Is GTX Titan X Maxwell Still Good?

[E-Waster]

Hi im new.

Since my cousin upgraded his pc a few weeks ago, he offered to sell me his old Titan X for 150 pounds. I offered him 250 but he said he will give me a discount because im his relative, and i was wondering if it could play these games at 1080p ultra 60+ fps

Garry's Mod

GTA V

BeamNG.drive

Cities: Skylines

Forza Horizon 4

Friday 13th

My Summer Car

Minecraft with Shaders

CS:GO

 

I have a 700w power supply as well as a Ryzen 7 1700 and currently 12gb RAM but soon upgrading to 16GB. Is this GPU a good buy?

 

[5x5]

Titan X Maxwell is pretty close to a 1070 Ti or 2060 so it's fine. It's a hotter card though. So you might want a 980 To cooler for it

[Alexroyer]

3 minutes ago, WhatNot98 said:

 i was wondering if it could play these games at 1080p ultra 60+ fps

 

Absolutely.

 

The answer would be "Maybe not in a couple years" if your plan was gaming on 1440p

 

You have luck to have so kind cousin

[porina]

It is potentially a bit faster than a 980Ti. 1080p Ultra shouldn't be a problem for it. Power draw is a higher than modern cards though, so could get a bit warm. If stock blower it'll probably bounce off the thermal limit like my 980TI did. I didn't find the Ryzen 1700 to be great for high fps for older games, although 60+ is no problem.

[Epimetheus]

The Titan X is still plenty fast, for 150 it's a steal. Make sure to properly cool it though

[xAcid9]

2 hours ago, WhatNot98 said:

Cities: Skylines

Not this one. 

[Princess Luna]

2 hours ago, WhatNot98 said:

he offered to sell me his old Titan X for 150 pounds.

Nah... not worth it, put a bit more and just get a GTX1660 or RX 590 if brand new both are around 200$ (so not far from your 150pounds budget I believe) which will play about the same give or take, older games will be better on maxwell than newer ones that's normal.

 

The thing is that the new cards are so much more efficient and cool, I used to have a TITAN XM and the reference cooler is shit the GPU itself is hot as hell and OC'ing is so hard you get like 1380mhz and that that's 980 Ti performance which is a card that fights with 1070's 1660/ 1660 ti at best while being so much worse at it.

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The performance might be there but have in mind the user experience with a card like this is a tad lesser, maybe the best way around is a GTX 1070 used, those are not so much experience you know? and you get FreeSync.

 

Also it's not about any PSU you can put a TITAN XM in, this "700w PSU" means nothing to me.

[E-Waster]

23 hours ago, Princess Luna said:

Nah... not worth it, put a bit more and just get a GTX1660 or RX 590 if brand new both are around 200$ (so not far from your 150pounds budget I believe) which will play about the same give or take, older games will be better on maxwell than newer ones that's normal.

 

The thing is that the new cards are so much more efficient and cool, I used to have a TITAN XM and the reference cooler is shit the GPU itself is hot as hell and OC'ing is so hard you get like 1380mhz and that that's 980 Ti performance which is a card that fights with 1070's 1660/ 1660 ti at best while being so much worse at it.

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The performance might be there but have in mind the user experience with a card like this is a tad lesser, maybe the best way around is a GTX 1070 used, those are not so much experience you know? and you get FreeSync.

 

Also it's not about any PSU you can put a TITAN XM in, this "700w PSU" means nothing to me.

my psu is a 700w cooler master 80+ bronze

[Zando_]

I'd go for it just because it's a Titan and those are epic cards. Like the others said, it's a teeny bit faster (sometimes, IIRC the 980 Ti is faster in some stuff) 980 Ti with more VRAM. IIRC it's the same PCB as the FE 980 Ti so cooler/waterblock compatibility will be ez if you want better temps. It'll eat more wattage than a newer GPU but should crush 1080p144 or 1440p60 easily. 

[Princess Luna]

1 minute ago, Zando Bob said:

I'd go for it just because it's a Titan and those are epic cards.

Nothing epic on a card that rivals the R9 290X Reference on being a hot and loud jet engine that can be outperformed by a GTX 1660 Ti in games of today.

 

It is not worth it and OP is using a Cooler Master PSU that's EOL (for a reason), it is not recommended at all and it's really not all that beast at 1440p any more.

 

I'll be honest, Maxwell is no longer an architecture people should be looking at, even if just for the fact you don't get FreeSync support.

[Zando_]

1 minute ago, Princess Luna said:

Nothing epic on a card that rivals the R9 290X Reference on being a hot and loud jet engine that can be outperformed by a GTX 1660 Ti in games of today.

 

It is not worth it and OP is using a Cooler Master PSU that's EOL (for a reason), it is not recommended at all and it's really not all that beast at 1440p any more.

 

I'll be honest, Maxwell is no longer an architecture people should be looking at, even if just for the fact you don't get FreeSync support.

Keep in mind you are talking to a man who moved from a 2700X on a Crosshair VII Hero Wi-Fi to an X5675 on a Rampage III Formula because I like tinkering with old stuff (I'm on X99 now). 

Wish I hadn't traded/given away my 980 Tis, Maxwell cards still perform well given their age, and I like keeping old stuff alive. It'll likely beat a 1660 Ti, especially with an OC, has more VRAM too (12GB IIRC?). 

As for being a jet engine, eh. If you run headphones it's fine, I've had a Vega FE to cover the jet engine part, did fine with that. My 980 Ti ran at 83C in bad airflow cases and still performed with no issues, Maxwell can handle running hot. OP can always get a new PSU and then an aftermarket cooler later on down the line. 

[Princess Luna]

8 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

Keep in mind you are talking to a man who moved from a 2700X on a Crosshair VII Hero Wi-Fi to an X5675 on a Rampage III Formula because I like tinkering with old stuff (I'm on X99 now). 

Hehehe sure, different tastes and all, nothing wrong with using older hardware specially if it's more on the grounds of hobby. I still believe that if OP just wants a GPU for gaming he'd be better off without the old GTX TITAN XM nowadays...

 

10 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

Wish I hadn't traded/given away my 980 Tis, Maxwell cards still perform well given their age, and I like keeping old stuff alive. It'll likely beat a 1660 Ti, especially with an OC, has more VRAM too (12GB IIRC?). 

It depends the game, older DX11 based ones sure the 980 Ti will pull ahead but you'll be surprise that even the 1660 Ti given as example is likely to perform slightly better on the newer titles, specially those made with DX12 and Vulkan in mind... for used I'd rather target the GTX 1070 Ti.

 

12 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

As for being a jet engine, eh. If you run headphones it's fine, I've had a Vega FE to cover the jet engine part, did fine with that. My 980 Ti ran at 83C in bad airflow cases and still performed with no issues, Maxwell can handle running hot. OP can always get a new PSU and then an aftermarket cooler later on down the line. 

It also depends on the person how much bad acoustics will matter and all sure... but why spend more money on aftermarket cooler and PSU when he could shift this money into a GTX 1070 Ti and have more performance, silent operation and FreeSync "out of the box"?

 

Either ways that's our points in favor and against, it's to OP now... cheers!

[peterj76]

The Maxwell Geforce GTX Titan X is still a great card as of now, and really an overkill for 1080p gaming. The performance is like having 1.5 GTX 980s which was also a great card in it's day. While the 980 prob struggles in 4k, with the Titan I can play most games  from 2015 to 2019 on max settings at 60 FPS, and even 2021, 2022 games at 30+ FPS, 4 k max or near max settings. Games like FarCry, 3 4 and 5 all deliver 60 fps, Forza 5, just over 40 FPS in HQ mode (that's better than X Box series X), recent assassin's creeds, CODs, battlefields, all over 30/ 40 FPS at 4k. Cyberpunk 2077 and Red Dead 2 are the only couple I had to play at 1440p to get 30 fps or better. There are stacks of other great titles from the later part of the last decade that would play great. When I do upgrade, it will likely be to the RTX 3070Ti or better.