GeForce GTX TITAN  vs 980 

erm, that was posted 2 years ago. I now have 3 machines. 2 Titan X's and am awaiting 2 1080ti which I hope will arrive next week. At last. Keep doing the necro though.

I have a 1070, beats all these cards ;]

6034 WTF? A GTX 760 can score 6000 in fire strike. You sure your cards are even working at all? Well they must be because a 4930k doesn't have onboard gfx. Some x79 boards require you to turn on PCIe 3.0 in bios, does yours? My EVGA does. 14497 also seems low for 2 Titans on a 4930k. My 3930k with two Titans scores around 16000 with no overclock. I think you have some configuration problems

oh it's the dual gpu edition one. they are less common.

no it doesn't and it's dual gpu your thinking of a titan z

titan black has duel gpus

No, actually there are plenty of reasons to buy a titan, if you work in 2D, 3D animation or video editing, and need the VRAM and compute power.

At equivalent clockspeed there is no way that a 980 TI beats a Titan X, but it will be within 10% FPS. Still a WAAAAY better bang for the buck, and i forgot to say that the 980TI usually overclocks better

980 ti is where it's at. Stronger than Titan x, but less costly. I would go with a titan still though, because Titans are cool :P

980 TI beats the Titan X in benchmarks. Not sure about real world performance though.

Titan X is the Boss

brain dead engage brain before big mouth in future or say nothing youll probably sound less dumb

a titan black is defently not a dual GPU card.

Why would you go to ATI from 2 980s??

Ooops hehe I meant 2 r9 390x's

29 390Xs... That's alot of Wattage you need to power them.

LOL. Clearly you don't know what a Titan Black is.

I got two gtx 980's in sli. I do 1080p gaming cause i'm cool like that :).... going to get 29 390x's when they come out though :/

A titan black is a dual GPU card dumbass

Opinion replacing experience. Get both, push them and you will see what the limits are. When modding or running games at high resolution texture packs the differences are obvious. In benching My Titan SLI scores around one third higher than my GTX 980 AMP extreme edition based SLI. When using heavily 4k (or higher) texture packs, there is also noticeable difference in terms of speed but more importantly in stability with very high rez textures. These are the sort of things you find when you actually speak from experience not wishful thinking. I found that the GTX's were better on my Gsynch enabled ROG Swift monitor because 2560x1440 works better with them in more games than the Titans did but by no means all. At 4k the titans were far better in games with relevant texture packs. Designed for PC game engines utilise the Titans additional capabilities, particularly the greater texture memory very well. People said "Why Titans" when I already had GTX780s. The Titans gave me stability at high resolutions in games like Battlefield 4 which can overrun the VRAM on the GTX980s in ultra at high rez and can run my heavily modded games like Skyrim at 4k when the GTX's simply could not. The same issue, having the best tool available for the job in each case. Given the massive backlash against so called professional reviews over the last 6 months or so, there is nothing more useful than unbiased personal experience. Hard to find as most people simply dont have the range of hardware one needs to comment but I know plenty, myself included who do.

Yes, very. In fact, as you scale up resolutions the effect increases. Downscale and there is a tipping point where the 980s look better. However, in games I find there is not a great deal in it and in many the 980s do better. Except where there are very intensive high memory utilisation textures. Very high rez Skyrim mods (4k and up) Battlefield 4 on ultra in high rez etc etc. My 780s could not run my heavily modded skyrim without crashing simply because the textures would cause them to crash. I had similar but less pronounced problems with BF4. I never tried it with games like DAI because I sold them earlier in the year but same sort of engine so I suspect it would be the same result there. There seems to be a balancing act. Currently building and testing another new machine and it will be interesting to see how they perform but I suspect the same will be true. (X99 instead of X79)

That's the point..if you don't have it. You don't have to hate it. I only listen to someone who's had the item. So please.. if you think you can't afford it. Than better watch and listen base on experience.. not just review. I've been upgrading each series. And I know what I'm taking about. I don't have just base on reviews.

Useless power, there is no such a thing in computing GPU's!

No one claims the "Titan sucks". Titan is overkill with a ton of useless power. You're paying for nothing and wasting you're money. A game can only be maxed out to the extent of the game developers' designs and there aren't any games that are reaching the 980's or the Titan's breaking points. There isn't a game in existence right now that needs a Titan to run on Ultra settings with a smooth frame rate. By the time games are actually developed to reach the max capabilities of the Titan and 980, the tech for the Titan and the 980 will be much cheaper. You can thank mass-produced MMOs and console-ports for that. I can easily afford a Titan, but I'm not a money-wasting moron and there are no games that need a Titan or will take significant advantage of it's power. Example: We have sturdy Winchester rifles WITH ammo, you're the guy with the ray gun, but NO ammo because ammo for it hasn't been developed yet. By time ammo for it is created, everyone will be able to purchase the ray gun because it will be standardized. You lose. "FINAL!" lmao

Where the hell do you see a dual gpu in this test?