GPU needed for 5760x1080 120Hz?

[Bluethulhu]

I'm not saying I'm going to buy this soon, but I am certainly considering it. I am primarily just curious what kind of horsepower you would need for running games on ultra/max settings (low AA because of res), using 3 1080p 120Hz monitors. I guess you could say that it's equivelant to 6 standard 1080p 60Hz monitors. I would love to get 3 monitors for multi-tasking, and I already have one 120Hz monitor. I could never go back to standard 60. I could live with around 90-100fps, but 120 would be great. Also, Nvidia would be good if possible because I do a lot of work with Adobe apps. My current setup is below, in my signature (not using laptop ofc).

EDIT: I have heard some rumors that Adobe will be leaning towards OpenCL more, so AMD is welcome in suggestions. I am thinking about waiting it out until the 9970 comes out. If I could get my hands on 2 or 3, I think that might be enough.

[Maskot]

dual TITAN's for ultra/max settings at around 60 fps for that resolution.

[jamesisninja]

At such a high res you'd need some type of SLI configuration of Titans, 2 or 3.

[alexxis98]

Dual Titans whould be the best solution !

[JordanMac]

titans, all of the titans.

[orangecat]

2 GTX 780s should be good depending on the game and settings you plan on playing with. There are other reasons why I would go 780 and not a Titan one of them is the price.

[CyberJesus88]

Why is everyone saying titans, 780 performs near identical.....

[Cryptonite]

Why is everyone saying titans, 780 performs near identical.....

because meh people like overdoing things as usual, it's the same thing as going for a 780 for single monitor 1080p gaming.

[CyberJesus88]

At least a 780 on a single monitor would give it more frames, I Titan wouldn't even to that.

[Cryptonite]

At least a 780 on a single monitor would give it more frames, I Titan wouldn't even to that.

haha, true. But that's just like having a Ferrari for going to work each morning, it gives you bragging rights but because of morning traffic it doesn't get you there any faster and costs more in the gas dept. (in the 780s case power consumption) 

[WoodenMarker]

I'm not even sure if you'd get past 60 fps at those settings, let alone 100-110.

[Dravic]

I doubt you can do 120hz gaming on triple monitors. 60hz, yes, dual Titans or better yet triple 780 + some i7 3930k 6-core to feed the GPUs.

[Ineko]

because meh people like overdoing things as usual, it's the same thing as going for a 780 for single monitor 1080p gaming.

 

A signle 780 for 1080p isn't overdoing anything, there will still be a huge list of games you wouldn't be able to keep a constant 60+ fps in or even reach 60fps in the first place. 780 sli still isn't overdoing it, if you see that fps counter drop below 60, you need more power!

[delet my acc pls]

Id say a 9970 because

Enough vram (4gb according to rumors)

Adobe is switching to openCL

5% Better than the titan (according to rumors)

[YellowDragon]

No current GPU config on the market can pull 120 FPS on 5760 x 1080P If you cant get that high of a framerate with two cards you have no hope of obtaining it with more cards as diminishing returns start to kick in full scale and very few games support past two cards and you can potentially even run into negative scaling by adding a 3rd or 4th card.

 

To get 120 FPS is really hard to do in most modern games as you typically reach a bottleneck in either a CPU or GPU or you run into the problem of a poorly programmed game which just cant make full utilization of a piece of hardware.

[Lord Pantaloons]

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[exyia]

no single gpu (or even card I think) will pull off 120hz surround

 

even Titan SLi will hover around 60fps on most titles with no AA, nowhere near 120

 

this is coming from someone who owns Titan SLi

[Skanic]

Why not just get a 7990 when its so cheap right now?

Also Adobe supports opencl now so yeah the amd cards can do the same as cuda just better.

[Biased Opinion]

Why not just get a 7990 when its so cheap right now?

Also Adobe supports opencl now so yeah the amd cards can do the same as cuda just better.

because the framerating issue has yet be fixed for multi monitor setups

[Skanic]

Its fixed with Radeon Pro you know, The new AMD driver is coming out soon too.

[Stephie_Girl]

Its fixed with Radeon Pro you know, The new AMD driver is coming out soon too.

The new driver has been out since August 1st. Also I would def go with a gtx 780 as thw titan totally cannot use the extra Vram hence why at like 1440p its still no faster than a 780. Id totally wait for the HD 9970.

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Steph

[ltguy]

The new driver has been out since August 1st. Also I would def go with a gtx 780 as thw titan totally cannot use the extra Vram hence why at like 1440p its still no faster than a 780. Id totally wait for the HD 9970.
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Steph

Your logic is horribly flawed. If the titan and 780 are performing about the same at 1440p, then the game isnt maxing out the 3gb frame buffer. The titan cant use its extra memory to outperform a 780 in a game and resolution that wasnt maxing out the 3gb memory buffer of the 780 to begin with. If the game required more than 3gb of frame buffer, the titan would run away with the show.

[Stephie_Girl]

Your logic is horribly flawed. If the titan and 780 are performing about the same at 1440p, then the game isnt maxing out the 3gb frame buffer. The titan cant use its extra memory to outperform a 780 in a game and resolution that wasnt maxing out the 3gb memory buffer of the 780 to begin with. If the game required more than 3gb of frame buffer, the titan would run away with the show. Again, another person downplaying the importance of vram soley because its expensive.

If I read correctly, the titan totally doesnt like have the power to use the extra 3gb in a game. If I am not mistake there are like professional applications that can use the extra ram w.o the extra power needed. I def think you you don't realize how muuch power 6gb of textures takes to render. But I just did a lil research on it so I def could b wrong :(

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Steph

[Stephie_Girl]

I think I recall another poster here awhile ago def talking about the limits of the titan in gaming. Search function def isnt working atm tho :(, but I only did a lil searching so you def could be right.

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Steph

[ltguy]

If I read correctly, the titan totally doesnt like have the power to use the extra 3gb in a game. If I am not mistake there are like professional applications that can use the extra ram w.o the extra power needed. I def think you you don't realize how muuch power 6gb of textures takes to render. But I just did a lil research on it so I def could b wrong :(

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Steph

 Well I only game, so i cant comment on professional applications. Currently on surround I can use almost 3gb of memory. Only time will tell but if history repeats itself surely the games for the next two years will double the amount of vram required. Even if one titan cant use 6gb of vram, i have no doubts two can. Again i would never recomment somone run a single titan except in rare use cases. The point of the titan is that 2 780's will quickly exceed 3gb of vram and as such the 780 is a horrible card to sli because its almost vram capped out of the box in high end titles. SLI titans gives the two gk110 chips the vram buffer need to run SLI for at least 2-3 years of use.