Conclusion

First of all lets talk about prices. Let's consider that the two GTX 760 DirectCU II OC together cost 427 Euro. Compare that to the massive 832 Euro the GeForce GTX Titan costs. Basically, a card that is slower than two other cards combined, costs almost twice as much. This puts things into perspective how overpriced the GeForce GTX Titan actually is. Sure, nowadays the GTX 780 Ti is out where the cheapest price is 579 Euro these days, which is still a whopping 152 Euro more than the two custom GTX 760 cards we've been using for this comparison. And still, even the GTX 780 Ti isn't faster than the two smaller cards in SLI but about that we're going to talk in another article.

To dive a bit deeper into the results, we start with performance differences in 3DMark where we see that the SLI of two GTX 760 is a whopping 23 percent faster than the mighty GTX Titan. In the next theoretical test we ran, Unigine Heaven, we see that the two 760's are on average 16 percent quicker than the GTX Titan. In case of games, the range goes from 3 percent in The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim to 38 percent difference in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, which in other words means, that it goes from nothing to massive. One drawback of the two small cards certainly is the fact, they only feature 2 Gigabyte of GDDR5 memory and the GTX Titan comes with no less than 6 Gigabyte. Especially at ultra high resolutions this is going to be an advantage for the Titan, since the two GTX 760 will run out of graphics memory quite soon, when trying to keep boatloads of large textures in the memory. But luckily there are 4 Gigabyte versions of the GTX 760, which cost about 20 Euro more than the 2 Gigabyte cards, which in total is an additional 40 Euro to the 427 Euro we mentioned at the beginning of this conclusion.

To tell you the entire story, deciding between a GTX Titan and an SLI of GTX 760's is bit a double edged blade. The bad thing about the Titan is, that it's ridiculously expensive but on the other hand there are also bad things about the two 760's. In case of the particular models we tested, the graphics memory is too small for the performance delivered, there will be the usual SLI issues, although NVIDIA is taking quite good care of that and last but no least there is the power consumption which is 56 percent higher than with one single Titan. Other than that there is the GTX 780 Ti - to which we will compare the two 760's soon - that features a more "moderate" price tag. If you're actually thinking about buying two GTX 760's make sure you go for models with 4 Gigabyte VRAM otherwise the performance advantage compared to the mighty Titan as well as 780 Ti will shrink drastically when playing games at ultra high resolutions.

The following is my very personal opinion. I've always bee a bit of a fan of "SLIiny" mid-range cards, since sometime, you get really good performance for the money. Sure there is the drawback with power consumption but honestly having two cards in a gaming PC is simply cooler than just having one. I'm well aware that it's ridiculous but isn't the the ridiculous things on this planet that are the most awesome?

Page 1 - Introduction	Page 10 - DIRT Showdownn
Page 2 - Test Setup	Page 11 - Far Cry 3
Page 3 - 3DMark Fire Strike	Page 12 - Sleeping Dogs
Page 4 - Unigine Heaven 4.0	Page 13 - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Page 5 - BattleField 3	Page 14 - Metro: Last Light
Page 6 - Borderlands 2	Page 15 - GTA V
Page 7 - Bioshock Infinite	Page 16 - Power Consumption
Page 8 - Crysis 3	Page 17 - Performance Index, price
Page 9 - Call of Duty Black Ops 2	Page 18 - Conclusion