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

[Keysplayr]

I'm gonna have to chime in and call BS on this like everyone else. Yes, people can have their opinion, yes people can have their biases, yes people can lie even if the only person they are fooling is themselves, and yes, people can combine all those things in a single post.

And some people can even have flat out denial that someone can have an opinion that differs from their own so severely. It's a crazy world, isn't it?

 

[2is]

My opinion is, what you claim is your opinion, isn't. I don't think you're thankful for the 265 watt limit. No one is going to believe that if you had a choice between two titans, one with that cap in place, and one without, everything else being equal including cost, that you'd pick the one with the cap. Not even you, despite your claim to the contrary. You must be trying to fool yourself because you certainly aren't fooling anyone else.

 

[Keysplayr]

My opinion is, what you claim is your opinion, isn't. I don't think you're thankful for the 265 watt limit. No one is going to believe that if you had a choice between two titans, one with that cap in place, and one without, everything else being equal including cost, that you'd pick the one with the cap. Not even you, despite your claim to the contrary. You must be trying to fool yourself because you certainly aren't fooling anyone else.

You need to accept it, or leave my opinion alone. You think you have a right to enforce your own opinion over mine? LOL not in this lifetime. I'd go for the card that had a BIOS switch. You forget that I don't generally o/c my graphics cards. Once in a blue moon for benching, but very mild. I also really don't care what you believe, a one thousand dollar investment for a graphics card is a lot of money for most consumers and a safety net just might be a good thing instead of that "Oops" moment. You don't like it? Tough luck.
I wonder how many threads there would be right now if Nvidia had not put limits on the Titan. How many "Defective Titan boards coming from AIB's at an astounding rate" threads do you think would be by people who pushed their cards too far? Who knows. But because the safety's are in place, we likely won't and avoid that whole fiasco. Mebbe?

 

[2is]

If you don't OC, why would you be thankful for a 265 limit so you don't accidentally fry your $1000 video card? Your claims don't make sense on many levels. Like I said, you can fool yourself, but no one here appears to be buying the BS.

 

[Keysplayr]

If you don't OC, why would you be thankful for a 265 limit so you don't accidentally fry your $1000 video card? Your claims don't make sense on many levels. Like I said, you can fool yourself, but no one here appears to be buying the BS.

Are you playing games now? For others that won't blow their 1000 investments. Your questioning my opinions don't make sense on many levels.
Come to grips my friend. Come to grips. And you care too much, methinks.

 

[Jaydip]

I believe NV should have chosen the method Intel adopted, sell "oc warranty" for extra $.

 

[Keysplayr]

I believe NV should have chosen the method Intel adopted, sell "oc warranty" for extra $.

That is surely another option. I am eager to see what the AIB partners will come up with as far as supporting their "unclocked" cards.

 

[DooKey]

I believe NV should have chosen the method Intel adopted, sell "oc warranty" for extra $.

I could definitely go for this.

 

[Lepton87]

You need to accept it, or leave my opinion alone. You think you have a right to enforce your own opinion over mine? LOL not in this lifetime. I'd go for the card that had a BIOS switch. You forget that I don't generally o/c my graphics cards. Once in a blue moon for benching, but very mild. I also really don't care what you believe, a one thousand dollar investment for a graphics card is a lot of money for most consumers and a safety net just might be a good thing instead of that "Oops" moment. You don't like it? Tough luck.
[stupid drivel]

BIOS switch, remember?

For 1000 dollars, I think I'd be glad that the manufacturer placed a limit. Knowing me, I'd over do it and fry my thousand dollar investment. A BIOS switch is an intriguing option though. Those that want to risk it, can. But the second you use that switch, warranty is void.

You sir, just got consistency award.

 

[EXCellR8]

we bought one of these at work just so we could play around with it... thing's a beast but kept crashing one of our systems. once we had it working perfect with a better PSU we couldn't get the frame rate to lag at all in any 3D application with dual Xeon CPU. ridiculous performance? yes. worth the price? hell no.

 

[Lepton87]

we bought one of these at work just so we could play around with it... thing's a beast but kept crashing one of our systems. once we had it working perfect with a better PSU we couldn't get the frame rate to lag at all in any 3D application with dual Xeon CPU. ridiculous performance? yes. worth the price? hell no.

Seriously? I would have no problem bringing 4 LN2 cooled heavily modded Titans down to their knees.

On an unrelated note why are there no/very few reviews of titan in Quad SLI? Why has NV placed so heavy an emphasis on TRI SLI all the while completely omitting even mentioning of quad operation? Are quad SLI drivers still immature? Does it scale horribly from 3 cards to 4 cards? If anyone has seen Quad SLI Titan review please link.

 

[f1sherman]

Remember those advices from armchair CEOs that Nvidia should price Titan at $700, $650 or even lower... OR ELSE ___(insert something diabolical and not one bit healthy for NV)

http://www.nowinstock.net/computers/videocards/nvidia/titan/

 

[AdamK47]

Here's a Quad-SLI video that was posted a few hours ago.

http://uk.hardware.info/news/33768/geforce-gtx-titan-quad-sli-video-demo

I read that Nvidia doesn't officially support Quad-SLI Titans, only up to three. That was on a forum post, so I can't say if it's true or not.

 

[SirPauly]

And if they did it may cannibalize GTX 680 and GTX 670 sales as well. By pricing higher protects current and future margins on GK-104 and maybe GK-114 based sku's.

Really believe nVidia desires to see the GK-104 and potentially the GK-114 at these price-points and the only thing that can change things is stronger competition.

 

[Lepton87]

Here's a Quad-SLI video that was posted a few hours ago.

http://uk.hardware.info/news/33768/geforce-gtx-titan-quad-sli-video-demo

I read that Nvidia doesn't officially support Quad-SLI Titans, only up to three. That was on a forum post, so I can't say if it's true or not.

Thanks, indeed NV doesn't officially support Quad SLI with Titans. Scaling from 3 to 4 really is atrocious, sometimes negative.

Remember those advices from armchair CEOs that Nvidia should price Titan at $700, $650 or even lower... OR ELSE ___(insert something diabolical and not one bit healthy for NV)

Given low enough volume they could be sold out even for 3000$ a piece. Just because they are OOS at most places doesn't mean it's not a rip-off. With a good marketing people will pay thousands of $ for things that are hardly worth 10-30$

 

[BallaTheFeared]

Oh God does it ever stop?

 

[Lepton87]

Oh God does it ever stop?

No, it won't. Top graphics cards used to cost 500-650$ and now NV increases that to 1000$ you can't expect people to be happy about it. Also in the past you could buy a slightly cut-down or lower clocked variant for far less. So it's not even comparable to 8800Ultra because 8800GTX was essentially the same card.

 

[Keysplayr]

BIOS switch, remember?


You sir, just got consistency award.

Total weak sauce Lepty. Pathetic attempt.

 

[Lepton87]

Total weak sauce Lepty. Pathetic attempt.

Pathetic defense.

 

[EXCellR8]

My spending limit for a single graphics card is $300, which some people believe is outrageous. I don't really mind every few years spending a bit because it's what I like and nice things make me happy. $1000 is a bit hard to swallow though but playing around with a card that cost almost as much as my first car was fun.

 

[Haserath]

Seriously? I would have no problem bringing 4 LN2 cooled heavily modded Titans down to their knees.

On an unrelated note why are there no/very few reviews of titan in Quad SLI? Why has NV placed so heavy an emphasis on TRI SLI all the while completely omitting even mentioning of quad operation? Are quad SLI drivers still immature? Does it scale horribly from 3 cards to 4 cards? If anyone has seen Quad SLI Titan review please link.

Possibly because Titan has so much power that games can't utilize it.

http://uk.hardware.info/reviews/403...80-and-frametimes-how-many-titans-do-you-need

The one game that can really use it is Crysis 3.

 

[Lepton87]

Possibly because Titan has so much power that games can't utilize it.

http://uk.hardware.info/reviews/403...80-and-frametimes-how-many-titans-do-you-need

The one game that can really use it is Crysis 3.

Not really, you can get 3x2560x1600 monitors, use super sampling AA. You can always find uses for more graphics power. Also 120Hz 2560x1440 gaming or 3 of those etc. (some monitors overclock to 120Hz)

 

[f1sherman]

Just bought a titan, I could careless about the gaming performance of this card, so I have not done any test on gaming, but in terms of computing performance, the card is a very good:

(1) 2.5-5X faster than a GF110 on float-32, have not tried float 64 yet.

(2) For parallel applications, 10X-12X faster than a multi-threading program run on a sandy-bridge 3930K, again, float-32.

(3) I have not tried any exclusive GK110 features, just rebuild my codes with compute capablity 3.5, and thats it.

I congfigured GK110 for compute only, GF110 for display such that my destop wont be freezen when I run some CUDA programs, also by doing this, I find the GK110's compute performance increases a little.

The only problem I get so far now is the two cards are too large for my case to accommodate, so I have to insert hard drivers where FDD and DVD rom should be resident, I may need to buy a new case i guess.

Anyone, I think for CUDA users, the card is impressive, basically a much cheaper tesla K20.

I guess the reason why Nvidia relesease this card so cheap is that it want to build a tough competition against the upcoming intel MIC, which i have also tested in my office, and the performance is not as impressive as this card for many parallel applications I can think of to offload from CPUs, but sure the programming side is a easy, bascially anyone who know C++ and multi-threading can do programming on MIC in about half an hour.

http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.php?p=1716539&postcount=1434

 

[Grooveriding]

snip

Thanks for copy/pasting and linking a post from another forum, posted by someone who joined there today and that was their first post.

Did you just post that there so you could link it here or something ?.... lol


I kid...

 

[Lepton87]

Yeah 1000$ is really cheap for a consumer card. Tahiti compute performance is also very good, but of course it doesn't have CUDA.