Review: Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan X in SLI

Conclusion

Using a GeForce GTX Titan X on anything other than a 4K screen isn't recommended because you are not getting the most out of the card. Other, much cheaper graphics card are able to handle 1,920x1,080 and 2,560x1,440 with relative ease, going by our benchmarks, so Titan X needs a titanic resolution for its horsepower to shine through.

That line of thinking is all the more acute if you have the will and means to build a two-card Titan X machine run in performance-maximising SLI configuration. Though each card doesn't run quite as fast as one due to a lower GPU boost because of inter-card proximity, 4K scaling ranges from reasonable to very good, depending upon game title.

Looking inside each second shows that SLI implementation is good from a frame pacing point of view, and we experienced very smooth gameplay in all of our titles at the 4K resolution.

Such performance insight is instructive for, potentailly, a dual-GPU card along the lines of Titan Z last year - Nvidia can release a scaled-frequency version without too much fuss, one would imagine. Extreme performance doesn't come cheap, with a pair of cards offering little change from £2,000, but this is the very bleeding edge of what's currently available.

Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan X 12GB SLI

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