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Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan 3-way/4-way SLI review incl. 5760x1080 and frametimes

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How do two, three and four GTX Titans perform?

By Koen Crijns, Saturday March 2, 2013 12:58 AM

Introduction

Yesterday we published our comprehensive review of the new Nividia GeForce GTX Titan graphics card, but it lacked one important item. How do two, three and four Titans perform together? We tested all SLI combinations, including 5760x1080 and frametime tests, and compared the results to GeForce GTX 690 Quad-SLI.

Nvidia itself only mentions SLI and 3-way SLI, and indicated that 4-way SLI would not be possible with the GTX Titan. However, the Nvidia-sponsored overclocker Kingpin has already posted 3DMark scores with four Titan cards on HWbot.org. We of course had to try our own 4-way SLI configuration, and we're happy to report that it's definitely possible.

And despite the rather steep pricetag of $1,000, Nvidia is aiming this graphics card at the type of gamers who would buy two or three of these. The similarly priced dual-GPU GeForce GTX 690 performs about the same as the GTX Titan, but is louder, uses more power and is limited to SLI (so not three or four cards). Since you can combine three or even four Titans, you're able to get more performance out of the Titans than you can with two GTX 690s.

You obviously don't need this much graphical power for most things, but we've come up with a few extreme scenarios where a second, third or even fourth Titan can be very useful. (Read: Crysis 3!)
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http://us.hardware.info/reviews/403...-way-sli-review-incl-5760x1080-and-frametimes
 
Agreed Rusty, the highest fps I got running SLI 680's with BF3 were 69. I would love to know how they managed that!

I concur with Titans and Crysis 3 though and their findings tally up with mine.
 
Rusty0611 said:
Considering articles like this are supposed to be edited, it doesn't bode well for the overall quality of the article if this is the case.
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Always been one of my gripes with these reviewers. So much inconsistancy and biased shown, you just can't trust them.
 
This is what I hate about a lot of review sites.

- Do not state the benchmark used or methodology
- Do not state min, avg or max

Very unscientific, unprofessional and downright incompetent as the SLI 680s obviously throw the whole thing out the window. Plus they have not declared their (full) process so there can be no attempt to properly replicate the results by the community.
 
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Two 690's out perform 4 Titans quite considerably?

Or am i missing something
 
Apparently he borrowed these 4 Titans from a shop, I'm sure they're very happy to know he completely misrepresented their newest high-markup product.
 
Benchmarks I've seen 3 titan's most of the time out perform 2 690's. That AC3 graph is so very wrong. I'd expect the 2 690's to be around 88-90 fps going by scaling alone.
 
Gregster said:
They have messed up big time. 680 SLI beating 4 way SLI Titans. Someone needs a kick up the jacksy.
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They are a bit clueless with the overclocking, winding up the CPU on 3dmark11 is not enough - you need to have fast memory as well if you are using that hardware.

Also you do not run the P preset on 3dmark vantage with quad sli, You have to use the Extreme preset to get the cards to work.

http://www.3dmark.com/hall-of-fame/3dmark-vantage-users-top-extreme-preset/
 
Samueltastic said:
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Two 690's out perform 4 Titans quite considerably?

Or am i missing something
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LOL I missed that.

So if 1 690 produces 55 FPS we'll call that 100%.

So in theory with maximum possible scaling 2 690s should produce 110 FPS (200%) but according to this review 2 690s are producing 160.6 FPS which is 290% the performance of a single 690 (i.e. close to triple).

What a load of tosh.
 
Rusty0611 said:
LOL I missed that.

So if 1 690 produces 55 FPS we'll call that 100%.

So in theory with maximum possible scaling 2 690s should produce 110 FPS (200%) but according to this review 2 690s are producing 160.6 FPS which is 290% the performance of a single 690 (i.e. close to triple).

What a load of tosh.
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+1
 
0 comments? They must have them disabled or comment moderation on, because plenty of people would love to give their 2p on this article.
 
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