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OcUK Official Geforce Titan review thread

Really mixed bag of results that only really justifies the price in specific cases tho I get the feeling we will probably see some big performance hikes with driver updates those results are a little on the low side even taking diminishing returns into account for the hardware specs/clock speeds.
 
I do most of my gaming these days on a i7 3610QM w/ 16GB RAM and a GTX675m :P unless I actually need the faster GPU performance.
 
Well I have my 680M at 1033/2500 (almost a full GTX670 desktop) for 24/7 (up from 720/1800) so I can't complain too much.

Wish we could get some of the power features (but not the locking) in mobile form.
 
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/2144/15/

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GeForce GTX Titan Overclocking

We installed the EVGA Precision X 4.0.0 software utility to see how the NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan 6GB video card could overclocked!

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EVGA Precision X v4.0.0 includes a few new features that are unique to this card. Not only can you adjust the power target, GPU and Memory clock offsets within a certain range, but you can now also adjust the temperature target. By default the power and temp targets are linked together, but you can unlink them and adjust them independantly.

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In case you forgot. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan has a base clock of 837MHz with a boost clock of 876MHz!

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After a few hours with the GeForce Titan we found that the card was able to reach 1163MHz on the core clock and while we weren't too aggressive with the memory we were able to get it up to 1625MHz (6500MHz effective). To get this overclock we had to

NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan at Stock Settings (837MHz Core & 6008MHz Memory):

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EVGA GeForce GTX Titan Overclocked w/ 1163MHz Core & 6500MHz Memory:

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With this overclock we were able to hit P14838 on 3DMark 11 with the performance preset, which is a nice increase from P13421! This is a 1417 point in our score, which is a 10.6% improvement in performance over the reference cards clock speed! With the cards temp target set at teh default setting of 90C the score was around P14550, so by increasing the GPU's temperature target we were able to run at full boost clocks longer than when set to a lower temp target. This was enough to give us an additional performance increase that was measurable in the benchmarks!

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Real games also showed some pretty decent improvements! In Metro 2033 we saw a nice ~11% performance gain at 2560x1600.

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In Battlefield 3 we saw a 11 FPS performance gains at both 2560x1600 and 16 FPS at 1920x1080! This is a huge increase and just shy of the performance of a GeForce GTX 690.

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Just for fun we took a look and overclocked power consumption and in game test one in 3DMark 11 the power use went from 435W to 450W, which isn't that bad at all. We did increase our power target though and a result of that was louder fan speeds. With default settings the card was running around 52 dB in 3DMark11, but when overclocked with the temp target set to 93C the noise from the card jumped up to 55.3 dB. Not a huge difference, but one that you can certainly hear.
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JAKUS said:
Not entirely sure how they managed that, My understanding is the cards are Firmware locked to a specific power limit. You are however free to add volts/clocks up to that power draw, but If it's a heavy load you ain't going far :)

This guy is pretty good, top of the page....http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_Titan/33.html
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Yer, I can't realy comment on what is what till I get a 'hands on' and have a good play. This GPU 2.0 boost and the very confusing voltages have me scratching my head a little.

1.2V being the max allowed seems a little low to me but it is Nvidia we are talking about here. I wonder how much voltage Kingpin put through his?
 
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gregster said:
Yer, I can't realy comment on what is what till I get a 'hands on' and have a good play. This GPU 2.0 boost and the very confusing voltages have me scratching my head a little.

1.2V being the max allowed seems a little low to me but it is Nvidia we are talking about here. I wonder how much voltage Kingpin put through his?
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I don't think you will ever see unlocked cards again TBH, It costs them money in every way, damage and loss of sales of higher models etc.

Those boys will put silly voltages through those cards. But will also run them at very, very low temperatures so they live (at least long enough to get a pull).. that's racing engine talk for a dyno run measurement :D

Everything you need to know was linked from the other thread, I think the good stuff was mainly German and Swedish sites and anandtech.
 
At £830 it is just so ridiculously priced as to render it a pointless addition to nVidia's range. It is at least £230 over what could be sensibly considered expensive, let alone value for money. A "look at what we can do" rather than a "We want you buy this" product that is more a testament to nVidia's ego than anything else.
 
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At £830 it is just so ridiculously priced as to render it a pointless addition to nVidia's range. It is at least £230 over what could be sensibly considered expensive, let alone value for money. A "look at what we can do" rather than a "We want you buy this" product that is more a testament to nVidia's ego than anything else.
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Agreed. I don't buy into this 'boutique product' nonsense. Across the board Nvidia's current lineup simply isn't as compelling as AMD's right now. Titan is the only exception, but definitely not from a price:performance point of view. BTW this is coming from someone who's bought 8 Nvidia products and just 2 from the red team over the last ten years. I do love Nvidia's drivers, but it seems AMD have finally got their act together in this regard; it changes the playing field somewhat.

Looking at the benchmarks, Titan has a ~25% lead over a HD7970, but its almost 3 times the price. Its a lovely product, but seriously? What use is a high performance product when enthusiasts can't buy it?
 
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This Is a good video with a guy from Nvidia. I like the target temp idea although not sure I understand why they allow 90c but limit the power :confused:



How did you get the embedded code to work Greg ?
 
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