3 x 4K Worth a try ? - Tri SLI Titan X's or Tri-fire R9-390x (after reviews)

VincentHanna · 18 Mar 2015 at 10:51

ALXAndy said:
4k will catch on sooner than anything else, but it'll take years before we see proper true 4k games and not just crappy textures being upscaled.

Shadows of Mordor had decent high resolution textures as an option...

I think games should start following their lead. They should release Ultra high resolution textures as free/optional DLC.

When they produce them on workstations, they tend to be at very high resolutions.

ALXAndy · 18 Mar 2015 at 10:56

VincentHanna said:
Shadows of Mordor had decent high resolution textures as an option...

I think games should start following their lead. They should release Ultra high resolution textures as free/optional DLC.

When they produce them on workstations, they tend to be at very high resolutions.

Problem is those textures would need to be solely made for PC only and would be useless to the console code, thus, they won't bother.

It's kinda like full on proper 3D games. There are hardly any truly designed solely for the PC as a killer app.

I mean all you need to do is calculate how many users who are PC gamers actually have 4k. About 1%. I wouldn't pay my code grease monkeys to spend months making 4k textures.....

Mei · 18 Mar 2015 at 10:57

africanos23 said:
Yeah true dat especially when pushing 4K. That's my opinion, ofcourse Kaaps has also mentioned this with four cards AMD has the scaling lead.

I prefer 2 cards but when talking about uber *2025* resolutions, ahead of time basically you don't have a lot of options.

well the last time i was on this topic andy said i need to come back down to reality or something

i think there is a big change coming how we do this stuff, or there needs to be
dx12 and how we use memory, nvidia talked about it too with their next cards being 36gb!? or having access to 36gb is more likely

that should bait him!

africanos23 · 18 Mar 2015 at 10:59

Spit said:
Can you run 3 G-sync monitors?

I guess that would be an option as I doubt I would have 60 FPS mins. The total would be 3x Gsync Monitors and 3 GPUs.

AllBodies said:
Remember the Titan X is only ~31% faster than the GTX 980 at 4K (source), so I HIGHLY doubt 3 of them will run 3x4K well at all (especially looking forward to newer games).

If you want very immersive gaming, I'm with greg on principle here, I don't think you'll actually look at the outside screens much (particularly if you were going to go with a big ~32" 4K screen in the middle).

With those 2 points said, I'd say you should try this LG super-wide 34" screen:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-120-LG&groupid=17&catid=2898

I'm running 4K (3840x2160) so it would be back peddling unless you mean 3 of those, not sure how that would feel with curved monitors.

J.D · 18 Mar 2015 at 11:08

I'm sorry Africanos but you have to live up to your sig.

4X Whatever High End GPU Comes Out Next

4 TitanXs and just to let you know unofficially, Gibbo approves this message.

africanos23 · 18 Mar 2015 at 11:11

Getting deeper into the topic what levels of DSR @ 4K would be the equivalent for testings sake?

And would the CPU and pci-e lanes be a bottleneck ? (Sandy-Bridge E i7 3930K, clocks to 4.7Ghz 1.33v on air). PCI-E 3.0 *16x,x16x16,x16x16x8*

AllBodies · 18 Mar 2015 at 11:11

africanos23 said:
I'm running 4K (3840x2160) so it would be back peddling unless you mean 3 of those, not sure how that would feel with curved monitors.

Ah fair enough then, I assumed you were not running 4K yet.

How large is your 4K monitor? Perhaps you should think about just getting a single larger 4K screen, say one of the 32" ones, if you're currently on a smaller one.

4K is such a high resolution, you'd need a 48" screen before the pixels became as large as a standard 24" 1920x1080 screen.

africanos23 · 18 Mar 2015 at 11:12

J.D said:
I'm sorry Africanos but you have to live up to your sig.

4 TitanXs and just to let you know unofficially, Gibbo approves this message.

The wife is currently "shopping around" for a wedding dress so I guess I'm allowed to burn some cash lol.

I'm getting official married in June and this is a wedding expense , that's how I like to see it anyway

Mobo only does 3 way SLI/CFX

Would need to use the 4770K which would struggle with the bandwidth imo.

Mei · 18 Mar 2015 at 11:17

africanos23 said:
The wife is currently "shopping around" for a wedding dress so I guess I'm allowed to burn some cash lol.

I'm getting official married in June and this is a wedding expense , that's how I like to see it anyway

Mobo only does 3 way SLI/CFX

lol wth dood!
....no words

erm if she see's this and you say no to anything...
wow haha

J.D · 18 Mar 2015 at 11:19

Congratulations, on both fronts.

I was only joking regarding 4 way but tbh, wouldn't a 5960X be needed to drive 4 TitanXs?. If you do get three then I reckon you'll be fine. If you already had the cards then all it is a little more expenditure further down the line to rectify the situation.

Thing is though, is TRI-SLI improved?. Gregster had minimal gains from his third Titan so if you are getting anything, maybe start at two and then see what review sites say unless you're going to be performing a review of your own.

africanos23 · 18 Mar 2015 at 11:20

Mei said:
lol wth dood!
....no words

erm if she see's this and you say no to anything...
wow haha

She started off telling me (with her brides maid) a few months ago that the prices are roughly 7K euros for something normal and the nicer ones go for 10K euros.

They basically shocked me so I would actually think anything lower than that was a bargain.

Reminds me of Nvidia somewhat

J.D said:
Congratulations, on both fronts.

I was only joking regarding 4 way but tbh, wouldn't a 5960X be needed to drive 4 TitanXs?. If you do get three then I reckon you'll be fine. If you already had the cards then all it is a little more expenditure further down the line to rectify the situation.

Thing is though, is TRI-SLI improved?. Gregster had minimal gains from his third Titan so if you are getting anything, maybe start at two and then see what review sites say unless you're going to be performing a review of your own.

If 2 way SLI was capable I wouldn't even blink to be honest, 4K or lower would be a nice experience for that . Anything more and your looking at other complications so that's the reason I posted. VRAM, CPU bottleneck , PCI-E struggling etc.

VincentHanna · 18 Mar 2015 at 11:30

Can you send me some money please, ta?

My girlfriend will be getting something for about £500 if she's lucky!

Mei · 18 Mar 2015 at 11:34

africanos23 said:
She started off telling me (with her brides maid) a few months ago that the prices are roughly 7K euros for something normal and the nicer ones go for 10K euros.

They basically shocked me so I would actually think anything lower than that was a bargain.

Reminds me of Nvidia somewhat

as long as you dont make her get marred in a bright green dress and you in a leather jacket lol

africanos23 · 18 Mar 2015 at 11:34

VincentHanna said:
Can you send me some money please, ta?

My girlfriend will be getting something for about £500 if she's lucky!

Welcome to Cyprus, 1300 people wedding roughly and that's on the low side hehehe.

Photographer Cost - 3 Titan X's

Wedding Dress Cost - TBA awaiting the shocker on that, probably roughly 4 Titan X's (maybe an extra X99 system with mobo and ram)

Dinner - Roughly the GPU stock of OCUK

Mei said:
as long as you dont make her get marred in a bright green dress and you in a leather jacket lol

Nah I'm not a fanboy of any sorts ( at least that's what I think)

Mei · 18 Mar 2015 at 11:40

what about the ocuk invites cost with 1st class plane & accommodation!

J.D · 18 Mar 2015 at 11:42

africanos23 said:
If 2 way SLI was capable I wouldn't even blink to be honest, 4K or lower would be a nice experience for that . Anything more and your looking at other complications so that's the reason I posted. VRAM, CPU bottleneck , PCI-E struggling etc.

Probably just hold on for now then and I'm sure SLI+ results will be shown and you can make a better guesstimate from there. I've seen one video of TRI-SLI and the gains seem less with the third card but there was nothing indicating what settings were used. Also, there weren't many tests ran.

As it's 4K plus, you may have to be the guinea pig unless you ask Kaap to use DSR as I'm sure he'll be getting a few.

africanos23 · 18 Mar 2015 at 11:46

J.D said:
Probably just hold on for now then and I'm sure SLI+ results will be shown and you can make a better guesstimate from there. I've seen one video of TRI-SLI and the gains seem less with the third card but there was nothing indicating what settings were used. Also, there weren't many tests ran.

As it's 4K plus, you may have to be the guinea pig unless you ask Kaap to use DSR as I'm sure he'll be getting a few.

Already have asked in the Titan X owners thread for 4K DSR

Why do I have to get these crazy ideas whenever a new GPU gets released! A well... hehehe

Mei said:
what about the ocuk invites cost with 1st class plane & accommodation!

Im not rich let alone Bill Gates

Just your normal GPU degen

Curlyriff · 18 Mar 2015 at 11:47

I have nothing to add to the technical side since we don't know enough about the 390x and I haven't seen any SLI reviews on the TitanX.

However if you feel that 1300 people is on the low side surely it is forum member invites and the gift bag for coming is 1 TitanX per member

rare · 18 Mar 2015 at 11:57

Titan X's do look to scale amazingly well. A pair on three at 4k would be fantastic.

J.D · 18 Mar 2015 at 12:05

africanos23 said:
Already have asked in the Titan X owners thread for 4K DSR

Why do I have to get these crazy ideas whenever a new GPU gets released! A well... hehehe

You're on the ball

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lol It's just impulse and very hard to fight. Also with 4K there's performance gains that can make the experience so much better so it's not like you're throwing your money for 250FPS when you're already hitting 170FPS.

Good luck and will be looking forward to seeing how you get on if you decide to attempt to run super duper 4K+

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