Advice 690 or titan?

daandris

daandris

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Good afternoon everyone ... I am new around here
My enquiry is regarding getting a GPU that I will be using besides proper 1080p gaming for multimedia ( Maya, After Effects, NukeX, Mudbox, Photoshop ) as I just graduated in 3D Animation and VFX. I just got an EVGA gtx 690 with 2 years warranty for £530 pounds and I was thinking if I should sell it and get a titan which I am sure I can get for a maximum of £700. Also I am considering in maybe one year from now to upgrade to multiple monitors as my work progress.
 
The GTX 690 will easily out-perform a Titan on 1080p. The things is that it only has 2GB of VRAM (Yes, the specs say 4, but it doesn't stack up in SLI, which is what the 690 is).

That said, if you go for higher resolutions like 1440p or triple 1080p monitors, a Titan would not be a bad idea, considering it has 6GBs of VRAM which will definitely be an advantage on high resolutions.

So in short:
- GTX 690 is much quicker.
- GTX Titan will do better on high resolutions.
 
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Apparently Titan performs surprisingly well in tasks like that for a gaming card. I'd disregard the 690 and narrow it down to Titan vs. 780. Especially when Tesla is out of the price range. I am pretty sure you get no benefit from SLI, what 690 essentially is.
 
Keep the 690. The titan isn't going to outperform it fella.

Edit: Titan isn't a gaming card, it's a compute/benchmark/ePeen card.
 
Thank you for answering so fast! ... So in essence when it comes to, for example, rendering, the 690 will assist my CPU in this process better than the Titan ?
 
looz said:
Searched a bit more about multiple graphics cards in rendering, and it doesn't seem to get utilised well.

http://forums.cgsociety.org/archive/index.php/t-965429.html
Click to expand...

I am aware that SLI doesn't work for this kind of processes ... the thread you showed me is a bit outdated :P , but thank you nonetheless ... I've gotten a bit more insight for a possible future build with dual cards but not in SLI :D ... as for my current situation, seeing tat the 690 is effectively 2 x 680 in SLI ... I am not sure what to do
 
Rendering is going to be mainly CPU intensive though, and the CUDA cores on either cards should help out a fair bit.

It won't matter much, unless you really do this daily and professionally imo.
 
Well yeah it boils down to which you find more important, gaming or rendering. Both of them are beastly cards, though.
 
I will keep the 690 then ... Seeing that I got it for a decent price and with warranty of 2 years on it ....
Thank you everyone for taking the time to answer me
P.S. The reviews here also convinced me to get a Steelseries Flux headphones, which are brilliant as stated in the review
 
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