GeForce Titan RTX in the test

– Anyone who craves the highest FPS has also switched to Titan since 2013. In the last few years, the surcharge for the fastest GeForce has been very high, even enthusiasts have been deterred. It is no different with the Titan RTX with 24 GB GDDR6, which the editors looked at in a high-end PC from Mifcom.

The Mifcom calculator with a double Titan RTX

Nvidia's Titan graphics cards are aimed at so-called prosumers today after their start in 2013, which is also interesting for enthusiastic gamers. Because the graphics cards of the series still rank one step above the strongest GeForce and can / have to deal with the same driver, they still set the benchmark in game benchmarks and are therefore of interest despite the very high price.

Nvidia currently has two different titanium accelerators in its portfolio. The Titan V (Test), already tested by BitcoinMinersHashrate, which originates from the Volta architecture developed for professional purposes, and the Titan RTX, which comes from the Turing player architecture and everything that the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti offers puts.

A second article with Titan RTX SLI is in the works

This article is about this 2,700-euro Titan RTX. For the test, Mifcom has put together a high-end computer for BitcoinMinersHashrate, which, among other things, comes with two Titan RTX graphics cards. Even if both the complete system and the SLI have an appearance in the article, the focus this time is clearly on the individual test of the Titan RTX and how the graphics card performs against the GeForce flagship. The editorial team will also examine SLI in more detail: A second article deals with the question of whether two x16 slots in dual-GPU operation bring noticeable advantages over the often used two x8 lanes.

The complete computer was loaned to BitcoinMinersHashrate by the system integrator Mifcom. It is a system configured by the editors, which was assembled especially for this purpose. There are no components installed that are not available for customers to choose from. There was no NDA or other conditions for this test.

A full TU102 on the flagship

Like the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, the Titan RTX uses the TU102 GPU. However, the chip is fully activated on the significantly more expensive graphics card. This means that the buyer has 80 streaming multiprocessors, which means 4,608 instead of 4,352 shader units – an increase of six percent.

This automatically increases the other units. There are 576 tensor, 72 ray tracing cores and 288 texture units on the Titan RTX. There is also a difference with the memory interface, since this is also fully activated. This means there are twelve 32-bit controllers, which corresponds to a 384-bit interface compared to 352 bits on the RTX 2080 Ti. Since the memory clock is also at 7,000 MHz, the bandwidth of 672 GB / s is nine percent higher than that of the consumer flagship. In addition, each memory module has twice the capacity, so that the memory expansion of 24 GB is significantly larger than the 11 GB of the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti.

Titan RTX is more, but just as Turing

The motto of the GeForce Titan RTX is faster and more. The actual technology with Turing is absolutely identical to the GeForce graphics cards. If you want to find out more about the Turing architecture, including new features such as ray tracing, DLSS and much more, you should take a look at the associated technical article.

The Titan RTX in detail

The Titan RTX is either available directly from Nvidia for a recommended retail price of 2,699 euros, or, unlike the Titan V, at the same price in free trade (Alternate and Caseking).

Visually, the Titan RTX corresponds to the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition. Yes, the graphics card comes in gold instead of silver, some elements are glossy instead of matt and the name lettering is of course different – but there are no other changes. The dual-slot cooling system is identical, including the large vapor chamber and the two axial fans with a diameter of 85 mm.

Many similarities and some differences

The two eight-pin power plugs and the monitor connections, which offer three DisplayPort, one HDMI and one VirtualLink, are identical. But there are also differences with the Titan RTX. Although there is only one additional memory module, the capacity of all modules is twice as high to get the full 24 GB. In addition, the memory always comes from Samsung, since Micron does not offer modules with twice the capacity.

Nvidia specifies a base clock of 1,350 MHz, an average turbo of 1,770 MHz and a memory clock of 7,000 MHz for the Titan RTX. The frequencies mentioned are thus slightly below the values ​​of the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, only the memory clock is the same. The Titan RTX can draw 20 watts more power with 280 watts.

On the next page: test system and test results