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

[Borealis7]

the power consumption is impressive in relation to the GTX680, this is a clear win for the Titan. but dat price!

Titan can't be overclocked.

of course it can. read the TPU review, they OC it 20% and see big gains.

 

[railven]

Woof, just read the AT review and I realized they are using a new card to represent the Radeon HD 7970, I can only predict the backlash this is going to create because using that card to represent team red makes the Titan look awful in noise/power/cooling metrics.

I know, price is the dead horse, but holy crap for that price premium I was really expecting a straight out massacre.

Again, those buying, don't let anyone rain on your parade (I was in those shoes when the $550 7970 was in the hot seat), kudos for the hardcore!

EDIT: Since I've been debating going CFX on my rig, that card used in the review seems decent, I like the load/temp/noise for it. Great review AT!

 

[DooKey]

Titan can't be overclocked. 7970 can match it when pushed to the limit.

Not sure if serious.........

 

[MrK6]

Based on the huge deltas in performance, I'd say the drivers need a lot of work. Overall it's a poor showing because the performance just isn't there to justify the cost. It has good performance in some scenarios, but it's actually losing to the 7970GE in some games (again, I think drivers). As imaheadcase mentioned, this would be a great $500 card, but at $1000, especially considering it can't overclock, it's a bad joke.

 

[lavaheadache]

Pretty much as expected. It's significantly faster than the 7970GE, but not $600 faster.

Not Exactly!.

It is significantly faster some times but the 7970ghz is right there quite a few times too. What is really showing is how much faster the 7970 ghz is over the 680 in quite a few situations.

 

[blackened23]

First, the Titan is an insane GPU and completely impressive from a performance standpoint. It is absolutely the most impressive GPU ever when considering performance and acoustics.

However with that being said; nvidia completely screwed the price up here - with every prior high end card they've released, while prices have been high - they also advanced performance per dollar substantially. This was the case with every prior card, every single one of them.

Here we see Titan, even overclocked, cannot manage to dethrone the 690. That fact alone is no big deal, but that makes one scrutinize the price that much more -- This makes the 1000$ asking price completely nuts in my opinion.

For 800-900$? We wouldn't have this discussion, heck i'd probably be buying two of them.

 

[DarkKnightDude]

Well, that was rather disappointing. The 7970 GE looks way better, I'm surprised how well its held on its own. For a thousand dollars you'd think it'll laugh at other GPUs.

 

[Haserath]

I should say it can't be overclocked much with te restrictions.

106% TDP
Overvolting restricted

And I made the mistake of reading 'only 27mhz further' when they were aready overclocked.

A good 7970 can get right up there with it though.

 

[Fx1]

lets not forget the 7970 has been out for 1 year lol

 

[Grooveriding]

First, the Titan is an insane GPU and completely impressive from a performance standpoint. It is absolutely the most impressive GPU ever when considering performance and acoustics.

However with that being said; nvidia completely screwed the price up here - with every prior high end card they've released, while prices have been high - they also advanced performance per dollar substantially. This was the case with every prior card, every single one of them.

Here we see Titan, even overclocked, cannot manage to dethrone the 690. That fact alone is no big deal, but that makes one scrutinize the price that much more -- This makes the 1000$ asking price completely nuts in my opinion.

For 800-900$? We wouldn't have this discussion, heck i'd probably be buying two of them.

800-900 is still too much where I'm sitting. Maybe 800, but release this at $700 and it would of been the second coming. At $1000 it should of been at least as fast as the 690.

No idea how it is losing to the 7970GE in some of Ryan's tests as well.... That sure does not go over well, a $1000 'premium' card losing to a $400 card....

 

[Face2Face]

There is no denying the Titan is a beautiful card. We know that AMD has no plans for the 8000 desktop series this year, but their Driver team will be hard at work at optimizing performance. It's an incredible showing for the 7970GHz edition and the performance will only get better this year. Of course the same could be said for the Titan as far as driver optimizations. If this was a $500-$550 card it would be a much better deal. I believe this card was meant just to take back the Single GPU performance crown. Nvidia doesn't like loosing that Title and you can't blame them. They have had it in pretty much all the previous generations. The 7000 series has been a huge win for AMD.

 

[AdamK47]

Any quad SLI (2x 690 or 4x 680) vs 3x Titan reviews yet?

 

[Haserath]

Any quad SLI (2x 690 or 4x 680) vs 3x Titan reviews yet?

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_Titan_SLI/22.html

 

[blackened23]

Any quad SLI (2x 690 or 4x 680) vs 3x Titan reviews yet?

2 way and 3 way review at guru3d:

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/geforce_gtx_titan_3_way_sli_review,1.html

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

Woof, just read the AT review and I realized they are using a new card to represent the Radeon HD 7970, I can only predict the backlash this is going to create because using that card to represent team red makes the Titan look awful in noise/power/cooling metrics.

I know, price is the dead horse, but holy crap for that price premium I was really expecting a straight out massacre.

Again, those buying, don't let anyone rain on your parade (I was in those shoes when the $550 7970 was in the hot seat), kudos for the hardcore!

EDIT: Since I've been debating going CFX on my rig, that card used in the review seems decent, I like the load/temp/noise for it. Great review AT!

How do I know what model 7970's are the new ones?

 

[Grooveriding]

I wish more sites had included Crysis 3 in their tests. This is the new powerhouse in visuals and GPU killing abilities. Not even the 690 can run it at 2560x1600 with MSAA on. It hammers my rig and I can't even run 2xMSAA comfortably.

 

[Imouto]

Any quad SLI (2x 690 or 4x 680) vs 3x Titan reviews yet?

Guru3D and TPU.

 

[AdamK47]

Guru3D and TPU.

Could you link a page which shows the Quad 680 (690) vs Tri Titan results from either of those? I must be blind, I don't see it.

 

[Fx1]

7970 CF is only slightly slower than a Titan SLI lol

 

[notty22]

Any quad SLI (2x 690 or 4x 680) vs 3x Titan reviews yet?

Nvidia is pushing tri-sli Titan. And they are showing a nice Titan like bridge in some press photos.
Anands review is coming tomorrow /tri-sli

Far Cry 3

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

Nvidia is pushing tri-sli Titan. And they are showing a nice Titan like bridge in some press photos.
Anands review is coming tomorrow /tri-sli

Tri sli titan or a ps3, xbox 360, big screen TV, surround sound system, and a couch to sit on... Decisions decisions...

 

[MrK6]

I should say it can't be overclocked much with te restrictions.

106% TDP
Overvolting restricted

And I made the mistake of reading 'only 27mhz further' when they were aready overclocked.

A good 7970 can get right up there with it though.

http://www.techpowerup.com/mobile/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_Titan/27.html

At 1200p you're looking at a 29% average advantage over the 7970GE and a 33% advantage over the GTX680. This improves slightly at 1600p to 31% and 42%. The bad thing is that's it, since you have almost no overclocking headroom.

 

[Imouto]

Could you link a page which shows the Quad 680 (690) vs Tri Titan results from either of those? I must be blind, I don't see it.

It's in all the charts.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_Titan_SLI/

Nice song from Black Label Society anyway:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UggPkX-uXa0

EDIT:

computerbase.de review is up. Their figures are worse than any other reviews and their computing benches seriously discouraging.

http://www.computerbase.de/artikel/grafikkarten/2013/test-nvidia-geforce-gtx-titan/

 

[AdamK47]

Thanks. 3-Way SLI Titans do seem to be overall better than a quad SLI 690 setup.

 

[railven]

How do I know what model 7970's are the new ones?

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6774/nvidias-geforce-gtx-titan-part-2-titans-performance-unveiled/5

Finally, we’ve also used this opportunity to refresh a couple of our cards in our test suite. AMD’s original press sample for the 7970 GHz Edition was a reference 7970 with the 7970GE BIOS, a configuration that was more-or-less suitable for the 7970GE, but not one AMD’s partners followed. Since all of AMD’s partners are using open air cooling, we’ve replaced our AMD sample with HIS’s 7970 IceQ X2 GHz Edition, a fairly typical representation of the type of dual-fan coolers that are common on 7970GE cards. Our 7970GE temp/noise results should now be much closer to what retail cards will do, though performance is unchanged.