**** Official Titan owners thread. ****

[Kaapstad]

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/22102/rumortt_amd_radeon_hd_8970_coming_soon/index.html

just rumor's and hearsay,but I have every bit of faith in amd atm

Titan is a fantastic card though,im not knocking it at all im just curious as to what amd have to answer it

It all depends on how good gcn is as amd seem to pull lots of gains from this architecture at will lately. Most reviews show titan as 25-30% better than a 7970ghz edition. If amd have improved the architecture and then beef up the card i don't think they will need to go any where near titan sized chips to get near or past titan performance. Everything i have read seems to say nvidia were having a harder time producing gtx680 chips when comparing to amd on the bigger 7970 chip. Its all hearsay but amd did launch first with a bigger chip.

Its a big ask from amd as i don't think they will go anywhere near a titan size chip but looking at past history its possible aka 9700pro which was way superior to anything nvidia released at the time.

Amd have been full of surprises lately but a titan beating chip at normal pricing would be staggering. Here's hoping as i will be looking for a new gpu sometime this year.

The thing with the Titan is it has been a great marketing success, every time the word Titan is mentioned all logic goes out the window. The question has been asked a few times "Titan or GTX 690" and the answer comes back "Titan", this in my opinion for resolutions below 1600p is a bad choice. Most people who answer this question have never used both a Titan and GTX 690.

If I was in AMDs shoes and wanted to really top the Titan, I would go the Dual GPU (rather than one huge GPU like the Titan) on a single card route. If they were to put 2 x top end 8 series GPUs on the same card with hardware support (like the GTX 690) to deal with microstutter, no more than 4gbs vram per GPU and sold them for £700 a go backed by a good marketing campaign. The difference in performance between the HD 8990(for want of a name) and the Titan would be staggering.

The one thing NVidia can not do is put 2 x Titan GPUs on the same card.

From AMDs point of view, who cares if the fastest card in the world by a mile has one or two GPUs, think HD 5970.

 

[Kaapstad]

Frametime logs show that the 690 is still not as smooth as a single-GPU.

My eyes tell me a single GTX 690 @1600p gives a better gaming experience than a single Titan - playable frame rates are important.

@1080p a Titan should be better and capable of dealing with everything you through at it.

 

[kedge]

Titan is a fantastic card.

But far too expensive for most gamers, in my honest opinion it's not that fantastic really. It's a rich boys toy.

 

[Kaapstad]

But far too expensive for most gamers, in my honest opinion it's not that fantastic really. It's a rich boys toy.

The Titans are really nice cards but if you use them in SLI like I do, any criticism people throw at the GTX 690 also applies to the Titans.

I am not rich either, my main pastime is computers, I know I don't get out much.

 

[Gregster]

SLI is excellent ive been using it since the Voodoo 2 days (3dfx) and ive never had any problems.

Although i do see where your coming from as peoples experiences are different, However all Keplar cards have whats called Frame metering technology wheras the 690 has hardware based frame metering technology which eliminates 99% of stutter.

Ive yet to experience any kind of stutter on any game even when i ran 2 of those 690's in SLI.

You should research frame metering technology.

I have been doing frame latency times for quite a while and some of the results show that although it looks and plays smooth, it isn't always the case.

As you can see here, BF3 was never good on my system with the 310.xx drivers -

Far Cry 3 was a mess and played like it as well.

Then Nvidia released the 313.95 drivers -

You can clearly see how much of an improvement a driver can bring.

Even two Titans don't always run smooth. (this was full details and 5760x1080 3D).

All those latency times were done at 5760x1080

SLI isn't always smooth for some people and hence why they want to have a one card solution with no compromises.

 

[Kaapstad]

This is my Titans @stock running the Hitman bench @1600p with all settings maxed

Do the frametimes look ok for a 3 card setup

This is the first time I have done a frametime graph

 

[Gregster]

Very very good Kaap.

 

[Kaapstad]

Very very good Kaap.

Thanks.

I will be looking at these graphs more closely from now on.

 

[Gregster]

Was that with the new drivers Kaap?

 

[Kaapstad]

Was that with the new drivers Kaap?

Yes

314.21

 

[Wh00pS]

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/22102/rumortt_amd_radeon_hd_8970_coming_soon/index.html

just rumor's and hearsay,but I have every bit of faith in amd atm

Titan is a fantastic card though,im not knocking it at all im just curious as to what amd have to answer it

That page is over 14 months old, posted 3rd Jan 2012.

 

[RetrogamerX]

Nice Kaap

 

[Kaapstad]

Nice Kaap

Thanks

Just ran these all settings maxed, Titans @stock CPU @4.0ghz

Drivers 314.21

There was a couple of things I wanted to check out on this bench - they were crap along with her hair.

1 x Titan @1080p

3 x Titans @1080p

1 x Titan @1600p

3 x Titans @1600p

The SLI scaling seemed to work quite well

 

[LtMatt]

Nice scores Kaps. Gonna get a comparison up soon vs your 1xTitan at 1080p in this game.

 

[Kaapstad]

Nice scores Kaps. Gonna get a comparison up soon vs your 1xTitan at 1080p in this game.

You may even beat it, from what I understand this game does not like NVidia so the results should be interesting.

 

[LtMatt]

You may even beat it, from what I understand this game does not like NVidia so the results should be interesting.

Hmm not sure about that with all the details maxed. Need to download TR again first, had to delete it to make way for a Hitman download last night which wanted 23gig of SSD space.

 

[kedge]

I am not rich either, my main pastime is computers, I know I don't get out much.

So you planted a money tree then? . No everyday working person i know of can really afford nvidia's latest gaming gpu offering, it appears great but it is far too expensive that is why it is targeted for the rich. Nvidia must have spent millions to produce this gpu so they don't feel like the underdog and they need to probably recuperate their losses by charging an extreme high price and that target audience would be the rich. For someone like me who is a single monitor user, the titan would not be that much better in todays games than my 1.5gb 580gtx except with the titan you could up the anti-aliasing and also the titan would produce better framerates in todays games, but for £550 more than what i paid for the GTX580 that titan will not make any game look that much different. So for someone like me titan is ok but way too expensive for what is really is, i wouldn't want to pay anymore than £500 and that is pushing it really.

 

[kedge]

Titan is a winner cause it is single GPU card.
.

Its price range lets it down though so it's not an overall winner, imho.

 

[Kaapstad]

So you planted a money tree then? . No everyday working person i know of can really afford nvidia's latest gaming gpu offering, it appears great but it is far too expensive that is why it is targeted for the rich. Nvidia must have spent millions to produce this gpu so they don't feel like the underdog and they need to probably recuperate their losses by charging an extreme high price and that target audience would be the rich. For someone like me who is a single monitor user, the titan would not be that much better in todays games than my 1.5gb 580gtx except with the titan you could up the anti-aliasing and also the titan would produce better framerates in todays games, but for £550 more than what i paid for the GTX580 that titan will not make any game look that much different. So for someone like me titan is ok but way too expensive for what is really is, i wouldn't want to pay anymore than £500 and that is pushing it really.

As a non smoker the money I save in a year more than pays for what I spent on my Titans.

 

[whyscotty]

Amd have been full of surprises lately but a titan beating chip at normal pricing would be staggering.
Here's hoping as i will be looking for a new gpu sometime this year.

Even though this would hurt me in the wallet,

this needs to happen as we need competition to keep prices realistic

But far too expensive for most gamers, in my honest opinion it's not that fantastic really. It's a rich boys toy.

Maybe, but this card isn't aimed at most gamers

Its not a fantastic card in your eyes due to the pricing,
your entitled to your opinion

I've been called most things in my life - but never rich