7970Ghz, GTX690 or Titan

[SithSolo1]

Well, Dead Space 3, Crysis 3, Far Cry 3. I cant play on maximum without getting 30-40FPS. I built a new computer recently to play with graphics on Very High. And I am a little disappointed with that, I was wondering if the GTX690 would be worth $650 and sell mine.

The 7970Ghz is by no means a bad card but Anandtech's Titan review has Titan beating the 7970Ghz handily in Farcry 3 at stock speeds.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6774/nvidias-geforce-gtx-titan-part-2-titans-performance-unveiled/11

Maxed out at 1080P Titan is in the 60s when the 7970 is in the 40s. Granted this is with a 6-core cpu but its clocked a little slower than your 3770k.
On the other had, Titan is still a $1000 video card so you better make sure you really want it.

I haven't seen a review of Dead Space 3 or Crysis 3 using Titan so don't assume the gap would be the same.

 

[lavaheadache]

You can get some crazy good deals from people selling 690s now that the Titan is released.

shameless plug ? =)

 

[AdamK47]

shameless plug ? =)

I can't say one way or the other

 

[lavaheadache]

are you going to go 3 way?

 

[Face2Face]

Something is wrong if you can't max out fc3 @ 1080p. I can't believe DS 3 is hard to run either. Crysis 3 is tough, but high settings with 2xsmaa runs great on my setup. 50-60 fps most of the time. Still looks great.


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[blackened23]

Something is wrong if you can't max out fc3 @ 1080p. I can't believe DS 3 is hard to run either. Crysis 3 is tough, but high settings with 2xsmaa runs great on my setup. 50-60 fps most of the time. Still looks great.


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Yeah. No way should DS3 have issues. I feel like if DS3 is running bad, he must have bad settings within his CCC or something along those lines.

I remember another recent complaint about crysis 3 performance issues, and the dude ended up having supersampling enabled in CCC. LOLs ensued. Everything should be application preference, with no EQAA, no Adaptive AA, and no SSAA. You can really screw your performance with the misuse of those
settings, maybe nvidia did the right thing by making most of that stuff "hidden" within nvidia inspector and not accessible...

Whether that is his issue, i'm not sure. But dead space 3 should have FPS in the hundreds and thousands...

 

[UaVaj]

currently have 7970cf and one 7970 is more than enough for single 1080p.

only exception is with crysis3. does require turning down AA a notch.

looks like the op is simply looking for excuses to upgrade. and yes - crossfire could use some serious polishing in the noise department and microstutter department. 690 is not immune from AFR either. only option is titan.

get a titan already.

 

[AdamK47]

are you going to go 3 way?

Yep

 

[moonbogg]

I have two 670's for 1080p and they are incredible. I have yet to notice this microstutter thing everyone is crying about. If I was doing it over again, i'd still get two 670's over a single titan. Cheaper and a little faster without the insane overkill 6gb of ram that you are paying for with a titan. I still say 670's are the best buy for Nvidia users right now. Too close in performance to a 680 to justify spending more on a 680, and cheap enough to justify SLI for high performance. If you are loaded with cash and don't care what anything costs, then get two titans in SLI and forget about it for a few years.

 

[dookulooku]

Honestly I don't really see the purpose of buying a single Titan for gaming, unless you are very concerned about size/power/cooling. Titan makes more sense when you want the absolute best perf possible and run them in SLI.

 

[3DVagabond]

Honestly I don't really see the purpose of buying a single Titan for gaming, unless you are very concerned about size/power/cooling. Titan makes more sense when you want the absolute best perf possible and run them in SLI.

It also makes sense for people who want the highest performance possible and don't want multi gpu. What doesn't make sense to me are people spending $2000 for 2 Titans to play games that run fine on graphics for less than 1/2 the price.

 

[UaVaj]

Honestly I don't really see the purpose of buying a single Titan for gaming, unless you are very concerned about size/power/cooling. Titan makes more sense when you want the absolute best perf possible and run them in SLI.

:thumbsup::thumbsup:. some of us like all of our eye candy on plus surround resolution.

It also makes sense for people who want the highest performance possible and don't want multi gpu. What doesn't make sense to me are people spending $2000 for 2 Titans to play games that run fine on graphics for less than 1/2 the price.

for the single monitor folks (1920x1080). titan does not apply to you.

however

for the surround folks (5760x1080). titan sli is a serious consideration.

and especially

for the huge surround folks (7680x1440). titan sli is a necessity.

 

[3DVagabond]

Very niche market you are talking about. I'm sure nVidia wants to sell Titans to more people than that.

Don't get me wrong. I agree that for 1920*1080 Titan is a waste of money. I can't understand people wanting to replace their ~$500 cards with a $1000 to play console ports on their $200 monitors. Just not everyone shares that opinion. :\