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how's it going guys today I am very excited to announce that I will be giving you all some awesome benchmarks on Nvidia's latest and greatest GeForce GTX Titan now for those of you who don't already know this is in a nutshell a thousand-dollar GPU that Nvidia is claiming to be the world's fastest single GPU card on the market right now the only two other single GPU cards that come close to this one are the GTX 680 and the Radeon HD 7970 of course the GTX 690 and the Ares 2 definitely beat this card out in performance in almost every test that I've seen online but that's because those are both dual GPU cards and I will be getting into the pros and cons of single GPU and dual GPU cards later on in this video but for now I will be testing this card against the msi gtx 680 lightning as well as the Radeon HD 7970 X from H is and those are both factory overclocked cards so I felt that they were worthy contenders to go up against the GTX Titan but enough of my rambling why don't we get on to the hardware I'm using alright so I am rocking all of the hardware that I have been using since the very beginning of this channel so still sticking with the 2600 K overclock at 4400 megahertz and at the bottom there you can see I'm using the latest AMD and NVIDIA drivers so for the GTX 680 I ran them with a three 1407 drivers and with the GTX Titan I ran them with the dot o nine drivers as far as I can tell there's no performance benefit from either of those drivers the only difference being that the dot o nine drivers include the GTX Titan profile take a look at the right so you can see the specs of the card there I didn't really want to do an unboxing or overview on this card because quite frankly I'm a little late on this product and I know there's a lot of content already out there featuring that kind of thing so if you guys want to watch a good overview video go ahead and check out the new egg video that Paul did on the GTX Titan basically goes over all the specifications that are listed here and quite a bit more but things I did want to point out is that this does have a core clock or a base clock of 837 megahertz and a boost clock of 876 megahertz although I was seeing a boost clock of about 992 megahertz right out of the box the overclocked frequency you see right there at eleven hundred and sixty two megahertz that's actually the overclock the maximum frequency I was able to achieve by manually overclocking this car which I guess is a good time to go over the overclock settings that I used so I use EVGA s precision X software to do my overclocking power target is set at 106 percent and just below that you can see temperature targets and the the timing right now is the only card where you can actually adjust this temperature target because it comes included with NVIDIA GPU boost 2.0 so in all of the other 600 series cards from Nvidia we saw GPU boost 1.0 and the difference they are being is that with GPU boost 2.0 you can now set parameters based on temperature so as you can see here I prioritized my temp target at 83 degrees Celsius which means my card should never get any hotter than that boundary so this is really cool because it offers a completely new layer of customized ability when overclocking your card it's fun to tinker with but also like ok for example I actually set my voltage to max I don't even know what number it is just set to max voltage but I don't have to worry about how much voltage my card is being fed at any given moment because my card ever tries to go over 83 degrees GPU boost 2.0 is going to keep that voltage at bay and say whoa voltage this is all the power we need right now because we're going past the temp target threshold so not only is is really cool because it offers more customized ability but it's also going to help you potentially protect your card from future damage other than that you can see GPU clock offset I've set at 155 megahertz and the memory clock offset I've set at a nice round even hundred and lastly taking a look at the fan curve monitor to the right there you can see that I have set the maximum fan speed to ramp up to 75 percent if it if the card ever gets to 85 degrees which in theory it shouldn't right because I've set the temp target at 83 but because we're overclocking and all that stuff I gave it a little bit of leeway alright so for the first test that Iran we have assassin's creed 3 and this is a game I recently added to my list of benchmarks just because it's a relatively new game a lot of people are playing it and it just looks awesome so it's very graphically intensive and demanding which is which is good for benchmarking of course so everything's set to max and as you can see here I didn't really see that much of a performance increase from the Titan over the gtx 680 lightning but when i overclocked it however I did see a pretty big jump going from 56 to 60 four frames per second so that was nice sorry 70 90 70 X this definitely wasn't year-round moving on to Crysis 3 the game that everybody wants to see benchmarked right now the 79 70 X and the 680 lightning just barely made it over 30 frames with the 680 just barely beating out the 7970 but you can see there with the Titan we actually achieved a much higher frame rate on average going from 48 clock frequency to 54.6 when when overclocked and this is honestly the fastest or the highest frame rate on average that I've seen from a single GPU card when running Crysis 3 at full settings I think that's enough to call this card a crysis 3 killer and that kind of makes me happy moving on to Skyrim you can see the results are pretty marginal at this point but that's also because they just look that way because the the y-axis goes all the way up to 140 but you can see there the 680 got 170 117 frames per second with the Titan getting 129 the overclock didn't really do much for us obviously as you can see there but that's all going to change with not borderlands 2 I thought this was a different game as you can see here the overclock also didn't get us very much much further from the stock clock frequency but we did see quite a bit of performance increase over the gtx 680 and you're probably wondering where is the 79 70 X so oh it's way down there I didn't see you there but that's mainly because physics was turned on high during this test and I was trying to turn it off for this test to be honest but I couldn't I popped the card in and when I opened up the settings in Borderlands 2 the physics setting was completely grayed out and it wouldn't let me change it it was just it blocked me in too high physics setting so I tried to change it in the dot ini file or whatever and that wasn't working out so obviously because the AMD card isn't optimized for physics all that workload was offset to the CPU and that's why you see such a performance hit with 970 X but aside from that the Titan did pretty well and so did the GTX 680 for that matter but the overclock on the Titan was very marginal but now it's all going to change with far cry 3 yeah there's the slide I was looking for you can see here it was almost like an even staircase leading up to the Titan until we overclock it then just like Bram going from seventy six point one frames to ninety point three that's a pretty significant overclock performance increase right there so if you're playing far cry 3 and you got Titan you better be overclocking that I'm going to say at least one time at least once in every video hitman absolution we saw another pretty hefty increase in performance with the overclock going from ninety four point four to one hundred and ten point six frames per second with the GTX Titan but yeah and also the GTX 680 did finish last in this test but I did want to point out that even though the 7970 exbest sit in quite a few of these tests the lightning is a very cool card and it remains very like one of the the best coolers I've seen on a card of this caliber so I just want to point that out good job at maasai battlefield three hundred and thirty five point eight frames per second yeah I don't even know that's really necessary but it's kind of cool to look at right 117 point for the start clock frequency and we saw 95 and 82 from the 7970 and the GTX 680 respectively and lastly our only synthetic benchmark for this video was 3d mark this is the latest 3d mark from future mark and I did run the fire strike extreme test this is the most demanding and graphically taxing test in the 3d mark sweet so here taking a look at the graphic score we actually breached 5,000 points with the GTX Titan overclocked and we still breached 4,000 points with the GTX Titan that stock clock frequencies so that definitely blew the hell out of the 79 70 in the GTX 680 it kind of makes a nice little even staircase there as well alright guys so after taking a look at the performance results what do you all think of the GTX Titan do you think it's worth the thousand dollar price tag that's attached to it and honestly I think it depends on who you ask because I personally feel NVIDIA is targeting this card towards a very specific demographic and I think that demographic is really narrowed down to people who may either have a crap ton of money or people who be our high-performance users or testers so if benchmarking is like your legitimate full-time job you're probably going to want to pick up one of these just to have it for comparison and whatnot or if you're a high-end user like you have a triple panel display that you game on constantly at seventy six eighty by sixteen hundred resolutions which screw you by the way if that's if that's what you do but for the general consumer is it worth it and I think what you have to really take into consideration is not just the straight-up performance that you get out of this card but also the other included features that come along with it for example NVIDIA GPU boost 2.0 and I didn't mention this earlier but this card also has the ability to overclock your monitors refresh rate which are both both of those features are just awesome right I think that they're not like marketing fluff they're not trying to just sell you on some BS feature I think they're very useful there's a lot of customized ability and options there all right so all limitations aside pretend that you have a thousand bucks to spend just you can blow it on anything money isn't an option so I think the question then comes down to why wouldn't you just get a GTX 690 instead of a GTX Titan right because they're both the same price and in a lot of the tests that I've seen online the GTX 690 outperforms the Titan in most of those tests so I think the reason for that other than the awesome features that you get with this I think it also comes down to the benefits of having a single GPU card over a dual GPU card like the GTX 690 so for example you're going to be getting a lot better thermals with with a single GPU card because you don't have a second GPU that's emitting heat off of it right and as we all know heat is a GPU killer so if you're gonna be buying a high-end card like this chances are you're going to be wanting to keep it for a very long time so it makes sense if you get a card that doesn't run so hot the other thing is that because you're not generating as much heat with your card your fan or fans don't need to spin up as much to cool down your componentry and because of that you actually achieve lower acoustics and a really noisy video card can really take you out of that immersive experience when you're trying to play a game especially if you're not using a set of headphones for example and the other thing lastly is that I feel I feel like you just get more consistent performance with a single you card because not every single game out there is optimized for a dual GPU card configuration right developers will always optimize the game for at least one GPU but they don't always go that step further and optimize it for two so I think with all those things considered I feel like there there is room for for justification of the thousand dollar price price point on this card but I would love to hear you guys thoughts as well so please feel free to leave your thoughts in the comment section below on what you think of the GTX Titan but yeah that's gonna do for this video guys I know that was a lot of information to take in thank you for bearing with me but hopefully you guys found it informative and at least a little bit entertaining as well so I'm Kyle with awesomesauce news thank you all for watching and subscribe to the channel if you haven't already and I'll see you guys in the next video