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Review: NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN

by Tarinder Sandhu on 21 February 2013, 14:00 4.0

Tags: NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)

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Running this console port on three screens is problematic. Both NVIDIA and AMD cards don't scale the engine to 5,760x1,080 properly; they leave a large gap on the right-hand monitor. NVIDIA's three-screen rendering can be fixed by using Widescreen Fixer, but, as far as we can tell, AMD's cannot, hence why you see no results for the 5,760x1,080-resolution tests.

Examination of the 2,560x1,600 results, which all setups can run, shows that TITAN occupies that middle ground between the best single- and dual-GPU cards. It is over 40 per cent faster than a GTX 680 and almost 30 per cent speedier than a Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition.

We can also look at the per-second frame-rates of the three best cards - TITAN, GTX 690 and HD 7990. TITAN provides a solid showing against twin-GPU monsters and showcases silky-smooth performance with the highest in-game quality settings. We'd be worried if it couldn't massacre this DX9 title, mind.

The two best GeForces are shown at 5,760x1,080, for reasons discussed above. TITAN is slower than a GTX 690, but performance doesn't drop to 50fps during any one-second period.