For some time now the most popular display resolution among gamers has been 1080p, even though the network is slowly however in reality migrating to 1440p thanks to the extended availability of first-class 1440p presentations and low cost GPUs which includes the Radeon RX 480 and GeForce GTX 1060 which might be quite succesful at this resolution.

But what approximately 4K gaming? Ultra HD shows were round for a few years now and these days it's viable to pick up a 28" 4K display for below $400. The reason so few game enthusiasts are going this route is because of the GPU electricity required to force one of these display.

Only these days with the advent of the GTX 1080 has a single GPU been powerful sufficient to sport at 4K and even then at times a few tweaking is vital for most beneficial gameplay. As fantastic because the GTX 1080 is, Nvidia's modern Titan X boasts forty% extra CUDA cores, making it all of the greater of an best friend to 4K game enthusiasts.

The issue here, aside from the cardboard's complicated call, is the reality that it fees twice that of the GTX 1080. The MSRP is a mind-blowing $1,two hundred, for that you acquire a 16nm Pascal GPU including 12 billion transistors in a 471mm2 die.

This permits for a total of 3584 CUDA cores, all of which perform at a base clock velocity of 1.4GHz, even though GPU Boost three.0 will often run tons better than that. Like the GTX 1080, the Titan X nonetheless uses GDDR5X reminiscence however its bandwidth has been expanded through 50% to 480GB/s courtesy of the 384-bit extensive reminiscence bus.

The Titan X should have no hassle offering surprisingly playable performance at 4K in all the modern triple-A titles. This got us wondering: how many 4K shows may want to a couple of Titan X SLI snap shots playing cards force?

In the beyond we've tested the maximum powerful dual GPU alternatives available to peer how they dealt with 3 intense decision displays. Back in 2011 as an example, we compared the GTX 590 and HD 6990 at 7680x1600 (triple 1600p). In different occasion we did all SLI and CrossFire pairings but that changed into whilst frame pacing became a big problem.

Today's trying out will exhibit the abilties of twin-flagship setups including the Titan X and R9 Fury X at resolutions as excessive as 11520x2160 or three 4K presentations. That's a shipload of pixels, but possibly it might not be too heavy for $2,four hundred well worth of photos equipment to haul.

Without further ado, permit the benchmarks... Begin!

Test System Specs

  • Intel Core i7-6700K @ four.50 GHz (Skylake)
  • Asrock Z170 Extreme7+
  • 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4-3000
  • Samsung SSD 850 Pro 2TB
  • Silverstone Strider Series ST1000-G Evolution
  • AMD Crimson Edition sixteen.9.2 Hotfix
  • GeForce Game Ready Driver 372.ninety - WHQL
  • Windows 10 Pro sixty four-bit

Benchmarks: Tom Clancy's The Division, Star Wars Battlefront

Using a single 1440p show, Titan X pictures cards average 143fps with the minimum frame price staying just above 120fps. This method the Titan X playing cards are not even supplying 40% scaling at 1440p, that's quite disappointing. That stated, The Division has in no way supplied first rate multi-GPU aid. The susceptible SLI scaling also allowed a single Titan X to more or less healthy a couple of 1080s.

Scaling improves barely at 4K as adding a second Titan X improved performance through 45%. Again that is weak however we've got come to count on that during The Division.

Running 3 1440p presentations still sees the twin Titan X playing cards deliver a mean of 60fps with at least 50fps. This is pretty astonishing triple-1440p performance although it must be stated that SLI scaling over a single card turned into the weakest we've got seen yet in this identify.

Unfortunately, no matter how much you spend on GPUs it looks like triple-4K gaming in The Division is simply fable for now. SLI scaling advanced performance by using forty% however that supposed going from a median of 20fps to simply 28fps, so not exactly playable performance.

SLI scaling improves in Star Wars Battlefront. Here the Titan X duo offers an outstanding 200fps on common or fifty six% faster than a unmarried card. Clearly there has been even greater overall performance available because the minimum frame charge simplest dropped to 199fps. That being the case, I expect SLI scaling to enhance at 4K.

Finally, we see a few honestly magnificent outcomes. This time the Titan X SLI configuration provided one hundred% greater overall performance than a unmarried card. This allowed a median of 135fps at 4K which it has to be stated it pretty awesome.

Even with triple 1440p monitors the Titan X duo is able to push 100fps making them almost eighty% quicker than a unmarried Titan X.

Driving 3 4K displays even as maintaining an average of 50fps is quite unique. The Titan X combination in no way dipped underneath 44fps and as such had no problem handing over playable performance. SLI scaled through ninety two% right here taking the body rate from 26fps to 50fps.