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!)
http://us.hardware.info/reviews/403...-way-sli-review-incl-5760x1080-and-frametimes
 
Pretty shitty on Nvidia's part about 4way SLI...You would think they would be on the ball, specially if you just spend $4000 on video cards.

but MOTHER OF GOD look at the multimonitor performance!!!!

P.S. Looks like 2xtitans cant run crysis 3 in 1080p maxed out on a 120hz monitor......bummer
 
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Pretty informative benchmark results. They ran the Titans on stock clocks but the numbers still look very good.
 
Pretty shitty on Nvidia's part about 4way SLI...You would think they would be on the ball, specially if you just spend $4000 on video cards.

but MOTHER OF GOD look at the multimonitor performance!!!!

P.S. Looks like 2xtitans cant run crysis 3 in 1080p maxed out on a 120hz monitor......bummer

No, it's not the Titans. At 1080P maxed out the CPU becomes the limiting factor for FPS. There are a few settings in Crysis 3 that just crap all over your CPU.
 
No, it's not the Titans. At 1080P maxed out the CPU becomes the limiting factor for FPS. There are a few settings in Crysis 3 that just crap all over your CPU.

Hmmmm, then how fast of a CPU will we need for this. I would think a 5ghz /w HT ON would be enough for a 120hz monitor.

How optimized is the game?
 
Need some 11MP+ benchmarks, it looks like most of the games tested are not demanding enough at 6.2MP for 4-way Titans.
 
When will a reviewer test in dual, tri, quad cards and overclock the shit out of cards on a multiscreen review showing several triple screen resolutions 3x 1920x1080 and 3x 2560x1440.

I would love to see how overclocking a GPU set would help performance in multi screen one day before buying

/facepalm :(
 
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I'm not real sure how a GTX680 goes from 25fps on the 3 monitor setup on Battlefield 3, to 97fps with sli. That's gotta be some kind of record for sli scaling.
 
1080 and 2 titans can't max crysis 3?? Seriously on a single monitor at that low rez and they can't max crysis 3? Tells me to run fast and far away from crysis 3 as it's an unoptimized mess just like crysis was in 2007 or whenever it came out.
 
1080 and 2 titans can't max crysis 3?? Seriously on a single monitor at that low rez and they can't max crysis 3? Tells me to run fast and far away from crysis 3 as it's an unoptimized mess just like crysis was in 2007 or whenever it came out.

Sure, just because it doesn't run 60 FPS + means it's unoptimized garbage. :rolleyes: Crysis 3 looks WAY better than anything else out there. Personally I'm glad some games are pushing the latest hardware.
 
There is nothing to review if you have 3 titans or 4 then you have the fastest gpu set up possible by normal people that do not make super computers or workstations.
 
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