Titan V vs Titan RTX for strictly gaming rig - should I sell the V?

[Kalm_Traveler]

Hey guys it just dawned on me that used Titan V's are still selling for around 2-2.5k USD, so with mine being power modded and on water I should be able to get at least ~ $2500 for it, and this is in my 9900k rig which is only used for games.

 

If I'm not mistaken, the 2080 Ti (and thus the Titan RTX too) is slightly better than the V for games right? 

 

So... since that rig is 100% only for games, maybe I ought to sell that Titan V while it's still worth selling and use the money to swap it with a Titan RTX?

 

Budget is not part of the equation here since if I get $2500 for the V, that covers the cost of the RTX and all I'd need to spend is ~ $150 for another waterblock and $4 for two more 3MO shunt resistors.

[LukeSavenije]

titan v could run raytracing, so it might just be worth it to keep on it....

 

at least, I saw some tests and bf5 might be developpped on it...

[BigDamn]

I mean yeah if you can get $2500 out of the V than go for it. I personally don't care for RayTracing but if you do than by all means

[Origami Cactus]

Im gonna say that you are going to get less for your Titan V, as it is modded, with custom cooling and the power mods.

But it really depends on your local used market.

 

But also the difference between rtx 2080ti and titan V is pretty slight (4%), so unless you are really sold on raytracing, swapping the cards are really not worth the time

https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-Titan-V-vs-Nvidia-RTX-2080-Ti/m395529vs4027

[Lathlaer]

If you compare single cards, I think you will feel like it's a lateral move. Titan V might be about 5-7% slower than Titan RTX.

 

You can SLI the Titan though, if it's something you'd consider for the future. So that's a point for the Turing camp. 

 

Then again, Titan V has freakish double precision performance so it's resell value will hold for a long time, I think.

[Froody129]

I think the resale value would be lower because it has a power mod and is on water 

[Kalm_Traveler]

47 minutes ago, Froody129 said:

I think the resale value would be lower because it has a power mod and is on water 

so an upgraded card is less valuable than a worse-performing card? Why is that? 

 

When they were still the best card, I sold the other one for 3k almost as soon as I listed it - I had assumed this was because some people want maximum performance but don't want to risk damaging their own new $3000 card.

2 hours ago, Origami Cactus said:

Im gonna say that you are going to get less for your Titan V, as it is modded, with custom cooling and the power mods.

But it really depends on your local used market.

 

But also the difference between rtx 2080ti and titan V is pretty slight (4%), so unless you are really sold on raytracing, swapping the cards are really not worth the time

https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-Titan-V-vs-Nvidia-RTX-2080-Ti/m395529vs4027

When did that happen? I don't understand the logic there but again from the 1 experience I have selling an identical card earlier this year I had no problem selling it for full retail price back then.

 

I mentioned that near identical performance between the 2080 Ti and Titan V in the original post, but mind you this would be a swap to the Titan RTX so overall performance gain should be more like 10-15%. 

 

The only reason I'm asking for suggestions is because it's overall a decent net gain for hardly any extra expense on my end. I don't mind spending 20 minutes to swap the shunt resistors and install a waterblock on a new card

[Kalm_Traveler]

2 hours ago, BigDamn said:

I mean yeah if you can get $2500 out of the V than go for it. I personally don't care for RayTracing but if you do than by all means

thanks - that's pretty much what I was thinking. I don't care about RT either for now, but I figured since we know the 2080 Ti is roughly 2-5% better in rasterized gaming performance than the Titan V, and that the Titan RTX is maybe 5-10% better than the 2080 Ti, overall that would be a decent little net performance gain for normal games. 

 

Of course this is not taking into account the mods on my V, you just made me realize I really should run some benchmarks first to compare the V to my RTX's (since they're both power modded and on water - can do a fairly apples-to-apples comparison with graphics tests).

 

Thank you! soon as the 9900k rig's monitor arrives on Tuesday I'll get that done and report back.

 

*EDIT*

 

Just checking my Timespy runs so far... most recent Titan V graphics score was 15,938, and most recent 2x Titan RTX SLI graphics score is 28,509. I'll try disabling SLI and running on just 1 card but that makes me think that a single RTX is not really going to do any better (maybe slightly worse) than my existing modded V.

[Origami Cactus]

1 hour ago, Kalm_Traveler1 said:

so an upgraded card is less valuable than a worse-performing card? Why is that? 

 

When they were still the best card, I sold the other one for 3k almost as soon as I listed it - I had assumed this was because some people want maximum performance but don't want to risk damaging their own new $3000 card.

When did that happen? I don't understand the logic there but again from the 1 experience I have selling an identical card earlier this year I had no problem selling it for full retail price back then.

My logic comes from that:

1)It is not exactly a gaming card is it? So someone who would buy it for rendering would want it in its original shape.

2) if I'm paying as much as a car for a freaking gpu I don't want some random playing around with the power delivery.

3) in its original form the titan cards have a kind of collectability, but as it is modded it doesn't.

 

But I'm not a millionaire like you, so I lack the selling experience of an really high end part.

[Kalm_Traveler]

6 minutes ago, Origami Cactus said:

My logic comes from that:

1)It is not exactly a gaming card is it? So someone who would buy it for rendering would want it in its original shape.

2) if I'm paying as much as a car for a freaking gpu I don't want some random playing around with the power delivery.

3) in its original form the titan cards have a kind of collectability, but as it is modded it doesn't.

 

But I'm not a millionaire like you, so I lack the selling experience of an really high end part.

understood, thank you for that perspective.

 

I'm actually a poor college student  extra poor now lol

[Origami Cactus]

1 minute ago, Kalm_Traveler1 said:

I'm actually a poor college student  extra poor now lol

Oh well, that is life. Sometimes gaming is more important than rent.

[Mattias Edeslatt]

Wait.. what... @Kalm_Traveler1 You already have two of those Titan RTX badboys?

1 hour ago, Kalm_Traveler1 said:

Just checking my Timespy runs so far... most recent Titan V graphics score was 15,938, and most recent 2x Titan RTX SLI graphics score is 28,509. I'll try disabling SLI and running on just 1 card but that makes me think that a single RTX is not really going to do any better (maybe slightly worse) than my existing modded V.

 

[Ebony Falcon]

SELL AND BUY 2 2080TIS ?

 

[Kalm_Traveler]

6 minutes ago, Mattias Edeslatt said:

Wait.. what... @Kalm_Traveler1 You already have two of those Titan RTX badboys?

 

Yeah my main rig - just refreshed pretty much all of it.

 

3 minutes ago, Ebony Falcon said:

SELL AND BUY 2 2080TIS ?

 

Could yes, but I don't want to SLI in that rig - just keeping it simple with 1 card. Already have SLI Titan RTX in the main rig for games that scale well with it.