The Benchmarks
I ran everything that I could in a short amount of time, I also wanted to get hands on gaming in Battlefield 4 as I have a 144Hz monitor along with a 4K to compliment my setup but that had to wait until after launch.
The bench screen shots are all current and legacy benchmarks we run today for competition and performance testing. Everything was run at default resolutions, stock benchmarks are run without LOD changes.
I got x frames per second does not do this card justice, it is the quality of the rendering in the most demanding situations and the ability to run old or new titles without having to worry about performance or driver support issues is most important and this is what Nvidia does best because Nvidia has the excellent developer support.
Nvidia has delivered a new flagship GPU, but this time in with a much higher larger performance increase over the existing models. Something I am sure was noted by all reviewers as it easily beats the GTX 980.
The bench screen shots are all current and legacy benchmarks we run today for competition and performance testing. Everything was run at default resolutions, stock benchmarks are run without LOD changes.
I got x frames per second does not do this card justice, it is the quality of the rendering in the most demanding situations and the ability to run old or new titles without having to worry about performance or driver support issues is most important and this is what Nvidia does best because Nvidia has the excellent developer support.
Nvidia has delivered a new flagship GPU, but this time in with a much higher larger performance increase over the existing models. Something I am sure was noted by all reviewers as it easily beats the GTX 980.
After testing:
The Titan-X is a monster on stock cooling, there is not much need to add super cooling unless you modify the card with more power phases. Cold air forced into the card should enable it to reach max speed as is. I was able to reach a top speed of 1460Mhz on the GPU and 8052Mhz on the GDDR5 without adding voltages.
I took time to play on the card in 4K @ 60Hz and some FPS @ 144Hz. For gaming the card did spin up a little bit more than I would have liked but it was in a closed case with a pair of 120mm exhausting the AOI CPU cooler put the graphics card at a disadvantage of sharing warm air mid case.
As I clocked up the card I could see improved scaling gains over the GTX 980, even though the GTX 980 can clock much higher it can be beaten easily with the Titan-X from the greater scaling factor.
I was happy to see that the overclocking utilities I used for the GTX 980 worked perfectly with the Titan-X, the small stuff like fan speed, sensors, K-boost, and temperature reporting all worked fine. I even dug into LOD to find everything still works.
I only had a few days to run the card on cold and with the four system swaps I wanted to run 2, 4, 6, and 8 cores on Firestrike Extreme as this would show scaling on the smallest of Intel processors.
On cold the card ran without any problems at all @ -52c, under load my Kryotek will drop only 2c during benchmarks and I was able to rule out cooling capacity to the crashing when the Titan-X was overclocked too far.
Crashing is pretty much the same as what we are used to with previous Nvidia cards. A crash result in a blank screen and dropped back to desktop with the error message that the VGA quit responding, The VGA bios will reset itself to stock and restart. The machine itself does not crash, just the Titan-X and you can re clock the card and re run bench again.
The memory on my card was able to max out the slider and visually it was nearing the breaking point, it ran all test with the slider maxed out at 8052Mhz.
The Titan-X will replace my 980's in SLI, I prefer lower power consumption and cooler running machine.
I took time to play on the card in 4K @ 60Hz and some FPS @ 144Hz. For gaming the card did spin up a little bit more than I would have liked but it was in a closed case with a pair of 120mm exhausting the AOI CPU cooler put the graphics card at a disadvantage of sharing warm air mid case.
As I clocked up the card I could see improved scaling gains over the GTX 980, even though the GTX 980 can clock much higher it can be beaten easily with the Titan-X from the greater scaling factor.
I was happy to see that the overclocking utilities I used for the GTX 980 worked perfectly with the Titan-X, the small stuff like fan speed, sensors, K-boost, and temperature reporting all worked fine. I even dug into LOD to find everything still works.
I only had a few days to run the card on cold and with the four system swaps I wanted to run 2, 4, 6, and 8 cores on Firestrike Extreme as this would show scaling on the smallest of Intel processors.
On cold the card ran without any problems at all @ -52c, under load my Kryotek will drop only 2c during benchmarks and I was able to rule out cooling capacity to the crashing when the Titan-X was overclocked too far.
Crashing is pretty much the same as what we are used to with previous Nvidia cards. A crash result in a blank screen and dropped back to desktop with the error message that the VGA quit responding, The VGA bios will reset itself to stock and restart. The machine itself does not crash, just the Titan-X and you can re clock the card and re run bench again.
The memory on my card was able to max out the slider and visually it was nearing the breaking point, it ran all test with the slider maxed out at 8052Mhz.
The Titan-X will replace my 980's in SLI, I prefer lower power consumption and cooler running machine.
System Specifications:
Nvidia Geforce Titan-X Intel 5960X Intel 5820K Intel 4790K Intel G3240 Gigabyte SOC-Champion Asus Rampage V Extreme Asus Maximus VII Gene Asus Maximus VII Formula G.Skill TridentX 2666C11D DDR3 Kingston Predator 3000C15 ThermalTake Toughpower 1500W |
Benchmarks Run:
Futuremark 3DMark 2003 Futuremark 3DMark 2005 Futuremark 3DMark 2006 Futuremark 3Dmark Auqamark 3 Uniheaven GPUPi Cooling: Liquid Nitrogen on CPU Triple Stage Cascade on CPU Kryotek Tandem Compressor on GPU Stock Cooling on GPU Purpose: To show scaling on various processors from stock to overclocked and show Scaling of the Titan-X from overclocking. |
Notes:
GPUPi scored highest for all Nvidia The G3240 scores and scaled decently Nvidia Inspector works, LOD values work Most GTX overclocking tools work with BETA drivers Expected results unmodded card: +200 Mhz on GPU with stock cooler +300 Mhz on GPU with phase chage -50c Titan-X @ +200 Mhz = GTX 980 @ 1800 Mhz XMP timing used in most cases, some results I improved timing. The card runs quiet and cool, reaching +200 on the stock cooler was not a problem and did not race the fan to max when benching. Some results linked to HWbot.org |