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Nvidia GTX Titan vs 980GTX

Caracus2k

Caracus2k

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Traded my Titan in for £357 and bought the 980GTX Super Jet Stream on sale here before crimbo for £390. With the Pick Your Path Code was therefore a pretty cheap swap. Titan cost me £833.33 back in March of 2013 so lets see what 21 months and less than half the price equate to in Heaven at 1080P.....

Unigine Heaven Benchmark 4.0

980



FPS:
113.3

Score:
2853

Min FPS:
27.1

Max FPS:
225.9

Titan



FPS:
91.8

Score:
2312

Min FPS:
8.9

Max FPS:
190.1


System

Platform:
Windows NT 6.2 (build 9200) 64bit

CPU model:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 980 @ 3.33GHz (3999MHz) x6

Settings

Render:
Direct3D11

Mode:
1920x1080 fullscreen

Preset
Custom

Quality
Ultra

Tessellation:
Normal



Went for the 980 as looking to go to WQHD (will most likely add another GPU and water cool), for better DirectX 12 implementation and for generally better and more consistent performance when gaming.

Loved my titan and from some quick sums it only cost me 70p a day when factoring in the trade in but figured the overclocked 980 was a worthy upgrade (despite having less memory) and would also likely have a higher residual value in the usual 6 - 15 month upgrade cycle

...and in other news still rocking my five year old Asus P6T6 WS Revo mother board and my three year old hex core i7 980 cpu... come on Intel give me something worthy of an upgrade
 
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Heaven 4 is probably not the best bench to compare the two cards as it all goes wrong for the 980s at higher resolutions.

This is taken from the Heaven 4 bench thread and run at 4K, the Titans were just running a stock bios as well.

2160p

4 GPUs

  1. Score 1759, GPU nvTitan @981/1788, CPU 3930k @4.8, Kaapstad Link
  2. Score 1702, GPU 980 @1472/1962, CPU 5960X @4.0, Kaapstad Link
  3. Score 1682, GPU 290X @1230/1500, CPU 4930k @4.8, Kaapstad Link
  4. Score 1382, GPU 290X @1000/1250, CPU 3970X @4.9, AMDMatt Link

If I showed the difference between the two setups @1440p or 1600p the Titans are even further ahead of the 980s.
 
Is that not a bug in heaven? Iirc on ver 3 getting that, but if you ran two consecutive loops the min fps on the second run was much higher.
 
Kaapstad said:
Heaven 4 is probably not the best bench to compare the two cards as it all goes wrong for the 980s at higher resolutions.

This is taken from the Heaven 4 bench thread and run at 4K, the Titans were just running a stock bios as well.

2160p

4 GPUs

  1. Score 1759, GPU nvTitan @981/1788, CPU 3930k @4.8, Kaapstad Link
  2. Score 1702, GPU 980 @1472/1962, CPU 5960X @4.0, Kaapstad Link
  3. Score 1682, GPU 290X @1230/1500, CPU 4930k @4.8, Kaapstad Link
  4. Score 1382, GPU 290X @1000/1250, CPU 3970X @4.9, AMDMatt Link

If I showed the difference between the two setups @1440p or 1600p the Titans are even further ahead of the 980s.
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I knew you'd present some findings old boy,
But have you got data for single cards ( overclocked titan vs 980) at 1080p
and 1440p
 
setter said:
Is that not a bug in heaven? Iirc on ver 3 getting that, but if you ran two consecutive loops the min fps on the second run was much higher.
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All the data is cached up ready to go, so all you're waiting for is your gpu to load up to 100%, which is why I don't like it the gpu should be loaded up first then the benchmarker should run.
 
almighty15 said:
Min frame rate is nearly 3x higher on the 980, bottom end speed is what it's all about.

Average's are just a bonus.
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I wouldn't pay too much attention to the bottom score of Heaven. I can get 9 fps on a single Titan or I can get 35 fps on a single Titan. A Heaven bug.
 
I'm confused as to why the Op even bought a single titan in the first place, that is a hefty price premium for 6gb of Vram that the card would never be able to utilise on its own
 
Gregster said:
I wouldn't pay too much attention to the bottom score of Heaven. I can get 9 fps on a single Titan or I can get 35 fps on a single Titan. A Heaven bug.
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What about with 3? Seen it with most cards wether in single/sli ive owned lately. The crysis bench was the same iirc. Always scored higher on the second run. Same go's for asus real bench which tests multiple parts of the system.
 
The minimum fps on the Titan does seem like a bug. Regardless at this res I get better results in every game and expect that sli 980's will outdo sli titans at wqhd. Not interested in 4k at the moment. Have got used to 120mhz plus monitors and even in sli/crossfire its still hard to get good consistent performance at 4k
 
andybird123 said:
I'm confused as to why the Op even bought a single titan in the first place, that is a hefty price premium for 6gb of Vram that the card would never be able to utilise on its own
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Not the cheapest purchase but 42% value resale after 21 months makes it one of the cheaper cards I have owned when looked at total cost of ownership. The Titan series was always going to be over the top for gaming given its Tesla underpinnings'

what percentage of a 680 from march 2013 would I get back now?
 
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setter said:
What about with 3? Seen it with most cards wether in single/sli ive owned lately. The crysis bench was the same iirc. Always scored higher on the second run. Same go's for asus real bench which tests multiple parts of the system.
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3 is the same Rob. When I bench for a proper score, I start the bench, stop it and then start it again and that cures the low frames. There is a bug when going through the corridor and you turn left where it slows down to stupidly slow frames for no apparent reason as well and it is more noticeable with multiple cards than a single card.
 
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