EVGA Titan X SC

[FeatDavid]

Hey guys I thought it would be useful to do a review on the Titan X after having it installed for a week in the system now. I think that the card is amazing and I have not struggled with anything that I have come across so far also being gifted Witcher 3 from NVidia allowed me to see how powerful the card really is whilst also playing things like GTA V with all of the RAM of the card being utilized well even with its 384 bit memory bus. However I did come across a small issue with the card that caused my system to crash and that was the heating the card isn't good at keeping low temperatures by itself however this was easily rectified. With the use of third party software in this case EVGA Precision which I used to help increase fan speeds when temperatures were going high. But with a single Titan X on GTA for ultra 4k I was able to get between 33 - 40 fps with a single card then 50 - 63 for average settings on 4k. I also did 1440 p and I was able to get up to 81 with the lowest being 54. then on 1080p I was able to achieve a maximum of 100 with my lowest being around the 52 mark. All of these settings were on ultra for their resolutions.

 

Whilst running FurMark previously before fixing the fans I was noticing temperatures were going up to 83 even 88 at one point to which I had to stop as it was well past the recommended 83. But as I mentioned I was able to tweak the fans and got a maximum temperature of 65 when my room was hot and 62 when it was cool and 30-35 whilst being idle. Also I have done some testing with 3D Mark and I have attached the link to the result which I have gotten from fire strike I don't have the full version I apologise haha.

 

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/4899961

 

Overall I think the card is good of course the obvious cons might be the pricing of the card itself considering not everyone has a spare £1000 laying around to spend on one component. But when it comes down to performance this card is unbelievable and if you cannot afford this then you could wait for the 980 Ti to be released which is fairly soon I believe. Anyway I hope this review has helped if you are interested in this particular model of the Titan X or even the Titan X in general.

 

Thanks for reading,

 

David

[Lord_Karango17]

How does it feel, having more vram than the amount of system ram that most people have

 

Really nice review btw, and its also good you included firestrike, and many people compare graphics cards with those graphics scores.

 

Also I would have though that the titan x gets more than 18000, as my 780 ti gets 14000 (barely) for graphics

[desertcomputer]

I think you can improve that score by a bit if you overclock your CPU if you have decent cooler

[FeatDavid]

How does it feel, having more vram than the amount of system ram that most people have

 

Really nice review btw, and its also good you included firestrike, and many people compare graphics cards with those graphics scores.

 

Also I would have though that the titan x gets more than 18000, as my 780 ti gets 14000 (barely) for graphics

I love the VRAM it is a big positive for this card and the way it performs haha thanks this was my first review previously to this amazing card I had the 780.

[FeatDavid]

I think you can improve that score by a bit if you overclock your CPU if you have decent cooler

I was thinking about it for some time but my CPU at idle is quite high for temps so I thought its best not with the cores being 33-38 haha and also I don't know how to overclock.

[Lord_Karango17]

I was thinking about it for some time but my CPU at idle is quite high for temps so I thought its best not with the cores being 33-38 haha and also I don't know how to overclock.

Yes, please do that cpu justice and make it get a better score than my 3770

 

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/4666454

[FeatDavid]

Yes, please do that cpu justice and make it get a better score than my 3770

 

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/4666454

I could use CPU level up from ASUS to get it to 4.5 but I am not going to touch its clocks haha I don't want really high temps so I will leave it how it is haha.

[Lord_Karango17]

I could use CPU level up from ASUS to get it to 4.5 but I am not going to touch its clocks haha I don't want really high temps so I will leave it how it is haha.

If you ever were to overclock, ti would be worse to use inbuilt motherboard presets, as they cant know how good your chip is at overclocking, so they end up putting way more volts than needed into it, thereby increasing the temperatures far more than normal.

 

Say your chip would be able t overclock to 4ghz without any voltage increases, but there were some dud chips that could not, the motherboard would have to make sure all chips would work, so it would increase the volts, even if your chip could get bu without it.

 

All in all, overclocking is very simple, and if you overclock to the point where is is faster without any more volts, the temperatures will barely go up (I overclocked to 4.2 ghz on my stock cooler, as it did not need voltage increases )

[FeatDavid]

If you ever were to overclock, ti would be worse to use inbuilt motherboard presets, as they cant know how good your chip is at overclocking, so they end up putting way more volts than needed into it, thereby increasing the temperatures far more than normal.

 

Say your chip would be able t overclock to 4ghz without any voltage increases, but there were some dud chips that could not, the motherboard would have to make sure all chips would work, so it would increase the volts, even if your chip could get bu without it.

 

All in all, overclocking is very simple, and if you overclock to the point where is is faster without any more volts, the temperatures will barely go up (I overclocked to 4.2 ghz on my stock cooler, as it did not need voltage increases )

Hey it might be simple for you but I have never done it and I don't really want to break what is working fine at the moment haha.

[Alibaladin]

Hey guys I thought it would be useful to do a review on the Titan X after having it installed for a week in the system now. I think that the card is amazing and I have not struggled with anything that I have come across so far also being gifted Witcher 3 from NVidia allowed me to see how powerful the card really is whilst also playing things like GTA V with all of the RAM of the card being utilized well even with its 384 bit memory bus. However I did come across a small issue with the card that caused my system to crash and that was the heating the card isn't good at keeping low temperatures by itself however this was easily rectified. With the use of third party software in this case EVGA Precision which I used to help increase fan speeds when temperatures were going high. But with a single Titan X on GTA for ultra 4k I was able to get between 33 - 40 fps with a single card then 50 - 63 for average settings on 4k. I also did 1440 p and I was able to get up to 81 with the lowest being 54. then on 1080p I was able to achieve a maximum of 100 with my lowest being around the 52 mark. All of these settings were on ultra for their resolutions.

 

Whilst running FurMark previously before fixing the fans I was noticing temperatures were going up to 83 even 88 at one point to which I had to stop as it was well past the recommended 83. But as I mentioned I was able to tweak the fans and got a maximum temperature of 65 when my room was hot and 62 when it was cool and 30-35 whilst being idle. Also I have done some testing with 3D Mark and I have attached the link to the result which I have gotten from fire strike I don't have the full version I apologise haha.

 

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/4899961

 

Overall I think the card is good of course the obvious cons might be the pricing of the card itself considering not everyone has a spare £1000 laying around to spend on one component. But when it comes down to performance this card is unbelievable and if you cannot afford this then you could wait for the 980 Ti to be released which is fairly soon I believe. Anyway I hope this review has helped if you are interested in this particular model of the Titan X or even the Titan X in general.

 

Thanks for reading,

 

David

Can 4 way SLI Titan X SC scale 3 21:9 Monitors?

[Titan_XXX]

That score is a little on the low side. My Titan X is in the mid 16,000's. Not that it's a competition or anything but don't be afraid to overclock it. Every Titan X owner I've talked to has been able to reach around 1400 MHZ on the core and +500 or 8000 mhz on memory. Also, you'll notice a huge performance increase when you increase your clock speeds. I'm talking like 10 FPS in most games.

[Lays]

How does it feel, having more vram than the amount of system ram that most people have

 

Really nice review btw, and its also good you included firestrike, and many people compare graphics cards with those graphics scores.

 

Also I would have though that the titan x gets more than 18000, as my 780 ti gets 14000 (barely) for graphics

 

I think he is at stock and that's why his titan x isn't that much faster than the 780 TI, of course it is faster and by a good margin, but it's not like night and day ya know.

 

(Seems 23% or so faster I think if I did the math right, although in actual games it's probably closer to 30)

 

780 TI is pretty close to 980 if you overclock it.

 

 

 

That score is a little on the low side. My Titan X is in the mid 16,000's. Not that it's a competition or anything but don't be afraid to overclock it. Every Titan X owner I've talked to has been able to reach around 1400 MHZ on the core and +500 or 8000 mhz on memory.

 

Compare the GPU score, not overall score.  Overall score is effected by CPU score, and he got less than 10,000 on that, 4790k gets around 12-14k depending on the clock speed.

[MegaDave91]

 

 

Also I would have though that the titan x gets more than 18000, as my 780 ti gets 14000 (barely) for graphics

OP doesn't appear to mention overclock settings anywhere, so I'm going to assume he was running stock.

 

Anyway, this is a run I did approx. one month ago. 20731 is the graphics score.

 

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/6368743

[FeatDavid]

Sorry about that guys yes the Titan is running at Stock and I would overclock it but as I said I don't know how and I don't want to fry the card haha.

[Titan_XXX]

Sorry about that guys yes the Titan is running at Stock and I would overclock it but as I said I don't know how and I don't want to fry the card haha.

You won't fry your card if you don't go overboard. Don't add voltage if your worried. MSI Afterburner won't allow you to add Voltage anyway so your fine. If you want a modest overclock that is 100% safe download MSI afterburner and add +100 to your core clock speed. GM200 overclocks really well IME.

[FeatDavid]

You won't fry your card if you don't go overboard. Don't add voltage if your worried. MSI Afterburner won't allow you to add Voltage anyway so your fine. If you want a modest overclock that is 100% safe download MSI afterburner and add +100 to your core clock speed. GM200 overclocks really well IME.

Oh I use EVGA Precision and that will be the only thing I will use haha so I wont have to add additional voltage to it if  add 100 to the core clock and how much of a performance boost would that give me anyway?

[MegaDave91]

Oh I use EVGA Precision and that will be the only thing I will use haha so I wont have to add additional voltage to it if  add 100 to the core clock and how much of a performance boost would that give me anyway?

You can max the voltage slider without harm. You should also be able to attain at least 1400 on the core. 

 

Performance boosts varies from game to game, but I see 10fps+ in most games at 4K.

[GrimNeo]

Thanks for the review. I love my Titan X SLI. I am getting the EVGA Hybrid upgrade kit to water cool my Titans and then overclock them.