Aqua Computer Kryographics Pascal for Nvidia Titan X Review

September 23, 2016 | 12:47

Tags: #pascal #titan-x #water-block #water-cooling

Companies: #aqua-computer #nvidia

Test Setup

All testing was completed using our standard graphics test system, which uses the following components:
To water-cool the card, we hooked it into a loop consisting of an Phobya DC12-220, XSPC Acrylic Tank Reservoir and a slimline 240mm radiator cooled by two Corsair SP120L fans.

We tested in one synthetic benchmark (Unigine Valley) one DirectX 11 title (The Witcher 3) and one DirectX 12 game (Ashes of the Singularity).

Initial air-cooled results, which are highlighted in red in the graphs below, were taken at stock settings, at stock clock speeds but with the power and temperature limits set to maximum and finally at the maximum achievable overclock. For comparison, we then repeated the same three tests with the water-cooling gear fitted, and these results are highlighted in purple. Lastly, we set about finding the maximum overclock achievable on water, and took performance results for those settings.

For thermal performance, we stress-tested the card in all the above configurations with the fans running at 12V. Using Molex adaptors, we then performed the same stress-test with the card running at its maximum stable overclock, but with the fans running at 7V and then at 5V.

Results


Ashes of the Singularity

3,840 x 2,160, DX12, 'High' settings, 2x MSAA

  • Nvidia Titan X (Pascal) 12GB (water-cooled; overclocked)
  • Nvidia Titan X (Pascal) 12GB (water-cooled; maximum air overclock)
  • Nvidia Titan X (Pascal) 12GB (overclocked)
  • Nvidia Titan X (Pascal) 12GB (water-cooled; maximum power/temp limit)
  • Nvidia Titan X (Pascal) 12GB (water-cooled)
  • Nvidia Titan X (Pascal) 12GB
  • Nvidia Titan X (Pascal) 12GB (maximum power/temp limit)
  • EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW 8GB
  • Asus GeForce GTX 1070 Strix OC 8GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan X (Maxwell) 12GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 Fury X 4GB
    • 82
    • 108
    • 76
    • 108
    • 73
    • 104
    • 71
    • 100
    • 71
    • 100
    • 60
    • 92
    • 57
    • 97
    • 51
    • 74
    • 40
    • 60
    • 40
    • 58
    • 38
    • 63
0
25
50
75
100
Frames Per Second
  • Minimum
  • Average

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

3,840 x 2,160, DX11, 'High' settings (HairWorks off), AA on

  • Nvidia Titan X (Pascal) 12GB (water-cooled; overclocked)
  • Nvidia Titan X (Pascal) 12GB (water-cooled; maximum air overclock)
  • Nvidia Titan X (Pascal) 12GB (overclocked)
  • Nvidia Titan X (Pascal) 12GB (water-cooled; maximum power/temp limit)
  • Nvidia Titan X (Pascal) 12GB (water-cooled)
  • Nvidia Titan X (Pascal) 12GB (maximum power/temp limit)
  • Nvidia Titan X (Pascal) 12GB
  • EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW 8GB
  • Asus GeForce GTX 1070 Strix OC 8GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan X (Maxwell) 12GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 Fury X 4GB
    • 71
    • 78
    • 70
    • 76
    • 67
    • 74
    • 63
    • 70
    • 63
    • 69
    • 60
    • 68
    • 56
    • 63
    • 46
    • 51
    • 37
    • 41
    • 35
    • 40
    • 34
    • 38
    • 33
    • 39
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
Frames Per Second
  • Minimum
  • Average

Unigine Valley 1.0

2,560 x 1,440, DX11, 'Ultra' settings, 0x AA

  • Nvidia Titan X (Pascal) 12GB (water-cooled; maximum air overclock)
  • Nvidia Titan X (Pascal) 12GB (water-cooled; overclocked)
  • Nvidia Titan X (Pascal) 12GB (overclocked)
  • Nvidia Titan X (Pascal) 12GB (water-cooled; maximum power/temp limit)
  • Nvidia Titan X (Pascal) 12GB (water-cooled)
  • Nvidia Titan X (Pascal) 12GB (maximum power/temp limit)
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan X (Maxwell) 12GB
  • Nvidia Titan X (Pascal) 12GB
  • EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW 8GB
  • Asus GeForce GTX 1070 Strix OC 8GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 Fury X 4GB
    • 6714
    • 6692
    • 6678
    • 6538
    • 6475
    • 6452
    • 6248
    • 6111
    • 5386
    • 4443
    • 3980
    • 3364
0
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
6000
7000
Score (Higher Is Better)
  • Score

Temperature

Idle (Windows 10 Desktop) and Load (Unigine Valley 1.0)

  • Nvidia Titan X (Pascal) 12GB (water-cooled; 12V fans)
  • Nvidia Titan X (Pascal) 12GB (water-cooled; maximum power/temp limit; 12V fans)
  • Nvidia Titan X (Pascal) 12GB (water-cooled; overclocked; 12V fans)
  • Nvidia Titan X (Pascal) 12GB (water-cooled; maximum air overclock; 12V fans)
  • Nvidia Titan X (Pascal) 12GB (water-cooled; overclocked; 7V fans)
  • Nvidia Titan X (Pascal) 12GB (water-cooled; overclocked; 5V fans)
  • AMD Radeon R9 Fury X 4GB
  • EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW 8GB
  • Nvidia Titan X (Pascal) 12GB
  • Nvidia Titan X (Pascal) 12GB (overclocked)
  • Nvidia Titan X (Pascal) 12GB (maximum power/temp limit)
    • 3
    • 15
    • 3
    • 17
    • 3
    • 17
    • 3
    • 18
    • 4
    • 19
    • 5
    • 21
    • 6
    • 31
    • 27
    • 54
    • 15
    • 60
    • 15
    • 64
    • 15
    • 64
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
Delta T in °C (Lower Is Better)
  • Idle
  • Load

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