That's also why you have to take proclaimed OC's with a grain of salt depending on the persons experience.

[Grooveriding]

Originally Posted by AdamK47

I've had the Unigine demos last for hours at 7000 memory. 3DMark11 will crash within a minute with the memory at 7000. Even at 6500 I can see artifacts now and then. Looping 3DMark11 is a really good stability test for Titans.

3DMark 11, Valley, Heaven & Crysis 3 are all running fine for me. I am using the BIOS from OCN that fixes the throttling though. So the cards have more available power to them. It's core overclock that will crash me.

Originally Posted by Rvenger

Can I get your honest opinion... Are you happy with them for the price?

I was thinking about selling my car audio system that has been sitting in my basement for one of these.

I was never happy with the price, even when it was pre-release and rumoured to be $900 rather than $1000. Performance wise they are pretty much insane. With the overclock a single one of these Titans is equal to a GTX 690. Now that someone over at OCN figured out how to fix the artificial throttling the cards have before they hit their limits with the custom BIOS, there is some suspicion it is intentional by nvidia. They have said they're aware of the problem though and most likely they will wind up removing it via drivers or a BIOS release. If the cards were reviewed like they perform with this BIOS, they would of made the 690 look completely irrelevant. Look at how a 690 performs at your resolution, minus the multi-gpu headaches, then decide if that is worth $1000 to you.

There is no way you would be disappointed with the performance, that's for sure. The price is still disappointing though.. lol. Probably because even at 2560x1600 there are only a few games that actually needed the power increase over 680SLI.

edit: I should also say that from what people at OCN who are running this BIOS say; the cards run a lot hotter. Usually 80-85C even with a high fan speed. The artificial throttling may be there to maintain the cool and quiet characteristic they were pushing. I have mine water-cooled. The highest I've seen them get is 48C.

[Majic 7]

+1 to Grooveriding. The price still gives me a slight eye tic but the experience is so much better than SLI'd 580's for me that I can easily justify it, or rationalize it, depending on what level of angst I am at. I'm still at stock. The only time it throttles on me is when it hits 80 running Valley.

[Rvenger]

Originally Posted by Grooveriding

3DMark 11, Valley, Heaven & Crysis 3 are all running fine for me. I am using the BIOS from OCN that fixes the throttling though. So the cards have more available power to them. It's core overclock that will crash me.




I was never happy with the price, even when it was pre-release and rumoured to be $900 rather than $1000. Performance wise they are pretty much insane. With the overclock a single one of these Titans is equal to a GTX 690. Now that someone over at OCN figured out how to fix the artificial throttling the cards have before they hit their limits with the custom BIOS, there is some suspicion it is intentional by nvidia. They have said they're aware of the problem though and most likely they will wind up removing it via drivers or a BIOS release. If the cards were reviewed like they perform with this BIOS, they would of made the 690 look completely irrelevant. Look at how a 690 performs at your resolution, minus the multi-gpu headaches, then decide if that is worth $1000 to you.

There is no way you would be disappointed with the performance, that's for sure. The price is still disappointing though.. lol. Probably because even at 2560x1600 there are only a few games that actually needed the power increase over 680SLI.

edit: I should also say that from what people at OCN who are running this BIOS say; the cards run a lot hotter. Usually 80-85C even with a high fan speed. The artificial throttling may be there to maintain the cool and quiet characteristic they were pushing. I have mine water-cooled. The highest I've seen them get is 48C.

Thanks for your insight, I really value your honest opinion. The last hurdle I have is me purchasing this over my 7970 which can do 1200/1600 at near stock volts. I just don't think it will benefit me that much for 1080p. Crysis 3 is what really got me wanting another 7970 or a single titan. I just can't find a new or decently priced used reference 7970 with a black PCB.

Another thing is I noticed my 3570k is bottlenecking on Crysis 3. I will be getting my FX-8150 rig up today and I am going to check the minimum FPS at the same clockspeed to see if it is any better. My lowest dip so far on 1024x768 low settings was 70 fps, CPU was pegged at 100% on all 4 cores.

[notty22]

Xbit, has their Titan review up. Stock and o/c, it put's on a good show.
O/C with a fairly high mem o/c , had a turbo that would run at 1071 o/c.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/graphics/display/nvidia-geforce-gtx-titan.html

[sontin]

Originally Posted by Grooveriding

edit: I should also say that from what people at OCN who are running this BIOS say; the cards run a lot hotter. Usually 80-85C even with a high fan speed. The artificial throttling may be there to maintain the cool and quiet characteristic they were pushing. I have mine water-cooled. The highest I've seen them get is 48C.

Sure the cards run a lot hotter. They needing a lot more power:
With the normal bios: The power target is for the whole card: Chip, memory, cooler etc.

With the user bios, i can adjust the power target above the 106%. That allows my GPU to run at a higher core and memory clock.

More power more power.

[TheUnk]

Just installed two Titans in place of three 670s for running 5760x1080

With the 3 670s using a killawatt my whole system seemed to max out at 630 watts.

With the 2 Titans it's gone as high as 700.

Almost ordered a 3rd, but of all the games I tried so far that I play, everything played great.