Nvidia GTX Titan X Owners Benchmark Thread

[RaulF]

Did you know they sell monitors with refresh rates over 60Hz? Some people own such monitors and like to play at frame rates higher than 60fps. Titan X is the first card to average 120fps at 1080p with ultra settings in modern games. Nice.



http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1447

Boom headshot.

I personally cannot stand anything below 60 fps. Plus I like to turn up eye candy.

 

[escrow4]

I have to question the sanity of the people buying a titan and only playing at 1080P

Which other single GPU card @ 1200p is capable of turning up every setting from textures to shadows to draw distance in every game, likely with AA and keep a more or less solid 60FPS?

 

[DimmyK]

I did some benches against my old GTX 780 Ti. Here are the results: 8 games and handful of synthetics. Both cards were benched at my 24/7 stable gaming clocks. All benchmarks are 2560x1440.

GTX 780 Ti (1150/3500) vs. Titan X stock (1164/3500) vs. Titan X OC (1364/3750)

Avg. FPS

Min FPS

Synthetics

 

[Annisman*]

Thanks Dimmy. It's crazy how much overclocking unleashes the Titan X.

 

[xthetenth]

Shame they decided that selling a premium looking product was more important than offering a solution that'd be good for dealing with the heat. The AIO setup should make it a beast when it drops.

 

[Annisman*]

Shame they decided that selling a premium looking product was more important than offering a solution that'd be good for dealing with the heat. The AIO setup should make it a beast when it drops.

I think the stock cooler is just fine if you don't mind having a 'not quiet' video card when it's all said and done. I think the fact that my card clocks to 1.4Ghz Core and well over 8Ghz memory on the stock cooler speaks volumes about it.

 

[xthetenth]

True enough, I tend to consider noise a more important part of premium performance than looking nice. I hear my hardware when I game, but I'm not looking at it. Those are some beefy OC numbers to be sure though.

 

[DooKey]

Was so impressed with my first Titan X that I ordered a second for some SLI action........I'm so weak for new tech.

 

[Annisman*]

Was so impressed with my first Titan X that I ordered a second for some SLI action........I'm so weak for new tech.

LOL. For me, ordering a second would defeat the purpose of having one, which is to have the most powerful single GPU solution.

 

[5150Joker]

They're finally coming!!

Will def do some benchmarks on stock + custom vbios on Friday.

True enough, I tend to consider noise a more important part of premium performance than looking nice. I hear my hardware when I game, but I'm not looking at it. Those are some beefy OC numbers to be sure though.

I do agree to an extent that noise can be annoying but I couldn't see myself putting two AIO's in my system either.

 

[Grooveriding]

I think the stock cooler is just fine if you don't mind having a 'not quiet' video card when it's all said and done. I think the fact that my card clocks to 1.4Ghz Core and well over 8Ghz memory on the stock cooler speaks volumes about it.

I wound up getting two of them when I got the opportunity to purchase them without paying sales tax or duties. I agree the cooler can handle the heat output, but it's loud by my estimation and the cards run hot; 85C average under a good load is what I see.

I'd describe their acoustics as 'sleepers'. If you're playing CS:GO, or a similar lightweight game, they are quiet and barely audible - but - put a load on them and they start pushing out a fair bit of noise. AT's review says they sound like 780tis did. I never ran mine on air at any point and had no idea what that meant. Now I realize that means loud :awe: They are too loud for my taste, but I guess that is a byproduct of being spoiled by watercooling. I couldn't tolerate these cards on air cooling, maybe if I used a pair of closed headphones rather than my HD598s. Water cooling pairs so well with GPUs, they are just such noisy components. The only exception I've found to this is the MSI Gaming 970 in my wife's computer which is dead quiet.

Performance wise the Titan X is mint. Just one card is close enough to the performance of my 780tis that I'd say it's a better experience because you're not dealing with microstutter and I haven't done any overclocking yet either. I think someone could easily run just one card at 2560x1600/1440 60hz without issue. The only game I've tried where the second card is useful is Far Cry 4. Now it's a choice between returning one of them or getting the 1440p 144hz IPS monitor from Acer to justify having the second card.

 

[5150Joker]

LOL I knew you wouldn't be able to resist. I promised myself that I wouldn't get a second Titan X and instead pour that money into WC. Then I made the mistake of going to OCN and seeing all those guys unbox multiple Titan X's and well that's that.

 

[DooKey]

Grooveriding, going with a 144Hz 1440p will definitely show how those Titans shine. One pushes my Swift well and I'm sure the second one once I add it today will be the icing on the cake.

 

[Annisman*]

Grooveriding, going with a 144Hz 1440p will definitely show how those Titans shine. One pushes my Swift well and I'm sure the second one once I add it today will be the icing on the cake.

See, I'm really hoping my one Titan X will be enough for my incoming 1440p panel.

 

[Face2Face]

Thanks Dimmy. It's crazy how much overclocking unleashes the Titan X.

I would say it's pretty average scaling. Kepler seems to scale pretty much the same. I would like to see a 1300Mhz+ Ti VS. a stock Titan X. I would think, looking at these benches it would only be 10-12 FPS behind it on Avg.

 

[PhIlLy ChEeSe]

Thanks Dimmy. It's crazy how much overclocking unleashes the Titan X.

Annisman,
Nvidia suggests using 24 GB of system memory, someone probably already posted this but I wanted 2 make sure is all.

[QUOTE"GeForce GTX Titan X is itself a 12 GB card. So minimum amount of RAM required to support this card is 24 GB. If you have lesser amount of RAM, the card will still run but the entire GPU memory will not get utilized.It will get limited to 4 GB or lesser amount.We received some users who had less than 24 GB of RAM installed and the PC was showing up VRAM only as 4 GB. The OS will limit the VRAM if the system RAM is less than 24 GB. So as a result, it will be of no use having a 12 GB card installed in the machine. The system RAM will not be able to support 12 GB VRAM. And it will yield only 4 GB VRAM as available dedicated graphics memory. Since you are going to get such a powerful card with 12 GB VRAM, it will be of no use running it on 8 GB ( however, 8GB is really a good amount for other NVIDIA cards). So best is to get the RAM upgraded and enjoy the performance of the card."][/QUOTE]

Found at EVGA forums
http://forums.evga.com/Titan-X-Order-m2312762.aspx

 

[Annisman*]

Annisman,
Nvidia suggests using 24 GB of system memory, someone probably already posted this but I wanted 2 make sure is all.

[QUOTE"GeForce GTX Titan X is itself a 12 GB card. So minimum amount of RAM required to support this card is 24 GB. If you have lesser amount of RAM, the card will still run but the entire GPU memory will not get utilized.It will get limited to 4 GB or lesser amount.We received some users who had less than 24 GB of RAM installed and the PC was showing up VRAM only as 4 GB. The OS will limit the VRAM if the system RAM is less than 24 GB. So as a result, it will be of no use having a 12 GB card installed in the machine. The system RAM will not be able to support 12 GB VRAM. And it will yield only 4 GB VRAM as available dedicated graphics memory. Since you are going to get such a powerful card with 12 GB VRAM, it will be of no use running it on 8 GB ( however, 8GB is really a good amount for other NVIDIA cards). So best is to get the RAM upgraded and enjoy the performance of the card."]

Found at EVGA forums
http://forums.evga.com/Titan-X-Order-m2312762.aspx[/QUOTE]


Thanks for the heads up. From what I can tell it is a very confusing topic and nobody knows for sure what is the truth about needing 24GB of system memory. For me, everything is running fine so I'm not going to panic, in fact someone on another forum is using 8GB of Ram and their Titan X is acting just fine. If a problem arises, I will remember this though.

Edit: Just looked, it would cost me 250$ minimum to get 32GB of RAM from the egg, no thanks.

 

[lopri]

Mine came with a bug. Literally.

Edit: Freaking ridiculous. It's dead inside and I can't get rid of it with canned air.

 

[5150Joker]

Lopri: Just remove the top of the shroud and clean the bug out. It's actually pretty easy to do.

 

[Franzi]

"GeForce GTX Titan X is itself a 12 GB card. So minimum amount of RAM required to support this card is 24 GB. If you have lesser amount of RAM, the card will still run but the entire GPU memory will not get utilized.It will get limited to 4 GB or lesser amount.We received some users who had less than 24 GB of RAM installed and the PC was showing up VRAM only as 4 GB. The OS will limit the VRAM if the system RAM is less than 24 GB. So as a result, it will be of no use having a 12 GB card installed in the machine. The system RAM will not be able to support 12 GB VRAM. And it will yield only 4 GB VRAM as available dedicated graphics memory. Since you are going to get such a powerful card with 12 GB VRAM, it will be of no use running it on 8 GB ( however, 8GB is really a good amount for other NVIDIA cards). So best is to get the RAM upgraded and enjoy the performance of the card."

Anyone can confirm this is true? I have 16GB DDR4 and definitely not the cash to afford a 32GB kit for a while now after my Titan X purchase. The card is here since yesterday but not installed yet, waiting for the Aquacomputer block.

Whats the technical reason to require twice the amount of system memory? If it goes by virtual memory people should be fine with pagefile enabled?

 

[Annisman*]

I think it has something to do with the 'possibility' of a 12GB dump of vram crashing your system, but the odds of that are crazy. I could of course be totally wrong and it might involve something else, it's very confused right now.

 

[Franzi]

I think it has something to do with the 'possibility' of a 12GB dump of vram crashing your system, but the odds of that are crazy. I could of course be totally wrong and it might involve something else, it's very confused right now.

Thanks for the fast reply. So probably if you manage to fill up those 12GB the system will try to allocate 12GB of system memory for a data swap with the vram.

I remember when playing Shadow of Mordor with my 980 I would see a very high commit size and page file activity in task manager, maybe the same effect since that game needs 6GB+ with the uncompressed textures.

 

[Annisman*]

I really don't think 99% of people will see issues with not meeting that requirement. I don't want to buy more DDR3 when DDR4 is already here.

 

[Keysplayr]

I really don't think 99% of people will see issues with not meeting that requirement. I don't want to buy more DDR3 when DDR4 is already here.

I'm in the same boat. Not that I've seen any issues. I have only 8GB in my Sandy rig and refuse to buy more so close to Skylake platform, which I assume will use DDR4.

 

[5150Joker]

They're finally here! Damn these are even nicer looking in person than in the pictures. The build quality is definitely great. First quick and dirty run: http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/6397095


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