Triple SLI Titan's not enough for 4k surround

Fruitbooter · 14 Dec 2013 at 22:17

If 4k really is the not so distant future then GPU's need a big performance increase to cope with modern demanding games at decent fps especially if anyone is thinking of 4k surround.

A forum user of the Chinese tech forum Chiphell posted his unboxing of the Dell 32" 4K mon UP3214Q, and a frame rate test of Crysis 3 in 4K Surround, triple UP3214Q, with 3 Titans in SLI. He tuned all special effects as "very high", and kept MSAA at 2x. The frame rate were around 25-30fps for most of the time. Although as most of you probably agree AA probably wouldn't be needed at 4k so maybe a few fps more in those results in reality..

I think we will need to see what 20nm brings to the table and hopefully it will be a step in the right direction.

http://www.chiphell.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=917402

Bart_Hunt · 14 Dec 2013 at 22:19

Can't read it, its in chinese

ChrisD. · 14 Dec 2013 at 22:22

Bart_Hunt said:
Can't read it, its in chinese

Google Chrome translate FTW.

Silent_Scone · 14 Dec 2013 at 22:33

Well I could have probably told him that. Before he spent 20 billion yuan or whatever it works out at.

Stupid boy, Pike. I mean wouldn't you try 4k as a resolution as itself first? *Pulls cretinous face*

pgi947 · 14 Dec 2013 at 22:46

Tbh I'm actually impressed, that's a silly high resolution I wouldn't expect any of todays offerings to deal with. 25-30 fps is quite admirable.

chaparral · 14 Dec 2013 at 22:49

pgi947 said:
Tbh I'm actually impressed, that's a silly high resolution I wouldn't expect any of todays offerings to deal with. 25-30 fps is quite admirable.

+1

As that should mean he should get around 75fps on a single 4k display in crysis 3

Fruitbooter · 14 Dec 2013 at 22:58

chaparral said:
+1

As that should mean he should get around 75fps on a single 4k display in crysis 3

This is true, however for the guy reviewing where money is obviously no issue perhaps having one 4k and 3 titans would be good however 3 titans is out of reach for most gamers.

pgi947 · 14 Dec 2013 at 22:59

He can't be working at foxconn then?

Too soon?

whyscotty · 14 Dec 2013 at 23:09

chaparral said:
+1

As that should mean he should get around 75fps on a single 4k display in crysis 3

I doubt it, you'd be lucky to get that on a 1440

Silent_Scone · 14 Dec 2013 at 23:15

Three Titans for 4K would get you reasonable FPS. But buying 3 Titans for 30FPS on surround. I'd be gutted.

pgi947 · 14 Dec 2013 at 23:16

Don't forget frosty this is 3x4k, I'll say it again, stupidly high res.

Kaapstad · 14 Dec 2013 at 23:18

Good job I have got 4 of them.

whyscotty · 14 Dec 2013 at 23:19

Kaapstad said:
Good job I have got 4 of them.

Show off

Kaapstad · 14 Dec 2013 at 23:27

whyscotty said:
Show off

I can not believe that this guy expected to run 3 x 4K screens off of three cards lol.

At least he did not run out of VRAM lol.

4 Titans should just about cope with one 4k screen running Crysis 3 maxed. Trying to run three screens is "£$%(*& silly.

pgi947 · 14 Dec 2013 at 23:30

Kaapstad said:
I can not believe that this guy expected to run 3 x 4K screens off of three cards lol.

At least he did not run out of VRAM lol.

4 Titans should just about cope with one 4k screen running Crysis 3 maxed. Trying to run three screens is "£$%(*& silly.

Very much agreed with.

The chinese always trying to do more then their capable of

(might have been a dig at their space programme

)

Kaapstad · 14 Dec 2013 at 23:30

pgi947 said:
Don't forget frosty this is 3x4k, I'll say it again, stupidly high res.

That Chinese chap will be ok when mantle launches, he will be able to toss the Titans and use a pair of HD 7850s in CF.

pgi947 · 14 Dec 2013 at 23:32

That genuinely made me chuckle

Kaapstad · 14 Dec 2013 at 23:36

pgi947 said:
Very much agreed with.

The chinese always trying to do more then their capable of (mightr have been a dig at their space programme)

500 million or more people living below the poverty line but the Chinese have put a rover on the moon. I hope it's not being run by an iphone, you know how bad they can be for getting a signal.

Puppetmaster · 14 Dec 2013 at 23:41

Would 3/4 x 780ti's not be better, or are they vram limited?

Orangey · 14 Dec 2013 at 23:45

The cards we have right now are merely laying the groundwork for 4K / 4K multi-monitor, there are some good ideas in the pipeline that when combined with 20nm should make adoption of 4K pretty fast. Assuming the panel prices trend downward fast enough...