NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Video Card Review @ [H]

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Another great review. Wish the price was $50 less as it would be more competitive in the market.
 
Another great review. Wish the price was $50 less as it would be more competitive in the market.

You read all 8 pages in 3 minutes? I did not even know our site would load pages that fast..... :eek:
 
Nice review. Very underwhelming entrée from NVidia. Should have just priced it $550 and called it a day. Would have sold more than the hooker in the corner of my street.
 
What a pointless release from the green team. At least that's my opinion.
 
yup 580$-600$ would have been a good price point, I have always owned NVidia cards but this is a rather OK
 
Hey is the 780Ti the same length as Titan? Thanks for the review!
edit: tpu says same as 780, in case anyone else was wondering too.
 
This is what they said.

With that in mind, with the release of the GeForce GTX 780 Ti NVIDIA is once more left solidly in control of the single-GPU performance crown.

I would have to suggest that realworld gameplay puts "solidly in control" greatly into question.
 
This is what they said.
By the numbers. An MSI Lightning can easily match the speed of a GTX 780 Ti. Also the overclocking that they were able to achieve is absolutely worthless in terms of performance increase (almost 5%). For me this is a worthless card and I am ok calling a spade a spade.

Performance crown at $700 that is barely faster than a R9 290X or the GTX 780 OC that it replaces. I think I am fine with what I have and people will be fine buying the $400 R9 290 or $500 GTX 780 from either team.
 
I'm very disappointed to see no 4K / UHD benchmarks, nor even triple-monitor benchmarks. I expect that this was from lack of time and they will follow shortly, but it would have been nice for the article to have said that.
 
You mention the 780Ti is single precision, but on the specs it actually has more FP64 cores than titan...

I'll assume most of them are disabled.
 
By the numbers. An MSI Lightning can easily match the speed of a GTX 780 Ti. Also the overclocking that they were able to achieve is absolutely worthless in terms of performance increase (almost 5%). For me this is a worthless card and I am ok calling a spade a spade.

Performance crown at $700 that is barely faster than a R9 290X or the GTX 780 OC that it replaces. I think I am fine with what I have and people will be fine buying the $400 R9 290 or $500 GTX 780 from either team.


The MSI Lightning 780 and Galaxy HOF 780 cards are GREAT buys at the current prices.
 
You mention the 780Ti is single precision, but on the specs it actually has more FP64 cores than titan...

I'll assume most of them are disabled.


The stats are correct IIRC. Basically the difference between the two are more VRAM and double precision on the TITAN.
 
I'm very disappointed to see no 4K / UHD benchmarks, nor even triple-monitor benchmarks. I expect that this was from lack of time and they will follow shortly, but it would have been nice for the article to have said that.

Sorry to disappoint you. We need to make 100% sure we got the groundwork right on single monitor before we get to the fun stuff. :) In the works. Rome....a day....all that.
 
Excellent review as usual guys!

So for a $100 more bucks, someone can buy a pair of r9 290's which will completely slaughter a single 780 ti. Performance is awesome, but for the price I am not that impressed.
 
By the numbers. An MSI Lightning can easily match the speed of a GTX 780 Ti. Also the overclocking that they were able to achieve is absolutely worthless in terms of performance increase (almost 5%). For me this is a worthless card and I am ok calling a spade a spade.

Performance crown at $700 that is barely faster than a R9 290X or the GTX 780 OC that it replaces. I think I am fine with what I have and people will be fine buying the $400 R9 290 or $500 GTX 780 from either team.

They were able to hold the performance crown over AMD's brand new architecture. When has that ever happened in GPU history?
 
It looks solid, and positive performance wise...but I'm having second thoughts on actually swapping my 780 and paying the difference to get the Ti...I may still try to haggle and get the other two games for free, and call it a day. I don't think it's really worth $70-80 plus tax.

By the numbers. An MSI Lightning can easily match the speed of a GTX 780 Ti. Also the overclocking that they were able to achieve is absolutely worthless in terms of performance increase (almost 5%). For me this is a worthless card and I am ok calling a spade a spade.

Performance crown at $700 that is barely faster than a R9 290X or the GTX 780 OC that it replaces. I think I am fine with what I have and people will be fine buying the $400 R9 290 or $500 GTX 780 from either team.

Right on man. Maybe a better plan is to return my $659 780 and rebuy an MSI Ligthtning and just get the 3 games as is. Is the MSI version worth it over the Titan reference cooler version? I sure would miss those sexy green lights in my case!
 
So the 780ti more or less matches a 290 & 290x at a ... very heavy actually, price premium. Ok, but that is completely outside my price/performance zone. Looks like I'm still going 290 for less than $400 and be trading blows with this card.

This pricing just makes to sense to me.

Good review, maybe check the mobile version though, many images are not showing up for me. Also, one suggestion at this point would be a price/performance chart.
 
Switching a 780 out for a 780ti seems like a Waste.
Great performer but bad price, a constant in the world of Nvidia products.
I think its rather obvious that AMD has won the GPU war in the 7x0 vs 2x0 series of cards.

AMDs arch is refined but BRAND NEW, I think is wrong.
 
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Excellent review, very well presented. I think it goes to show both companies are hitting the wall at 28nm. That said, I agree with the conclusion, excellent card but it doesn't seem priced appropriately. It will be interesting to see how the market changes when AIB's introduce their aftermarket stuff.
 
Thanks! This is funny, but I read the review pages in reverse order, and I stopped right before the end of page one at the photos, where my question was clearly answered just underneath, hehheh.
 
Nice review. Very underwhelming entrée from NVidia. Should have just priced it $550 and called it a day. Would have sold more than the hooker in the corner of my street.

I agree.

Now my next cards are either two R9 290s or two used Titans under $550.
 
it's seriously hilarious at how so many people bought one before reviews came out. Putting faith in nvidia hasn't paid off lately. I'll keep my 780's and will wait for next gen.
 
great review - though with concerns about sound levels and such on the fans, instead of saying subjective things like:

... is no doubt louder than the other cards, but to refer to it as a "jet engine" at these speeds is not close to a fair comparison. We have no issues with gaming with the R9 290 in Uber Mode sitting next to us on an open test bench.

why not just get a SPL meter and put it to bed? Just put some straight facts on it for people to use/compare against and have a baseline for the upcoming 3rd party customized cards... just my .02 I guess

Thanks for the review though - really making me debate on getting a R9 and have it melt my case as with everything from AMD it seems
 
great review - though with concerns about sound levels and such on the fans, instead of saying subjective things like:



why not just get a SPL meter and put it to bed? Just put some straight facts on it for people to use/compare against and have a baseline for the upcoming 3rd party customized cards... just my .02 I guess

Thanks for the review though - really making me debate on getting a R9 and have it melt my case as with everything from AMD it seems

Because dB many times has little to do with sound profile.
 
Hmm, the techpowerup review had much better success with overclocking.

Overclocking results from review sites will vary. I want to see overclocking results from actual owners, who know what they are doing tbh.
 
fast card, but 150 dollars for 5 more fps over 290x, i don't think so!
 
Great card but just priced too high. $100 less and it would sway alot of people but with Mantle and such around the corner red team is the better bet. I wonder if the Titans will get a drastic price drop? I would still love some juicy 6GB VRAM.
 
Really wish we had some kind of release date for non reference cooled cards. :/ The EVGA pre-sale rep I talked to said they didn't have an eta because they didn't have enough stock to put out the ACX yet.
 
They were able to hold the performance crown over AMD's brand new architecture. When has that ever happened in GPU history?

The 290/290x aren't brand new architecture, just like the 780 isn't brand new. They are both second gen stuff. 780 - 2nd gen Kepler, 290x - 2nd gen GCN.
 
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