How much longer will a 780 GHz Ed run decent settings at 1080p @ 60?

[johnnyTheMac]

Hello,

 

My question is pretty much what the title is. This kind of is a continuation of my 980 Ti question I posted last week. I have the opportunity to get a G1 980 Ti, but I don't know if it is worth it right now at my resolution and refresh rate. I don't know if I should pull the trigger or just wait until I have to run games on low settings lol. I mean, I can start to see the card's (780) "age" in Unity and GTA V, and I wonder how well it will hold up for upcoming games like Battlefront, The Division...etc.

 

I know we can't see the future, so I am just looking for some educated opinions/advice.

 

Thank you in advance for your responses!

[Zayzo]

Hello,

 

My question is pretty much what the title is. This kind of is a continuation of my 980 Ti question I posted last week. I have the opportunity to get a G1 980 Ti, but I don't know if it is worth it right now at my resolution and refresh rate. I don't know if I should pull the trigger or just wait until I have to run games on low settings lol. I mean, I can start to see the card's (780) "age" in Unity and GTA V, and I wonder how well it will hold up for upcoming games like Battlefront, The Division...etc.

 

I know we can't see the future, so I am just looking for some educated opinions/advice.

 

Thank you in advance for your responses!

a year or 2

[Tim Drake]

Get a 980 Ti if you plan to upgrade to 1440p or 4K at any point.

 

Grab 780 if you're waiting a while.

 

For decent settings (minimum decent is medium imo) I would say you have 2-3 years

[johnnyTheMac]

Get a 980 Ti if you plan to upgrade to 1440p or 4K at any point.

 

Grab 780 if you're waiting a while.

 

For decent settings (minimum decent is medium imo) I would say you have 2-3 years

Thanks! I don't plan on upgrading from 1080p @ 60 quite a long time. Should I consider a 970?

[Fate]

If you don't mind turning the settings down a bit, it should easily last a few more years. Be careful with some games like Arma/DayZ/AC:U (at release) because it doesn't matter what GPU/CPU you have past a certain point and if you upgrade for games optimized like that, you'll be disappointed. 

[Tim Drake]

Thanks! I don't plan on upgrading from 1080p @ 60 quite a long time.

Then keep your 780

[bpw87]

Thanks! I don't plan on upgrading from 1080p @ 60 quite a long time. Should I consider a 970?

The 780 is gonna do you fine for a fair while to come.

 

The only reason you might consider the 980Ti is if you play Skyrim with 50 plus mods and want to have a stable frame rate lol

[Aphala]

Wait for the 1000 series or R9 4XX, since it [Fingers crossed] will run on 14/16nm fab.

[Tim Drake]

The 780 is gonna do you fine for a fair while to come.

 

The only reason you might consider the 980Ti is if you play Skyrim with 50 plus mods and want to have a stable frame rate lol

50 mods?

 

I used over 100 graphics mods and it never used more than 3.8GB of VRAM..

 

You are quite misinformed..

[Tim Drake]

Wait for the 1000 series or R9 4XX, since it [Fingers crossed] will run on 14/16nm fab.

Can someone explain the nm process to me?

 

I don't understand it at all..

[bpw87]

50 mods?

 

I used over 100 graphics mods and it never used more than 3.8GB of VRAM..

 

You are quite misinformed..

It was more a figure of speech, in saying there will always be a situation where more power and ram will be needed. Like if you add 4x super sampling on and render it at 4k with all those mods you are gonna need a better GPU

 

I'm not an expert by any means so take what I say with a grain of salt. The nanometer process he is referring about die shrinking. So say you have a fully functioning chip and it is 20nm that means the die is 20 billionths of a meter. So when you shrink the die you have make sure it retains all functionality of the last die into a smaller die such as 16nm. The smaller the die the more power efficient it should be and the less heat it should output. This is a very rough and crude explanation and I can feel someone cringing as they read it but it's at least some of the bear basics of it.

[Humbug]

Thanks! I don't plan on upgrading from 1080p @ 60 quite a long time. Should I consider a 970?

No that would be a sidegrade for the most part.

Wait for next Gen.

[gilang01]

overclock your 780, it still has quite the headroom.

[CoolaxGaming]

Can someone explain the nm process to me?

 

I don't understand it at all..

I am not an expert but here it goes.

The "nm" in cpus or gpu's is the size of a transistor. The smaller and more dense they are, the less power they consume due to less energy being lost. A smaller nanometer process allows for lower power consumption and heat output.

[don_svetlio]

I am not an expert but here it goes.

The "nm" in cpus or gpu's is the size of a transistor. The smaller and more dense they are, the less power they consume due to less energy being lost. A smaller nanometer process allows for lower power consumption and heat output.

I believe it referred to the distance between 2 transistors but I may be wrong.

[CoolaxGaming]

I believe it referred to the distance between 2 transistors but I may be wrong.

The chances of you being right are more