Titan X Launch / Review / Tears Thread

cleveridea said:
People are buying 2 Titans so they can feel superior to those with dual 980's or 970's

Imagine the shame of benchmarks that run higher on dual 970's than a mere single Titan X.
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lol that is some childish shit right there

cleveridea said:
So everyone with Titans - they run quiet right?

Planning new PC with silent fans, and I imagine the titans are low power and low fan noise right?
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Vulcano's assistant said:
they are reference cards, so no, small fast fans
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More like small turbines.
Also, might are pretty good, I hear my normal fans than anything else.
 
BeEatNU said:
lol that is some childish shit right there






More like small turbines.
Also, might are pretty good, I hear my normal fans than anything else.
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Was just kidding, my current plan is to get SLI m/b with 1 titan X first, then a second later. So I will end up in that category myself.

Bit surprised that Witcher 3 runs so well on a 980 at 1080/60 Ultra. I thought that would be the cool game that could justify a titan over a 980 - I WANT a titan but given I am using 1080p (3D vision capable) there isnt anything that really needs it yet. I thought W3 would be the excuse to justify spending buying $1000 card(s) both for game itself but also as an indicator of high end graphics requirements
 
Man that Titan looks nice.

But damn one of those is equal to my mtg payment and my wife would divorce me if she found out...what to do what to do!
 
cleveridea said:
So everyone with Titans - they run quiet right?

Planning new PC with silent fans, and I imagine the titans are low power and low fan noise right?
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I've got 2xSLI overclocked running with crysis maxed out and I can barely hear it. Way, way better than what I expected. Though I must admit that I have my PC 10 feet away from me in the living room. But still it's far quieter than my PS4 under load.
 
viveks86 said:
I've got 2xSLI overclocked running with crysis maxed out and I can barely hear it. Way, way better than what I expected. Though I must admit that I have my PC 10 feet away from me in the living room. But still it's far quieter than my PS4 under load.
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cool, its going to be in the living room so thats why its particularly important.

plus its silent when the computer is used for non games right (ie not using 3D)
 
cleveridea said:
cool, its going to be in the living room so thats why its particularly important.

plus its silent when the computer is used for non games right (ie not using 3D)
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Yep. My chassis without the GPUs used to be pretty noisy by default, because the fans were running faster than they needed to. I ran the fan expert tool that came with the asus x-99 motherboard and it auto tuned it based on temperature. Now it's a little noisy on boot up and turns quiet as soon as I hit the windows login screen. I do have me CPU water-cooled, so I'm guessing that helps quite a bit as well.
 
viveks86 said:
Yep. My chassis without the GPUs used to be pretty noisy by default, because the fans were running faster than they needed to. I ran the fan expert tool that came with the asus x-99 motherboard and it auto tuned it based on temperature. Now it's a little noisy on boot up and turns quiet as soon as I hit the windows login screen. I do have me CPU water-cooled, so I'm guessing that helps quite a bit as well.
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Oh nice, thats a cool feature. I want it running quiet when using for non games (development) but it doesnt matter so much if I am playing a game.

I'm a bit surprised nvidia didnt charge more for titan x given there is nothing that competes with it single card wise. I expected $1099 or $1199 with perhaps a drop to $999 or lower when AMD cards hit. A lot of people end up locked into the vendor, like GSync or in my case 3D vision.
 
Well my order from Nvidia that was placed yesterday at 9am still hasn't shipped and the guy said that it will probably ship sometime next week.

The wait is going to kill me.
 
Custom 24GB up for pre-order
http://www.kitguru.net/components/g...rclocked-geforce-gtx-titan-xxx-24gb-ask-ocuk/

OcUK advertises a mythical BFG GeForce Titan XXX OC2 24576MB GDDR5 graphics card. The graphics board is powered by the GM200 “Big Maxwell” graphics processing unit factory overclocked to 1268MHz/1493MHz (base/boost) and comes with 24GB of memory operating at whopping 8.60GHz (8600MHz). The price of the fabled graphics card is claimed to be £1666.66 inc VAT and the ETA date is (yes, you guessed it right!) the 1st of April, 2015. The store offers to “register your interest” by dropping them “a webnote”.
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Specification:
- GeForce Titan XXX
- GPU: GeForce Titan XXX - Core Base Clock: 1268MHz
- Core Boost Clock: 1493MHz
- Memory Clock: 8600MHz Samsung GDDR5
- Memory Size: 24576MB GDDR5
- Bus Type: PCI Express 3.0
- Memory Bus: 384-bit
- CUDA Cores: 3072
- DirectX 12: Yes
- DVI Port: 1x Dual-Link DVI, 3x DisplayPort & 1x HDMI
- DisplayPort: Yes

- HDCP: Yes
- HDMI: Yes
- Power: 2x 8-Pin (2x 8-Pin to engage OC mode)
- 650W PSU Required
- 300W TDP (250W regular use / 300W OC mode)
- Dimensions: L=282mm, W=110mm, H=43mm
- Warranty: 10yr (BFG Lifetime Warranty (OcUK provides warranty))
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It's a good joke
 
Skel1ingt0n said:
I don't think I've seen it before. Strange.
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It is nearly impossible to justify an extra $89 for an identical card design, unless people care about the power bank bonus, which I certainly don't! I could see an extra $89 for the Hydro Copper version, but certainly not the plain Superclocked.
 
Are the Titan X and its various third-party iterations expected to be Nvidia's top single-chip gaming GPU until Pascal hits next year? I ask this because of history with the 780Ti and Titan Black releasing after Titan.
 
Sargon said:
It is nearly impossible to justify an extra $89 for an identical card design, unless people care about the power bank bonus, which I certainly don't! I could see an extra $89 for the Hydro Copper version, but certainly not the plain Superclocked.
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And it's not even clocked that high. That's $89 for a couple of extra clicks to download an oc tool and move the slider a notch.
 
Ugh. I keep checking Newegg.ca to see when they'll be available in Canada and, so far, nothing. I keep checking coz my brother is looking into upgrading to one from his GTX 680.
 
Titan's and 4k lets go

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Hmm. For whatever reason I am getting nothing displaying when I have two cards in the motherboard. If I use both cards by themselves, it displays fine. I even went back to my 780 TIs to make sure its not an issue with my motherboard...and it worked fine O.o
 
Man...I know the PC port of AC Unity is very demanding...but the level I'm playing at it looks ridiculously good. Granted I am throwing tons of horsepower at it to get it running the way it is...but it looks really good. 4k, Ultra High, + TXAA = about 45fps with my overclock of +234/+507 on my Titan X SLI, and my 4930k @ 4.5ghz. I was around 8.5GB VRAM the entire time. I played for about a hour so I guess that OC is stable for gaming. Wish I was decent at taking pics.

Cards are pretty great in SLI for 4k. I feel confident that if I am getting this kind of performance from Unity...I should be good to go for 99% if other high profile games at 4k lol

edit: changed garbage to demanding. i think that's more accurate :p
 
BeEatNU said:
lol that is some childish shit right there






More like small turbines.
Also, might are pretty good, I hear my normal fans than anything else.
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You should record noises because I would like to see how those reference cooler stack up with case fans as your ex 99 board has that optimized fan configuration tool with the dual intelligent processors 5 these shoes app. One thing I will say is that this motherboard is really good at managing your fan speeds and for everything I was doing on my 3930 K PC, this does much quieter but for the same speeds of my overclock components respectively. But I would like to hear how things sound under load regardless of your case fan configuration and all that good stuff because I do have push pull on my H 110 i gt and this PC is still much quieter than my last.

*google voice typed!
 
I tried AC: Unity @ 6880x2880 and the game ran at 30fps (!) average maxed out with FXAA. I couldn't even take screenshots at that resolution with my 980s as the game ran like <1fps (due to not enough VRAM.) Now it's actually very playable.

Also, VRAM maxed out at 11.6GB. Guess 12GB isn't overkill after all.

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elelunicy said:
I tried AC: Unity @ 6880x2880 and the game ran at 30fps (!) average maxed out with FXAA. I couldn't even take screenshots at that resolution with my 980s as the game ran like <1fps (due to not enough VRAM.) Now it's actually very playable.

Also, VRAM maxed out at 11.6GB. Guess 12GB isn't overkill after all.

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Wow...
Insane
 
So I managed to find the sweetspot with Crysis 3. I was able to downsample 1440p with DSR and run at vsynced 60 fps with every single setting to the max and TXAA High (4x). Other than the occasional 59, there are virtually no frame drops and the controls are super responsive. Also discovered that Nvidia's adaptive vsync works far better than the in-game vsync. So now I force that by default. This is what it looks like on my TV!

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And obligatory bald guy shot!
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The kick in the nuts was to find out that it's actually not possible to hit locked 60 fps at 4K max settings and no AA, even with 2 Titan Xs! It hovers in the high 40s during the starting scene (which is known to be very taxing) and has a ton of input lag. With proper AA, it's down to low 30s and near unplayable lag :/
 
viveks86 said:
So I managed to find the sweetspot with Crysis 3. I was able to downsample 1440p with DSR and run at vsynced 60 fps with every single setting to the max and TXAA High (4x). Other than the occasional 59, there are virtually no frame drops and the controls are super responsive. Also discovered that Nvidia's adaptive vsync works far better than the in-game vsync. So now I force that by default. This is what it looks like on my TV!

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And obligatory bald guy shot!
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The kick in the nuts was to find out that it's actually not possible to hit locked 60 fps at 4K max settings and no AA, even with 2 Titan Xs! It hovers in the high 40s during the starting scene (which is known to be very taxing) and has a ton of input lag. With proper AA, it's down to low 30s and near unplayable lag :/
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Are 4 Titan Xs an option? Is that even possible? I bet it would run 60 with AA.
 
sk3tch said:
OC'd TITAN X equals SLI 970s, anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpmuXd52Ce0

From:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2015-nvidia-geforce-gtx-titan-x-review

And yeah, I benchmark first and play games later. Same with gaming on a 1080p monitor. Who cares? Everyone has different uses for their hardware. I personally find it stupid to game at 60Hz or lower on a huge resolution screen.
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oh man that DF video just sold me on a titan x :( anyone wanna buy a 780 or 2? :D

actually got a request if anyone can do it, can someone with a titan x run stalker lost alpha @ 4k max, dx9&10
 
Final Verdict said:
Question: What do you do with your old graphics cards when you buy a new one?
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Sell 'em on eBay. I just sold 4x 980s. Net "profit" was around $450 ea after shipping/fees. Bought most of my cards 2nd hand or gray market so it was a $400 fee to enjoy 4x 980s for a few months. Worth it for my hobby.

It's worse to buy for "future proofing" - because if you're trying to sell a 780 or 680 now - good luck. Very little ROI versus new. Everyone has different priorities, etc. - but that's how I roll.
 
bee said:
oh man that DF video just sold me on a titan x :( anyone wanna buy a 780 or 2? :D

actually got a request if anyone can do it, can someone with a titan x run stalker lost alpha @ 4k max, dx9&10
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Sorry, just sold my two 780s. I got 220 dollars per card if that helps (Sold in Sweden, no additional fees for shipping).
 
sk3tch said:
Sell 'em on eBay. I just sold 4x 980s. Net "profit" was around $450 ea after shipping/fees. Bought most of my cards 2nd hand or gray market so it was a $400 fee to enjoy 4x 980s for a few months. Worth it for my hobby.

It's worse to buy for "future proofing" - because if you're trying to sell a 780 or 680 now - good luck. Very little ROI versus new. Everyone has different priorities, etc. - but that's how I roll.
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ohh, ok cool
 
Dictator93 said:
Well, being 21:9 it will be higher resolution, i.e. more taxing, to run games at since only the height is 1080 pixels. I have no experiencve with that monitor, so I cannot say.
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Yeah I don't know what to think about the 21:9 display, I read a lot of good reviews but don't know if I should stick to a 16:9 monitor...
 
sk3tch said:
It's worse to buy for "future proofing" - because if you're trying to sell a 780 or 680 now - good luck. Very little ROI versus new. Everyone has different priorities, etc. - but that's how I roll.
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I have a 4GB 680 still lying around. At this point I would just give it away :P

Still wondering how much I could get for a 980 though. The one I bought was $575, and now it's $620. So if anything, it's increased in value. Might be worth selling to offset the cost of a Titan X.

I should look for 4K benchmarks comparing the Titan X to SLI 970s\980s. I'd like to see if the VRAM becomes an issue at that resolution.
 
Looking at getting something like this. Give that Witcher 3 only needs a 980 for 1080/60 ultra probably only worth getting 1 Titan but SLI m/b so have option for second. Will be using this with my 1080p 3D vision monitor. (3D vision cuts framerate in half).

32 GB is for development (app and server side) since thats overkill for just games

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From Digital Foundry

The higher the resolution, the more the GTX 980's bandwidth limitations come into play...

...but it turns out that Titan X is a capable overclocker too. We added 230MHz to the core clock, 465MHz to RAM and ramped up the power limit to 110 per cent (unfortunately no voltage boost options were available). At 1080p, this only gave us a 13 per cent increase to stock performance, but at 1440p that rose significantly to 18.2 per cent.

And here's where things get really interesting. With the overclock in place, Titan X compares favourably with two GTX 980s operating in SLI - even beating the dual GPU set-up in games like Crysis 3 and Call of Duty Advanced Warfare. The COD situation highlights another advantage of single-chip over SLI - the fact that some games simply don't work properly with it. In truth, a single GTX 980 offers a better experience than an SLI set-up owing to the insane stutter using a multi-GPU set-up incurs.

At 4K, the benchmark comparisons with the GTX 980 SLI set-up really show the card's strengths - frame-rates are competitive but as you can see from the videos (which also track frame-times - more indicative of the actual gameplay experience), the overall consistency in performance is significantly improved. Take Assassin's Creed Unity, for instance. GTX 980 SLI frame-rates are higher than the overclocked Titan X by nine per cent, but it comes at a cost - significant stutter. In this case, we suspect that ACU at 4K is tapping out the 4GB of RAM on the GTX 980, while Titan X has no real memory limitations at all.
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Really, really considering selling my 980 and just getting a Titan X. I play at 4K and higher a lot of the time.
 
jim2point0 said:
I have a 4GB 680 still lying around. At this point I would just give it away :P

Still wondering how much I could get for a 980 though. The one I bought was $575, and now it's $620. So if anything, it's increased in value. Might be worth selling to offset the cost of a Titan X.

I should look for 4K benchmarks comparing the Titan X to SLI 970s\980s. I'd like to see if the VRAM becomes an issue at that resolution.
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That's the model that I just sold 4 of. I was able to sell them quite easily for $520-$540 each in total (with shipping). Hence my net of around $450 (fees/etc.). If you did an auction or posted it as Buy It Now with a slightly higher price - you may have good luck. My card from last month sold very quickly (I outlined the serial number and the days left in the warranty) versus the ones from last year.

You want to sell ASAP - as people start getting their EVGA and other cards from NewEgg they'll be dumping their 980s. I feel that I got kind of lucky by ordering from NVIDIA so it gave me a couple day head start on those that waited to buy elsewhere. Either that - or wait to sell in 60 days or more when the early adopter 980 dump has ceased and prices normalize again.

mr stroke said:
In US

Just bought it from an Ebay Korean seller, VA panel + 40" 4k monitor is insane=plasma like blacks and iMax like size :p
Best monitor I've ever used
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I've got my eyes on the 27" Acer Predator XB270HU - 1440p/144Hz/IPS. Hopefully out in the U.S. any day now.
 
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