GTX Titan ?

[theam123]

So.. I've actually been thinking a lot about this.

 

What do you really use a titan for? I know that it can be used for gaming and have a high gaming performance, but it can't just be that, right? What exactly is it used for?

[TheKDub]

Its sort of a mix between gaming and workstation.

[AMICLG]

It's a compute card for CAD/video editing that's still able to game.

[Askew]

compute/, otherwise get a 780/ti

 

performance game wise between titan and 780 is ~

[Archangel1994]

an R9 290X almost outperforms a titan in gaming at half the price.

[theam123]

Its sort of a mix between gaming and workstation.

 

 

It's a compute card for CAD/video editing that's still able to game.

 

 

compute, otherwise get a 780/ti

 

performance game wise between titan and 780 is ~

 

 

an R9 290X almost outperforms a titan in gaming at half the price.

Ahh okay. So it's basically like a i5 and i7. You can game on a titan, just like i7, but it's original purpose is to do editing stuff? Or am I completely wrong. 

[Archangel1994]

Ahh okay. So it's basically like a i5 and i7. You can game on a titan, just like i7, but it's original purpose is to do editing stuff? Or am I completely wrong. 

In a sense this is pretty much correct

[Askew]

Ahh okay. So it's basically like a i5 and i7. You can game on a titan, just like i7, but it's original purpose is to do editing stuff? Or am I completely wrong. 

 

Not comparable, GPUs and CPUs work in completely different ways.

 

A titan is for use if you specifically need the unlocked compute performance, it is not for gaming, the 780 and 780ti are for gaming.

 

Titans are for workstations, and workstatsions that also are used to game on, they can do both but if you don't have the workstation purpose the price is not justified.

[TheKDub]

Ahh okay. So it's basically like a i5 and i7. You can game on a titan, just like i7, but it's original purpose is to do editing stuff? Or am I completely wrong. 

 

The titan is made to do both.

[theam123]

Not comparable, GPUs and CPUs work in completely different ways.

 

A titan is for use if you specifically need the unlocked compute performance, it is not for gaming.

I know that I'm sorry if I'm "hard" to understand.

Like you can use a i7 for gaming, for the original purpose of this is video editing. Which could be a titan in the GPU sense.

And the i5 would be a 780 ti.

[Askew]

I know that I'm sorry if I'm "hard" to understand.

Like you can use a i7 for gaming, for the original purpose of this is video editing. Which could be a titan in the GPU sense.

And the i5 would be a 780 ti.

 

Well the purpose of the i7 is actually superior multitasking due to its ability to juggle twice the number of threads on its 4 cores, it yields a ~20% boost in rendering as a byproduct but that's not its whole purpose.

 

You can render fine on an i5, and they can both perform the same tasts, where as the 780 is physically crippled in terms of its ability to do compute tasks.

[theam123]

Well the purpose of the i7 is actually superior multitasking, it yields a ~20% boost in rendering as a byproduct but that's not its whole purpose.

 

You can render fine on an i5, and they can both perform the same tasts, where as the 780 is physically crippled in terms of its ability to do compute tasks.

Ahh okay. Thanks a lot ! 

And thanks for the quick and indept answers that you gave me. I appreciate it a lot. Have a nice weekend

[Antistatic12]

an R9 290X almost outperforms a titan in gaming at half the price.

yeah, but you also only have half the epeen....

A few other things it can do besides gaming/compute are (in no order, and some/all are not limited to the titan):

• G-SYNC
• PhysX
• NVIDIA FXAA™ and TXAA™
• Cuda stuff
• Nvidia Sheild (shield tablet and the other stuff)
• 6GB Vram if you need it.

[Sauron]

The titan is useful for compute, for example you can use it to render images in programs like blender much faster than most desktop cpus and faster than any gaming card as it has a lot more computing cores.

[Guest]

The actual difference between the titan line-up and a normal gaming GPU is the double precision performance. Double precision is 100% meaningless for games, but there are applications that require it. Those are the kind of applications that a titan is made for. Usually you would buy a workstation GPU for that, but (as ironic as it is) the Titan can perform similarly and might be a decent choice for a budget workstation. You are missing out on the extra support and the specific drivers that workstation GPUs come with, but you get similar performance for a lower price. As a gamer you should absolutely loathe the Titan line-up, it is the reason that we can't have a 6GB 780ti and similar products.

[AMICLG]

Ahh okay. So it's basically like a i5 and i7. You can game on a titan, just like i7, but it's original purpose is to do editing stuff? Or am I completely wrong. 

 

Pretty much.

 

Not comparable, GPUs and CPUs work in completely different ways.

 

A titan is for use if you specifically need the unlocked compute performance, it is not for gaming, the 780 and 780ti are for gaming.

 

Titans are for workstations, and workstatsions that also are used to game on, they can do both but if you don't have the workstation purpose the price is not justified.

 

He was speaking relatively, that an i7 doesn't give you better performance than an i5 (as of now) in games only just like a Titan Black doesn't give you better performance (well GPU core wise as the extra VRAM would at which point it'd make more sense to go AMD) in games only.

[terrytek]

Not comparable, GPUs and CPUs work in completely different ways.

 

A titan is for use if you specifically need the unlocked compute performance, it is not for gaming, the 780 and 780ti are for gaming.

 

Titans are for workstations, and workstatsions that also are used to game on, they can do both but if you don't have the workstation purpose the price is not justified.

It's like as if you were to buy a R9 295x2. To play Roblox. It's just not worth it if you use it for stupid purposes. If you can use it as both a workstation card and a gaming card, maybe it is worth it.