Triple Titan SLI is not yet enough for 4K surround

[snowComet]

A forum user of the Chinese tech forum Chiphell posted his unboxing of the Dell 32" 4K mon UP3214Q, and a frame rate test of Crysis 3 in 4K Surround, triple UP3214Q, with 3 Titans in SLI. He tuned all special effects as "very high", and kept MSAA at 2x. The frame rate were around 25-30fps for most of the time. Although VRAM may not be utilized well in SLI, but I think this test showed, as 4K panels become cheaper and cheaper, if you want to play 4K surround, currently not just one, but several high end cards, with a large VRAM, are needed.

http://www.chiphell.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=917402 (in Chinese)

[miyabwah]

Well, shit. I guess 4k be everywhere, but we won't be able to play at GLORIOUS 60 FPS. ):

[ShiverMePenguins]

Anyone whom uses high tesselation or anti aliasing on a 4k display are lacking in intelligence. The end.

A forum user of the Chinese tech forum Chiphell posted his unboxing of the Dell 32" 4K mon UP3214Q, and a frame rate test of Crysis 3 in 4K Surround, triple UP3214Q, with 3 Titans in SLI. He tuned all special effects as "very high", and kept MSAA @2xPain. The frame rate were around 25-30fps for most of the time. Although VRAM may not be utilized well in SLI, but I think this test showed, as 4K panels become cheaper and cheaper, if you want to play 4K surround, not just one, but several high end cards, with a large VRAM, are needed.

http://www.chiphell.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=917402 (in Chinese)

[kizoku_95]

This is expected as titans are powerful but are not optimized for 4K surround gaming to be exact not even 4K single monitor gaming!

SLI makes matters even worse.

[M-ursu]

My gtx 650 an handle 12k res easily...

[defunkt]

yep..

[FloRolf]

well, this was at nearly 25 million pixels. You normally play crysis at around 2 million and still cant get decend frame rates.

 

Edit: aaaand, if you pay 2.5k for each monitor (=7.5k) then you can spend 4k on quad Titans aswell! gives you another 5fps!

[ManOfDisguise]

Well, shit. I guess 4k be everywhere, but we won't be able to play at GLORIOUS 60 FPS. ):

says the one who said on some other thread that he is fine playing at console framerates :P

[Yoinkerman]

Games don't even have textures for that kind of resolution so I'm not that worried.  Perhaps games will be a lot easier to run if they're just strictly pushing polys instead of all the filtering and effects and stuff they do now.

[miyabwah]

says the one who said on some other thread that he is fine playing at console framerates :P

Well, I like GLORIOUS 60 FPS, (who doesn't?) but I'm fine with 30.

[Nineshadow]

Ermagwad.Too many pixels!

[ManOfDisguise]

Well, I like GLORIOUS 60 FPS, (who doesn't?) but I'm fine with 30.

pffft GLORIOUS 144 FPS ON 144HZ FTW!

[miyabwah]

pffft GLORIOUS 144 FPS ON 144HZ FTW!

pffft GLORIOUS bottleneck 20 FPS.

[qwertywarrior]

memory bottle neck since  its all happening on one card

[tobinhoqt]

I beleive this is close to what to expect in the near future Mpixel wise. Sooner or later we will discover what G-Sync can do in those scenarios and how well dx11.2 and video card drivers can handle. Multi-GPU usage for live rendering 3D-applications are still in an early stage of evolving.

[ManOfDisguise]

pffft GLORIOUS bottleneck 20 FPS.

pffft GLORIOUS 30FPS CAPPED GAMES

[MzCatieB]

why do i feel the person benchmarking has AA enabled  

[Opsilon]

why do i feel the person benchmarking has AA enabled  

Because all Crysis games since the 1st looked like they had AA already, crysis 2 even did not have an AA option, using higher settings made the game use AA, i believe that has to do with the textures of the game itself.

 

This is not really anything new, since Crysis 3 is just too demanding ( and i have a feeling unoptimized as well ), i bet the benchmark would not even work well at low settings, when using Fraps or DXtory the game does not even run super smooth on 1080p with high end GPU-s so this was no surprise.

On the other hand this would look amazing on just one GPU and one 4k monitor, without recording ( or recording the gameplay with a camera instead of software ).

 

This is what Linus was talking about GPU technology is moving too slow, we do not see massive gaps in performance every year, i have a friend that still uses an 9800 GTX+, sooo, realistically 3 Titans should play 3x4K with less problems.

 

I still maintain that maybe if they used a different game, like battlefield 4 it might get better FPS, and we could have a more "down to earth" test because most modern AAA games can't even come close to Crysis 3 in this matter! 

[tedjani]

[Hirad123]

How did he not die from graphics?

[EricX2]

If somebody would just come out with a 6gb 780 TI that would have done a LOT better. I am pretty sure 3xR9 290X would have done better than 3 titans even.

 

Titan isn't the top when it comes to gaming anymore.

 

However, when you have 3 graphics cards and 3 monitors cant you just 'NOT' SLI them and have each graphics card run it's own monitor? Then you would get 6gb of vram per monitor instead of the SLI 6gb total vram. I assume a single Titan could run a 4k display by itself.

[kemical]

titan is a slow card...despite the bigger buffer

[legopc]

Well, shit. I guess 4k be everywhere, but we won't be able to play at GLORIOUS 60 FPS. ):

neither will consoles  

[atomicmonkey101]

what about quadfire 290xs or quadsli 780tis? Might give a bit of a boost.

[brownninja97]

My gtx 650 an handle 12k res easily...

Legends speak of the crazed man that achieved "sli" with two gtx 650s, that man was killed for long has it been told that this power is too much for man. Because scaling, scaling never changes.