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NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan - The King of Kepler Tested

By James Lu - 21 Feb 2013

Far Cry 3 & Hitman: Absolution Results

Far Cry 3

Far Cry 3 is running on the Dunia 2 Engine, a modified version of Crytek's CryEngine. As such, this benchmark features heavy tessellation, high amounts of volumetric lighting, and deferred radiance transfer volumes (global illumination).

This was the first game where we saw the Titan struggle and it failed to hit the target 60 FPS average on our tested settings, even dropping to below 30FPS at the resolution of 2560 x 1600 pixels with 8x MSAA. Far Cry 3 is however a very taxing game, so despite the Titan's low scores, it was still fairly impressive, outscoring the GTX 680 by as much as 75% while trailing the GTX 690 by only 10% on average. Turning off AA altogether would significantly increase performance scores.

  

 

Hitman: Absolution Results

Hitman: Absolution is another challenging benchmark, running on IO Interactive's proprietary Glacier2 engine, a very hardware intensive engine which is able to render up to 1200 NPCs at the same time. The benchmark tool used to test this game is extremely intensive and features a massive crowd of NPCs, Reflective Shadow Mapping (RSM), Direct Compute accelerated Bokeh Depth of Field, extreme tessellation and Ambient Occlusion.

The GTX Titan showed a similar test result to Far Cry 3, outperforming the GTX 680 by about 55% to 70% while trailing the GTX 690 by about 10%. At the 2560 x 1600 resolution, the game ran much smoother than on both the GTX 680 and HD 7970 GHz Edition, however, there were still some stuttering frame rates evident as the card wasn't anywhere as fast as the preferred 60FPS in our maximum test setting.

Do note that the benchmark tool used for this game is far more graphically intensive than the actual story mode campaign level it is based on.

  

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8.0
  • Performance 9.5
  • Features 8.5
  • Value 6
The Good
Near to dual-GPU performance from a single GPU card
Relatively quiet operation
The Bad
Costs the same as the more powerful dual-GPU GeForce GTX 690
High power consumption
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