Titan goes live

[Chalenge]

They call it Titan, but it is realy the GK110 GPU. It is the fastest single GPU video card available as of this moment. The Titan comes with a standard 6GB memory model and is clocked lower than the 680 types. Will you be able to buy one anytime soon? Well,. . . if you want to buy a pre-built system then yes, but pricey at more than $3000.

Review at Anandtech and any Nvidia SLI members will be getting email about it shortly with more pre-built vendors listed.

[BoilerDown]

I'd get this before going SLI for sure.  Never been sold on SLI, least of all now when every game I play is either CPU bound or GPU bound at more than 60 FPS.

Speaking of which, Aces High could use a GPU/CPU indicator ala hitting CTRL-F in Planetside 2.  Would take a lot of guesswork out of which upgrade to get next for a lot of people.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

I'd get this before going SLI for sure.  Never been sold on SLI, least of all now when every game I play is either CPU bound or GPU bound at more than 60 FPS.

Speaking of which, Aces High could use a GPU/CPU indicator ala hitting CTRL-F in Planetside 2.  Would take a lot of guesswork out of which upgrade to get next for a lot of people.

Running MSI afterburner will log your cpu/gpu usage history.

[Chalenge]

I think if you have an i5/i7 at greater than 3.0GHz and a 600 series, especially a GTX 680, then you have no need to upgrade. Not for AH at least. Since I also do other things on a computer I will have to see what it will do for transcoding videos, 3D Max renders, Revit, and so on, but for AH I don't see a need. I really don't feel a need to use ultimate shadows, because when you play with shadows you are not actually focusing on the shadows and your brain fills in the little details that the game has as a little rough.

Now if someone is playing on an older card and needs an upgrade, or suddenly their card burns out (I just had one do that actually - covered by EVGA lifetime warranty) then upgrading to Titan is a no-brainer. Now, if the older cards suddenly see a drastic price drop? SLI baby!

[zack1234]

I have i7 overclocked to 4.3 and a gtx680

Guy on shop advised me to get a 860i power supply and in two years time get another graphics card and go SLI

On the Island yesterday i went down to 43fsp with local reflections on, which i found odd

Its always 60fsp, I presume its something to do with reflections with the water and coast.

As Challenge has stated you can switch lots of things off if you want, i have everything up high because I can.

The most important thing to stop distraction is that i minimise the text buffer, in ROF its very annoying as the text buffer pops up all the time.

[Chalenge]

Yes, what I tried to say, and said poorly, is that even a single GTX 680 will run AH and allow smooth shadows at 4096 texture size (if you have the right CPU already). I did notice that the shadows are slightly smoother with the latest drivers (or maybe HTC changed something). I never noticed when the change occured, but I compared a few older recordings with some I just recently made and I can see a difference.

[cattb]

I never used the shadows, as challenge has said. If in a fight the concentration is on the fight, not the shadows. Just playing the game SA is so important I lose track of shadows don't pay attention to them, so why bother.

On a long cruise where boredom can set it, its kinda fun to mess with.

[Gman]

I noticed the shadows improvement with nVidia's new drivers as well, especially at 8092.  I will say one thing, I can run max everything EXCEPT environment sliders and see 59 or 60 max no matter what I do in game.  If I leave the slider two notches from the left, so 2 shy of max, my FPS stays maxed out continuously, however if I max it full left, it'll drop to the low 40's as a previous poster just said in a high traffic area.  

For my 3820 single 4gb 680 FTW+ LE system the shadows being right off or maxed out doesn't cause my FPS to drop lower than 60, but as I said, the environmental slider being full left will make things seem a bit more sensitive when I roll around and look around, and will stay at 59 or 60 unless I get into a lot of gvs and cons and smoke combined, then it'll drop 20 fps or so.  Even my 3930k system with 2 of those 680's in SLI will see a drop to 50 or so FPS in the same circumstances with the slider full left.  I really don't see a whole lot of difference in how the game looks, it's fantastic still with it 2 notches right, so I just leave it there, and leave shadows at max as like I said they don't seem to have a major cost for my setup. Normally I would just switch shadows off as well, as I flew for years without them and they kinda bugged me at first, but I've been recording a lot and want to make films, and I want them to look as pretty as possible, so on they stay for now.  I've never really taken note of it, but can you tell if the shadows are on or off in film?  I'll check that out today sometime I guess.

I wonder when Intel will release their new CPU's for the socket 2011, it's gotta be soon.  Be nice to see some benchmarks with this new video card Chalenge is speaking of with one of those.  

big edit:  Chal, it's a 1000$, not 3000$ retail for the Titan, must have been a typo.  I was like, wth, nobody except for an extremely select few will pay that for a retail gaming card, that's more than some of those crazy high end graphic designer cards haha.  It's actually cheaper than the 690 was that I bought, and 100$ cheaper than the 680 SLI setup I replaced it with.  Good times, I can't wait until they come in, my SLI cards are already spoken for.

[Chalenge]

big edit:  Chal, it's a 1000$, not 3000$ retail for the Titan, must have been a typo.  I was like, wth, nobody except for an extremely select few will pay that for a retail gaming card, that's more than some of those crazy high end graphic designer cards haha.  It's actually cheaper than the 690 was that I bought, and 100$ cheaper than the 680 SLI setup I replaced it with.  Good times, I can't wait until they come in, my SLI cards are already spoken for.

No, I was talking about systems with the Titan included. Right now, unless you know something I don't, you can't buy a Titan.

You can always turn shadows on when you go to make a film into a movie.

[BoilerDown]

The Ivy Bridge E processors will be on 2011 but won't be out until Q3 of this year, from what I recall reading.  And the Titan will be available from Newegg, Amazon, etc, as a single card, no requirement to buy a $3000 PC just to get one.

From what I've seen the i7 3770 benches just as good as the Extreme processors in games, and its not much better than my overclocked 2600k, even if you overclock it as well.  Haswell is supposed to be out June 2nd but will only be up to 10% faster than Ivy Bridge.  Despite the small improvement, unless they don't overclock at all, Haswell will be my next upgrade CPU-wise.  Not going for today's or tomorrow's extreme CPUs, they run too hot and they aren't really any better than the ~$400 CPUs available for what I do 99% of the time.

Wish AMD would push Intel and Nvidia's high end, but they seem to be taking a year off.  So we get jack for speed improvements for a while.  I'm actually fairly impressed by Titan mainly because I don't see it being upstaged in a long long time.  You could probably buy one and not feel the need to upgrade the GPU again for four years.  On the other hand GPUs are so far ahead of CPUs right now, upgrading the GPU to the Titan can hardly be warranted.  Just get a 670 and wait for the GTX 700 series in December.

[zack1234]

It was not local reflections restricting FSP, i had the update slider to max

[Pudgie]

Sooooo..................

Has anybody jumped off the pier on this 1 yet since 2-24-13 posting & using it in AH?

Evidence says no but you never know if someone has went all covert about it........................... ...

I'm waiting for the price to drop some myself before I start getting serious about it........................... .............

Or I hit the lottery 1st..........................

 

Just curious......................

 

[zack1234]

I bought s gtx680 which is awesome

[pervert]

This has me so excited!  I think I will go off and 'crack one off'

[Debrody]

I think if you have an i5/i7 at greater than 3.0GHz and a 600 series, especially a GTX 680, then you have no need to upgrade. Not for AH at least.

I have an i7 3960x and 3-way Titan SLI, only playing COD2 sitting in a corner waiting for the lemmings to show up, but i would like to upgrade, could you help me please?