***Official Reviews Thread*** Nvidia Geforce GTX Titan - Launched Feb. 21, 2013

[DooKey]

Yes, people are clocking it to 1100MHz but there are now people reporting that the card regularly downclocks itself from 1100mhz even with it's within it's temperature threshold. It's most likely hitting the 265w wall when heavier workloads are running on the card.

Both of my cards will maintain over 1100mhz long term. I looped the valley benchmark for an hour and they both stayed above 1100. As a matter of fact one will stay at 1150 solid and the other goes between 1150 and 1137.

 

[CurrentlyPissed]

Both of my cards will maintain over 1100mhz long term. I looped the valley benchmark for an hour and they both stayed above 1100. As a matter of fact one will stay at 1150 solid and the other goes between 1150 and 1137.

Yeah I can keep mine locked at 1150 if I keep the memory around 6600 or so. Instead running the memory at 7350 it splashes all around from 1149 to 1087. Usually sticks around 1124-1110. Defeintly being TDP held. Even if I just run core OC, and no memory. It won't go past 1167. Even if I run +200 core.

 

[Lepton87]

You sir are still waiting for an upgrade,correct me if im wrong single card next time?.next round i guess...

Almost certainly, I will have a hard time trusting Mgpu solution again. What irks me is that I will have to wait for 20nm cards to get what I want. GF GTX Titan unfortunately didn't live up to my expectations.

 

[VulgarDisplay]

Yeah I can keep mine locked at 1150 if I keep the memory around 6600 or so. Instead running the memory at 7350 it splashes all around from 1149 to 1087. Usually sticks around 1124-1110. Defeintly being TDP held. Even if I just run core OC, and no memory. It won't go past 1167. Even if I run +200 core.

This makes me suspect even more that hitting 265watts is what is causing the cards to downclock. I'm sure someone will release a bios hack that circumvents the hard 265watt limit.

I wouldn't mess with that hard limit on my $1000 gpu, but some people will definitely do this.

 

[Keysplayr]

The answer is simple, I don't want to deal with Mgpus. I had to play some of my games on just 1/4 of my hardware, FarCry3 being the notable example. The game did scale with CF but it was very choppy, not MS choppy, choppy like the game was constantly loading something from a very slow HDD even though I had it on an SSD. I want a single card that would beat my current cards in every game and have better price/performance then when I bought them 2 years ago. I don't want to wait for CF profiles, etc. Titan is a big disappointment because it could have been that card, but NV made some choices that restrained that card for enthusiasts, almost akin to Intel releasing multiplier locked CPUs without releasing K series CPUs. NV still can release those K CPUs (custom cards like MSI lighting, ASUS ROG etc and allow them to tweak frequency, voltages and power targets.) I would like the ability to completely disable GPU boost, too. That's probably wishful thinking, GTX690 has been on the market for almost (over?) a year and still custom cards are nowhere to be seen, NV said that GTX Titan will be the same. If the card had been released at 650$ I would have bought it and wouldn't criticize it for those things, but for 1000$ I really expected only the best. I really think that compared to 7970GHz 650$/700$ is a fair price for that card, still worse price/performance but you always pay a premium for the best single GPU card. For all I care they could have castrated that DP performance if they didn't want to offer cheap DP performance.

I think a Titan would be a perfect fit for you, actually.

 

[Zanovar]

I think a Titan would be a perfect fit for you, actually.

Ya, i would grab it depends on leptons disposable i. 6990+2x6950,titan or wait hmm.Im sure he knows what hes gonna do

 

[Cookie Monster]

So even on LN2 this will downclock at 265W.

It will downclock when it hits the temp target or the power target. And normally id think that a user would hit the temp target first because the card won't be drawing anywhere near 265Ws if one does an actual measurement of the power going in via the PSU 6/8pin and PCI-express slot.

 

[Zanovar]

It will downclock when it hits the temp target or the power target. And normally id think that a user would hit the temp target first because the card won't be drawing anywhere near 265Ws if one does an actual measurement of the power going in via the PSU 6/8pin and PCI-express slot.

did you grab one cookie?

 

[Lepton87]

I think a Titan would be a perfect fit for you, actually.

MSI lightning or ASUS ROG version of a Titan, without hard TDP limit, 1.2V voltage limit etc. Alternatively a 650$ Titan. Right now the reference Titan has just too many compromises for its price tag for my tastes. I can't justify spending 1k EURO on it. If I could buy it for the US prices, then maybe...

 

[Cookie Monster]

did you grab one cookie?

Soon! on my next paycheck most likely.

 

[PowerK]

A guy at OCN did some benchmark comparisons with overclocked 680 SLI vs. overclocked Titan SLI.
(I seem to recall this guy did some interesting PCI-E 2.0 vs. PCI-E 3.0 comparison benchmarks on 680 4-Way SLI early last year.)
http://www.overclock.net/t/1363440/nvidia-geforce-gtx-titan-owners-club/1260_20#post_19409831
Overall about 34% average improvement over overclocked 680 SLI.

 

[wand3r3r]

$2k for 34% improvement over $900.

 

[SolMiester]

$2k for 34% improvement over $900.

So you are actually saying its too rich for you?, we already know that!

 

[Will Robinson]

You pay to play.
Titan is fairly kickbutt in my opinion and its good to have a mean, open class card for those who want the best.
I think AMD does well with HD7970Ghz against GTX680 as does HD7950 and & 7870 in their classes.
Enough has been said about the price IMO...lets just see what its made of over the next few months....after all...competition is just around the corner.

 

[n0x1ous]

You pay to play.
Titan is fairly kickbutt in my opinion and its good to have a mean, open class card for those who want the best.
I think AMD does well with HD7970Ghz against GTX680 as does HD7950 and & 7870 in their classes.
Enough has been said about the price IMO...lets just see what its made of over the next few months....after all...competition is just around the corner.

Can't believe I'm saying this but.......well said Will :biggrin:

 

[lavaheadache]

Just got done registering my card with EVGA. Kind of bummed that they only offer a 3 year warranty on a $1k card.

 

[DooKey]

$2k for 34% improvement over $900.

No, $2K for 34% improvment over $1400. This comparison is to highly overclocked EVGA Classified cards with the EVBot before NV stopped EVGA from selling them.

 

[scooterlibby]

Just curious of your opinions post-release: What do you think the chances are they release a cheaper 3gb version in the future? That would be the sweet spot for me, but I don't know if it makes sense from a production or marketing standpoint.

 

[Keysplayr]

Just curious of your opinions post-release: What do you think the chances are they release a cheaper 3gb version in the future? That would be the sweet spot for me, but I don't know if it makes sense from a production or marketing standpoint.

Or
320bit 5 GB
256bit 4 GB

 

[BallaTheFeared]

256 is highly unlikely with GK114, I'd imagine at least two more base versions, but I have no idea what Nvidia is going to do


Possily a 3GB Titan, with plastic cooler and no 1/3 DP for substantially less, "GTX 780", then from there most likely a 2.5GB SMX cut and bus cut 770.

 

[n0x1ous]

256 is highly unlikely with GK114, I'd imagine at least two more base versions, but I have no idea what Nvidia is going to do


Possily a 3GB Titan, with plastic cooler and no 1/3 DP for substantially less, "GTX 780", then from there most likely a 2.5GB SMX cut and bus cut 770.

Actually Balla, I'd say 256-bit is highly LIKELY with GK114. I think you meant GK110 :biggrin:

 

[BallaTheFeared]

Yeah I meant 256 GK110 was highly unlikely because of 256 GK114.

 

[VulgarDisplay]

Just got done registering my card with EVGA. Kind of bummed that they only offer a 3 year warranty on a $1k card.

It's going to be worth a lot less than that within a year so I wouldn't really worry about 3 years down the road.

 

[wand3r3r]

No, $2K for 34% improvment over $1400. This comparison is to highly overclocked EVGA Classified cards with the EVBot before NV stopped EVGA from selling them.

So 680's are $700?

Riiiiight. Whatever, if that suits your argument and makes you feel like the price is justified. My 680 lightning hit ~1400, and they cost $500 (granted it was the model before the voltage lock crap, thanks NV). Regardless, golden 680's at 1380 were tested vs. the Titan.

The point was 1380 core 680 vs. 1137 core titan. There are certainly no $700 680's on the market and it would take a golden card or flashing the bios to get more voltage to get that.

 

[Keysplayr]

So 680's are $700?

Riiiiight. Whatever, if that suits your argument and makes you feel like the price is justified. My 680 lightning hit ~1400, and they cost $500 (granted it was the model before the voltage lock crap, thanks NV). Regardless, golden 680's at 1380 were tested vs. the Titan.

The point was 1380 core 680 vs. 1137 core titan. There are certainly no $700 680's on the market and it would take a golden card or flashing the bios to get more voltage to get that.

Everyone has moved beyond the price issue..... except you, wand3r3r.
But as you can probably see, and what is probably also mystifying you, is the number of people on this forum alone who have bought a Titan, or even two despite the incredibly bad price/performance you KEEP HARPING ON. LOL. Dead horse. Move on. Titan is not for you, we get the subtle hints you keep dropping. /sarcasm.
I think you should buy one.