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GTX690 vs TITAN

Dyewitness

Dyewitness

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Hey guys

I am currently interested in purchasing a high end graphics card to replace my GTX 670 and I was looking at the Titan or the GTX690.
Which card would you guys recommend and why?

Cheers.

Chris
 
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it has 3gb of gddr5, where as the titan has 6gb. surely this would make the titan better?
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Not really, by the time 6GB is actually a requirement for games, there will be newer hardware much more capable of pushing pixels, GPU performance on the Titan would top out way before the 6GB could be utilized effectively..

I.e a Maxwell based GTX 880 3GB or HD 9970 4GB is likely to have more performance than a Titan 6GB. It's not just the amount of memory to consider..

Or another example if we compare a 2GB GTX 670 to a 4GB GTX 670 performance is virtually identical..
 
Ive been looking at the other specs as well to see which has the better clock speeds and shader clocks. The AMD 7990 also looks to be a beast in this case.
I just want to buy a card that would last me a year or 2 without having to upgrade. On my 670, I really noticed a performance hit when I played Crysis3 on Ultra, with 4xMSAA. I only got 20-30fps. I can get 60fps on BF3 ok, but I want to have a card that will cope with future games of the Crysis3 Caliber. ie BF4??
 
If you're considering a 690, and therefore essentially sli, totally baffled why you don't just get a second 670. Virtually identical performance and you will save £100's...
 
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My only concern with getting a second 670 is the heat.
I have the KFA 670 and if I get a second one, they will be tight together.
What happens to the fan on the top one? It will have no air getting near it due to the below 670.
Also, I have a 850w modular psu, is the enough for sli?
 
As a 670 SLI user I can heartily recommend it. Steamrollers through anything apart from the odd poorly coded game/ the occasional blip. Drivers seem pretty good these days for SLI.
 
Dyewitness said:
What about the heat? and how they are so close together?
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Heat is zero issue in my build. Not sure what motherboard you have but on mine the gap between them is approx 1 inch. The key thing I made sure of though was to get one card that had an exhaust blower cooler and one with quality top down fan cooler. So i got the evga FTW edition and and MSI power edition with twin frozr cooler. I have this as the top card. The evga sometimes hits 71 degrees with both cards pegging at full load (eg heaven bench), the MSI runs about 4 degrees cooler most of the time at full load. At idle they both sit at a cool 26 degrees on a day like today.

Oh and your PSU is easily enough! (if it's a decent brand) I was running my set up on an old antec 650 watt but upgraded to an xfx 750 xxx silver recently, as it was really straining the antec.
 
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I think itll be an issue with my build tbh.
I have the Asus p8z77 v pro.

When a second card is installed i think there would be like 5mm between the cards.
I could put in the 3rd pci express slot, but this will effect my firewire pci card which I use for my audio interface.

Think this is the main reason why I want 1 powerful card.

What about the GTX 690? its essentially 2x gtx 680s on 1?

Chris
 
Dyewitness said:
I think itll be an issue with my build tbh.
I have the Asus p8z77 v pro.

When a second card is installed i think there would be like 5mm between the cards.
I could put in the 3rd pci express slot, but this will effect my firewire pci card which I use for my audio interface.

Think this is the main reason why I want 1 powerful card.

What about the GTX 690? its essentially 2x gtx 680s on 1?

Chris
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The 690 is essentially 2 680s on 1 pcb yes. I think it runs at slightly slower clock speeds, but it's basically the same as having 680 SLI yes (same driver issues etc, if they ever crop up) but with the bonus of being on one board. I had an ATI 4870x2 back in the day, which was the same principle. Current ATI equiv is the 7990.

With 5mm gap between cards, I would also be unsure of using 2 cards for SLI. Best to leave others on here with experience to advise?
And, if you are looking for one powerhouse card, and have some money to blow, obviously best to wait for the new ones coming in soon.
 
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I have 3x GTX 670 in 3-way-SLi and there's max 5mm between then and heat is no issue since they have the nvidia reference cooler.

If you use two card in SLi with the reference radial blower style fan I would have no concerns running SLi at all. But if you're going to use to GTX 670 cards with a cooler like DirectCU, TwinFrozr, Windforce type then you might get a heat problem with the top card.
 
Gripen90 said:
I have 3x GTX 670 in 3-way-SLi and there's max 5mm between then and heat is no issue since they have the nvidia reference cooler.

If you use two card in SLi with the reference radial blower style fan I would have no concerns running SLi at all. But if you're going to use to GTX 670 cards with a cooler like DirectCU, TwinFrozr, Windforce type then you might get a heat problem with the top card.
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Wow. Useful to know - there you go Dyewitness. I would seriously consider getting another 670 in your shoes then. You will save a fortune, and looking at some of the new 770/ 780 details leaking out, it all looks thoroughly underwhelming and probably massively overpriced.
 
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