 Welcome to my performance review at 1080p resolution for the GeForce GTX Titan. This card is in a class of its own. It has over 2500 CUDA cores overclocked and we run all of our graphics benchmarks overclocked. We were able to run it consistently at well over 1.1 GHz, around 1.13 to 1.4 GHz with GPU boost. It features GPU boost 2.0 which basically amounts to more customizability in terms of the fan profiles as well as the boost clocks of the card and even overvolting options that we've never seen before. And I think you guys are going to be pretty impressed with the performance. This is based on the same Kepler architecture as the GK114 or GTX 680 which was the previous ruler of the Roost in terms of the Nvidia stack. But this one comes in at a much higher performance level and a much higher price. It has 6 GB of RAM which probably won't benefit it much at 1080p but you can check out my other videos at 2560x1600 as well as 5760x1080 in 3 ways surround in order to get some idea of what you think about the 6 GB frame buffer. Now the contenders for this video, this is meant to be a heavyweight showdown. There are no mid-range graphic solutions included. So we've gone with 660 Ti SLI to show sort of what two better value but lower performance cards in SLI might be able to do. We've gone with a 7970 which is the best single GPU card from the AMD camp to go up against Nvidia's best single GPU card. However, they're in very different price ranges. We've got a GTX 680 which is Nvidia's previous top of the line single card and to represent dual 7970s since we did take two lower end GPUs from Nvidia and run them in SLI, we have an Asus Aries II. So this is two 7970 GHz edition GPUs. This one's pretty expensive but the results should be pretty close to what you'd get with two normal cards as well. So let's start with our first game which is Crisis. The old joke, can it run Crisis? The answer is yes. Yes, indeed it can. The GeForce GTX Titan destroys Crisis. It beats the Aries II which is priced about $500 higher for an actual Aries II or pretty similarly if you buy a couple 7970s. It beats 660Ti SLI and leaves the 7970 and the 680, the other only single GPU solutions in the dust. Crisis 3 obviously just launched so this is another one. Ha ha ha, can it run Crisis 3? The answer is once again, yes it can. The only solution that beats out the GTX Titan in Crisis 3 is the GTX 660Ti SLI solution. So it beats the 680 by a handy 25 to 30 percent, beats the Aries II handily and the 7970. You can see here the Aries II didn't scale very well in Crisis 3, probably not optimized yet for dual GPU on AMD. It wasn't much faster than a single 7970. Moving right along, Far Cry 3, another popular title that's actually pretty new as well. Something you might notice about all these graphs is we've labeled what settings we're running at so you can reproduce the results if you want and we've gone with higher settings than we normally do because this is a heavyweight battle. So the Titan comes out on top again in Far Cry 3, beating out the Aries II, the 7970, 660Ti SLI really didn't fare very well in Far Cry 3, barely scaling at all and just edging out the GTX 680 which comes in at the bottom of the heap for this particular game. Skyrim, now Skyrim we're doing things quite a bit differently. In the past we've run a bone stock Skyrim with just the high res texture pack. That's gone completely out the window. We are running 18 mods from the Steam Workshop and Slick's going to be creating a Skyrim benchmarking guide hopefully sometime in the next couple weeks so you guys can check out how we run Skyrim exactly because it gives it, it makes it much more demanding and gives it more of a PC like, well it makes it so there's a point having a high end graphics card to run it. Gives you more of a PC gaming experience rather than dumbed down console graphics. Lots of trees, better textures on everything, looks absolutely fantastic. So the Titan comes out on top in Skyrim and the Aries II is only beat by the Titan and the single GPU solutions fall a little bit down and GTX 660Ti SLI really didn't scale that much from 680. The thing that I do notice here is that we still don't see maybe as much performance difference in Skyrim as we could if we added even more mods so by the time we do our performance guide it's possible we'll have changed this. Battlefield 3 is getting to be a bit of an older title but it's still very graphically demanding. AMD Crossfire X scales incredibly well in this game so you can see the Aries II actually performs about double as well as a 7970. It's so rare to see perfect Crossfire scaling. And the Titan performs similarly to a 660Ti SLI. So this is where that discussion about do you want a single GPU or do you want a dual GPU solution really comes to a head because dual GPU solutions like this where the Aries II just destroys everything else look pretty compelling. Grab a couple of these you're going to get the best possible gaming experience in Battlefield 3. Hands down. However, the Titan because it's a single GPU is consistent across the board. It consistently performs better than the 680 and the 7970 single GPUs whereas sometimes those dual graphics card solutions perform the same or just a little bit better and sometimes they leave the single GPUs in the dust. Our last two games are Metro 2033 which is also an older title but does continue to scale well which did incredibly well in Crossfire again with the Aries II leaving everything behind. The Titan still beats out the 660Ti and destroys the GTX 680. This seems to be more of an AMD favoring title in spite of the way it's meant to be played branding on the title but you see that happen from time to time. Witcher 2 is our last one. We're using the Ultra Preset including uber sampling. Now one of the things that made uber sampling unappealing in the past was the fact that it was extremely demanding on the graphics card memory at a time when most graphics cards were shipping with 1 to 1.5 gigs of VRAM. Not a big deal anymore. 6 gigs of RAM, you can run Witcher 2 at Ultra Presets at pretty much whatever resolution you want. That's what makes the Titan ready for not only current generation games but future generation games and future resolutions. Even Surround was no big deal in terms of the memory usage on the GTX Titan. So that pretty much wraps it up in terms of 1080p performance. The conclusion is pretty simple. If you're looking for the best possible performance from a single GPU card then go for it. However it's not cheap and unlike what you're going to see in our other performance review at 2560x1600 the Titan doesn't really stretch its legs until you get to those higher resolutions. With that said we did run the games at more demanding settings than we usually do with lower end cards in order to show you that even at 1080p the Titan does distance itself from other single GPU solutions. Thank you for checking out this video review on Linus Tech Tips. Don't forget to subscribe for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos.