[HWC]NVIDIA GTX TITAN vs. SLI & Crossfire

[Jaydip]

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/foru.../60166-nvidia-gtx-titan-vs-sli-crossfire.html

From conclusion

"When taken at face value, this situation paints a dire picture for the GTX TITAN since it only manages to match blows with less expensive alternatives. Indeed, if you are looking to push a 120Hz monitor with v-sync enabled and don’t care about much else, the TITAN would be a poor choice. However, framerates are one very small slice of an all-encompassing gaming experience and dual card setups are beset with issues in several other areas.

Both SLI and Crossfire have matured over the years but that doesn’t mean they are completely stable solutions. For example, AMD’s Crossfire has Eyefinity issues in Assassin’s Creed III (no display on outside monitors) and Far Cry 3 (incorrectly displayed HUD) while SLI had the dubious honor of breaking Surround support in Hitman: Absolution and exhibited extremely poor performance in Dirt: Showdown. We didn’t experience any missing or broken game profiles but previous experiences point to that being an ongoing issue in newly released games. By the virtue of being a single core solution NVIDIA’s TITAN deftly avoids these pitfalls. "

 

[x3sphere]

"Crossfire’s penchant for stutter is both frustrating and unavoidable but SLI doesn’t escape unscathed either. From objective and subjective standpoints, it is vastly superior to what AMD is offering but Dirt Showdown and Hitman: Absolution were anything but fluid while using two NVIDIA cards. If anything, this provides an interesting contrast between the raw power of dual GPU setups and the consistency provided by a single TITAN. "

Another reason to go Titan rather than 680SLI...

 

[Jaydip]

Yup but they didn't test 690 which iirc exhibits less stutter than 680 SLI.

 

[Silverforce11]

I would go for single gpu over cf/sli if it werent so stupid expensive. Its the obvious choice, and also the obvious problem with Titan.