Nividia Titan

[dmike]

Thanks for that, John.

Yeah first and foremost I use my rigs for gaming so that has to be at the forefront of video card choices for me. The problem I have with the 690 is in it being a single card multi GPU setup which makes it a pass decision, for intricate details and reasons I won't bother boring you with at this time.

The next most important thing to me is CUDA rendering. I make videos in Sony Vegas and can say that GPU video rendering has been close to 500% faster for me on my setup. I love it.

Last in place is DC crunching. Considering these things, I pass on Fermi cards as Kepler are better gaming performers. The Titan does definitely shine with games, but by simply adding a third 660Ti, I'd actually be outperforming the Titan on games by a substantial amount. So from that perspective, on all fronts it's a pass decision.

I'm really surprised to see the lack of performance increase that the Titan has in most DC applications vs. the 580. As someone had mentioned earlier in this thread, Nvidia likes to rebrand cards and often new products are only marginally better than what they already have to offer. Really, the Titan is what the 690 should have been all along.

In summary I'm satisfied with my current setup and won't be upgrading any time soon. For games, My i7 3770 with 32GB RAM and 2x 660Ti is plenty good. When and if I do upgrade however, I just can't justify going for the Titan. If I were to upgrade today, hypothetically speaking, I'd go with simply adding the third 660Ti instead of a 690 or a Titan. Aside from the circumstances that you mention, for the cost of an additional 660Ti (about $300) I will have gaming and crunching performance that actually exceeds the Titan. Plus, when I'm done with the setup, I have 3 cards that can be put in other boxes to upgrade their aging components (I have two systems with a 550Ti and one with a GTX 260).

Of course it's not ideal to set out to have 3x mid range video cards, but from where I'm at now with 2 already, it makes the most sense cost/performance wise.