GeForce Titan

[130R]

Is anyone else considering getting one (or two) of these? Benchmarks should be revealed today I believe.

From a financial point of view I think these cards will make no sense whatsoever, but I've been looking to upgrade and this will be the fastest single GPU so it's tempting (In SLI I think this will be the fastest setup possible because of all the scaling issues with tri or quad SLI)

[voyds9]

Nope, but hopefully it will reduce the price of some of the older cards.

I NEED another 660Ti.

[Oakey]

Don't see the point, it's overkill for what's available at the moment and by the time any decent games are released that make use of it they'll have a) come down in price and b) been replaced by something even more shiny.

Unless of course you want to run a massive multi-monitor setup, I can see benefits there.

ETA: Also, that heatsink / fan combo they're showing it with on the Nvidia site looks like it'll be a complete ballache to clean out and my experience of smaller fans is they fail quicker than a large fan (I'm looking at you XFX).

[mmm-five]

Some of the benchmarks (on top-of-the-range i7 rigs) for the current bleeding-edge GPUs show that some games are CPU limited, not GPU limited, so a faster GPU won't get you any more FPS.

[130R]

mmm-five said:

Some of the benchmarks (on top-of-the-range i7 rigs) for the current bleeding-edge GPUs show that some games are CPU limited, not GPU limited, so a faster GPU won't get you any more FPS.

Definitely true for some games, but then if you are CPU limited to 100 FPS it's not really a big deal IMO. Getting 60 FPS on any game on max settings would be all I'm interested in.

[MorrisCRX]

Personally I'd hold off for 6 months or so and see how it fairs on the market.

[130R]

Some of the first benchmarks I have seen:

[130R]

I'm out. £840 and I would need 2 to get a significant jump over what I have now = £1680

No way is it fast enough for that sort of money.

[mmm-five]

Pair of 7970 in SLI would be the better/cheaper option I think?

[MorrisCRX]

a bit cheaper yes ~£350 a pop on overclockers. How does crossfire/sli perform on todays games? I'm only aware of the times when you had to turn it of due to compatibility with some games.

[Oakey]

Those benchmarks look rather piss poor for a card that's so expensive when two cheaper cards in SLI / Crossfire perform just as well and are still cheaper.

[130R]

Agree, IMO this card is only worth buying if you are going to put them in SLI.

MorrisCRX said:

How does crossfire/sli perform on todays games? I'm only aware of the times when you had to turn it of due to compatibility with some games.

I have been running SLI for over 18 months (GTX580) and I have never had to turn it off. The only issue you ever get is waiting for SLI drivers for a particular game in my experience, and that just means it effectively runs using 1 card until they turn up.

[Rawwr]

I'd like to see power draw for all of those configurations. Sneaking suspicion that SLI is a bit more rapey.