It still smashes it in maximum fps, Dont forget to include Metro2033 where the performance on Titan is an embarrassment.
I have a 690 and there is no way i would swap it for a Titan even if the price was £700 for the Titan.
Ah, that explains where you are coming from, don't worry, no one is suggesting you made a bad choice buying 690... Titan is not really aimed at the same type of user... don't forget that a 690 is a dual GPU solution... two 690's would be a 4 GPU solution (maximum SLI supports)
a Titan is primarily for;
don't like SLI so wouldn't buy a 690 whatever may be
people who see that sometimes scaling beyond 2 GPU SLI is poor
small form factor cases that can't fit a bigger card like a 690
people who want more performance that 2 690's could possibly offer (3-way and 4-way Titan SLI)
people who want more than 2GB of VRAM (which is what the 690 is limited to no matter how many of them you have)
in each of these cases, the Titan can offer something that a 690 (or two) can't... no one has been suggesting that a Titan is outright better than a 690, however, 2 Titan's might be better than 2 690's, or a single Titan might be the only option (to avoid SLI altogether or physically fit the card in the case)
I understand you wanting to do some post rationalistion on your purchase decision, but maximum frame rates are the least important - avg and min are far more indicative of actual gameplay, dips to 10FPS will be more noticeable and more jarring than say dips to 30FPS, when you compare the graphs on this basis the Titan compares quite well
for single monitor gaming, the 690 is the better price/performance contender, absolutely, but then 670 SLI would be similar performance and cheaper again (or 7950 crossfire if you were that way inclined)
even if you only compare maximum frame rates, I would hardly call a difference of say 120 to 140 FPS "smashing it"
you are being extremely selective in your reading of the data in order to make a claim that one of these cards "smashes" the other... in some cases one is faster, some the other, and in some they are around the same... for it to be a "smash" then one would need to beat every metric consistently, imo
but as I say, no one has claimed that 1 Titan will outright beat 1 690... but the Titan has the capability to be SLI'd further or used in situations where a 690 would be unsuitable, which is the market it's aimed at
Yes but what do the vouchers actually do ?....can you buy a share of a real life tank or something
they give you ingame money to buy a digital tank (or guns or stompy robots)... though I'll be selling mine if they turn up