Report: Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 Will Cost More Than $500

[dkcomputer]

I haven't bought ATI/AMD for graphics cards for a long time and for good reason, I hate their drivers - as do most consumers which is why even though they have more performance per dollar more people buy Nvidia, but this just straight up pisses me off. I just might give amd a chance for the first time in 8 years.

 

[ipwn3r456]

@SchizoFrog So they cannot make a 1728, 1920, 2304 etc. shader chip? :/

They could, and I think Nvidia should do that also, to fill in the gap of the GTX 770 and the Titan better, and price it lower as well. They should cut an additional few more shaders, to around 2096 cores, which is 3 SMXs less, or 576 cores/shaders for the GTX 780 for it to fill the gap, and lowering the price as I said earlier. But it is still a rumor, we still don't know what kind of specs Nvidia will be putting on it. We will see about that.

 

[lord hircine]

Screw the 780, was looking forward to it but looks like its going to be overpriced as hell, time to join the AMD side.

 

[ITManPCFan]

If it is a quality product, its a quality product. Nvidia can charge what they like. If its worth it, people will pay it. My concern is the precedent set by making it "possible for manufacturers to make custom cards." The lack of adherence to reference models will lead to quality issues in design by manufacturers as well as huge problems finding correct waterblocks for liquid cooling.

 

[dns7950]

Damn, I kind of suspected that nvidia would do this, but I was still hoping they would release a new GPU for the 7xx series.... The x80 cards are supposed to be the fastest single cards, I will not purchase an x80 card if it has any part of it disabled.I guess I will be getting a GTX 680 for my upcoming Haswell build. Even if it offers less performance, at least it actually utilizes the whole GPU. They should not call this the GTX 780, they should just call it the Titan LE (low-end or lousy edition)

 

[de5_Roy]

lawl, 760ti with 2gb vram, 256 bit memory bus and based on gk104... now where have i heard this before....
wait, isn't this the rumored 660ti that never launched? now it's real! and it's overpriced! looks like nvidia really wants to price-gouge customers. they began with crippled(192 bit bus) 660ti.

 

[yyk71200]

I'll tell you what is going to happen. NVidia releases 780 at high price. A bit later AMD releases 8970 and 780 stars getting less expensive.

 

[danwat1234]

So buy it in a few years when it's $100

 

[Johnny_C13]

Wow... I was holding off for the 7xx series for an upgrade, but with this news, and the fact that Blood Dragon looks so damn crazy (and included in the Never Settle Bundle), I think AMD won me over.

 

[CaptainTom]

Mega Sad face
I am an AMD fan, but I love it when great technology is released and Nvidia continues to prove an item is only as good as its price. Example: 680 is great until you realize a 7970 costs $70 less, overclocks twice as much, and has an extra GB of RAM. LOL wow...

 

[griptwister]

Ouch! right in the Wallet! Good thing I don't plan on buying a Nvidia GPU soon, My HD 7870 GHz edition card offers plenty of bang for my buck along with 2 free games lol. Come on Nvidia. I was thinking about next year going back, But this solidifies my decision to game with AMD. PEACE!

 

[bigj1985]

I hope AMD releases a card that smacks the GTX 780 in the chops for half the price. I know top end GPU's will always wonder off the beaten path as far as price-performance is conserned. But effectively doubling the price of admission for no other reason than price gouging is FAIL.
If they raise the price over $600 for a single GPU the only people I see buying it are the fanboys.

 

[yyk71200]

I'll tell you what is going to happen. NVidia releases 780 at high price. A bit later AMD releases 8970 and 780 stars getting less expensive.

 

[Guest]

There is a huge difference between the 780 and 770 in specs though, I hope that shows in the price of the 770 as that was my card I was going to get

 

[rmpumper]

Look at the bright side - at least now the 780 will be actually faster than 770, not like 680 vs. 670.

 

[tech_twist]

its all about the money. i can still go with the AMD with the same perf. and with a decent price.

 

[Memnarchon]

Dam you Nvidia... Follow your example of 650ti boost performance/dollar ffs...

 

[paidbyhalf13]

I dont care about the 780 price. As long as the 760 ti isnt over $320 I'll be grabbing it. Keep in mind im coming from 260 gtx sli and my first 260gtx was from launch. I can see how the 780 is going to be closer to the titan than the 770 in price. It would piss off all the current titan owners for buying a 1k dollar card when something half its price would only be 10-15% behind. And now that there is a huge gap in pricing with 780 and 770, they can wait for amd's 8000 series to come out and i'll go ahead and assume the 8900 will fall in between the 770 and 780. Nvidia will then release 770 ti's and 780 le's to fill the gap. My theory anyways

 

[aberkae]

The 7970 was $650 at launch that was about $150 to $200 greater than its final price ( $450 to $500 )after the launch of the gtx 680.
Once AMD launches a competitive card the price will drop it like its hot.

 

[mapesdhs]

I wish NVIDIA would stop using such narrow memory buses on these cards, it ruins the CUDA
performance. Cards like the 580 were excellent (ie. bandwidth per core), but the 600s were
poor; looks like the situation hasn't changed with the 700s.

And I bet the OpenCL performance will still suck dead bunnies through a bent straw.

Ian.

 

[battler624]

I'm skipping the GTX 7XX generation and staying with the 6XX on SLI
and for cpu i'm sticking with Ivy bridge
this generation i wont move a step forward
So i'm waiting for a maxwell and haswell combo for 2014

 

[Murissokah]

This GK110 architecture is a Behemoth. I don't think they can make it economically viable unless they charge a lot for it. I was really hoping for the GTX 700 to be something else.

 

[warezme]

Over priced re branded cores with the memory they should have had in the first place. I'll pass and wait for the next gen 2014.

 

[aberkae]

I dont care about the 780 price. As long as the 760 ti isnt over $320 I'll be grabbing it. Keep in mind im coming from 260 gtx sli and my first 260gtx was from launch. I can see how the 780 is going to be closer to the titan than the 770 in price. It would piss off all the current titan owners for buying a 1k dollar card when something half its price would only be 10-15% behind. And now that there is a huge gap in pricing with 780 and 770, they can wait for amd's 8000 series to come out and i'll go ahead and assume the 8900 will fall in between the 770 and 780. Nvidia will then release 770 ti's and 780 le's to fill the gap. My theory anyways

I agree I think it will be around $850 to $750 minimal

 

[anony2004]

Well, I haven't seen a Nvidia card with a good price-to-performance ratio since 8800 GT.