Nvidia Kepler, Part 2

[nycdarkness]

Hmm. While I originally thought it was a bit high thinking about it again. I'll bite for 2 for giggles.

[Greasy]

Wow if this thing is faster than 2x 680s imagine if they had actually meant this to go head to head with the 7970.

If these numbers are true, then this is a no brainer for people who were thinking about buying a 690 or 6x0 SLI setup.

[BababooeyHTJ]

At even $700 I would sell my three cards and pick up one of these monsters. At $900 I would be tempted but I don't see it happening. It all depends on overclocking potential.

I never touched the core voltage on my GTX280 either but if you could keep it really cool that bastard could clock really well.

[H001iGAN]

yea so. pcie-2 and i7 980 will bottleneck a titan or not?
hopefully they will overclock good under water, I suspect even a 1000mhz clock would get it about even with 690 performance.

[demo]

Nah be ok for a single card at x16 imo, x8 is too low though. 980x @ 4GHz+ should be ok too, since you use a 1600p display. I wouldn't run SLI on that system though.

[demo]

Interesting user review with a whole bunch of video cards for anyone interested.

http://forums.overclockers.com.au/sh....php?t=1069681

[Nvidialist]

Originally Posted by SIrPauly

I believe it is only for multi-GPU. Don't see it here based on I have a single GPU platform.

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3283

[CurrentlyPissed]

So I got that new 680 in today.

(For those unaware from the General Hardware section I had a Asus DCUII 680 2GB 1293c/6300mem).

Sent it off for RMA while waiting for it to return, I figured I may as well get the 4GB model since I am now using 5760x1080 instead of 1920x1080. So I bought the Asus DCUII 680 4GB.

I am dissapoint

New card only OCs to 1250c/6200mem. Which I guess still isn't anything to laugh about consideirng stock is 1006c/6000mem. But I did loose 200 points in 3dMark11.

I would have to imagine the extra headroom of the extra 2GB would be better at the resolution though. In FireFall at 5760x1080 I maintain around 50FPS with everything maxed, so I guess it's not too bad.

I'm thinking instead of selling the other 680 on RMA. I may add it for SLi, but I don't know if I want to waste that 2GB headroom. What do you chaps think?

[Higgy10]

Originally Posted by CurrentlyPissed

So I got that new 680 in today.

(For those unaware from the General Hardware section I had a Asus DCUII 680 2GB 1293c/6300mem).

Sent it off for RMA while waiting for it to return, I figured I may as well get the 4GB model since I am now using 5760x1080 instead of 1920x1080. So I bought the Asus DCUII 680 4GB.

I am dissapoint

New card only OCs to 1250c/6200mem. Which I guess still isn't anything to laugh about consideirng stock is 1006c/6000mem. But I did loose 200 points in 3dMark11.

I would have to imagine the extra headroom of the extra 2GB would be better at the resolution though. In FireFall at 5760x1080 I maintain around 50FPS with everything maxed, so I guess it's not too bad.

I'm thinking instead of selling the other 680 on RMA. I may add it for SLi, but I don't know if I want to waste that 2GB headroom. What do you chaps think?

If your serious about multimon then go sli, especially with a 4gb model since any game that needs more than 2gb of vram(generally with aa) any single card will choke whether u have 2gb or 4gb

[CurrentlyPissed]

Originally Posted by Higgy10

If your serious about multimon then go sli, especially with a 4gb model since any game that needs more than 2gb of vram(generally with aa) any single card will choke whether u have 2gb or 4gb

Well if I do SLi, the other card is 2GB. So it would limit both to 2GB. I'm not going to purchase another 680 and have 3 . I would likely just use both until the 780 variant comes around and depending on price possibly buy 2 of those.

[SIrPauly]

Originally Posted by Nvidialist

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3283

Thanks Blaire!

[CurrentlyPissed]

Also anyone know how when Nvidia Surround @ 5760x1080 for windows, is there any way to use that, and make the middle screen my main display?

[SIrPauly]

The potential score from Titan was dubious and is indeed a fake:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost...&postcount=431

[CurrentlyPissed]

Originally Posted by CurrentlyPissed

Also anyone know how when Nvidia Surround @ 5760x1080 for windows, is there any way to use that, and make the middle screen my main display?

No one knows on this huh? I seen a post by Nvidia that they were working to resolve this.. That was 2 years ago. Can't seem to find an answer or not whether or not they ever fixed it.

[bill dennison]

Originally Posted by SIrPauly

The potential score from Titan was dubious and is indeed a fake:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost...&postcount=431

i'm shocked shocked

[PowerK]

Originally Posted by Nvidialist

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3283

Danke

[PowerK]

Those of you using 670/680 SLI, do you use SLI AA at all ?

[Kain]

Anything on the power requirements of the Titan?

[caveman-jim]

Originally Posted by Kain

Anything on the power requirements of the Titan?

235W I heard but it might be 300W.

PC Perspective and TechReport have them in hand for testing now. Others may too, but not me.

[BababooeyHTJ]

Originally Posted by caveman-jim

235W I heard but it might be 300W.

PC Perspective and TechReport have them in hand for testing now. Others may too, but not me.

For a full on review? I thought that the rumored release was the end of the month?

[Kain]

Originally Posted by caveman-jim

235W I heard but it might be 300W.

PC Perspective and TechReport have them in hand for testing now. Others may too, but not me.

Thanks. Do you think I could run two Titans in SLI and a 3930K on an AX850?

[icecold1983]

i hope you guys arent seriously entertaining the idea of nvidias next gpu being anywhere remotely close of 2x the performance of a 680

edit - in games. dp performance is useless for just about everyone who will ever post on a gaming forum

[KAC]

When is this card out?

[Kain]

Originally Posted by KAC

When is this card out?

Probably by the end of this month.

[NIGELG]

Interesting....

[shadow001]

It depends on the overall gaming performance of Titan, but if it's only 50~60% faster than the GTX680 or HD7970 cards, i might be tempted to get 4 of them despite their prices being pretty high.....Power wise isn't a problem even if they end up using 300 watts a piece, since i use a pair of 1200 watt power supplies, and it'll all be water cooled once blocks are eventually released to keep temperatures and silence under control.


But most of all, it'll be for the amount of memory onboard as they might pack 6 GB of it, as i reach the 3GB limit on the HD7970's with some games and benchmarks when running at eyefinity mode at 8000*1440 when using 8X AA, so it's only in this specific scenario where 3GB still isn't enough memory to keep things running smoothly.

[demo]

You're going to buy 4 Titans to run 8xAA instead of 4xAA on 27" 1440p displays?

[shadow001]

Originally Posted by demo

You're going to buy 4 Titans to run 8xAA instead of 4xAA on 27" 1440p displays?

Since at that crazy resolution when all 3 displays are combined(8000*1400 bezel compensated), it consumes a crazy amount of memory for the frame buffer alone, now triple that amount for triple buffering, and add AA on top of it and it becomes an issue....There simply isn't enough memory and the funny thing is that it has nothing to do with the GPU itself.


So if the Titan comes with 6 GB onboard, and not so much if the GPU is actually faster or not, as it's a moot point now that they're packing billions of transistors in these things, and some of their features have nothing to do with gaming, like double precision floating point math ability.


So this is just in my particular setup where the limits are being pushed and even exceeded when it comes to memory.....It's not even close to a problem for those running single displays or even triple displays where the resolutions are lower overall.

[BababooeyHTJ]

IDK, I don't think that 8xmsaa is worth the performance hit. Had you said supersampling I might agree with you. That I use whenever I get the chance.

[shadow001]

Originally Posted by BababooeyHTJ

IDK, I don't think that 8xmsaa is worth the performance hit. Had you said supersampling I might agree with you. That I use whenever I get the chance.

True, MSAA is a memory hog and isn't quite as good as super sampling, wich hammers the GPU really hard and not so much the memory, but can you imagine the workload the GPU would have to deal with at the resolution i use in combination with super sampling AA?....


It would be painfull if the GPU renders every frame internally at 64000*11520 pixels before downsampling that to 8000*1440 when using 8X super sampling AA...