NVLink Titan RTX Benchmarks: Gaming & Power Consumption

NVLink really just means "SLI," at least, when speaking about these cconfigurations. We benchmarked two Titan RTX cards in SLI vs. 2-way SLI 2080 Tis and 1080 Tis.
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This review benchmarks the NVIDIA Titan RTX cards in SLI, or NVLink, in a two-way setup for gaming applications. An additional power test is present for comparison versus a single card. Testing primarily highlights SLI 2080 Ti cards, SLI 1080 Tis, and a single Titan RTX, although plenty of other GPUs are present in the benchmarks. If you're looking for the technical "best" GPU configuration for gaming, this is sort of it -- but that doesn't mean it should be purchased, of course, and that's something we talk about in this video.
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[@GamersNexus]

This is with our new Titan RTX. The bugged one went back to NVIDIA. Article: www.gamersnexus.net/guides/3419-sli-nvlink-titan-rtx-benchmark-gaming-power-consumption Standalone review of Titan RTX: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hnKTZqiCibqAqrM 1350MHz lock issue: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXfKqoSLet-KprM

[@zhangirduiseke676]

Steve, why do you say 3% improvement and don't recommend buying two of them?! 132fps with 2080 Ti SLI and 150fps with TITAN RTX SLI. 18fps! That's already enough for me to buy them! There are always enthusiasts who will buy the best! And why do even benchmark them in 1440P. Who would buy them for 1440P, lol. I have that 4K GSYNC HDR 144Hz monitor and I want to maximize it!

[@RazorSkinned86]

I am really interested in someone leaking the RMA numbers on RTX products. It's pretty insane how much units that were either review samples or purchased by reviewers/journalists had defects. I don't think I've seen anything like this since the Nvidia GTX 400 series. I am really curious what the failure rate will be at 2 years out for normal users.

[@jens-erik2555]

"The more you buy, the more you save"

[@RazorSkinned86]

@@zhangirduiseke676 Ummmm... did you not understand the frame time info and why that is important to reviews? Who wants 150fps when it's in no way smooth? Did you see those frame times and +100ms stutters? Doesn't matter how baller you are, spending an extra $3000 for 3% extra avg FPS is stupid, especially when it's a laggy stuttery experience.

[@korana6308]

Great video. Completely agree with your conclusion. 2080 ti is a reasonable purchase if you have lots of money. (Not worth going for anything higher). Also, not worth upgrading from 1080 ti. If you have a 1080 ti (or Titan V) it's not worth upgrading and instead should wait for a 3080 ti.

[@emil246]

Nvidia: if you want 8k gaming pay 8k.

[@syamantakbharti3463]

Trudat

[@potatoavacadonion1025]

Waddabout 100k

[@gettriggered_ian3269]

I'm your 69th like.

[@muthafukajones8114]

Fair enough

[@sethlindner5955]

Thats 1k per 1k!

[@Luscious3174]

If you need an excuse to test 24GB of VRAM load up X-Plane at 4K with all the details maxxed out. I'm scratching my head why you guys don't include flight simulators in your benchmarking. X-Plane is good at loading up VRAM with textures as much as there is available, and can give quite accurate FPS numbers depending on the load placed on the card(s) and what is being rendered on the screen. Not everybody out there is a FPS gamer. Please seriously consider this.

[@yanniskouretas8688]

I agree (X-pane 11 user here too) . It can bring the best hardware to its knees easily ...

[@MillionFoul]

X-plane, DCS, P3D, FSX, they can all give consistent computer-slaughtering results where you can essentially make your own benchmarks by replaying flights and such. And, with the market growing, a lot of people want to know how their favorite sims will perform on newer hardware.

[@CharcharoExplorer]

Can test HBCC there too.

[@OutOfRangeDE]

@Shawn Huffman Because it renders the cpu stuff on two cores! Which is pretty much a no go for a simulator. Its all cpu bottleneck, would be pointless to test a graphics card with that game. Its a nice game though, just the optimisation isnt there.

[@abcdefg9613]

@Shawn Huffman doesn't cities skylines actually kill the system ram and not vram?

[@Elinzar]

Dude, you made the disappointment build way too early ps : merry Christmas everybody

[@jacktenrec1447]

Happy saturnalia pagan

[@NotDekoDX]

the dissapointment was mainly caused by a cheapo cpu. if you were to pair it up with an i9 the dissapointment were to have gone away

[@jihadjoe]

Steve: Definitely don't use these cards for gaming. Also Steve: Have some gaming benchmarks using these cards.

[@JulianUccetta]

@Xtreme Performance I don't seem to recall Nvidia making a 280 Ti... I remember the GeForce 280, but no Ti :P I know this post is old but I couldn't resist! Also, people need to remember, the Titan isn't marketed at gamers anymore like you said, or even enthusiasts. It's being marketed at content creators and newbie deep learning. I have two Titan RTXs in my main rig which I use for rendering video, 3D work and work in Unreal Engine 4. All of which it does an amazing job with. I am super satisfied with the results in Unreal Engine 4 as the editor can eat video ram fast..... But in games, yeah just go with a 2080 Ti But I can say with confidence, these cards are *not* shit compared to anything. They are monster cards.

[@firebirdgaming3595]

@@JulianUccetta Finally, someone who sorta understand what they are doing. These cards aren't for gaming, and that's pretty obvious. My friend uses these for video editing, software design, and 3d modeling. When he games, the cards boil, but the frame-rates cream a stock 2080ti sli setup. I recommend water cooling to anyone who is planning to use these cards. These cards depend heavily on how much the CPU can feed it, so when I saw they were using an i7 8700k to benchmark it I instantly thought that the test had lost some capability to showcase it's prime capability. Gamersnexus needs to pair it with an i9 9900k and at least 32gb of ddr4 3600 to get the most out of it. Also benchmarks in map games like FSX and HOI4 would be useful in highlighting where the card really shines: VRAM.

[@roguestatus9040]

They need a gold SLI bridge. Shame on you, NVIDIA. :-P

[@roguestatus9040]

I'm sorry; NV Link.

[@zhangirduiseke676]

They already have it. Golden NVLINK bridge. Steve just to lazy to buy it!

[@Przemo1223]

They need 4 way in nvlink titan rtx xd

[@zhangirduiseke676]

@Simple Sigman lol wut. He bought two of 2500$ graphics cards and he could spend 80$ dollars on NVLink bridge. By the way he sells his modmats which he advertise way too much to have damn 80$ for it.

[@King.Leonidas]

@Simple Sigman wasen't it more then colour diffrence? WASEN*T IT THE HIGHBANDWITH VERSION OF THE NVLINK?

[@jens-erik2555]

"The more i buy, the more i save" Steve

[@adridell]

But if you don't buy at all, you save it all :D

[@lexalgd7131]

in minecraft

[@sssesoj]

Sell a Snowflakes shirt already

[@TylertheGeek28]

Sell Snowflake clones*

[@lszucs448]

Up ^^

[@richmeisterradio]

Snowflake with a gpu between her legs or rubbing up against a gn logo or something

[@1worldgaming18]

should the shirt have snowflakes on or cats instead of snowflakes falling gently :)

[@HisNameIsRobertPaulson01]

10/10 would buy

[@nameinvalid69]

there are always people with too much money they won't care. 5 grand is like 5 cents to them.

[@bonter1983]

50 dollars is like 5 grand to me.

[@doriangray2347]

bonter1983 lol this is the saddest post thread. Unmerry Christmas.

[@jud3775]

U know they get sent these products from the companies to test and review them, that's their job.

[@PurranormalCatatonic]

@@jud3775 I believe they actually bought it tho.

[@B1SQ1T]

ZeroLife or people who’ve been saving up their money for such a long time for something they want

[@TechWithSean]

Remember when the Titan cards were badass?

[@Zarcondeegrissom]

ok, who is going to make some "Make Titans Great Again" ballcaps, lol.

[@AlfaPro1337]

It still destroys the RX Flop series in tier-to-tier performance. I REPEAT tier-to-tier, not price-to-price. Why else AMD named it so differently from the RX 4/500 series? They are pulling another R9 Not-so-fury series stunt, but with a load of disappointment.

[@solomonshv]

they were never "badass", they always sucked. 780 Ti was faster, and cheaper, than the original titan out of the box. all the subsequent titans were limited by nvidia's reference board, power limits and garbage cooler. custom overclocked 980 Tis, 1080 Tis and now 2080 Tis are faster than their respective Titan variants. .

[@AlfaPro1337]

@@solomonshv The Titan, Titan Black and Titan Z had compute capability, the 780 Ti's compute capability was disabled artificially. The Titan V is still ahead of the 20/10/980Ti.

[@ployth9000]

24gb vram vs 11gb they still are badass

[@TrailFeatures]

Oh, bike frames! Oh, kitty! ...Oh yeah, I'm watching a card review... ...Wonder if that hardtail is steel?

[@GamersNexus]

The orange frame is steel, yeah. It was mostly an art project. It used to get use as a singlespeed, but has since been retired and painted. I ride DH bikes these days.

[@TrailFeatures]

@@GamersNexus I dig it.

[@ajsaracina8380]

Dude, weird seeing you here

[@TrailFeatures]

@@ajsaracina8380 IGNORE ME: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y5bKnKCejLJ_msk

[@justsomenerd8925]

The Santa Cruz Nickle caught my eye first.

[@kittzy3598]

Remember the 8800 GTX SLI

[@MsToshi1990]

Glorious old days :D

[@ThisLaoGuy]

I feel old for remembering that now.

[@1063ghost]

1000 $ not 5000 🤤😨😢🤔

[@altairfoo1920]

11GB of VRAM is sufficient for 4K rendering using Unreal Engine, but once I hit it with the "8K” setting (7680x4320). 11GB is just not working at all. And substance painter uses a lot of VRAM while doing 4K(4096x4096) texture. So the pros who need a lot of VRAM but not paying for the Quadro drivers might consider the TITAN series. 😂

[@yskuzi]

Titan has optimized drivers as well for most pro grade software and offeres tcc mode for rendering

[@abcdefg9613]

I believe it is cheaper to buy a Pascal based quadro and just run with it.

[@allansh828]

My RTX2080Ti SLI really struggles with ultra texture quality in 8K. 11GB VRAM is just too small. I was considering RTX 6000. But now I can buy Titan instead, for less than half the price.

[@altairfoo1920]

@@abcdefg9613 Indeed, relatively old quadro will have lower prices, but new GPU supports native 8k workflow and have much higher VRAM speed which benefits a lot. But it just depends on your demand. :)

[@icenovaa]

@@altairfoo1920 not related but nice artoria pfp I remember that scene from f/z

[@Joker-no1fz]

that cat looks so soft and nice i want to pet it.

[@Bugattiboy912]

SLI's slow painful death is the poster child for artificial segmentation. There's no reason actual NVLink, not SLI running over NVLink, isn't on consumer cards other than it'd hurt Nvidia's profits.

[@Snafu2346]

What... for this price, I expect RGB. Because RGB is everything. Oh I know, next month they'll release a RGB Titan RTX Special Hyper Championship Edition Alpha. It'll cost $5000.

[@materialburst983]

Is not for gaming, lol.

[@canaconn2388]

@@materialburst983 then why the hell do they advertise it as such?

[@tank2g2]

@@canaconn2388 Where have you seen any advertisement for RTX Titan ?

[@rogerh.5792]

@@canaconn2388 its not even a geforce card, titan is a profession gpu just like the quadro series

[@Safetytrousers]

@canaconn23 - Nowhere on the NVIDA product page for the RTX Titan do they mention the word gaming. Where have you seen NVIDIA advertising the RTX Titan as a gaming card?

[@chrisbertolino2116]

I know it’s called GamersNexus and not ProductionSoftwareNexus, but I’d love to see Blender & other production software benchmarks too! Awesome video as always 👍🏻

[@IvoPurwanto]

Cats Cats make everything better, hit subscribe immedietly

[@zipski]

Can u test how perfomance of this card scales 1-2-3-4 vs 2080ti 1-3-3-4 in pro apps: davinci resolve candle test, blender, cinema 4d, maya etc to make comparison more complete? better with workstation7960x or 2950x for example) cause i think this card should be used for gaming as option for content creators

[@eggyrepublic]

Letting a cat walk besides expensive graphics cards is still safer than letting Linus walk besides them.

[@Pudge_]

Finally the 4K 144hz monitors have a use! Also please play the games in 8k and water cool the rig.

[@Oliver-bn7jt]

And oc

[@wizardcelly1095]

Why Hasn’t anyone compared the Titan V or Titan XP vs the Titan Rtx and also compare in SLI

[@ZeroB4NG]

I like that the chrome bits on these $2500 cards already have fingerprints on them in the high res B-Roll footage right at the start. Instantly tells you about build quality of these things.

[@BrandonCorby-wr5nd]

Nvidia lazy cash grab. They keep bumping price 50% for no reason. 50% more for 10% better performance! Crypto miners here you got....wait where did the crypto miners go?

[@465fire]

@@MrMatthewb9876 and 500 dollars cheaper

[@mashygreen6974]

Matthew B. The Titan V was more compute oriented than production. These cards are compute beasts too at FP32 with the larger VRAM to load larger models, but are lacking in FP64 compute. For production it’s a similar story - but for tensor accumulation at FP32 they have double the performance of the 2080 Ti. This really does push these cards into the best value tensor machines for DNN.

[@Safetytrousers]

@Brandon Corby - what is the manufacturing & development cost breakdown of the RTX Titan? I really am curious to know.

[@jangelelcangry]

@ Brandon Corby "wait where did the crypto miners go?" To a corner to cry and moan how evil ASIC miners are.

[@doug4431]

Crypto Miners are still chugging along!

[@CoolJosh3k]

Maybe not so bad in winter when you just wanna keep warm.

[@nap8187]

Pfft, I can skip a few months of rent to get these. Worth!

[@devindykstra]

Someday SLI will use something other than AFR... Someday

[@murphy7801]

Well might not be called sli at that point

[@adridell]

Or someday it may have good support and optimization

[@devindykstra]

@@adridell really Nvidia and AMD need to make it invisible to developers, so "it just works."

[@Mac_Daffy]

if you would 100% ray/path-trace you would not need AFR or similar sync tech. every card simply contributes its samples and the CPU adds them up.

[@devindykstra]

@@Mac_Daffy that may be cool, but I feel it would have the same pacing issues as modern multi GPU rendering.

[@Patrick73787]

I love my 2 Founders Edition RTX 2080s NVLinked (non Ti) + Core i9-9900K (@4.9GHz all cores) + 32GB of 3200MHz DDR4 combo. My GPUs regularly saturate my Asus PG279Q 1440p G-Sync 165Hz monitor. Playing Star Citizen (my favorite game) with triple digit fps at 1440p max settings is just glorious.

[@clifflee5404]

Would be good to see a comparison of the titan rtx vs a really high end 2080TI Like the Kngpin version that has 3 x 8 pin connectorss Curious if the performance would be similar? I'm guessing if your app is graphics memory dependent then the titan rtx would run away with it.

[@simoSLJ89]

You really trust your cat! 5K cards..cat smelling and just walking by.

[@miles13092]

YOU SHOULD MAKE A SECOND CHANNEL FOR YOUR CAT

[@HisNameIsRobertPaulson01]

KittiesNexus

[@AgentSmith911]

Solution to the GTA V problem: buy Dell's 8k monitor 😁

[@WayStedYou]

Or 5k monitor 8k might be 60fps lol

[@TheWretchedEgg12]

20 fps or less @@WayStedYou

[@erejnion]

@@TheWretchedEgg12 40fps, most probably, judging by the scaling between 1080p and 4k. But definitely less than 60fps.

[@jadan2000]

God i wish game developers would support SLi more often now.. It works so much better with Nvlink.

[@auburntanner951]

Have you guys torn down a NV Link adapter to see if there is any PCB or whether it's just straight cables linking the GPUs? Would be interesting to know if the cards HAVE to be mounted side by side choking the fans.

[@jakegarrett8109]

I thought of that yesterday, that is pretty annoying problem with Nvidia cards (I can have Radeon cards hanging from zip ties, and sitting on top of a pop-tart box (that was my actual test bench, not joking, my board wasn't big enough for the triple slot coolers). Unfortunately had to do some EMI shielding with aluminum cooking foil, but I got it to work in the end, haha!

[@cowpker4life333]

how is the titan v compared to the titan rtx? in games like sinper elite? as it still is like 60% more cuda cores.

[@sirius4k]

I didn't buy 2 2080Ti's for massive performance gains, I bought them for looks. I was lucky enough to get one of the final CaseLabs SMA8-A's and I'm not going to put only 1 GPU there and I'm not going to install anything less than the best (at the time of purchase). And no, I'm not going to replace them with the Titans. My new build has to last at least 5-6 years, like my previous ones.

[@Patrick73787]

I definitely bought my RTX cards for performance gains as soon as I discovered the great scaling that comes with the NVLink bridge, which led me to sell my 2 GTX 1080s. I have a Core i9-9900K that feeds my 2 RTX 2080s NVLinked. The scaling is just insane. I play Star Citizen (my favorite game) with triple digit fps. I use a 1440p G-Sync 165Hz monitor.

[@RepsUp100]

Merry Christmas GN

[@MaxxPlay99]

RepsUp100 merry christmas gm

[@jacktenrec1447]

Happy saturnalia pagan

[@jamendezg]

i feel like watching this video is like watching a victoria secret model, then look at your right and take a look at your wife... (don't get offended please)

[@Atv821]

Amazing that GPU's come with 24gb of VRAM, shit I remember when if you had 512mb, you were "future proof".

[@valentinvas6454]

Also there were people in 2016 saying that Core I7 CPUs are overkill for gaming or that the GTX 1080 was overkill for 1080p. I would have loved to see the faces of these people a few years later trying to play games like AC Odyssey with their 4 core 4 thread I5.

[@gretacs7944]

ok one question why did you not do crossfire testing 2? Vega 64 or 56 so we could see what the scaling differences are? Would have loved to see a comparison . Because really if you are going to compare do it well we only have 2 choices so you know do a russet potato to a wax potato comparison kinda thing.

[@Zesuto3]

That bent fin on one of the cards though...

[@Brubiant]

You could of just gotten 1000 fivers instead. Think of all the tasks you could of had done.

[@bjorksven]

Would be really interested, in your production workload testing, to see how *that* scales in SLI, specifically with respect to the GPU memory scaling. The amount of memory on these cards is now getting so high that it might be feasible to run some very memory-intensive particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations on them, which could benefit tremendously from both CUDA and tensor cores. I know that this is not exactly your area, but you could provide some good insight here anyways, without straying too far from your niche :)

[@glorysaber1590]

That cat is not afraid of dual T-rex... I’m impressed.

[@LS-jk3fk]

wallet.exe has stopped working

[@RobloxianX]

a 5000 USD GPU combo in 2018 gets beaten out by a 1000 single GPU in 2023. Really shows how fast the high end market for GPUS is advancing. Yet the mid-tier portion has come to a complete halt.

[@3800S1]

Titan exists purely for marketing psychology. Well played nvidia, it's brilliantly evil.

[@facepalm7345]

how?

[@3800S1]

@@facepalm7345 moving 80 series silicon to an elite class product that only the very rich can afford for bragging rights all the while making mid and semi high end parts look a great deal in comparison but in reality still ludicrously ultra high end priced. It's all about artificially making products more desirable than they really are while driving the prices of the entire product stack up. Putting up the titans on display with key youtube creators was part of this play. This is apple class stuff right there. just brilliant marketing! kudos to nvidia for it. but sucks to be the consumer lol.

[@ToTheGAMES]

@3800Tech Yeah sure. I'll do my 8k resolution PRODUCTION rendering on a crappy gaming setup than this dedicated INTENDED graphics cards, which are cheaper than the QUADRO series! You need to listen better to what Steve says in the video. It's NOT FOR GAMING.

[@timothygibney159]

@@3800S1 car companies have done this for decades. Only one Mercedes is decent yet the other shittier ones sell like hotcakes because they are a Mercedes. It hurts AMD and that's what counts

[@x32i77]

Buys 5000$ gpu Setup and does Not Benchmark 8k 🙉

[@xpodx]

I agree.. so sad

[@cloaca1234]

There's a cat on the thumbnail!!!!!!!!! Oh yes, CHAKE FARTS

[@jamesmulherin4568]

Perhaps it would be just as interesting to put the $5000 cash in a glass dish and set it on fire.

[@kalmtraveler]

my motherboard finally dried off so I got to testing these today. with the power input shunt resistors swapped to 3MO everything seems to still work fine - no safe mode throttling. With an otherwise stock system of 7960x, 4x 16gb of DDR4 and two of these a Timespy run was pulling about 1000w from the wall, which is about 50w lower than I was getting with resistor-stacked Titan Xp's in the same rig.

[@car1m310]

Well, for ppl with a lot of money, $2500 is like $25. So, saving $13 or so from the 2080 Ti is nothing to them. Or, rather--just a $13 difference, of which is like a cocktail at a dive bar. I don't think $13 can even get you a cocktail at a fancier bar, IMO.

[@zevooxgames2366]

You would think that SLI or rather nvlink Titans should give you 1 million fps instead you get 100 or 200 fps for 5k...?, lol! Well most of us dont need more than 60 fps so its just a huge waste of money to buy any top of the line card in sli... ^^

[@mjc0961]

So as graphics cards get more and more powerful, is GTA V going to become unplayable as even maxed settings are still causing the framerate to hit 187? ...Nah, can probably toss a framerate cap on it. 🤔

[@mr_beezlebub3985]

Why do 2080ti and 1080ti not have 12gb of VRAM? 11gb is stupid

[@sicariodesviado678]

They really have 12gb.. But they listed it as 11gb to avoid a fiasco like the 4gb 970s that were actually 3.5gb because only 11gb of the 12gb is usable so selling it as a 12gb is false advertisement and could result in more lawsuits.

[@x838nwy]

My wife will only let me buy a mod mat if you include some of your hair with it. That a deal?

[@Zarcondeegrissom]

only 30 odd screws, easier to put a water block on the card then it is to clean it, lol.

[@smallestpickle]

The blue bars on the sides are interesting to watch

[@techfusionaz2496]

I actually think the Titan Cards could be the best option for gaming IF you are a professional In-Game Photographer. In-Game Photography LOVES super super super high resolutions (not frame rates obviously), so the combo of using SSAA + DSR would be beneficial in this scenario. The only problem is that DSR + SSAA takes up an absolute boat load of vram, so even a 2080 ti probably couldn't run SSAA + DSR (assuming you have a 2k or 4k monitor as your native resolution), as you start running out of vram really quickly. But with the Titan cards having so much vram, it might work.

[@seanadams3190]

You said you used SLI but on the nvidia page it mentions memory scaling/pooling to 48GB which wont be SLI. so does it have both functionalities? "TITAN RTX NVLINK™ BRIDGE Double the effective GPU memory capacity to 48 GB and scale performance with up to 100 GB/s in total bandwidth of data transfer utilizing the NVIDIA NVLink™ technology."

[@Unpopular_Duality.]

Ahhh for the maybe 5 percent that can afford titan sli cards in a gaming pc. Can PC games catch up to the current tech thats out first. Please listen NVidea and AMD. Great video though. Thanks for the work yall put into this.

[@hybridcorecomputers]

Except that NVLINK isn't exactly like SLI.... SLI is one directional with 1 master GPU and 1-4 slaves. As to where NVLINK there is no master or slave GPU because the datalink is bi-directional. - This would be true even when not being able to achieve a true compounding of the 11GB per card. I think that's what you meant, but it could have been interpreted differently by some newbies, so just clarifying. Great presentation though! Truly a nice explanation. Thank you.

[@mitchell3876]

Glad to see dad never stopping that sweet KZbin grind.

[@adridell]

My conclusion: Yes you can play at 4k,120-144hz, max settings with 2 titan's or 2080ti's and no I'm not going to sell my motorcycle just to be able to afford them. I'm gonna pass the overpriced nvidia 20 series for rich/enthusiast/fanboy people and wait to see what AMD as to say and offer next year, and if not interesting, I'll just upgrade to a used 10 series card, and problem solved.

[@Tokuhashy]

oh there is a cat! HIT THE LIKE BUTTON!

[@ployth9000]

don't forget the higher vram will help if you are playing games at 5k and 8k were the 11gb frame buffer on the 2080ti would fail.

[@DLexEdition]

Question for the guys at Gamer's Nexus. What are your settings for "Pre-Rendered Frame" in your control panel? Most people either have it set for "Auto" by default or max it out to 4 frames rendered ahead of time. The SLI and NVLink amply state in the programming notes that you shouldn't have any more than 3 frames pre-rendered for normal video as well as VR headset. Anything higher and Microsoft's DirectX stalls and you get micro-stutters that aren't related to dynamic voltages and fan controls to keep cards in a specific thermal envelope. The problem with SLI and NVLink is, what's not talked about; if you set the pre-rendered frames too low, you waste power running multiple cards, not getting the full benefit regardless of the type of rendering mode being used across the cards. Set it too high and the input lag is then obvious and your peak frame rates go up but the frame latency also goes up, not to mention the game feels sluggish or like your floating at times when you have a lot of activity on the screen. For a single card, set it to 1. For two or four cards, set it to 2. For three cards, set it to 3. Why 3 on three cards? In the case that the driver decides to render a frame of the game on each card, you're covered. Why 2 on a 4 card system? Sometimes the driver will pick two frames to be rendered on two cards and then automatically pick two other cards for Physics and other calculations. It would be ideal if selecting 4 pre-rendered frame as per 4 SLI or NVLInk cards but due to an internal design flaw in Microsoft DirectX, the buffers can't react fast enough to make this a reality. Perhaps in the next version of DirectX this will be addressed. The same situation happens with AMD cards doing the pre-rendering frame over 3 in X-fire mode.

[@mashygreen6974]

Gamers Nexus could you run some tensor flow benchmarks? And maybe some computational fluid dynamics benchmarks? Can try an open-source code like PyFR (github.com/vincentlab/PyFR) rather than commercial like ANSYS Fluent (www.ansys.com/products/fluids/hpc-for-fluids) as the licenses are stupidly expensive... Would be interesting to see how the cards perform outside of rendering and video production workloads where they should really shine!

[@christopheranderssarianv2]

+GamersNexus You've said it a couple of times so I just want to make sure you know: At 02:05 and kzbin.info/www/bejne/hnKTZqiCibqAqrM you say: "there's an impact" & "not using CUDA" Just to let you know that on www.blender.org/experimental you can download the latest builds with developer.blender.org/rBc621832d3d358cd7648d60c16e1685050c4f6778 Yes, it's slightly slower, but the functionality is there.

[@cgnefarious5785]

I very much want to buy a Titan RTX. Not only could I use it for gaming, but my research is in machine learning and that 24GB of VRAM and all those tensor cores looks so very appealing. But it's hard to justify the expense for my personal computer when I'm going to be on student salary and my lab is going to have servers with them anyway. But still, I want it.

[@nO_d3N1AL]

Clicked for the insane performance, stayed for Snowflake!

[@MahbubAlam-ey7nz]

Why am i watching this Even i can't buy this in my nightmare Poor af

[@funkengruven7773]

IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE TO SEE IF TWICE THE NUMBER OF RTX CORES IN AN SLI CONFIG WOULD BE BENEFICIAL IN AN RTX TITLE (I.E. THE ONLY ONE AVAILABLE...BATTLEFIELD) VERSUS JUST SHOWING THE SAME OLE BENCHMARK/FPS NUMBERS IN THE SAME OLE TITLES YOU ALWAYS USE. WE CAN ALREADY GUESS YOUR CONCLUSIONS FROM ALL THE OTHER SLI VIDS YOU'VE DONE...SLI/FPS IS FAST; FRAME TIMES SUFFER; ITS NOT WORTH THE MONEY; BLAH BLAH BLAH... MAYBE BATTLEFIELD DOESN'T SUPPORT SLI RIGHT NOW??? IDK, BUT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN WORTH MENTIONING SO WE WOULD AT LEAST KNOW YOU'D CONSIDERED IT... OR HOW ABOUT TESTING A 4K SURROUND SYSTEM THAT MIGHT GIVE THE CARDS A CHALLENGE, OR ANYTHING OTHER THAN THE SAME OLE TITLES AND THE SAME OLE CONCLUSIONS...BORING.

[@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/

[@Lewis360]

My understanding is that this card doesn't have a full Turing chip, anyone knows why they didn't (nVidia) release a fully unlocked Turing chip, because except for memory this card is a expensive disappointment.

[@1worldgaming18]

2x3125 usd sli setup in my country uffff , what is it good for? absolutely nothing. one would better off with buying two machines for 6250 usd and use them both to render on etc :) merry x-mas

[@jojj334Q]

Would love that amount of VRAM. Having 3ds Max and Substance Painter will not be an issue at 4k res textures. Too bad it's outside my price bracket. Someday. Someday.

[@notaberger_3216]

Rockstar would never fix something as small as some framerate issues for .01% of users. There are bugs in that game that affect almost every player and they still havent been fixed. For example, some of the cars will go faster if you cap your framerate at 45 fps rather than 60.

[@johntour3061]

at 0:22 both of ur cards have a pin broken.. doesn't that effect ur the card? i have exactly the same problem with my gtx 1070 2 pins broken and the card doesn't work stable as it should! sometimes the system dont even recognise it!

[@stevenbender7397]

Ok. What would your recommended gaming PC build be for optimal performance? and if you could across the three basic price brackets. High end cost medium and low and roughly what those cost ranges would be.

[@justsomenerd8925]

Bro, hold onto that Santa Cruz, Nickle frame. That is becoming a classic. I used to work there, and know the people that run the small parts. If you ever need stuff maybe I could talk to them, they are pretty cool though.

[@snyggmikael]

people that bought the 1080ti early for a cheap price like a friend that got 2 for 1200 usd when they were new got his money worth of use out of those that for sure. Its ridiculous when last gen (also being very old now as it is), is still worth owning perhaps more so than even a rtx 2080 in the latest games. and price vs performance it definitely. though people are selling them old now for super op prices so the line is not that sharp unless you already own them.

[@bergbjorn]

BUT DUDE IT IS THE +1 FRAME THE OTHERS DO NOT HAVE! You can not put a price on that, unless you are nVidia, or Intel or ... STILL!

[@toddsimone7182]

I wonder how much difference the 4 extra RTX cores make compared to the 2080 Ti in ray tracing games. Crazy how one of those costs as much as 2080 Ti's in SLI.

[@TonyMon16]

titan rtx sli.. wtf... we dont even have any games that can make full use of that. maybe some new game at 4k with modded mega res texture and new shaders... with a 240hz screen maky come close to tapping the power rofl. imo a 2070 rtx at 1440p is all you ever need.

[@zotek6469]

RTX TITAN NVLink need to play in 8K

[@Dave30867]

If you think you need this idea please seek therapy .

[@g.h.c855]

Great video (as always) I still don't understand the Titan RTX what's the point of it? You say production tasks but even that's daft , businesses don't need gold plated GPUs

[@lovswr]

Good God, I had two Voodoo 3dFx's for about 600 bucks & I lied to my wife about how much they cost. My last used car cost 5500 bucks. My how far we have come.

[@BrandonCorby-wr5nd]

1 4k monitor on the market that can do 120hz and it is $2k. 4k games don't mean shit until monitors catch up 1440p is still the sweet spot. Good clarity and great refresh rates.

[@tigercors3308]

I'm pretty sure there is a 4k 144hz monitor but it's like $3000

[@RayanMADAO]

1080p 240hz is only good for esports games

[@saladwithsalad]

95% of gamers won't be able to tell the difference between 144 and 240. Aside from some input lag reduction,there is nothing more to be gained.

[@gencoserpen1260]

@@jayden974 On the contrary he is correct. The average PC gamer (not talking about console peasants) can't tell the difference between 100 Hz and 144 Hz. Although a pro Counter Strike gamer could easily tell the difference I bet you even they would struggle in a blind test between 240 Hz and 144 Hz.

[@ZeroB4NG]

It is all a matter of getting used to it. When i switched from Rubberdome Keyboards to Cherry MX switches i didn't think it was that big of a difference. 6 months later i sit down in front of a rubberdome again and its totally YUCKY, can't go back anymore. 60 to 144Hz is a huge difference and G-/FreeSync makes it even better. I am at this point able to tell at 90FPS if G-Sync is ON or OFF. I bet you if i sit in front of a 240Hz screen for a year... and then switch it to 144Hz i could see that difference, but first i need to get used to how it is supposed to look. But yeah i'd take 4K 144Hz over 1080p 240Hz any day because at this point the pixels of my 1080p screen are bothering me much more than the fluidity of the picture which is perfectly fine with 144Hz G-Sync... as long as it stays above 90FPS meaning not even 0.1% dips below 90FPS.

[@MaxPower-zp7wy]

Steve if ever your having a bad day at the office send me a Titan RTX and you will feel better for helping others out like Jesus did. I know you have a 3rd Titan RTX one somewhere.

[@miguelchang5520]

Many Mod Mats, Shirts, Cups and Patreon Donations were sacrificed for the making of this video and the $5,000 cost of two Titan RTX Cards.

[@Snafu2346]

You... DON'T RECOMMEND the purchase? WHAT HOW DARE YOU! now Nvidia will NEVER give you free stuff. They'll have to give it all to ......someone....... to review and recommend. Because no matter what you say, it IS worth the extra 3 fps. It wouldn't matter if it cost $100,000 PER CARD, that extra 3FPS IS WORTH IT TO SOMEONE. Probably to someone that doesn't actually have to pay for the cards. I wonder...... who..... BUT. I Digress.......

[@Snafu2346]

😉😉😉

[@jstar1422]

1350mhz issue might be caused by x1 software. Something else triggers it and then having x1 software installed will lock it to 1350mhz.

[@andljoy]

i know its old , but can you test vega 64 in crossfire ? Undervolt and lift the power limit , should be able to get 1720 mhtz out of them no problem

[@MaelstromExceptions]

Do 8k test please... You will see much better peformance comparision. Per request, thanks.

[@bossromeo9158]

Show me the titan vs 2080ti on water dx12 has killed sli you must be full blown if you get two that's why I only got one 2080ti on water yeahh buddy

[@xpodx]

8k ultra needs more vram. It is a must to have 2 titan rtx in sli to run 8k, the best we can do right now..

[@scottpilgrim7589]

I would rather spend $2,500 on RTX 2080Ti in SLI, than spend $5,000 on a Titan RTX in SLI let alone one Titan RTX for the same amount

[@brandon7219]

soooo did the kitty jump in the box?

[@nono-bf4ku]

I don't get this test at all... anyone who can afford a Titan RTX or two.. would not use a 8gen 8086k .. and a Z370 mb... but a 9900k and Z390 .....