The Pascal Titan X and XP Owners Thread

Silent_Scone · 13 Aug 2016 at 14:36

crinkleshoes said:
Neither did I, but I received dispatch notification yesterday and they arrived this morning at a company that accepts packages for me in Germany - I just have to collect them. Will go sometime next week as I'm not in a rush... waiting on a lot of other stuff so can't do anything with them til the end of the week at the earliest... possibly even the week starting 22nd

I had a notification to say they were in stock yesterday. Don't think mine has shipped yet, though.

Kaapstad · 13 Aug 2016 at 16:28

Ayahuasca said:
How's the experience compared to 4 Titan X's Kaap?

4 Maxwell Titans on Witcher 3 is better as it scales well and the fps are higher.

Having said that 4 way SLI is great when it works but not a lot of fun if it is badly done.

I think games like GTA V and Watchdogs would also go better on the Maxwells 4 up.

The Tomb Raider games are better with 2 way Pascal even though they support 4 way Maxwell SLI.

It is like everything else to do with GPUs, there is no one solution that works for everything.

Best compromise for overall performance imho would be 2 way Pascal Titan SLI.

Smffy · 13 Aug 2016 at 16:35

Kaapstad said:
Best compromise for overall performance imho would be 2 way Pascal Titan SLI.

Only Kaap see's 2 Pascal Titans as a compromise... Haha! I haven't even caved and bought 1 yet.

Kaapstad · 13 Aug 2016 at 16:39

Smffy said:
Only Kaap see's 2 Pascal Titans as a compromise... Haha! I haven't even caved and bought 1 yet.

Pascal Titan 2 way SLI is a very nice compromise though.

I have got a couple of 1060s and I will be running them in SLI whether NVidia likes it or not, AOTS here we come.

VEGACORTEZ · 13 Aug 2016 at 16:42

Kaapstad said:
Witcher 3

Pascal Titan x2 stock

HB SLI bridge

2160p maxed including hair

73fps average and no big dips.

Nice! I'm happy how one card does at 4k, much better than the 1080. Not a fan of SLI as it is good when it works and annoying when it scales badly, judders or doesn't work. I've had SLI titan blacks, SLI titan x maxwell and SLI 980 ti but thankfully i don't need it now. G-sync picks up the slack for now as the dips are still only mid 40's on hardcore areas of most games which is fine enough.

Combat Fighter · 13 Aug 2016 at 17:09

Greebo said:
Thought AQ were cheaper like for like?

Active backplate more money though.

I guess the blocks more or less the same.

However the active backplate is quite a bit dearer.

It does look much nicer than the EK version and actually cools properly.

Hopefully it's worth it!

Not sure if I need to get any heat separate pads or not. From my understanding with the AC you actually put thermal paste on the memory chips direct rather than pads. I've got a large tube of Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut for the core and memory chips so should be sorted I reckon.

EDIT:

Just seen from a video that it comes with thermal pads for the vrm, so thats cool. Paste for everything else. Also comes with the 4mm nut driver which is bonus.

waspy88 · 13 Aug 2016 at 21:27

On the subject of using a dedicated secondary GPU for the purposes of crunching for physx is there any proof out there for how this will work in modern games?

Kered_Dub · 14 Aug 2016 at 10:06

waspy88 said:
On the subject of using a dedicated secondary GPU for the purposes of crunching for physx is there any proof out there for how this will work in modern games?

+1

I was thinking the same thing...

Can't seem to see any benchmarks out there though.
Would be nice to see how fps differ for a single Titan X Pascal with and without a dedicated Physx / Gameworks card (something like a GTX 980 or Ti) in the likes of Witcher 3, Arkham Knight etc.

Strife212 · 14 Aug 2016 at 11:29

It only works on a handful of games, most games don't use GPU physx.

Kaapstad · 14 Aug 2016 at 12:22

Kered_Dub said:
+1

I was thinking the same thing...

Can't seem to see any benchmarks out there though.
Would be nice to see how fps differ for a single Titan X Pascal with and without a dedicated Physx / Gameworks card (something like a GTX 980 or Ti) in the likes of Witcher 3, Arkham Knight etc.

Settings

Single stock Pascal Titan

Single stock Pascal Titan + dedicated Physics card (another Pascal Titan)

Please don't use the above as a guide for older cards as they can take a big performance hit when running Physics and Graphics on the same GPU.

crinkleshoes · 14 Aug 2016 at 12:28

Out of curiosity, could you compare that to SLI with physx enabled?

Doesn't look to be a massive gain with dedicated physx card

Kaapstad · 14 Aug 2016 at 13:00

crinkleshoes said:
Out of curiosity, could you compare that to SLI with physx enabled?

Doesn't look to be a massive gain with dedicated physx card

2 way SLI with Physics on

I will have a search round and see if I can find a third card for dedicated physics.

Kaapstad · 14 Aug 2016 at 13:23

Just tried it with a third card for physics but it made no difference to the 2 way SLI score.

Kered_Dub · 14 Aug 2016 at 14:25

Kaapstad said:
Settings

Single stock Pascal Titan

Single stock Pascal Titan + dedicated Physics card (another Pascal Titan)

Please don't use the above as a guide for older cards as they can take a big performance hit when running Physics and Graphics on the same GPU.

Thank you very much Kaapstad!

Side note - I didn't know Arkham Origins supported SLI, seems it does.

Would you mind running the same test, (single Titan XP) with and without a dedicated Physx card for Wither 3 and Arkham Knight at 4K.

Thank you kindly!!!

FTL · 14 Aug 2016 at 14:31

Great to see the kind of performance this card is putting out - looking forward to seeing a theoretical 1080ti, although I do envy you guys

crinkleshoes · 14 Aug 2016 at 14:37

Kaapstad said:
Just tried it with a third card for physics but it made no difference to the 2 way SLI score.

Thanks

tyler_jrb · 14 Aug 2016 at 15:40

Looks like you will be adding me soon kaap

. Single TXP ordered and waterblock pre-ordered as well. I'll order a backplate at the end of the month and use the NV one for now.

Just fed up with SLI. Did a few tests to see how much of an improvement i was getting with two cards vs 1 and its pretty crap to say the least.

ROTTR-70.39
SLI-89.79 (27% increase)

Dying Light-81
SLI-85

The Division-60.5
SLI-49.4

Witcher 3-75
SLI-40

So yeah as you can imagine not happy with SLI at the minute and fed up forever waiting for SLI support in the first place, better drivers, messing around with profiles. Single TXP should be as fast as the current scaling im seeing with 1080 SLI at the minute.

Thought about TXP SLI but again decided not to because of the results above. Single TXP under water clocked to high heaven should be an absolute monster. Cant wait

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Greebo · 14 Aug 2016 at 15:59

Something wrong there esp with the division. Every other sli I've seen on that game has shown up to a 50% increase not decrease. Same with the witcher 3 .

tyler_jrb · 14 Aug 2016 at 16:10

Greebo said:
Something wrong there esp with the division. Every other sli I've seen on that game has shown up to a 50% increase not decrease. Same with the witcher 3 .

Tried every driver since release with no change. Only time I could get them to run a max was at a stupid crazy resolution at about 30fps.

Both cards are maxing at about 50-60% utilisation on TW3 but still worse performance than a single card.

My 980Ti's were performing better to be honest.

MofoKilla · 14 Aug 2016 at 16:36

when will ocuk sell these?