144hz and a titan?

[Sath]

I've been on the fence for a while now about splashing on a 144hz monitor, and I presume it would take a tremendous amount of graphical force to (consistently) drive that kind of refresh.

How far would a single Nvidia Titan X carry me in regards to today's games?


And a side-question regarding actual size of said titan? I have a mate with a Geforce 970, and that was a big boy compared to what we're used to seeing. But how big is a Titan exactly? My case is a generally good size, but it's by no means titanic either.

 

[smogsy]

depends on res but even at 1440p you should be fine but doont think you get a constant 144fps on max settings in new games.

example
BF4 my 2x 980s get 130fps on ultra @1440p
witcher 3 2x980s get 80fps on ultra @1440p

on side note forget the titan X get a 980Ti

 

[snips86x]

My single 980Ti gives me 100-143fps playing BF4 on a 27" 1440p g-sync monitor with a refresh rate of 144hz. I would imagine the Titan X will be fine

 

[Mariusz]

Running a Titan X and an Asus Rog Swift 1440p 144hz monitor and they work great together. Can run everything at high /ultra settings and maintain 100 to 144 frames per second.

 

[smogsy]

i think you need to tell him the games your running not give false hope. as snips did.

its all well saying you get 100-144fps but in what game?

we don'rt want this guy buying a Titan X and being disappointed for example if he wants to play X Game at 144fps.

i would advise he looks at benchmark of his games at least.

 

[snips86x]

Of course it's game dependant but with g-sync why would it matter. You don't need to keep up the 144fps when using g-sync. I did also state it was BF4 - again that's map dependant and I don't actively monitor the rate.

 

[Sath]

I will admit I looked toward the 980ti a few times, for reasons of it being a relatively good compromise for the relative cost saving.
It's very hard to argue the couple extra frames of the Titan over the 980ti, considering one card bats for about £500-530, and the other £800-1000.

"If I spend a large amount of dosh on PC upgrades, why stop half-way?" is my current train of thought.

That said...

While I'm sure it would run fine in practice, I've never been keen on running massively powerful graphics cards in SLI/crossfire; I'm not big on the faff of remembering to maintain a watercooling setup every other week. Early morning shift work is quite a brain-drain!

If nothing else, G-sync will be helpful I suppose.

 

[Phixsator]

1440P 980ti:
Witcher 3 gives me 70-80 with hairworks(enabled for all but no AA), everything maxed except shadow(high) and AO(off)

BF4 gives me 165 LOCKED(capped through ingame console command, again most settings are maxed but AO is off(i dont like the effect), Post proccessing low, AA MSAAx2 and the other AA option set to medium. Settings are tuned for Multiplayer.

Arma 3 is a mess though so that can range anywhere from 20 to 80.. havent bothered tinkering with it as of late.

Havent tried that many games after i got my new 165hz monitor. But it seems to me that a 980ti is more than good for it with a few settings tweaked here and there(without loosing much IQ) if you add gsync on top for the few games that cant hit a consistent framerate for whatever stupid reason(fallout 4 springs to mind here).

 

[tyler_jrb]

As others have said forget the Titan X. Get a Ti instead. performance difference is minimal or worse as most 980Ti's very clock well out of the box. Not worth £300 extra anyway.

A single 980Ti in my system will do 120-130fps on bf4, all maxed graphics 1440p. Witcher 3 is about 80fps with high-ultra settings. Fallout 4 is mostly over 100 but cities etc drop the frames quite badly (due to the game itself).

I wouldnt be too bothered about 144hz if your planning a single card, use 120hz. the difference between 120-144 and 165hz is minimal and hardly noticeable at all. The difference between 60-120 is a very nice jump though. You can always tune settings to your needs. There are many games I play where setting increases drop fps but visually there is minimal difference.

 

[smogsy]

Of course it's game dependant but with g-sync why would it matter. You don't need to keep up the 144fps when using g-sync. I did also state it was BF4 - again that's map dependant and I don't actively monitor the rate.

it was not aimed at you sniped

it was this quote

Running a Titan X and an Asus Rog Swift 1440p 144hz monitor and they work great together. Can run everything at high /ultra settings and maintain 100 to 144 frames per second.

may make it sound like it will do that for every game

 

[Kaapstad]

I will admit I looked toward the 980ti a few times, for reasons of it being a relatively good compromise for the relative cost saving.
It's very hard to argue the couple extra frames of the Titan over the 980ti, considering one card bats for about £500-530, and the other £800-1000.

"If I spend a large amount of dosh on PC upgrades, why stop half-way?" is my current train of thought.

That said...

While I'm sure it would run fine in practice, I've never been keen on running massively powerful graphics cards in SLI/crossfire; I'm not big on the faff of remembering to maintain a watercooling setup every other week. Early morning shift work is quite a brain-drain!

If nothing else, G-sync will be helpful I suppose.

If you are not interested in SLI avoid the TitanX as these should only be used in multi GPU setups so they can exploit their VRAM advantage over other cards.

A GTX 980 Ti is almost as quick as a TitanX in single card setups and far better value for money.

As to the size of a TitanX, it is actually quite small compared to some of the non reference cards available. My reference TitanX is dwarfed by my non reference 980 Ti's.

 

[nashathedog]

There are many games I play where setting increases drop fps but visually there is minimal difference.

cough cough gameworks god rays cough

 

[Panos]

I've been on the fence for a while now about splashing on a 144hz monitor, and I presume it would take a tremendous amount of graphical force to (consistently) drive that kind of refresh.

How far would a single Nvidia Titan X carry me in regards to today's games?


And a side-question regarding actual size of said titan? I have a mate with a Geforce 970, and that was a big boy compared to what we're used to seeing. But how big is a Titan exactly? My case is a generally good size, but it's by no means titanic either.

What you have at the moment? Because it might depend if you can hold to it until summer when next gen is out from both companies, including monitors.

 

[Sath]

What you have at the moment? Because it might depend if you can hold to it until summer when next gen is out from both companies, including monitors.

A Radeon R7 290x. It's been a fabulous warhorse, all things considered at time of purchase. It's very comfortable on medium graphics in most instances today, and tolerates a decent amount of HD modding for Skyrim. But it's unlikely to pull over 60fps max settings in much from the last three years of games; in ones where that matters to the experience anyway.

Been meaning to make a jump from ATI/AMD to Intel/Nvidia for a while now. I'm not set on a new motherboard yet though, but that's a different kettle of fish.

Fact a new graphics card is on the... Cards is ironically incidental: the decision orbits around the notion of a faster-than-60hz experience on a PC, but not having the space to hook up some insane TV. BUT also second-handedly enjoying Nvidia's graphic utilities and more efficient power consumption (least as far as most of the Radeon R9 series is concerned).


I'm averse to buying anything absolutely fresh on the graphics card market. Entry prices are beyond obnoxious, and their RRP value seems to deprecate faster than anything else in the hardware market. Course if I wait for the newest cards to go down in price, it becomes a repeating cycle of wanting a brand spankin' new card, but wanting it cheaper, only for a new piece of eye candy to roll in.

Against my compulsive need to throw money at a titan, the 980ti really does look to be the perfect compromise, though slightly disappointed neither the big boy or it's smaller (but perfectly formed) brother can quite do it alone.

Heck, if I cast off my reluctance to acquire the additional cooling and power, a pair of 980ti could easily cost as much as a single upmarket titan: I get to set fire to vast amounts of money anyway, on a budget!