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OK, have done some testing. Firstly I wanted to see if there was much difference between teh Normal Titan and the Titan Black Edition. Was quite surprised how much difference there is actaully.

Firstly, did the Octane Standalone Bechmark test which is actually just looking at the sample speed. In this, higher is better..

Old Titan 4.91 Ms/Sec
Titan Black 5.52 Ms/Sec
Both 10.42 Ms/Sec

Then the Octane Version of LW's benchmark scene (half size as I was too impacient)
Old Titan 5 Min 26 Sec
Titan Black 4 Min 39 Sec
Both 2 Min 31 Sec

Bellflower
Old Titan 38s
Titan Black 33s
Both 18s

Mitchel Library
Old Titan 21s
Titan Black 18s
Both 10s

Oficina De Turisme
Old Titan 58s
Titan Black 48s
Both 26s

Very happy

I assume for the normal octane benchmark ocs, you just loaded the benchmark ocs file and then klicked on Render Target PMC? I'm trying to compare the values, my 780Ti does 5.77 Ms/sec there ... waiting for my second GPU to come back from repairs (broken fan) .. I assume it will roughly double?

Have you tried overclocking the Titan Black to see if it can run just as fast or faster than an overclocked old Titan?

Old Titan: 4.94 Ms/sec
OC old Titan: 5.74 Ms/sec.

Voon: no, I think I did it the way the thread suggested. PathTrace with Shadow doohickey switched off. I would expect your 780 Ti to be about the same as the Titan Black. Is yours overclocked in any way?

Zay: Not sure I understand your question. The Titan black is already running faster than the old Titan. Or do you mean to get it to run faster than an Overclocked Titan?

Haven't bothered overclocking anything. Card came with OC Guru, but haven't bothered with it. Anyone got any views on good settings?

Okay, I tried the following:

Open the most recent benchmark file in the most recent standalone (1.33). After loading, I klick the pause, then click the scene (and not the path tracing node setup already existing for klicking in the newer benchmarkl files). I go to the kernel settings and select path tracing and make sure the alpha shadows box is not selected.

That way I get 8.23 Ms/sec.

It's a Gigabyte 780 Ti OC (factory OCed to soemthing along a GHz I think).

Link to picture of setup: http://abload.de/img/bild1b3s8z.jpg

Hhmm, that's weird. When I do it the way you suggested, I get 7.9 which as quite a bit faster.

I'll look at the OC software see what it can acheive.

Gordon, if you have no need to OC, don't. I mean, come on, you have two Tit's! Keep it that way!

I came to the very same conclusion after spending a little time looking into it. Why bother

Thanks a lot for sharing your tests! I'm thinking about adding 2 more Titans to my computer. I was wondering if i Will stay with old titans or chose the black ones...

I realised after looking at it again that the Benchmark figures for the Octane Benchmark file were wrong. I had done PMC instead of PathTracing. They are actaully....

Old Titan 6.77 Ms/Sec
Titan Black 9.04 Ms/Sec
Both 16.81 Ms/Sec

These numbers make much more sense