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welcome to my performance review at 1080p resolution for the GeForce GTX Titan this card is in a class of its own it has over 2,500 cuda cores overclocked and we run all of our graphics benchmarks overclocked we were able to run it consistently at well over 1.1 gigahertz around 1.13 to 1.4 gigahertz with GPU boost it features GPU boost 2.0 which basically amounts to more customizability in terms of the fan profiles as well as the boost clocks of the card and even over volting options that we've never seen before and i think you guys are going to be pretty impressed with the performance this is based on the same Kepler architecture as the GK 114 or GTX 680 which was the previous ruler of the roost in terms of the Nvidia stack but this one comes in at a much higher performance level and a much higher price it has six gigs of RAM which probably won't benefit it much at 1080p but you can check out my other videos at 2560 by 1600 as well as 57 60 by 1080 in three ways surround in order to get some idea of what you think about the six gig frame buffer now the contenders for this video this is meant to be a heavyweight showdown there are no no mid-range graphics solutions included so we've gone with 660ti sli to show sort of what - better value but lower performance cards in sli might be able to do we've gone with a 79 70 which is the best single GPU card from the AMD camp to go up against Nvidia's best single GPU card however they're in very different price ranges we've got a GTX 680 which is Nvidia as previous top top-of-the-line single card and to represent dual 79 70s since we did take to lower end GPUs from Nvidia and run them in sli we have an asus aries - so this is 279 70 gigahertz Edition GPUs this one's pretty expensive but the results should be pretty close to what you'd get with two normal cards as well so let's start with our first game which is Crysis the old joke can it run Crysis the answer is yes yes indeed it can the GeForce GTX Titan destroys Crysis it beats the Aries - which is priced about $500 higher for an actual Aries - or pretty similarly if you buy a couple 79 70s it beats 660ti SLI and leaves the 7970 in the 680 the other only single GPU solutions in the dust crisis 3 obviously just launched so this is another one yeah haha can it break but can it run Crysis 3 the answer is once again yes it can the only solution that beats out the GTX Titan in Crysis 3 is the gtx 660ti sli solution so it beats the 680 by a handy 25 to 30% beats the aries 2 handily and the 7970 you can see here the aries ii didn't scale very well in Crysis 3 probably not optimized yet for dual GPU on AMD it wasn't much faster than a single 7970 moving right along Far Cry 3 another popular title that's actually pretty new as well it's something you might notice about all these graphs is we've labeled what settings were running at so you can reproduce the results if you want and we've gone with higher settings than we normally do because this is a heavyweight battle so the Titan comes out on top again in Far Cry 3 beating out the Aries to the 7970 660ti sli really didn't fare very well in Far Cry 3 barely scaling at all and just edging out the GTX 680 which comes in at the bottom of the heap for this particular game Skyrim now Skyrim we're doing things quite a bit differently in the past we've run a bone-stock Skyrim with just the high res texture pack that's gone completely out the window we are running 18 mods from the Steam Workshop and Slick's going to be creating a skyrim benchmarking guide hopefully sometime in the next couple weeks so you guys can check out how we run Skyrim exactly because it gives it it makes it much more demanding and gives it more of a more of a PC like well it makes it so there's a point having a high end graphics card to run it gives you more of a PC gaming experience rather than dumbed down console graphics a lots of trees better textures on everything looks absolutely fantastic so the Titan comes out on top in Skyrim and the Ares 2 is only beat by the Titan then the single GPU solutions fall a little bit down and gtx 660ti sli really didn't scale that much from 680 well the thing that I do notice here is that we still don't see maybe as much performance difference in Skyrim as we could if we added even more mods so by the time we do our performance guide it's possible we'll have changed to this battlefield 3 is getting to be a bit of an older title but it's still very graphically demanding AMD crossfire X scales incredibly well in this game so you can see the Ares 2 actually performs about double as well as a 79 70 is so rare to see perfect crossfire scaling then the Titan performs similarly to a 660ti sli so this is where that discussion about do you want a single GPU or do you want a dual GPU solution really comes to comes to a head because dual GPU solutions like this where the Ares 2 just destroys everything else look pretty compelling grab a couple of these you're going to get the best possible gaming experience in battlefield 3 hands down however the Titan because it's a single GPU is consistent across the board it consistently performs better than the 680 and the 7970 single GPUs whereas sometimes those dual graphics card solutions perform the same or just a little bit better and sometimes they leave the single GPUs in the dust our last two games are Metro 2033 which is also an older title but does continue to scale well which did incredibly well in crossfire again with the Ares two leaving everything behind the Titan still beats out the 660ti and destroys the GTX 680 this seems to be more of an AMD favoring title in spite of the the way it's meant to be played branding on the title but you see that happen from time to time Witcher 2 is our last one we're using the ultra preset including uber sampling now one of the things that made Ober sampling unappealing in the past was the fact that it was extremely demanding on the graphics card memory at a time when most graphics cards were shipping with one to one-and-a-half gigs of VRAM not a big deal anymore 6 gigs of RAM you can run witcher 2 at Ultra presets at pretty much whatever resolution you want that's what makes the Titan ready for not only current generation games but future generation games and future resolutions even surround was no big deal in terms of the memory saij on the gtx titan so that pretty much wraps it up in terms of 1080p performance the conclusion is pretty simple if you're looking for the best possible performance from a single GPU card then go for it however it's not cheap and unlike what you're going to see in our other performance review at 2560 by 1600 the titan doesn't really stretch its legs until you get to those higher resolutions with that said we did run the games at more demanding settings than we usually do with lower end cards in order to show you that even at 1080p the titan does distance itself from other single GPU solutions thank you for checking out 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