Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 Ti Review: GK110, Fully Unlocked

[logainofhades]

Seems to me like these benchmarks clearly show the 690 is actually the card to go for.

For less, you could buy 2 R290's for Crossfire and smoke a 690.

 

[Deathatron]

Have they learned nothing?

 

[Retaliator]

With the uprising of the 780, R9 290 and 290X, I don't see how Nvidia can justify keeping the price tag of the Titan as high as it is right now.

That's because you don't understand what the Titan actually is.

Hehe well said I3lood Eagle , AMD do make great products ive used alot and the competition is great, Nvidia are always overpriced but at the end of the day Ill buy the best product for my needs regardless of the manufacturer. As soon as aftermarket coolers come out the 290X will probly do well but amd shoulda released a better reference cooler in my opinion 95Degrees is too hot to have in a case in my opinion

I'm buying an R9 290 nonX edition and putting an Arctic Accelero on it, from the benchmarks it can outperform a 290x for about $100 less because unlike the 290x it can keep itself cool and functioning

A mate of mine has the accelero on his 5970 and it runs very well and cool

 

[Novuake]

Seems to me like these benchmarks clearly show the 690 is actually the card to go for.

At 1000$? You thought that through?

 

[logainofhades]

Seems to me like these benchmarks clearly show the 690 is actually the card to go for.

At 1000$? You thought that through?

Yea, pretty much what I thought seeing that statement as well. :lol: Lets buy a $1k double GPU card, even though you can spend $800 or so on 2 R9 290's that would beat the 690.

 

[niz]

Is it just me or is anyone else suspicious of the way that ATI and nVidia's GPUs are consistently always within a gnats whisker of each other performance wise?
I find it hard to believe that 2 entirely separate companies with entirely different GPU architectures could always be so close without carefully managing it behind the scenes.
To me, it very much suggests that each company mut get early knowledge of the other's next-gen products, or at least collude to mutually agree what will be the next generation of cards performance. With such consistent patterns, it can't not be happening.

 

[logainofhades]

The companies buy competing product and test it, and probably actually do read these reviews. Nvidia had a good while to test 290x and determine what was necessary for the 780ti to beat it. Titan and the GTX 780 have been out for months, giving AMD plenty of test time. I wouldn't be surprised if we see a refresh of Hawaii in the coming few months.

 

[Mousemonkey]

The companies buy competing product and test it, and probably actually do read these reviews. Nvidia had a good while to test 290x and determine what was necessary for the 780ti to beat it. Titan and the GTX 780 have been out for months, giving AMD plenty of test time. I wouldn't be surprised if we see a refresh of Hawaii in the coming few months.

That's only relevant for software changes, any hardware changes would take months so the 780Ti has always been better than the 290X! :lol:

 

[nikoli707]

The companies buy competing product and test it, and probably actually do read these reviews. Nvidia had a good while to test 290x and determine what was necessary for the 780ti to beat it. Titan and the GTX 780 have been out for months, giving AMD plenty of test time. I wouldn't be surprised if we see a refresh of Hawaii in the coming few months.

That's only relevant for software changes, any hardware changes would take months so the 780Ti has always been better than the 290X! :lol:

until we actually see the overclockers push the 290x/780ti to the 1.6-1.8ghz range for the real silicon stress test we wont know which chip is faster.

 

[ubercake]

Is it just me or is anyone else suspicious of the way that ATI and nVidia's GPUs are consistently always within a gnats cock of each other performance wise?
I find it hard to believe that 2 entirely separate companies with entirely different GPU architectures could always be so close without carefully managing it behind the scenes.
To me, it very much suggests that each company mut get early knowledge of the other's next-gen products, or at least collude to mutually agree what will be the next generation of cards performance. With such consistent patterns, it can't not be happening.

I have to think this is what's happening. This is the danger of having only two real players in any market. They cover themselves when it comes to a monopoly and only have to arrange prices with one other competitor. It is the loophole that keeps two choices king and is complete bull. Other players can enter the market, but I'm sure both of the big boys (AMD and Nvidia) will work together to squeeze them out early in their lives.

 

[somebodyspecial]

Excellent card !!

But once again became most expensive one..😀 (for single card)

Fastest with the highest quality is always most expensive 😉

 

[logainofhades]

The companies buy competing product and test it, and probably actually do read these reviews. Nvidia had a good while to test 290x and determine what was necessary for the 780ti to beat it. Titan and the GTX 780 have been out for months, giving AMD plenty of test time. I wouldn't be surprised if we see a refresh of Hawaii in the coming few months.

That's only relevant for software changes, any hardware changes would take months so the 780Ti has always been better than the 290X! :lol:

I don't disagree with that possibility. Won't truly know till 290x can fully stretch its legs under proper cooling.

 

[Mousemonkey]

The companies buy competing product and test it, and probably actually do read these reviews. Nvidia had a good while to test 290x and determine what was necessary for the 780ti to beat it. Titan and the GTX 780 have been out for months, giving AMD plenty of test time. I wouldn't be surprised if we see a refresh of Hawaii in the coming few months.

That's only relevant for software changes, any hardware changes would take months so the 780Ti has always been better than the 290X! :lol:

I don't disagree with that possibility. Won't truly know till 290x can fully stretch its legs under proper cooling.

The 290X is based on AMD's new arch but the 780Ti is Nvidia's older Kepler arch and is the flagship GPU that Nvidia never released because they didn't have to.

Remember this? http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/25712-nvidia-not-impressed-with-hd-7900-series

 

[therogerwilco]

I'm ordering 7 for septSLI!!!

 

[Novuake]

The 290X is based on AMD's new arch but the 780Ti is Nvidia's older Kepler arch and is the flagship GPU that Nvidia never released because they didn't have to.

Remember this? http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/25712-nvidia-not-impressed-with-hd-7900-series

While that COULD be true, it remains an opinion. It could be that the GK110 just was not ready for shippinng for any number of reasons.

Although the first part is perfectly true.

Guess we shall see when Maxwell comes out.
If the pattern repeats then the assumption is more likely.
If the next iteration of GK110 is not a massive leap ahead of AMDs top end, then that assumption is most likely wrong.

 

[17seconds]

The manufacture date stamp on the original GTX 780 chips was August 2012. They had working production models ready to go about a year before they felt a need to release them. And the Tesla versions were out long before even that.

 

[rishiswaz]

I'm still here, waiting for the 760Ti. Although depending on the price and performance 290 may be the better deal. GTX 760 was really half baked in my opinion

 

[wombat51]

I think this review is misleading to some extent, in particular value for money. I will explain. Here in Australia the actual/market cost of Gigabyte GTX 780 Ti is $849 an the cost of Gigabyte 7990 is $699. That a diffierence of AU $150 (saving if you purchase a 7990 as opposed to 780 Ti). In addition, the 7990 has 6 GB ram and the performance of 7990 is superior in many games to 780 Ti. So I ask the what choice would you make if your in the market to purchase a new top of the line gaming card. The answer is obvious, especially since AMD has fixed the crossfire driver issues and the card is not hot or noisy. But Tom's conclusion does not even mention the 7990 in the value for money argument.

 

[Novuake]

I think this review is misleading to some extent, in particular value for money. I will explain. Here in Australia the actual/market cost of Gigabyte GTX 780 Ti is $849 an the cost of Gigabyte 7990 is $699. That a diffierence of AU $150 (saving if you purchase a 7990 as opposed to 780 Ti). In addition, the 7990 has 6 GB ram and the performance of 7990 is superior in many games to 780 Ti. So I ask the what choice would you make if your in the market to purchase a new top of the line gaming card. The answer is obvious, especially since AMD has fixed the crossfire driver issues and the card is not hot or noisy. But Tom's conclusion does not even mention the 7990 in the value for money argument.

Technically only 3GB is usable on the HD7990.
And its a crossfired cards, guzzles power and all other issues associated with Dual GPU cards.

But at 699$ Aus its still a great buy.

 

[Novuake]

The manufacture date stamp on the original GTX 780 chips was August 2012. They had working production models ready to go about a year before they felt a need to release them. And the Tesla versions were out long before even that.

Not quite concrete evidence, but interesting.
Any idea how large that batch was?

 

[I3lood Eagle]

I just bought a new 780TI and it came with a lot of cool stuff a new SLI Bridge some stickers, some more stickers, a T-shirt, some more sticker, a can cozy, refrigerator magnets, a rape whistle with Nvidia logo, a pen, some frameable authenticity papers, more stickers, custom software for Nvidia users only called google chrome, and some other really cool stuff. This all totally justified me working for a solid month to pay off the price of the card. GO TEAM GREEN!!!

 

[qiplayer]

Thanks for the nice review and test with triple screens. Yes in this size you need 3 cards :-D and most games behave bad in ultra

 

[cora0]

time to buy 780.non Ti that is.€700 is kinda expensive for me.when prices drop a bit i'll get the Ti and SLI with the 780 that i'll buy

 

[Mousemonkey]

time to buy 780.non Ti that is.€700 is kinda expensive for me.when prices drop a bit i'll get the Ti and SLI with the 780 that i'll buy

You won't be able to SLi a non Ti with a Ti.

 

[Memnarchon]

time to buy 780.non Ti that is.

If you want a non Ti 780, check this one:
Gigabyte GTX 780 GHz Edition Review

Spoiler

From the reviewer:
For instance, the GHz Edition card was just as impressive providing nearly 20% more performance than a standard GTX 780 on average, which works out to about 5% slower than the standard GTX 780 Ti and 4% faster than the Radeon R9 290X. Despite those massive gains from factory, we extracted another 8% from each card by overclocking them further and what's most impressive is that we didn't have to adjust the WindForce 3X's coolers, which remained extremely quiet during loads -- a rarity on stock high-end cards.