GTX Titan Black Released

[rfarris]

Nom, nom, nom, nom...

[Kicksome]

How much faster is this than the 780ti?

[rfarris]

It's not faster, in fact it's slower than some. It has twice as much vram. So if you're running at 2560x1600 you'll definitely need one of these.

[MiRai]

How much faster is this than the 780ti?

The specs show that it's about 1% faster, but my vanilla 780 Ti GPUs have a higher overclock than the new Titan Black stock clocks. Overclocking is never guaranteed, but my GPUs are technically faster, they just have less VRAM; and, the Titan Blacks may possibly overclock even better

The thing with my setup though, is that I have to split the load between my GPUs as it is because: 1) I'm pushing a little less than 4GB of VRAM, and 2) even in 3-way SLI the GPUs can't handle the super ultra settings I throw at them. I have a fairly unique situation though because of the settings I like to play at, but because I'm splitting the load I am already utilizing 6GB of VRAM between my GPUs.

Don't get me wrong, 6GB would be nice to have per GPU, but I'm having a difficult time convincing myself to pay $300, per GPU, for an extra 3GB.

[MiRai]

It's not faster, in fact it's slower than some. It has twice as much vram. So if you're running at 2560x1600 you'll definitely need one of these.

If you're looking at the texture fill rate, then it is slower, but I had read a thread not too long ago that stated the texture fill rate was a pretty useless 'stat' to show these days since it's so incredibly high and it would never be the bottleneck in any modern system. Unfortunately, I don't have the link to that thread and, technically, they could have been wrong, but what they were saying made sense in my own little world.

I was really just referring to the base and boost clocks of the Titan Black when I said 1%, because even the memory bandwidth is the same on both GPUs and you're really just paying for more VRAM and double precision (which doesn't affect gamers).

EDIT: It seems that texture fill rate may be necessary for larger resolutions, which is technically what we, as multiboxers, play at. If that's true, then the Titan Black is a bit worse than the 780 Ti if you're pushing a lot of resolution.