disolitude said:
Captain_Tom said:
disolitude said:
CGI-Quality said:
disolitude said:
CGI-Quality said:
So, all-in-all, a 60% jump over the 680, but also behind the, still, best-of-the-NVIDIA-best GTX 690.
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The prospect of tri SLI for these cards makes these more appealing to me than a 690. By itself 690 isn't enough to drive 3 screens. It's no secret that 690 quad SLI doesn't scale well but tri SLI witht hese cards apears to give very impressive scaling. With these cards in tri SLI, 3D vision surround @60 fps per eye or 120 fps surround may be possible...
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Eh, Titan Tri SLI is only useful for that kind of push. Cent-for-cent, you get more out of a 690 than it, but the Titan will better suit a a person on the fence, and in the market, for a 680. I just don't want to spend nearly two grand on cards just to be able to SLI them, as opposed to a $1,000 690 that does it.
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yeah its quite expensive but when you need performance what can you do... i am finding that massively overclocked gtx 670 sli cant power 3 display gaming without significantly lowering settings. titan has me curious as i always wanted 120 hz monitor surround setup...but were talking about 3000 dollars after i sell my 670s and get 2 more monitors.
i wish i went with 7970s to be honest as then id just get a 3rd one. latest game benchmarks have it moping the floor with the 680 and its much more overclockable to boot...for same money as 670. 3gb vs 2gb vram also makes a difference.
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This generation AMD has mopped the floor with Nvidia in price/performance. Sure the 680 and 670 were great deals when they came out, but Nvidia could never reliably produce them so they were always out of stock. AND nobody saw the mega performance increases coming. I mean I checked some old benchmarks, and my current 7970 beats early 2012's 7970 Toxic by 20%. It's like a new card at this point.
IMO Nvidia should tread carefully. A $380 7970 is equal to a $470 680 in performance (AMD just magically fixed that "Frame Latteny" that I never noticed too with 13.2). If AMD keeps up this kind of lead in price/performance for one or two generations, Geoforce will lose its highly regarded name....
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I agree with you here. I've had Nvidia cards since the GTX 260 (with a radeon 6850 and 7750 in my htpc's on the side) and this is the first gen where AMD beats nvidia at every price point.
At 100 dollars 7750 VS GTX 650 isn't even close. Even 650 Ti trades blows with the 7750 while costing more than 7770. And it only get's worse from there. So yeah, if buying a new card today, one should absolutely go with AMD unless they want a better 3D experience or want to use that upcoming Nvidia Shield handheld.
I don't agree with your other comment about tripple SLI being for rich or stupid people and only for penis bragging... For tripple screen setups you absolutely need tri SLI to enjoy all games at 60 fps. Not tomention people that to folding@home or the guys above that are mining bitcoins.
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Ok I should clarify what I meant about that d!ck bragging comment. I have nothing against people with SLI, or multiple powerful cards. However this card is kinda like the i7-3970X. Sure it IS the strongest, but not by that much, and the price increase to get there is crazy not worth it.
If you have 2x670's or even a 690 in some circumstances, you are NOT an idiot. However if you have 3xTitans...
P.S. For multimonitor gaming, 7970's are the only option IMO. Also I am not convinced Nvidia 3D is all that much better than Tridef. I mean at least tridef works on ALL games and it doesn't require a 120 HZ monitor which almost always costs $400-$500.
