Titan Results Thread (OC/Performance/Benching)

[blackened23]

Will be interesting to find out what clocks GK110 or a full GK110 can achieve on a MSI Lightning PCB or a ASUS ROG MATRIX Platinum PCB. 1300 or more?

Sadly I don't think it's happening . Nothing mentioned at CeBit.

 

[Grooveriding]

Nvidia has reproduced the issue with Titans throttling before hitting the power target reported by many users at OCN and EVGA. Let's hope it is a BIOS or driver fix and not a hardware issue.

https://forums.geforce.com/default/...with-314-09-and-314-14-/post/3754925/#3754925

Thanks for the updated information. I think we may have a repro. I'll report back once I have further information.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

Shens. Nvidia has never had a driver issue.
You're holding it wrong...

 

[wand3r3r]

The warranty is the protection? You mean protects the card as it comes and with it's current level of boost and limits of overclocking, right?

What you just said makes little sense if you circumvent those protections doesn't it....

Are you saying NV's $1000 'uber priced' card is so flimsy and at the limits that it's ready to break with any extra voltage.

Or alternatively are you are beating the NV sales drum which is trying to limit what you can do with the card to enforce their absurd pricing strategy.

Either way it doesn't fly and you're right I won't buy this turd in it's current form. I may have to wait for an 8970, hopefully it will be out within a year (and potentially beat this card into just a bad memory).

Yeah the card itself is fine, but it's neutered and overpriced. I doubt the lightning will even be allowed to resurrect this cards flaws (actually NV's flaws, the card would otherwise likely be capable).

 

[wand3r3r]

The warranty is the protection. In the meantime I'll continue to add voltage to my cards just like I always have. Whatever card allows me to do that I will buy.

Agreed, that's what the warranty is for. If the situation were reversed keys and other nvidiots would be in here harping about the lack of voltage controls on the competitors cards and how flimsy they are.

Somehow you can only comment on it if you are stupid (or rich) enough to buy it. Until then you can only comment about the good qualities.

 

[Keysplayr]

Are you saying NV's $1000 'uber priced' card is so flimsy and at the limits that it's ready to break with any extra voltage.

Or alternatively are you are beating the NV sales drum which is trying to limit what you can do with the card to enforce their absurd pricing strategy.

Either way it doesn't fly and you're right I won't buy this turd in it's current form. I may have to wait for an 8970, hopefully it will be out within a year (and potentially beat this card into just a bad memory).

Yeah the card itself is fine, but it's neutered and overpriced. I doubt the lightning will even be allowed to resurrect this cards flaws (actually NV's flaws, the card would otherwise likely be capable).

Really? Is that what you heard me saying in your head as you read my post there?
You are too funny bud. What else did you see in my post there? What else did you pretend I was saying?

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

Agreed, that's what the warranty is for. If the situation were reversed keys and other nvidiots would be in here harping about the lack of voltage controls on the competitors cards and how flimsy they are.

Somehow you can only comment on it if you are stupid (or rich) enough to buy it. Until then you can only comment about the good qualities.

With the 100%+ price increase from last gen you'd think guys would at least demand overvoltage control. If they will allow Nvidia to raise prices 100% & take away the enthusiast side of it then Nvidia as a business needs to capitalize on that. Not only are they doubling or tripling profits in the process they are reducing rma costs significantly. It's really genius on their part. Plain stupidity if you accept it.

 

[wand3r3r]

Really? Is that what you heard me saying in your head as you read my post there?
You are too funny bud. What else did you see in my post there? What else did you pretend I was saying?

I don't see alternatives, do you? Feel free to answer why neutering the cards is good for the consumer if there is an alternative reason.

 

[AdamK47]

You want more performance from Titan? Get another card.

 

[njdevilsfan87]

What brand Titan did you get? Just curious

Stock EVGA. And I got my clocks mixed up as well. It's 1124/3700, 1137/3500, 1163/3200, and it's 1176/0. The core clocks always starts at 1202 at 1.2v, and drops down slowly at the power usage passes 100%. But I'm not reaching 106% and I'm still being throttled. I've never actually seen it reach 106%. I've seen 104%... And the problem is, once it throttles once, it seems like it continues to throttle, despite being say 98% GPU power...

Anyway, I'm hoping to get 1202/3500 stable in the end, and then I'll be very happy. I'm just OCD in that I really like those numbers.

If not I'll have to find some combination of core/memory that performs best.

 

[AdamK47]

What are you doing/using to validate stability?

 

[njdevilsfan87]

Heaven 4.0. Of all the programs and games I've tried, Heaven has always crashed. Valley 1.0 seems to be stable 1 bin (~13mhz) higher than on Heaven, and from what I remember on the GTX 680, games were anywhere from 2-3bins (~26-40mhz) higher stable on the core than Heaven. I won't be doing much game testing until I get my water block and other components. I absolutely love the look of the stock cooler, but I want a quiet system.

 

[AdamK47]

I've also found looping Heaven 4.0 to be an excellent stability test. It's more GPU intensive than the previous version. A bit better than Valley or Tropics on Kepler architecture. Gets my GPUs nice and hot so I can find their breaking points. If Heaven 4.0 is crashing then I'd back the overclocks down. I've settling on my overclocks after a 5 hour loop of Heaven 4.0 @ 2560x1600 with all settings maxed. Got my computer room nice and warm.

 

[cmdrdredd]

I've also found looping Heaven 4.0 to be an excellent stability test. It's more GPU intensive than the previous version. A bit better than Valley or Tropics on Kepler architecture. Gets my GPUs nice and hot so I can find their breaking points. If Heaven 4.0 is crashing then I'd back the overclocks down. I've settling on my overclocks after a 5 hour loop of Heaven 4.0 @ 2560x1600 with all settings maxed. Got my computer room nice and warm.

Yep but then heaven is stable but when playing assassins creed 3 I crashed unless I down clocked 15mhz on the core. So...yeah I dunno. But is is a good starting point anyway.

 

[wand3r3r]

I think Heaven is merely a good starting point, 3DMark11 also found instability that was fine in Heaven. Games especially intense ones are the final judge though.

Heaven will get you in the ballpark. Once you find a stable OC, move to another benchmark and finally try some games.

 

[AdamK47]

I think the next step tonight will be to loop 3DMark 11.

 

[njdevilsfan87]

I think anything that's heavy on DX11 tessellation is a good stability test. I'll definitely look more into it, but again, after I get my water block, so probably not until next weekend. At least then I will be sure that any throttling is not caused by temperature (another area I think Boost 2.0 is broken because I get my first temperature based throttle at 76C).

 

[Face2Face]

I think Heaven is merely a good starting point, 3DMark11 also found instability that was fine in Heaven. Games especially intense ones are the final judge though.

Heaven will get you in the ballpark. Once you find a stable OC, move to another benchmark and finally try some games.

+1

Crysis 3 I find to be a pretty good torture test as well.

 

[blackened23]

Crysis 3 is the bad overclock killer in my experience. If there's any borderline overclock, crysis 3 at max settings will uncover it

 

[Majic 7]

Just saw this post at NVidia forums. https://forums.geforce.com/default/...ause-downclocking-with-314-09-and-314-14-/10/ Maybe some better control coming? " We think we have discovered the change in between driver 304.07 and 304.09 that introduced this behavior. Still performing more testing. Stay tuned."

 

[AdamK47]

Crysis 3 is still on my list of games to get. Sounds like it's the perfect game for a three Titan setup.

 

[Grooveriding]

Finally got almost everything I need. Blocks and backplates installed and my new res.

One more package tomorrow with some coolant and fittings :thumbsup: Should finally get to use these puppies by Wednesday.

 

[3DVagabond]

I guess you'll just have to accept his opinion whether you agree with it or not. I feel the same way Adam does. I'm glad protection is in place on this very expensive hardware. You don't like it? Great. I'm sure you won't be buying one then. As well as Wandererer.

Keys, why would anyone like having the power to choose taken away? If you are concerned about extra voltage damaging your $1000 card, then don't do it. There are people though who would like that option.

Besides this "protection" is causing the cards to throttle during regular game play. That's a bit over the top, don't you think?

 

[f1sherman]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdgi4FcUBcE

wc-ed with h60... I think

 

[Firestorm007]

Keys, why would anyone like having the power to choose taken away? If you are concerned about extra voltage damaging your $1000 card, then don't do it. There are people though who would like that option.

Besides this "protection" is causing the cards to throttle during regular game play. That's a bit over the top, don't you think?

I say we petition and send it to all the hardware sights and get this investigation started ASAP. However, in reality, I'm sure that it will likely be rectified via a bios or driver update. I would, however, be PO'd spending 1K on a video card with an issue like that out of the gate; and Saying that it's OK by any means its current form, is laughable. I also find it hilarious that if the tables were turned, this would be thrown around like chum at a Great White convention.