Nvidia GTX Titan review
An incredibly powerful single-GPU graphics card that’ll run any game, even in Surround mode, but it’ll be too expensive for most people
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We initially tested the GTX Titan using our Dirt Showdown benchmark at Ultra quality with 4x anti-aliasing and a 1,920×1,080 resolution and achieved a frame rate of 91.2fps. This is three times more than the 30fps needed to make this game playable, and reducing the settings to High quality and the resolution to 1,280×720 raised the frame rate even higher to 113.2. Of course, it’s our Crysis 2 benchmark that really challenges graphics cards, and at Ultra quality with 4x anti-aliasing and a 1,920×1,080 resolution we achieved a very impressive frame rate of 49.6fps – the same frame rate provided by the GTX 690.
Eager to see just how good the card is in Surround mode, we used the Dirt Showdown benchmark at a 5,760×1,080 resolution, Ultra quality and 4x anti-aliasing and achieved a very smooth 44.9fps. Reducing the quality settings to High raised the frame rate to a very impressive 96.9fps.
Our Crysis 2 frame rate of 24.5fps at a 5,760×1,080 resolution and Ultra quality is less impressive and less than the 37.1fps achieved by the GTX 690. However, once we’d reduced the benchmark to High quality, at which Crysis 2 still looks fantastic, the frame rate shot up to 50fps; that’s a fantastic frame rate when you consider it’s running at 5,760×1,080.
It’s difficult to compare the results of the GTX 690 and the GTX Titan because we’ve changed some of our benchmarks, but it would appear that the dual-GPU GTX 690 is still the fastest Nvidia card. If you want a quiet and less power-hungry single GPU card that is well suited to multiple monitor configurations, the GTX Titan is clearly a better choice than the Nvidia GeForce GTX 690, but many users would be better off buying the Nvidia GeForce GTX 680. It’s £400 less than the GTX Titan and is powerful enough to run graphically challenging games.
Basic Specifications | |
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Price | £827 |
Rating | ***** |
Details | www.nvidia.com |
Interface | PCI Express x16 3.0 |
Crossfire/SLI | SLI |
Slots taken up | 2 |
Brand | nVidia |
Graphics Processor | Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan |
Memory | 6144MB GDDR5 |
Memory interface | 384-bit |
GPU clock speed | 836MHz |
Memory speed | 6.01GHz |
Card length | 267mm |
Features | |
Architecture | 2,688 CUDA cores |
Anti aliasing | 8x |
Anisotropic filtering | 16x |
Connectors | |
DVI outputs | 2 |
VGA outputs | 0 |
S-video output | no |
S-Video input | no |
Composite outputs | no |
Composite inputs | no |
Component outputs | no |
HDMI outputs | 1 |
Power leads required | 1x 6-pin PCI Express, 1x 8-pin PCI Express |
Extras | |
Accessories | N/A |
Software included | N/A |
Buying Information | |
Warranty | one year RTB |
Price | £827 |
Supplier | http://www.scan.co.uk |
Details | www.nvidia.com |