NVIDIA Star Wars TITAN Xp Collector's Edition Review: The GeForce Is Strong With This One

Name: NVIDIA Titan Xp
Brand: NVIDIA

by Marco Chiappetta — Friday, November 17, 2017, 09:00 AM EDT

Monolith’s surprisingly fun Orc-slaying title Middle Earth: Shadow of War, delivers a ton of visual fidelity even at its lower quality settings. So, to maximize the eye-candy on these high-end graphics cards, we used the game’s Ultra quality preset and ran the benchmark routine at a couple of resolutions, topping out at 4K -- or, excuse us, 3840x2160 for the sticklers out there. All of the game's graphics-related options were enabled, along with Temporal AA and Camera Blur. We should note this is the latest installment in the successful game series and our review of Shadow of War is right here, if you'd like to catch up on the happenings in Middle Earth.

Middle Earth: Shadow of War Performance

Glorious Orc-Slaying Action

Middle-Earth: Shadow of War

The Titan Xp Star Wars Collector's Edition smoked the Middle Earth: Shadow Of War benchmark, besting all of the other cards by sizable margins. The force is strong with this one.

The frame and rendering times show the Titan Xp CE churning through this benchmark faster than every other card across the board -- which is no surprise looking at its frame rates.

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands

DirectX 11 Gaming Performance

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands is a tactical shooter, set in an open-world environment. The game is played from a third-person perspective, though there is an optional first person view when aiming certain guns. Players are members of the fictional "Ghosts", an elite special-operations unit of the United States Army. We tested Wildlands -- which is a DX11 title -- with all of the in-game graphical options cranked up to their maximum values, at both 1440P and 4K...

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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands

So, you thought the Titan Xp Star Wars Collector's Edition might falter in the Wildlands benchmark? Think again, you stuck up, half-witted, scruffy-looking Nerf herder. The Titan Xp pulled out in front at both resolutions and offered the best minimum framerates too.

Tags: Nvidia, graphics, GPU, Star Wars, (nasdaq:nvda), collector's edition, titan xp

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com