Nvidia GTX Titan review

We initially tested the GTX Titan using our Dirt Showdown benchmark at Ultra quality with 4x anti-aliasing and a 1,920×1,080 resolution and achieved a frame rate of 91.2fps. This is three times more than the 30fps needed to make this game playable, and reducing the settings to High quality and the resolution to 1,280×720 raised the frame rate even higher to 113.2. Of course, it’s our Crysis 2 benchmark that really challenges graphics cards, and at Ultra quality with 4x anti-aliasing and a 1,920×1,080 resolution we achieved a very impressive frame rate of 49.6fps – the same frame rate provided by the GTX 690.

Eager to see just how good the card is in Surround mode, we used the Dirt Showdown benchmark at a 5,760×1,080 resolution, Ultra quality and 4x anti-aliasing and achieved a very smooth 44.9fps. Reducing the quality settings to High raised the frame rate to a very impressive 96.9fps.

Our Crysis 2 frame rate of 24.5fps at a 5,760×1,080 resolution and Ultra quality is less impressive and less than the 37.1fps achieved by the GTX 690. However, once we’d reduced the benchmark to High quality, at which Crysis 2 still looks fantastic, the frame rate shot up to 50fps; that’s a fantastic frame rate when you consider it’s running at 5,760×1,080.

It’s difficult to compare the results of the GTX 690 and the GTX Titan because we’ve changed some of our benchmarks, but it would appear that the dual-GPU GTX 690 is still the fastest Nvidia card. If you want a quiet and less power-hungry single GPU card that is well suited to multiple monitor configurations, the GTX Titan is clearly a better choice than the Nvidia GeForce GTX 690, but many users would be better off buying the Nvidia GeForce GTX 680. It’s £400 less than the GTX Titan and is powerful enough to run graphically challenging games.