NVIDIA Titan RTX Review: Overclocking, Gaming, Power, & Thermals

For this Titan RTX review, we're looking at thermal performance, noise levels, power consumption, gaming benchmarks, and overclocking.
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The NVIDIA Titan RTX is a $2500 video card that's outfitted with 24GB of GDDR6, making it most suitable for VRAM-limited tasks on something with RTX 2080 Ti performance. That's really what we're working with, here: If you've wanted a 2080 Ti for some sort of production workload, like CUDA-accelerated rendering, but would be bound by 11GB GDDR6, the Titan RTX would be the alternative. People are still going to buy it for gaming and enthusiast use, though, and so we focused our initial testing on overclocking, gaming, power consumption, and thermals. The Titan RTX will not be made by board partners and is an NVIDIA-only part but, as we saw in our tear-down, it's just a 2080 Ti PCB. This means you could somewhat easily install a 2080 Ti cooler onto the Titan RTX, the "somewhat" mostly being that you'd need to find a 2080 Ti cooler. Waterblocks would work.
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[@GamersNexus]

We bought this card, for the record. 2x NVLink Titan RTX benchmarks: kzbin.info/www/bejne/al7Jq5mij6aKg6c Article: www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/3418-nvidia-titan-rtx-review-overclocking-gaming-power-thermals Our first Titan RTX was locked to 1350MHz: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXfKqoSLet-KprM Then we tore it down: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZjZYp6Nfs2Jn7M

[@TalkToMeQA78]

In the past I've seen you talk about SLI. What are the benefits of using a set of RX 580's Radeon cards for gaming as opposed to the performance counterpart of Nvidia using SLI for the same purpose. I would like to know... Please do a video on that subject or refer me to a past video.

[@allansh828]

Pls test gaming in 8K. I run out of memory with my 2080Ti all the time. Maybe the extra memory can help.

[@MrGbSandwich]

@@allansh828 was about to ask the same would be nice to see when you actually need each "level of" VRam since all the highend cards dont give much boost besides the VRam

[@voprus]

Nice work as usual :) ... just curious 1. where is the comparison with this card predecesor (Titan V)? 2. Any reason you are not using Vega with HBCC enabled where limited by VRAM with Blender?

[@theq4602]

Damn Y'all go above and beyond for getting strait facts.

[@UnboxMe]

Waiting the Titan RTX Walmart edition

[@BGizmo504]

Titan Overpowered ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@CaveyMoth]

This joke is on The Verge of perfection.

[@nurbsenvi]

It will be a re-branded Fury.

[@calidude1114]

So you did not invest in Apple when Steve Jobs came back in 1998?

[@rens3286]

They probably hot glue it in place then

[@ravocado4566]

Minor error that was probably pointed out already, but for Far Cry 5 you showed the 1080p results for F1 2018 instead of far cry 5

[@GamersNexus]

Thanks. The written review should have the correct result.

[@gbtb7167]

Disappointed it doesn't mow my lawn as well for $2500.

[@CaveyMoth]

You could try using the fans to cut grass.

[@gordongoodman8342]

With a little effort in your part, the card most certainly could contribute to mowing your lawn.

[@ineptgamer3814]

Or as my dad used to say for that price, does it pop the kettle on and give you a bj..?

[@CBourn48223]

Yo what's up with the missing memory spot on my 2080ti?! -Nvidia....Yeeeah..That's gonna be another 1300 bruh. Where's the ray tracing? -Nvidia..ray tracking what?...oh oh...umm..did you see the videos on youtube? Nice isn't it? it just works.

[@arlobubble3748]

The RAMs also double the density...

[@iaial0]

Yeah not to be that guy but you can't just install a 13 GB gddr6 chip. There's one more on the board and each one has double density

[@Hobbes4ever]

it still shouldn't be hard for Nvidia to add more vram to the RTX series. the RTX 2080 has a higher msrp than GTX 1080Ti and still only has 8 gb the rtx 2080ti costing over 80% more than the gtx 1080Ti and still has the same amount of VRAM the fanboys should stop defending nvidia

[@arlobubble3748]

@@Hobbes4ever compare the die sizes and you'll see where the cost difference is

[@b3at2]

CBourn48223 that's why I returned my 2080ti and will wait for AMD's card.

[@TimmyJoePCTech]

Thank you for doing this, you kinda made me understand why this product exists. Good job :)

[@peral9728]

Yeah, those gaming benchmarks didn't look so hot...

[@BrannigansLaw]

TIMMAH

[@crazed357]

How are you not verified yet

[@nathansstuff1547]

@@crazed357 I mean, I wonder why he doesn't have over 100 thousand subscribers

[@shido8597]

brace yourself nvidia fanboys will say that this card exist for ai deep learning

[@yinyang4632]

Steve!! Your mouth is physically not able to match the speed of your brain in reading these benchmarks. At times you are mumbling. They are not synchronized. In future, plug your head into a Gpu and turn on Vsync!

[@captain9204]

Lol

[@thomasoleson2651]

Lul

[@jondoe19896091]

double the price for gold paint. noice

[@thesorrow7499]

But.. but what about 5% increase fps in some games ? 😢

[@gordongoodman8342]

Dude, gold is valuable. Learn something.

[@Quetzalcoatl0]

@@thesorrow7499 but what if i tell you that's NOT a gaming card :D ?

[@backupplan6058]

Quetzalcoalt yet despite Nvidia claims it’s not for gamers they sure sent it out to gamer orientated channels to promote hype such as Linus and Jay while ignoring those that do proper analysis like GN and many outer professional orientated channels.

[@gordongoodman8342]

@@backupplan6058 So?

[@donicsm7684]

"I just want the best". Damn, I wish I was that loaded.

[@snoitseuqpi1119]

How dare you. Imposter. No beer, no cigar...

[@donicsm7684]

Bite my shiny metal ass!

[@chincemagnet]

You only had to be half as wealthy until last year. This shit sucks!

[@_BangDroid_]

Bonder is that you?

[@donicsm7684]

Excuse me, that's MISTER Bender Bending Rodriguez to you.

[@WayStedYou]

RIP Jay electric boogaloo with watercooled titan rtx incoming

[@yootoob6003]

#FuckJayZ : Electronic Overcloo

[@TheLoucM]

Also, this card has fully unlocked 32 bits 130tflops of tensor operation. It should be a monster at machine learning... you know, what gamers dont need either, but maybe could be interesting for people working with AI.

[@KiraSlith]

If AI wasn't pretty much the only thing left for the CPU to do while gaming these days, I'd suggest having the GPU do it in games too. But at that point I'd have to ask why Nvidia doesn't just sell a PC that's basically just a Titan RTX with a SATA header and a M.2 slot.

[@CaveyMoth]

If it can make Alexa play Despacito 60% more intelligently, I'm going for it.

[@Ephem13]

@@KiraSlith AI is usually better handled by the GPU, being repetitive simple commands in massive numbers. This is why the "cores" of the GPU are very slow but have massive counts while CPUs have much higher speeds but much lower core counts. If what you said above was true, then the CPU couldn't of bottle necked this GPU.

[@predatorofpie]

Also, this card doesn't have industry validated drivers, ECC memory and has a 1/32 scale for double precision. Let's be honest, those who would benefit from what this card (solely) offers in terms of deep learning would benefit more from the titan V, and for the chunk of change it demands, the interested parties would more probably care for a quadro/tesla. Being real, this card is solely to stroke gamer's ego and line Nvidia's pockets.

[@Skellotronix]

@@CaveyMoth dead meme

[@ColinZtmnf]

Why didn't you include the Titan V in these tests? I'm really curious how Turing compares to Volta in gaming and ai/ml.

[@michaelscott-joynt3215]

Am I understanding this generation correctly, that Nvidia brings products to market that are great for lighting in 3D rendering or machine learning, marketed to gamers?

[@chinchy111]

2080ti and below for gamers. Titans for learning

[@nathansstuff1547]

@@chinchy111 Point still stands

[@xylordkhan1]

@@nathansstuff1547 hey, it's free real estate!

[@nathansstuff1547]

@@xylordkhan1 thank you friend

[@hurrdurrimaburr]

You're not understanding it correctly.

[@ProTreeVideos]

Hey random person scrolling down the comments.. Happy Holidays :)

[@hannibalm090009]

Deep learning, it’s made for deep learning. That’s why it has 24 gb memory

[@Droplet_]

I just realized im not subscribed and ive been watching for 2 years

[@yaldabaoth2]

Time to put a ring on it.

[@zimmerman1031]

You should consider wearing a helmet before you go outside. You're going to get hit by a car.

[@calidude1114]

Shame on you!

[@robertdavidson548]

@@yaldabaoth2 The greatest

[@mjc0961]

Nutella You are one of the most disgusting things I have ever tasted.

[@CS-ft6by]

I wonder if Nvidia will ever make a GPU with the shroud being made from real gold. Knowing Jensen, I think it's only a matter of time

[@brandonlacey8112]

It just works

[@GrohiikVahlokJul]

It does look like they are heading that way doesn't it?

[@gtvon2556]

I would buy that so fast for my wife. She's a digital artist and likes gold. Rose gold would be even better.

[@TarisRedwing]

GPU's will have leather jackets before gold shrouds if Jensen has anything to say about it lol.

[@scottiy6625]

I really want to see a Titan RTX vs Titan V comparison for a wide range of testing, with games of course, but also possible workloads they may be under and if one of the 2 Titans is better in all or some or what. Not sure if that will happen, but I would love to see the results

[@zacharystevens6193]

The Titan V is usually 10-15fps slower than the RTX 2080ti in 4k. While in most cases the Titan RTX is 7-10fps faster than a RTX 2080ti in 4k. So we are mostly likely looking at a 20fps difference between the Titan RTX and Titan V. The Titan V could perform better however its hindered by it's very low clock speed and drivers.

[@mashygreen6974]

I might be able to do such testing later next year - but without gaming or any direct X tests (sorry, don’t have Windows installed on the workstation). However, I’m betting that the RTX will be noticeably better at workflows that utilise the tensor cores and FP16/FP32 compute, but where FP64 is required there will be no comparison. I am interested to see the differences between the HBM2 and GDDR6 as well and what impact it might have, it will just be very hard to normalise for that.

[@skymooov132]

$2500 for a graphic card to play a $50 game at the highest setting that's nuts.

[@user-pj6oc5gy2q]

oh boy this comment makes me laugh in 2021

[@MarcoGam3r]

oh boy this comment makes me laugh in 2023

[@Hughesburner]

2023 where a xbox almost more sense. Speaking as being a PC gamer since the early 2000's. Test driving a series X out right now at home, its impressive.

[@CaveyMoth]

And here I am with a GTX 1050 Ti; A GPU worth 1/24th the price of this thing.

[@Sinister80s]

Same. Still a great gpu.

[@daniel3k]

750ti gang

[@thegeforce6625]

GTX 770 2gb woop.

[@tiaan7032]

@@daniel3k 750Ti was a baby beast !! They dont make them like that anymore :(

[@tiaan7032]

@@thegeforce6625 I had that card & I loved it

[@TrueThanny]

3:28 No there aren't. A tiny number of people with more money than sense at most. Titans, even when they're "only" $1K, never get enough sales to even show up on the Steam hardware survey, for example.

[@Malc180s]

Still many, many thousands of them. It's not a small community, it's about as middle of the road a pastime as you can find these days.

[@ToriRocksAmos]

@@Malc180s Would love to see actual sales numbers for those cards.

[@Malc180s]

@@ToriRocksAmos Well if the 250 million new computer sales a year figure is to be believed... And the PC gaming market is all but matching the console market... And the world is creating a greater and greater rich poor divide with plenty of people wanting to show off their success.. And this is the best gaming card you can buy.. I'd imagine sales will be healthy.

[@Saxie81]

I guess its a little late to add this to the disappointment build?

[@Nebujin383]

Its a business GPU. This card is for 3D-CAD Programming & not for Gaming.

[@houghwhite411]

I thought for sure I read it *TITAN RTX MEME👏REVIEW👏*

[@joeykeilholz925]

I miss those

[@FordGTmaniac]

Titan RTX is best geared towards those that want a "do everything" PC. It can be a gpu for gaming and streaming, heavy multi-tasking, editing and rendering, etc. If you need to do a bunch of stuff all at once and don't have space for multiple systems then this is the product for you. Just make sure your cpu, ram, and storage drives don't bottleneck it.

[@BDP2007]

After you said $2500 I literally stopped the video lol, at least I liked the video.

[@rodericklizardo270]

Just bought a pair of Titan RTX's + NVLink bridge. This video pretty much hammered the final nail into my decision. Now I can test Disney quality simulations in 4k over night, and I could play games on high settings without any flicker. Many folks do not understand that developing test renders and playing around with freeware tools is exactly the same thing as playing with expensive software! Spend some money on your personal hardware and increase the value of their portfolio, whether you're an engineer or a designer this card will help you. This type of investment is much more than mining for crypto!

[@donicsm7684]

5:58 Did I hear 2080ti FU launch? very accurate. haha

[@TH3M3RC]

Can you do some 5K benchmarks. Go get a 5K monitor if yah don’t got one. We have to justify this card somehow.

[@KarrasBastomi]

Why 5K, straight to 8K.... /s

[@TH3M3RC]

Karras Bastomi yeah we need to see where this card shines it’s somewhere lol. I remember when eyefinity x3 1080p was all the rage. I’m waiting for something like that to happen again. We really don’t see that anymore.

[@ToriRocksAmos]

How about 7680x4320 ?

[@Quinteger]

don't see any reason when high refresh rate 1440p panels exist

[@gtvon2556]

It justifies itself. 🏆

[@jaycaldwell4518]

For us Motion graphic designers can you do an Octane 4 bench, please. Thank you.

[@twistedoracle1144]

But butt but it’s for deep learning>Nvidia fanboy I don’t even know what that buzzword means”deep learning “ Do we achieve enlightenment or something by doing this... just kidding

[@shayan-gg]

Wao a 500W PSU can run a OC Titan RTX I bought a 750W PSU for GTX 970

[@djsahilking3807]

Lol you need nuclear power plant to run that card 😂😂😂

[@thib2582]

A 9900k and a titan do 600w. Get at least 800-1000 to be safe.

[@m333pm333p]

I can't afford or justify another titan. But i love this channel because "I just want the best."

[@V8SplashMan]

Now that I feel well informed, I shall now apply this valuable information into my $300 GPU purchase decision.

[@chickenoodle3397]

Talks about blender with a Titan RTX Cinema4d : cmon man

[@Strikerz0r]

Am I the only one who is totally underwhelmed by nVidia's current lineup? They are all so expensive and with really no noticable performance gain.

[@340Hz]

You're not. As someone with a 970, I waited out the Pascal generation (no need to upgrade every generation, particularly with mining prices), and now would be a good time for an upgrade. But for these prices, and when RTX isn't widely implemented? Nah, don't think so.

[@mjc0961]

340Hz I did the same with my 970. Except at RTX 2080 Ti and 2080 review embargo lift, I read a few reviews and then bought a new 1080 Ti (for less than $600, because the box I was going to recycle anyway was damaged 😁). Glad I did because the market sucks now. Hopefully AMD and Intel's new GPUs in 2019 and 2020 actually have a high end to compete with cards like the 2080 and 2080Ti. AMD has been letting us down for years which is why Nvidia can get away with it.

[@Tacticalpanic]

340Hz same , I have a 980 ti and game at 1440p , I’d have to spend a minimum £600 for an upgrade to it , and the 2070 isint even THAT more powerful .

[@greenpeople1775]

Lol these comments are funny now that DLSS 2.0 is working really well.

[@vertvaliant6581]

Titan RTX is not meant for gaming. It is meant specifically for AI, machine learning, data processing, and studio work. Not even sure why you would need to benchmark this thing on games lol.

[@Multimeter1]

1080TI sli plus a 9800X 8c with 44 pcie lanes is the better than this gpu wtf? I’ll stick with my sli rig. EVGA x299 dark is also a beast of a board

[@Reedith]

well yaa if its the same performance as a 2080TI and ya got money to kill sounds way cooler saying ya got a titan rtx vs a mouth full of a rtx2080ti plus it sounds less dated once the 3080 is out a titan rtx still sounds somewhat relevant plus don't they hold their value better?

[@MakoRuu]

It's so boujee that Nvidia made it gold. lol

[@VeeGaming]

I'm wondering how well this card performs at mining ethereum

[@sirius4k]

Buy a box full of those and let us know!

[@VeeGaming]

I would expect it to have the highest hashrates of any card out there. Even Titan V.

[@doug4431]

I’m curious too

[@troglodude980]

Wasnt the 9900k out for a few months when this video was made? Why not use that at 5ghz oc and make absolutely sure

[@Starfals]

If Total Biscuit was alive, he was probably going to buy it lol. Impressive card but aint worth it for sure.

[@Nebujin383]

Its a business GPU. This card is for 3D-CAD Programming & not for Gaming... if you are a Gamer only this card is not meant for you and its use primary. It is worth it depending on what you do with it.

[@mjc0961]

Starfals Fuck cancer 😭

[@mr_beezlebub3985]

Not worth the price, but an impressive piece of technology

[@BlazeABD]

Nice cope 3-5% faster = x2 the price oh yeah really impressive.

[@Quetzalcoatl0]

@@BlazeABD what about that 24gb of freaking expensive just released GDDR6 ? What about that this GPU is NOT a gaming card ? :D fucktards.

[@BlazeABD]

@@Quetzalcoatl0Where did i say anything about gaming? "fucktard" ;)

[@Vooman]

@@BlazeABD the fact that it's bleeding edge is what's impressive, something being impressive doesnt mean its a good deal

[@Quetzalcoatl0]

@@BlazeABD Yes you did say everything about gaming, quote "3-5% faster = x2 the price", considering we are watching gaming results, fucktard. Oh really impressive. That's why there is cancer in the comments.

[@Dr.D00p]

Someone on a forum I frequent has bought not one but two of these for SLI, not because he wanted or needed them but simply so he could brag & show off to his fellow forum members and boost his 'e-peen' credentials. I don't know what this guy is lacking in his personal life to feel the need to do this kind of thing but...he has my sympathies.

[@Bigdude0444]

That made me sad for him to read.

[@-Tartarus-]

I will be impressed by a guy with 2 2080 Ti on SLI, but a guy with 2 Titan RTX will look like a guy who has no idea of hardware and was basically scammed.

[@thetrueinferno7993]

spends 3 times for 3 percent extra performance lol

[@Patrick73787]

8K gaming is a thing.

[@sadsismint]

So we still get to pay titan prices for Ti performance. Gamers were really shafted in this series release.

[@spearhead30]

What the hell are you saying? You are reading so fast I can't understand half of what you say!

[@requiem5179]

It cost $2500 and has known high failure rates. Sign me up!

[@aquilarossa5191]

I never realized it costs Nvidia so much to put an extra 13GB of GDDR on a card! Roughly double the vram roughly doubles the price. Wow.

[@davidwoodward1452]

I constantly run out of memory on my Titan XP, so yes this is necessary

[@34skyline]

Currently running a Titan X Pascal and looking to upgrade but I don't want a 2080Ti just seems like a step down but I i'm a little intimidated of the Titan RTX price, I sold all of my consoles, games, Apple watch etc.. and I even open up a quite a few checking/saving/IRA account because these banks offer cash to open a account for first time heck I got $350 from chase just opening up a checking and savings, Wells Fargo gave me $200 and Navy Federal gave me $100 just opening up IRA Bank of America cash back Credit card will give you $200 cash back if you spend over $500 on your first purchase after done all that raise $1700 and when I sale my Titan X Pascal I basically will have the money for this card but i'm going to wait after CES to make my decision, Wonder how this card stock up in final Cut Pro?

[@robainscough]

FYI, Lockheed Martin's Prepar3d flight simulator can easily exceed 11GB VRAM and upto 32GB RAM with the appropriate .cfg adjustments and add-ons. If you're interested in using flight simulators for testing, I would highly recommend you do as most 3D shooter type games aren't going to push GPUs are much as a flight simulator as it's render distances and texture sizes are far higher than 3D shooters.

[@Plain1nsane]

I don't even care about the performance because I'm running a GTX 760, but I've just realised I need a gold GPU.

[@CarbonPhoenix96]

What a tool

[@Plain1nsane]

@@CarbonPhoenix96 what inspired this response?

[@intovein3474]

same gpu here \o/

[@jakegarrett8109]

Spray paint from Wallmart! The gold actually looks pretty nice (from the spray painting), so you could totally do it. Expect RTX heatsinks for $50 on Ebay later (people will be water cooling them), then you can spray paint it gold. However, it probably won't fit on your GTX 760 (capacitors will be in the way). But that's really if you only want it to look like the Titan, you can otherwise just simply paint the card you have gold (easier, cheaper, and "it just works").

[@MnBryce]

Looking forward to the workstation GPU update. I want to see a comparison of the Quadro RTX 5000, Titan RTX, and 2080ti for rendering in Revit.

[@Durandalis]

If you are going to install a 2080 ti water block, you'll need an another thermal pad for the extra memory module on the face of the Titan RTX board.

[@m0rtl]

pay double a 2080ti and youll get the same performance. nice

[@Nebujin383]

Its a business GPU. This card is for 3D-CAD Programming & not for Gaming... if you are a Gamer only this card is not meant for you and its use primary. It is worth it depending on what you do with it.

[@threadripper1822]

What your trying to say is, I shouldn't of bought this

[@jordan3649]

Im certain that 1 Titan RTX costs less than $500 to produce and ship, all things considered. $2,500 for one though. Get fucked, Nvidia.

[@krazyfrog]

You could say this new card TITANS the frame times.

[@xpodx]

Can you do 5k and 8k testing and showing vram steve? Cuz theres a few titles that use over 11gbs of vram at at even 4k, not to mention 5k Ww2. Cod bo4. Etc

[@QuickshotGaming]

Nvidia: The Titan is not for gamers. Gamers: The Titan is a bad value for gaming. Nvidia: Excuse me, what the -fuck- heck.

[@357mview2]

Are games benchmarked with RTX ON!

[@nebiatsu]

Wondering why you didnt add a 'Nvlink(SLI) 2080' in there? You have everything else, like 1080 TI SLI, Nvlink 2080 ti. Are you just assuming, and expecting everyone else to know, that the 1080 ti and 2080 Nvlink/SLI pretty much the same? I am very curious why they arent in there. I have 2 2080's Nvlink'ed, and lately there seem to be some tweaks and my performance has been jumping pretty dang high in games, as opposed to previous early drivers and os updates. Not nit-picking, just wondering why there arent any 2080's in sli in this VERY well represented video card(s) review. Thanks.

[@PackardBelltoll]

Nvidia shares have plunged recently, off the back of an utterly disastrous fiscal Q3. from 283-down to 100 per share Nvidia: Headed For $100 The weakening cryptocurrency market, previously downplayed by management, had a very real effect on revenue, and the inventory issues created by mismanagement will have a material effect over the coming quarters. Coupled with slowing datacenter growth, a downturn in the overall chip space, and high powered competition (AMD, Intel, in-house), the Nvidia bull thesis is flawed. The stock may not have significant upside catalyst until 2H of calendar 2019, when Nvidia is expected to fully work through its inventory reset. By this time, the stock markets and global economy may be increasingly volatile. Without fundamental upside catalysts, slowing growth, and increased competition, the stock likely has more room to fall. Nvidia's stock remains a no-fly zone. Slashing PT from $232 to $100.

[@theq4602]

Somebody once told me that Titans are meant for Machine learning. Then why did AMD build a dual GPU card (HD 7990) to compete with the "GTX Titan" AKA the first Titan. It's odd. If you look at the last few generations of AMD GPUs, they are only really powerful (competitive with Nvidia's top products) when AMD builds a Dual GPU card. It seems AMD only really cares for the lower end to mid range market. Perhaps AMD will become like Chevrolet and Nvidia like Chrysler. One for the common man and one for the rich.

[@robertdavidson548]

Do people know what a mess theses RTX cards are? I received my $1,391 bricked 2080 Ti straight from EVGA and sent it back the next day. Reading Amazon reviews, I found two different people on their 3rd attempt and many people who had bought a brick and simply refunded it. There are so many bad ones and unfortunately, I didn't learn just how much of a mess they are until I bought one.

[@EYE50MM]

So NVlink only shares card memory or uses the memory on both cards essentially doubling memory on Titan RTX and all RTX Quadro cards but does not - DOES NOT share memory on the RTX 2080ti and under lower end cards, right? That s what I understood from Peugeot Systems. Please clarify the memory usage on NVlink.

[@Hobbes4ever]

wow an even bigger ripoff than the RTX 2080. This card is what the RTX 2080Ti should've been. anyone who is not senile should still remember that Titans used to cost 1000 bucks and not 2500 or 3000 (titan V) once again the gamers have to pay for nvidias mistake first it was gpu shortage now Nividia need to make more money because they have a huge overstock of gtx 1060

[@buster5283]

I think it is eorth mentioning that if you are either attending or teaching or affiliated with any school, college, or university, you can get a 500 USD discount off of the titan rtx graphics card from Nvidia or one of their authorized retailers by filling out a form on their website. This discount brings the cost down to 2000 USD or the same price of an oc labs galax hall of fame rtx 2080 ti. The key difference is the extra vram and the lack of AIB partner models on the Titan RTX graphics card, but those are minor problems for more vram for the same price. It is only really noticable if you render animations, or videos, do things in solidworks, or work with lots of calculations on the gpu in general like adobe illustrator, photoshop, adobe premiere, etc.

[@anasevi9456]

Sad we didnt get to see how well Titan V held up. Still good video as always.

[@stephenwakeman3074]

So let's get this straight. You received a defective unit that would not boost? At $2500 you would think that Nvidia would up their quality control. It's bad enough to get a faulty unit for a fifth of that spend but its basically unforgivable at that price point. Not a single defective unit should leave the factory at that price. Completely unacceptable.

[@marcinsobczak2485]

It's 4:53 AM, Snunday here where I am at. Why am I watching this?

[@typingcat]

Snu snu day?

[@PackardBelltoll]

2080 ti vs 1080 ti sales report kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4POe6VuZbB1jpY stocks dropped from 280 a share todays financials show noone buying 20 cards and stocks plummeted to 164 today. 2080 ti catches flames browsing web without rtx hardforum.com/threads/evga-2080-ti-xc-burst-into-flame.1971627/

[@Battleneter]

More disappointment, RTX the generation that keeps not giving!

[@Nebujin383]

Its a business GPU. This card is for 3D-CAD Programming & not for Gaming... if you are a Gamer only this card is not meant for you and its use primary. It is worth it depending on what you do with it.

[@Donbros]

These videos are too long and booring. Gamers nexus make more jokes about benchmarks :D

[@GT4tube]

RTX 2080ti + NVLINK (SLI) - 1.200$ x 2 = 2.400$ = 209 FPS Vs RTX TITAN OC - 2500$ = 126 FPS Good Job Nvidia nowadays. OMEGALUL!

[@Patrick73787]

You forgot to include the pricy NVLink bridge

[@tripzero0]

huge reason for 24Gb: AI deep learning. Some DL networks don't fit on 11Gb.

[@jonathanhayhurst3928]

I understand wanting to buy the best, the problem is this isn’t the best! I’d take a good third part 2080 ti over the terrible stock cooler with an RTX Titan even if they cost the same

[@Dante_S550_Turbo]

tl;dr only buy a titan if it's targeted towards your semi proffesional career or hobby's. Only buy it for games if you want to pay twice as much for same performance.

[@MightyThunderbolt]

make sure you complain about apple not supporting nvidia in your next video lol. #unblocknvidia

[@edwardthompson7100]

Please please do a thermal and overclocking video of the RTX Titan using the Kraken G12 (Or any other watercooling method)

[@Voodoo_One]

Nice review. But is there a possibility to test the VR performance? It is hard to find any reviews comparing one/two RTX 2080 TIs vs. one/two RTX Titan within VR. Especially thirsty simulations like XPlane, DCS World or even Assetto Corsa / Project Cars I wonder if the VRam helps any for VR, since on my Oculus Rift and HTC Vive PRO the VRAM on my 1080 TI and now 2080 Ti is always maxed out...

[@MaelstromExceptions]

Please do 8k testing to further stress the card and the gap widens even further. Rule of thumb: If a game is getting well over 60 fps already, beef up the settings even more, this way you can see more differences then you will otherwise. I bet you if you tested it at 8k(4800p), I bet the card will see alot more performance gap then 4k, try it.

[@naorg1455]

I'm not amd fan We can all see whare nvidia is going. Do not buy any RTX S%&* I use GTX 1070.

[@mediocrecoder6184]

People really buy this for gaming? They probably run it with their Threadripper 2990wx gaming CPU /s

[@selohcin]

Why do you test at 4K High and 1440p Ultra? Wouldn't it be better to do an apples-to-apples comparison?

[@MegaHooterville]

So where are the benchmarks on production applications? I couldn't find any on your web page either....

[@hyraxist]

Waiting for RTX to be enabled in a raytracer/pathtracer is kind of a stupid thing to say. You do realise that GPU rendering in vray or cycles or redshift depends more on the cards performance than a feature. Optix might gain an advantage due to RTX but as the rest are CUDA based I don't think you need to wait for RTX.

[@i_would_but_i_wont]

Steve, can you please answer my previous question on how to get awesome fucking hair and look fabulous?

[@marilyto]

This Gen of GPU's is a fucking Joke! $2500 for a mediocre jump on performance is insane.

[@wonkaytry]

Not for gaming, not for gaming, not for gaming............................Is like taking a Concept car to the super market, yes you can but cmon. This is for a workstation.

[@prashanthdoshi9926]

People saying 4090 is costly . It's 1000 dollars cheaper than Rtx titan from 5 years .

[@fadezzgameplay7077]

sir can i go with i5 9400f+titan rtx 24gb i am asking for deep learning only not for gaming will this system bottleneck or not in deep learning only

[@PackardBelltoll]

Morgan Stanley says the gaming performance of Nvidia's latest graphics card is below its expectations. In August, Nvidia announced its new eighth-generation Turing graphics architecture. Technology media outlets published reviews on the company's first gaming cards based on the new chips Wednesday morning. "As review embargos broke for the new gaming products, performance improvements in older games is not the leap we had initially hoped for," Morgan Stanley analyst Joseph Moore said in a note to clients on Thursday. "Performance boost on older games that do not incorporate advanced features is somewhat below our initial expectations, and review recommendations are mixed given higher price points." Nvidia shares closed down 2.1 percent Thursday. Moore noted that Nvidia's new RTX 2080 card performed only 3 percent better than the previous generation's 1080Ti card at 4K resolutions. "We are surprised that the 2080 is only slightly better than the 1080ti, which has been available for over a year and is slightly less expensive," he said. "With higher clock speeds, higher core count, and 40% higher memory bandwidth, we had expected a bigger boost." As a result he expects the adoption of Nvidia's new products to be "slower" and doesn't expect "much upside" from the company's gaming business in its next two financial quarters. Despite the disappointment, Moore reiterated his overweight rating and $273 price target for Nvidia shares due to the company's strong long-term technology position.

[@PackardBelltoll]

Nvidia cant replace the 1080 ti with a 2080 ti and expect to stay doing business and keep shareholders.

[@MarkLikesCoffee860]

Imagine if you were filthy rich, you lived in a very big house, you owned a supercar. You had a gaming rig with an Intel i9-9900K. You would want a card that ordinary people couldn't afford. The Titan RTX is perfect. The perfect price so only the elite could buy one. You would happily pay 500% more money for 10% more performance if you had $ billions in the bank.

[@PabloB888]

In rich countries 2,500 euro/month is average salary and I bet some enthusiast will buy titan rtx for gaming, not to mention some really rich people (who can buy a 1000 000 euro ferrari) because for people like that 2,500 euro is more like a pocket money.

[@kalmtraveler]

Steve - just a heads up you were right that a 3MO shunt resistor works. I tested mine yesterday and it boosts fine with those - all stock settings mine boosted to 1920mhz in Timespy during my testing, and held stable 1870mhz + barring slight thermal dip since it was passing 80C which of course dropped the clock a bit. Soon as my water cooling leak is dry I'll do some water-cooled testing with 2 in NVLink SLI.

[@coder0xff]

How did you increase the voltage? It's not working for me in MSI Afterburner.

[@mondzi]

I love the content you're doing (best in the biz IMHO), except one thing - your graphs are terrible :( They could use some clarity, like distinguishing between stock and OC models (maybe separate graphs for OC?), use some color coding (AMD/NVIDIA), better labeling of GPUs (type is more important than brand), bigger fonts sizes and overall reduction in clutter. That would be awesome ;) Thanks for all you're doing and happy holidays.

[@TalkToMeQA78]

$2,500 for this card and you want to use it for gaming only... Pointless! I would rather buy an gtx-1080 or a Radeon RX 590 instead. that car would stay alive for years but allow me to play the necessary games and not break the bank.

[@PabloB888]

There are countries where average salary is 2,500 euro in a month, so I bet there are people who will buy titan RTX just for gaming.

[@prich0382]

He's right about power percentage, I have a MSI 980 TI 6G, I kept wondering why I can only go to 109% when I've seen other 980 Ti go up to 120% or so, it's cus my card 100% power is 275W not 250W

[@thevoiceoftruth55]

Nvidia been saying for years Titan isn't a gaming card, now that actually makes sense.