Is GTX Titan (EVGA / Gigabyte / Asus) A Good Investment?

rlakhani11 · Jul 16, 2014

So this roller coaster ride continues, and just as I made up my mind in favor of 780 Ti over R9 290x, both of these $%#$ cards got sold out : P. And now I'm presented with another choice of $800 GTX Titans from EVGA, Gigabyte and Asus.

Questions:
1. It seems rather an obvious choice while the Titans being more expensive that 780 Ti, but in terms of better future-proofing, would Titan be a better investment, Or 780 Ti beats it here too?

2. If I'm to go with the former, would Gigabyte be the better option considering the reference cooler being replaceable with WindForce later for better OC'ing freedom? Or EVGA gets credit only for its brand name?

Thanks very much in advance guys. It's been great help from you in the past few days.

grav varma · Jul 16, 2014

i have neither, but, regardless of price, the GTX Titan is better than the 780 ti:
http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-TITAN-vs-GeForce-GTX-780-Ti

however price is a concern and you need to decide wether the better performance of the titan is worth the extra premium price.

as for "future proof", im not sure, but as the GTX titan has better specs... I'm inclined to go with the Titan for "future proof". the reason for the speech marks is that i think neither of them is really future proof. an example of future proof would be the i7 processor, as you pay the premium price for whats called Hyperthreading. games and some programs don't take advantage of this yet, but they will. in the future. i dont think either graphics cards have anything like this. but if you can afford the gtx titan, then get that, but 780ti is SLI is apparently better for gaming.

nickrr7001 · Jul 16, 2014

The 780ti out performes the titan at 1080p but if you want to go up to 4k or do tripple monitors a titan would be best, or you could kick both the titan and 780ti's asses by getting dual gtx 780's (same price as GTX titan) You could also get 2x 760's which are half the price of the 780ti and perform just as good as the titan.

chimera201 · Jul 16, 2014

The GTX Titan is a developer/enthusiast card.
The GTX 780 Ti is a gaming card.

James Mason · Jul 16, 2014

And neither of them are investments because you don't make any money off them.

Unless you ARE a developer/architect/whatever, then a titan could be considered an investment if it lets you get your work done faster.

FinalDrive · Jul 16, 2014

In about a year, after the 8xx series comes out you know they are going to introduce a 895 (or whatever they want to call it) dual GPU on one card that has performance that will best the titan at a much lower pricepoint. Unless they hobble their top tier gaming cards to keep the titan from being surpassed.

GPU tech moves forward too fast to drop more than $400 on a card, IMO. I don't need a bleeding edge card.

kunthakenthe · Jul 16, 2014

a r9 290x is faster and better for higher resolution. As onto the gtx titan i heard it got its butt whopped by the 780's and 760's. I would go for the gtx 780ti(or r9 290x for higher res

but the titan is a dual core and is made for higher res aswell.

edit; dual gpu

rlakhani11 · Jul 16, 2014

James Mason :

Thanks for taking time to reply.

Secondly, I assume you're guiding me away from purchasing the Titan. But with all due respect, for you're an expert on these matters (and know much better than me how to transfer knowledge), don't you think it could also have been done, absent this short lecture on the appropriate uses of the word "investment"?

Well thanks anyway mate.

James Mason · Jul 16, 2014

rlakhani11 :

I wouldn't waste money on a titan unless you profit $1000 a week from whatever you use it for.

You never said why you wanted/needed a 780ti/titan, other than future proofing, which is really moot point, because it basically doesnt exist. You'd be better off buying whats right for you now, and then later on buying whats right for you then.

RCguitarist · Jul 17, 2014

Nope, it's not. Instead...buy a 770 now, then replace it with a 970 in a few years, then replace it with a 1170 a few years after that.....and still have money left over in your pocket.

rlakhani11 · Jul 18, 2014

kunthakenthe :

I believe the only dual-GPU Titan model is Titan Z, which has 2x Titan Black GPUs.

rlakhani11 · Jul 18, 2014

James Mason :

My bad.

rlakhani11 · Jul 20, 2014

RCguitarist :

Actually I've got a 770 2GB now, but somehow I suppose it's still lacking a bit here and there. I'm not satisfied with its performance somehow. I played Dragon Age: Origins (2009) and Prince of Persia 4 (2008) recently and I saw drastic frame drops. At Ultra and everything maxed out in DAO, most of the time it remains at 60 (due to monitor RR), but some areas slammed me down to ~15 fps. So I don't think it's capable of running the heaviest of games (if DAO also falls into that category, which is quite surprising). In POP's case, again most of the time it remains 60, but keeps dropping me down to low 50s or even ~50 at more colorful/scenic areas.

I would've SLI'd this 770 only if it was a 4GB model. There wouldn't have been any better option than that I guess. But unfortunately I'm stuck with this 2GB thing and I wanna get rid of it.

chimera201 · Jul 20, 2014

Full system specs?

rlakhani11 · Jul 20, 2014

chimera201 :

i7 3770
P8H77-V LE
16GB Ballistix Elite 1600mhz
TX750 (V1)
GB GTX 770 2GB
128 GB Samsung SSD (OS/System)
1TB Seagate
Xonar DX

kunthakenthe · Jul 20, 2014

rlakhani11 :

yeah i wasnt sure if it was titan or titan z

kunthakenthe · Jul 20, 2014

rlakhani11 :

you really dont need to spend more than 400 or 500 dollars on a gpu unless your sli/cfx and keeping them for a couple years. buy a r9 290x or gtx 780ti is a hefty investment when they will get outclassed by the 800's next year. buy a 400$ good gpu then next year they'll have a gpu that is more powerful for half the cost so sli/cfx and keep for like 3-4yrs or buy a r9 290 or gtx 780 for 300-400$ and upgrade next year or wait for the next gen

chimera201 · Jul 21, 2014

rlakhani11 :

I don't think DAO can have frame drops on that system. Maybe it's a software issue. You may have useless programs running in background that is causing the frame drops

rlakhani11 · Jul 21, 2014

kunthakenthe :

Like I mentioned above, I would definitely have loved SLI'ing this 770 were it a 4GB model. Unfortunately I'm not a very farsighted person and made a mistake at the time, of purchasing this 2GB model. Hence all this fuss.

rlakhani11 · Jul 21, 2014

chimera201 :

Nah I checked again and again. The CPU utilization remained very low even while playing the game and I made sure that none of these programs like GeForce Experience and bla bla were running in the background.

PS. You'll wonder if I disagree with you then why I selected this particular reply as the best answer. Well I didn't..I wasn't lighting my cigarette when I mistakenly clicked it LOLL....

kunthakenthe · Jul 21, 2014

rlakhani11 :

yeah always get the 4gb version of a card for sli/cf unless it can handle 4gb(r9 290x) or 6gb(titan and gtx 780ti) 4gb 770 cant use full 4gb properly.

kunthakenthe · Jul 21, 2014

rlakhani11 :

cpu utilization shouldnt be high in games because a game usually doesnt use all a cpu's resources

rlakhani11 · Jul 21, 2014

kunthakenthe :

Well that's it then. If background applications don't matter and CPU utilization doesn't go high while gaming, what could be the possible cause of drastic frame drops? Yes I've heard quite a few times that these unexpected things do happen with torrented/pirated games which aren't cracked properly sometimes. But not in this case. I purchased 14 games during the recent Origin sale and it's one of them. And then POP 4 too.

Plz help me guys I'm stuck badly here. If my GPU is not the issue then why am I bearing all this headache of purchasing a new one? :S

kunthakenthe · Jul 21, 2014

rlakhani11 :

so updated drivers. No bad overclock am i correct. Games are optimized. Have you enabled anything that your card cant handle ( ultra shadow,high tressfx, etc)

rlakhani11 · Jul 21, 2014

kunthakenthe :

Yep. Latest drivers (337.something) and no overclocking. But don't you think (unlike Crysis games) DAO and POP4 are the games which this mid-high end 770 should eeeeesily handle at Ultra/everything maxed-out 1080p? And especially when I don't do MSAA or any AA for that matter, over 4x??

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