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Are two Titans really enough for 2560x1080?

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Hi all, I've just purchased this number from OCUK:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-066-DE

It's kind of an alternative (although not as good) solution to NVsurround at the moment. Question is though as the title dictates, for maximum detail settings in titles such as Metro Last Light is two way SLi Titans enough?

Some of you might be thinking "what a tool...", but coming from playing at 1080/1200 for most of my gaming life it seems like quite a leap in terms of what's needed to go the extra hog.

Has anyone got a similar setup that can maybe throw us some numbers? :) Obviously what I'm implying is, is it worth re-mortgaging and going Tri-SLi.

Windows 7 64
PX79 Pro / 3960X @ 4.6
Two way Titan SLi


Thanks,

Mike
 
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for the vast majority of titles, 1 Titan would be enough

in fact, if you are only going for a single screen / 1440p, I personally would go with 780 SLI instead of Titan SLI
my crystal ball is a bit fuzzy, but I am going to go out on a limb and say that by the time games need more than 3GB of VRAM, maxwell will be on the horizon and you will get better resale value from 780SLI than you will from Titan's

I have 3 way Titan and 7680x1440
670 SLI was plenty running on one 1440 screen in all but Crysis 3 and that was mostly due to bugs in the game rather than outright GPU grunt needed

edit, sorry didn't see that it was 2560x1080, but in fact this lowers requirements slightly, so everything I've said still applies
 
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1 Titan would be enough to max everything at that resolution but I don't think you would get over 60fps , that is when a second titan will help. It all depends on what kind of frame rate you want. I find that I can cope with 30fps, as long as I can stay above this number I find it perfectly playable.

I don't play online shooters, higher framerates no doubt will help here.

The vram issue is a valid one, I used to use a gtx670 at 1440p at never ran into a problem whilst gaming, however my vram usage did hover around 1900mb-2040mb. Games will start to use more vram as the new consoles have an abundance of it.

I agree with the above poster, a pair of 780's are a better investment.
 
I am on 2560*1600, using dual GTX780s overclocked to about 1150Mhz on the cores.

I've seen no issues whatsoever with performance. Even Crysis 3 runs reasonably well.

Of course, it depends what you mean by "max settings". On Metro Last Light, for example, you can enable super-sample AA, which slightly improves the visual appearance but is incredibly slow. The SSAA renders the entire scene at a higher resolution, then downscales it to your monitor res. Obviously no setup is going to come close to being able to run the maximum level of SSAA with playable framerates (not even a watercooled quad-Titan setup). But for any game with 4xMSAA you should be fine.


The easy answer is - check out the performance with two cards and see if it's sufficient for your needs.
 
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I picked up one of those monitors to have a play with when they were on special offer - ran ok off... an overclocked GTX675m (basically desktop 560ti speeds).

Need to do a system upgrade sometime but most of my time isn't spent doing stuff that needs high end GPUs any more :S
 
Duff-Man said:
I am on 2560*1600 [not sure if you mean this resolution, or 2560x1440], using dual GTX780s overclocked to about 1150Mhz on the cores.

I've seen no issues whatsoever with performance. Even Crysis 3 runs reasonably well.

Of course, it depends what you mean by "max settings". On Metro Last Light, for example, you can enable super-sample AA, which slightly improves the visual appearance but is incredibly slow. The SSAA renders the entire scene at a higher resolution, then downscales it to your monitor res. Obviously no setup is going to come close to being able to run the maximum level of SSAA with playable framerates (not even a watercooled quad-Titan setup). But for any game with 4xMSAA you should be fine.


The easy answer is - check out the performance with two cards and see if it's sufficient for your needs.
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I can play Last Light at 4x SSAA comfortably at 1920x1200, might have to put it down to 3 :)
 
Titans are an even bigger rip off now the 780 is available. Although the 780 itself is overpriced, it actually looks decent value next to the Titan considering it has 95% of the performance.

Anyway, at that res a single 780 will fly. Hell, my lowly 680 runs most things near max at 1440p.

Edit: you already have two titans? Well that is plenty for the foreseeable and more. A third one would be a total waste. Save your cash.
 
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IvanDobskey said:
Titans are an even bigger rip off now the 780 is available. Although the 780 itself is overpriced, it actually looks decent value next to the Titan considering it has 95% of the performance.

Anyway, at that res a single 780 will fly. Hell, my lowly 680 runs most things near max at 1440p.

Edit: you already have two titans? Well that is plenty for the foreseeable and more. A third one would be a total waste. Save your cash.
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Hopefully this is the case as I've never entered tri SLi territory before, and don't really fancy doing so at eight-hundred-pounds a pop lol.
 
Trust me I have tri sli the best scaling I see is 80% each card when 2x cards get 95%

3x80= 240%
2x95= 190%

It really don't scale well and most games I hardly notice the the third card and a lot of games its worst and have to set it as a PhysX card.
 
Why get titans when GTX 700 series is cheaper, also I usually find the scaling on the third card not worth the cash. I'd say just stick to SLI.
 
3 titans at 1080 even by wasteful standards is a bit special. There are no gains from what ive seen. You can throw % all you want the fps begs to differ, bu5 throw anything above that resolution into the equation and it seems to be slightly more worth while. Just not enough to warrant the cost.
 
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MjFrosty said:
3 titans at 1080 even by wasteful standards is a bit special. There are no gains from what ive seen. You can throw % all you want the fps begs to differ, bu5 throw anything above that resolution into the equation and it seems to be slightly more worth while. Just not enough to warrant the cost.
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No gains from what?

Mr. May said:
How did you get the scaling so high ?
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They have always scaled well :)
 
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