Original Titan vs. GTX 690

[Darts401]

nVidia's website claims the GTX 690 out performs the original Titan, I don't want to get into a debate war, but is this true?

[Starelementpoke]

1 minute ago, Darts401 said:

nVidia's website claims the GTX 690 out performs the original Titan, I don't want to get into a debate war, but is this true?

The 690 is a dual gpu card, so probably is true when both gpu cores are being utilized.

[Dabombinable]

1 minute ago, Darts401 said:

nVidia's website claims the GTX 690 out performs the original Titan, I don't want to get into a debate war, but is this true?

Probably. If I remember correctly, the first Titan was a bit of a joke.

[beebskadoo]

in a perfect world the 690 would win, but SLI scaling is never perfect (much of the time it's complete shit) therefore the titan wins.

[Sakkura]

Unless SLI isn't supported, badly broken, or the 2GB VRAM on the GTX 690 limits performance, it handily beats the original Titan. Even the Titan Black, and the 780 Ti of course.

[Starelementpoke]

Just now, Sakkura said:

Unless SLI isn't supported, badly broken, or the 2GB VRAM on the GTX 690 limits performance, it destroys the original Titan. Even the Titan Black, and the 780 Ti of course.

Wait, the 690 doesn´t use the 4gb variants of the 680s?

[Sakkura]

Just now, Starelementpoke said:

Wait, the 690 doesn´t use the 4gb variants of the 680s?

Nope. It's 2x2GB, effectively 2GB. And that can be a serious problem for the 690 today.

[SeanAngelo]

8 minutes ago, Darts401 said:

nVidia's website claims the GTX 690 out performs the original Titan, I don't want to get into a debate war, but is this true?

seeing as the 690 is a dual gpu card, it probably can.

[Moonzy]

9 minutes ago, Darts401 said:

nVidia's website claims the GTX 690 out performs the original Titan, I don't want to get into a debate war, but is this true?

theres nothing to debate about

SLI = 690 wins (if it scales well)

Single GPU = Titan Wins

[Sakkura]

Here is a graph from when the 780 Ti launched:

 

Spoiler

Note that the 690 (and 7990) is held back here, because of several factors:

 

AC3 just hated multi-GPU.

Skyrim and Starcraft II were bottlenecking all over the place, squeezing the cards together in performance.

And many of the other games were bottlenecking at least at lower resolutions. Crysis 1, Sleeping Dogs, WoW etc.

[Oshino Shinobu]

10 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

Probably. If I remember correctly, the first Titan was a bit of a joke.

In comparison to what we have today, yes. However, when it was launched, it was quite a bit more powerful than all other single GPU cards and remained at the top for a long time. 

Before the Titan, Nvidia and AMD were constantly leap frogging each other for the top spot in performance. After the Titan, Nvidia has pretty much held the top spot the majority of the time. It was one of the first very expensive cards to be released. I think it was the first $1000 gaming GPU released. 

[Dabombinable]

40 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

In comparison to what we have today, yes. However, when it was launched, it was quite a bit more powerful than all other single GPU cards and remained at the top for a long time. 

Before the Titan, Nvidia and AMD were constantly leap frogging each other for the top spot in performance. After the Titan, Nvidia has pretty much held the top spot the majority of the time. It was one of the first very expensive cards to be released. I think it was the first $1000 gaming GPU released. 

It also got its ass kicked by the 780ti, which was supposed to be worse.