The GeForce GTX 770 Review: Calling In A Hit On Radeon HD 7970?

[The Grave Digger]

AMD monopoli in gaming Console really Forcing Nvidia to stomp their pricing Policy...Lol !!

 

[slomo4sho]

AMD had a Q4 2012 loss of nearly half a billion dollars, NVIDIA Revenue for fiscal 2012 overall was $4 billion up by 12.8%. I don't think Nvidia is that worried about what AMD does. Just like Intel isn't worried what AMD does. In fact some of my customers have reduced the AMD buying and switched to Nvidia and Intel because they are worried how much longer AMD will be around. Nvidia is out selling AMD more then 4 to 1 in the highend card market. I'm sold out of Titans and have double digits on backorder right now, I have yet to sell a 7990. Nvida owns the lower-end business market which as the highest reorder frequency. You got to hope AMD can fix things or when they die we'll all be paying more for GPUs & CPUs.

You pinpoint a prime example of how ignorant individuals can be. The ignorance runs deep in our society, people are too stupid to make an informed decision and rely too heavily on the opinions of others.

 

[littleleo]

[citation][nom]slomo4sho[/nom]You pinpoint a prime example of how ignorant individuals can be. The ignorance runs deep in our society, people are too stupid to make an informed decision and rely too heavily on the opinions of others.[/citation]

Yep it's amazing how many think FOX News is real, lol.

 

[bystander]

I think the reason people choose Nvidia is a mix of getting burned by bad drivers in the past and Nvidia offering features AMD doesn't have, like PhysX. Even if those features aren't important, a lot of people feel more comfortable with it, or don't even know how unimportant it is.

 

[littleleo]

[citation][nom]Swordkd[/nom]I can pick up a 7970 Ghz Edition for 400, the cheapest 770 is 405 right now. Add in that game bundle for overkill and there isn't even competition. However, I like the 770's thermal solution, lower noise and heat overall as well. Regardless, there are no losers at this price point right now.[/citation]

The cheapest 7970 GHz Edition I can find id $448.77 from some company I've never heard of and it list NO game bundle. I think most have the games in the bundle anyway so that is not a big deal to most.

https://www.google.com/shopping/product/6324451079505317410?q=7970%20ghz&client=firefox-a&hs=y0X&rls=org.mozilla:en-US😱fficial&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.47244034,d.cGE&biw=1024&bih=605&sa=X&ei=6NqnUejWAsisiAL30oCYAg&ved=0CGoQ8wIwAA&prds=scoring😛

 

[littleleo]

[citation][nom]Swordkd[/nom]I can pick up a 7970 Ghz Edition for 400, the cheapest 770 is 405 right now. Add in that game bundle for overkill and there isn't even competition. However, I like the 770's thermal solution, lower noise and heat overall as well. Regardless, there are no losers at this price point right now.[/citation]

The cheapest 7970 GHz Edition I can find id $448.77 from some company I've never heard of and it list NO game bundle. I think most have the games in the bundle anyway so that is not a big deal to most.

 

[doogansquest]

Like the HTC One, this metal-on-glass industrial appearance (unlike Apple's "cute" version of the material application) seems to be the way sexy tech is headed.

It's like having an Iron Man suit in your components or mobile devices.

 

[doogansquest]

Like the HTC One, this metal-on-glass industrial appearance (unlike Apple's "cute" version of the material application) seems to be the way sexy tech is headed.

It's like having an Iron Man suit in your components or mobile devices.

 

[mapesdhs]

Just wondering Chris, why isn't GTX 580 SLI included in the multi-GPU results?

And may I ask in general, is 445 UKP total (approx. $670 US) a good price for
_two_ GTX 580 3GB cards? Opinions from all welcome.

Ian.

 

[gsxrme]

Bah! My Sli GTX680s are clocked at 1275Mhz core, 7008Mhz Mem @ 115% power limit on air all day long and this release of the GTX770 is nothing more than a slap in the nutz for anyone who sold there GTX680s for the GTX770s. I'm very upset the GTX770s are the GK110 core but more or less a rebraned and tuned GK104. i blame AMD for this!

 

[gsxrme]

mapesdhs,

The GTX580s in SLI can't stand of 1 foot anymore, its hard to compare 500 series to the 600 and 700 series cards.

 

[gsxrme]

ya this 700 series is just like the nvidia rebranding shit they did with the 8000 series to the 9000 series. 8800GT vs 9800GT reviews were so damn pointless

 

[cangelini]

[citation][nom]mapesdhs[/nom]Just wondering Chris, why isn't GTX 580 SLI included in the multi-GPU results?And may I ask in general, is 445 UKP total (approx. $670 US) a good price for_two_ GTX 580 3GB cards? Opinions from all welcome.Ian.[/citation]
Easy--don't have two 580s in this office any more =)

 

[slomo4sho]

The cheapest 7970 GHz Edition I can find id $448.77 from some company I've never heard of and it list NO game bundle. I think most have the games in the bundle anyway so that is not a big deal to most.

You don't need a "GHz" edition card. You can easily clock a standard 7970 to 1100MHz core clock speed and memory to 6.2Gbps with relative ease and outperform any GHz edition branded card. Certain overclocked versions of the 7970 actually overclock better than the GHz edition. The only pitfall of the 7970 is the slower base clock speeds of the memory chips so the memory overclock is limited in comparison to the GHz edition.

 

[mapesdhs]

[citation][nom]cangelini[/nom]Easy--don't have two 580s in this office any more =)[/citation]

Oh. 😀 Ah well.

Am I right in thinking though that two 580s would be quicker than a single 780 or Titan?

Ian.

 

[soldier44]

The card for gamers at 1080 res or less. I'm very happy with my recent 780 buy last week, it added 45 fps to my BF3 fps at 2560 x 1600 all ultra settings. Coming from a single 3Gb 580.

 

[slomo4sho]

The card for gamers at 1080 res or less. I'm very happy with my recent 780 buy last week, it added 45 fps to my BF3 fps at 2560 x 1600 all ultra settings. Coming from a single 3Gb 580.

Considering that the available 780 benchmarks indicate that the 780 averages 60 FPS at 2560x1600 on ultra, I have a hard time believing that your FPS jumped by 45 since the 580 benchmarks around 34 FPS.

 

[dragonsqrrl]

[citation][nom]mapesdhs[/nom]Oh. Ah well.Am I right in thinking though that two 580s would be quicker than a single 780 or Titan?Ian.[/citation]
If it's a choice between just a 780 and 2 580's for $670, I would definitely go with the 780. I don't have direct benchmark comparisons, but I'm pretty sure a single 780 will outperform 580 sli in most games. In addition it costs slightly less, you have double the effective frame buffer, substantially lower idle and load power consumption, substantially lower noise and heat, support for 4 monitors on a single card as opposed to 3 monitors on two cards, support for 4k resolution, etc. The 780 wins in practically every metric I can think of.

edit: sorry, I missed that the 580's are 3GB versions. But in any case I would still go with a 780.

 

[Sakkura]

AMD had a Q4 2012 loss of nearly half a billion dollars, NVIDIA Revenue for fiscal 2012 overall was $4 billion up by 12.8%. I don't think Nvidia is that worried about what AMD does. Just like Intel isn't worried what AMD does. In fact some of my customers have reduced the AMD buying and switched to Nvidia and Intel because they are worried how much longer AMD will be around. Nvidia is out selling AMD more then 4 to 1 in the highend card market. I'm sold out of Titans and have double digits on backorder right now, I have yet to sell a 7990. Nvida owns the lower-end business market which as the highest reorder frequency. You got to hope AMD can fix things or when they die we'll all be paying more for GPUs & CPUs.

AMDs share price has increased by 60% since the beginning of the year.

 

[Heironious]

I had bought the Gigabyte GTX 770 one from Newegg, and it was in packaging. An hour later I was regretting it so I checked and it was still in packaging. I have SLI 560's so wasn't sure if it would give me a worth while jump in performance. So I voided it, and got the 780 instead. Guaranteed to see improvement lol.

 

[Heironious]

I was looking forward to the 4 GB editions...for some unknown reason not a single one appeared for sale anywhere. I had to go with the 780. On the plus, my VRAM starved, heavily modded Skyrim will not crash once it uses up the 2GB my current cards have. Also as "future proof" as I'm going to get, as games are slow as snot to make too many demanding titles. Still too many that say "requres GTX 8800 or up"

 

[dragonsqrrl]

[citation][nom]Heironious[/nom]I was looking forward to the 4 GB editions...for some unknown reason not a single one appeared for sale anywhere.[/citation]
The 4GB version isn't available yet. You'll probably see it in the coming weeks, supposedly for just a $20-$30 premium.
[citation][nom]Heironious[/nom]On the plus, my VRAM starved, heavily modded Skyrim will not crash once it uses up the 2GB my current cards have.[/citation]
Your GTX560's have 2GB of mem? I didn't realize that existed.

 

[bryonhowley]

Well the GTX 770 is coming in at a better price than the last two Nvidia released so that is a bonus for sure. I might consider it when my GTX 670 SLI becomes to slow for current games. But as it is I can play anything I want at a very good frame rate right now so I see no need to upgrade yet but that time may come. In the games that support it I still get very good performance even at 5760x1080 with these two cards.

 

[airborne11b]

I'm personally excited to get my hands on three or four 780GTXs. Give me a reason to break out my two other 2560 x 1440 monitors for some UHD triple monitor gaming.

Nice to see the 770 offer great performance for a reasonable price though. GJ Nvidia.

 

[renz496]

AMD had a Q4 2012 loss of nearly half a billion dollars, NVIDIA Revenue for fiscal 2012 overall was $4 billion up by 12.8%. I don't think Nvidia is that worried about what AMD does. Just like Intel isn't worried what AMD does. In fact some of my customers have reduced the AMD buying and switched to Nvidia and Intel because they are worried how much longer AMD will be around. Nvidia is out selling AMD more then 4 to 1 in the highend card market. I'm sold out of Titans and have double digits on backorder right now, I have yet to sell a 7990. Nvida owns the lower-end business market which as the highest reorder frequency. You got to hope AMD can fix things or when they die we'll all be paying more for GPUs & CPUs.

You pinpoint a prime example of how ignorant individuals can be. The ignorance runs deep in our society, people are too stupid to make an informed decision and rely too heavily on the opinions of others.

maybe it sounds like non-sense to you but in some other forum the are users buying nvidia cards because such reason. if somehow amd going under and the gpu division end up in some other company then how about drivers for current customer that using radeon cards? will the new company continue the support for them or will the new company make the driver team focus solely on the product they might release in the future? also amd is quick to drop driver support compared to nvidia.