Nvidia Titan RTX Review: Gaming, Training, Inferencing, Pro Viz, Oh My!

By Chris Angelini
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Performance Results: Gaming at 3840 x 2160

If you aspire to game at 4K and don’t want to choose between smooth frame rates and maxed-out graphics quality, GeForce RTX 2080 Ti and Titan RTX provide a similar experience. Obviously, Titan RTX is faster. But its win is mostly academic—few gamers could justify spending twice as much money for a geometric mean of average frame rates that’s six percent higher than GeForce RTX 2080 Ti and 4% higher than the third-party model we tested.

With that said, anyone who simply must have the best of the best for gaming, regardless of price (some call this having more money than sense), won’t be able to resist.

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Chris Angelini
Chris Angelini
Chris Angelini is an Editor Emeritus at Tom's Hardware US. He edits hardware reviews and covers high-profile CPU and GPU launches.
20 Comments Comment from the forums
  • AgentLozen
    This is a horrible video card for gaming at this price point but when you paint this card in the light of workstation graphics, the price starts to become more understandable.
    Nvidia should have given this a Quadro designation so that there is no confusion what this thing is meant for.
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  • bloodroses
    21719532 said:
    This is a horrible video card for gaming at this price point but when you paint this card in the light of workstation graphics, the price starts to become more understandable.
    Nvidia should have given this a Quadro designation so that there is no confusion what this thing is meant for.

    True, but the 'Titan' designation was more so designated for super computing, not gaming. They just happen to game well. Quadro is designed for CAD uses, with ECC VRAM and driver support being the big difference over a Titan. There is quite a bit of crossover that does happen each generation though, to where you can sometimes 'hack' a Quadro driver onto a Titan

    https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/a2vxb9/differences_between_the_titan_rtx_and_quadro_rtx/
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  • madks
    Is it possible to put more training benchmarks? Especially for Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN). There are many forecasting models for weather, stock market etc. And they usually fit in less than 4GB of vram.

    Inference is less important, because a model could be deployed on a machine without a GPU or even an embedded device.
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  • ern88
    Just buy it!!!
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  • truerock
    Really don't want obsolete ports on my next video card. USB-C only, please.
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  • mdd1963
    I'm sure this card will be worth it to *somebody* out there.....somewhere...
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  • mac_angel
    missing the Battlefield V for 4K?
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  • littleleo
    Only available thru Nvidia website?
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  • mdd1963
    21720515 said:
    Just buy it!!!

    Would not buy it at half of it's cost either, so...
    :)

    The Tom's summary sounds like Nviidia payed for their trip to Bangkok and gave them 4 cards to review....plus gave $4k 'expense money' :)
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  • alextheblue
    So the Titan RTX has roughly half the FP64 performance of the Vega VII. The same Vega VII that Tom's had a news article (that was NEVER CORRECTED) that bashed it for "shipping without double precision" and then later erroneously listed the FP64 rate at half the actual rate? Nice to know.

    https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-radeon-vii-double-precision-disabled,38437.html

    There's a link to the bad news article, for posterity.
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