EVGA 780 6GB

[One Who Craves Souls]

Well, EVGA already listed their first 6gb versions of the 780 cards, a fair price in my opinion, $50 more for double the memory.

EVGA GTX 780 6GB ACX - $549.99
http://www.evga.com/Products/Product.aspx?pn=06G-P4-3785-KR

EVGA GTX 780 6GB ACX/SC - $569.99
http://www.evga.com/Products/Product.aspx?pn=06G-P4-3787-KR

But then, I got to ask you guys:

• Who's this card for?
• You think these cards are actually going to benefit from it's 6gb?
• How do you think it will perform compared to the 3gb version?
• Would you buy it if you were to buy a 780 anyways?

[DoubleY]

Nobody should buy this card. You only use 2.3GB of vRAM at 4K with dual 780ti's on Crysis 3

[FloRolf]

yeah, now you get a Titan for only 550 so its worth it! ^^

(for 4k and stuff)

[JAKEBAB]

SKYRIM +3000 mods 

[One Who Craves Souls]

Nobody should buy this card. You only use 2.3GB of vRAM at 4K with dual 780ti's on Crysis 3

 

That's exactly what I've been reading, but then, why make these cards? just for the money?

[TymmVonD]

SLi cards for sure. EVGA definitely has 4K gaming in mind.

[DoubleY]

That's exactly what I've been reading, but then, why make these cards? just for the money?

You answered your own question. For the money

Why would they make a TitanZ when you could get two 780ti's for half the cost and the same performance? For money

[DavidTheWin]

Nobody should buy this card. You only use 2.3GB of vRAM at 4K with dual 780ti's on Crysis 3

 

The benchmarks I've seen of the 295x2 compared to 780ti SLI quite clearly show the 780ti's minimum frame rate dropping as low as 2fps in some cases due to memory limitations. However they were running with maxed AA which would up the memory usage and AA isn't nearly as necessary at 4k obviously. 

[One Who Craves Souls]

You answered your own question. For the money

Why would they make a TitanZ when you could get two 780ti's for half the cost and the same performance? For money

Yeah I guess, I'd love to see some benchmarks thou... just for the heck of it.

[DoubleY]

The benchmarks I've seen of the 295x2 compared to 780ti SLI quite clearly show the 780ti's minimum frame rate dropping as low as 2fps in some cases due to memory limitations. However they were running with maxed AA which would up the memory usage and AA isn't nearly as necessary at 4k obviously. 

Exactly. There is literally no reason to have AA on at 4K because of how pixel dense it is. (unless you have some HUGE monitor) 

[Mecami]

Another dick move on the nvidia side.

So tired of releases of so many cards in so many flavours.

We have a gtx 770 with 2GB or 4GB, a 780 with 3GB or 6GB, a 780ti with 3GB or 6GB, a gtx titan, a gtx titan black, etc.

They want to milk as much money out of Kepler as possible, it's getting annoying.

[Imabigmac]

but for another $50 why the hell not? If you aren't restricted to getting the cheapest 780 why not get the extra vram it won't hurt. 

[One Who Craves Souls]

Another dick move on the nvidia side.

So tired of releases of so many cards in so many flavours.

We have a gtx 770 with 2GB or 4GB, a 780 with 3GB or 6GB, a 780ti with 3GB or 6GB, a gtx titan, a gtx titan black, etc.

They want to milk as much money out of Kepler as possible, it's getting annoying.

This one is from EVGA thou lol but I get your point.

[Mecami]

This one is from EVGA thou lol but I get your point.

True, but it's still nvidia who gave the "ok".

It's not like nvidia isn't earning anything from these cards.

[Erik4boss]

This is great if you want a lot of monitors!

[MrBucket101]

If you purchased an EVGA GTX 780/TI 3GB version in the past 6 months, EVGA is offering free step-ups for those that want it.

 

I'm on the waiting list for when the 780TI 6GB drops. Who wouldn't want more vram for free?

[One Who Craves Souls]

If you purchased an EVGA GTX 780/TI 3GB version in the past 6 months, EVGA is offering free step-ups for those that want it.

 

I'm on the waiting list for when the 780TI 6GB drops. Who wouldn't want more vram for free?

You have to pay the difference from what I've read, it's not free... but for $50? well if you can sure.

[Faa]

But then, I got to ask you guys:

• Who's this card for?
• You think these cards are actually going to benefit from it's 6gb?
• How do you think it will perform compared to the 3gb version?
• Would you buy it if you were to buy a 780 anyways?

1. Noobs who think 6GB is twice as fast as 3GB

2. No, at 6GB (no cached memory) quad 780sli they would hardly run at 10 fps with 3x 4K monitors

3. I don't think i want to repeat my answer to your first question. It doesnt work like this, a card with 3GB running out of vram would literally kill your performance; you would have enough time to take a shower before you spawned in BF4. Pulling your secondary weapon out takes like 5mins. You either have enough or you don't; if you don't you get 1 fpm (frame per minute) and if you do then something like this happens (when upgrading to higher model with more vram eg 680 2gb -> 680 4gb): 

4. Plenty of wannabe Titan noobs will.

 

 

The benchmarks I've seen of the 295x2 compared to 780ti SLI quite clearly show the 780ti's minimum frame rate dropping as low as 2fps in some cases due to memory limitations. However they were running with maxed AA which would up the memory usage and AA isn't nearly as necessary at 4k obviously. 

I have plenty of video's showing 3GB usage and both of my gpu's are kicking ass at 99% load. I have video's as well where I literally ran out of memory and the gpu loads were barely reaching 10%. Why? Well in the first example that game used a lot more cached resources and they dont impact your performance at all (the actual usage would be just 1.8GB) where as in the 2nd example non-cached resources used every byte of my vram.

[imperialplanet]

Id buy it just because

[Lays]

@Faa it's still a bit irrelevant unless you're buying more than 2 cards, my 780s at 1320/ 7650 and my 3930k at 4.8 in games that use above 2.5gb I have about 80-120 FPS, so I'd imagine if I was to use over 3 I'd have unplayable FPS if I had 6gb.

 

I'm unsure how well optimized crysis 3 is, I get drops down to 50~ but the average is about 70-90ish @ ultra + max aa 1440p and it uses about 2.5-2.7gb 

[One Who Craves Souls]

So, better spending those $50(or $100 in SLI) in other parts... 

[Faa]

@Faa it's still a bit irrelevant unless you're buying more than 2 cards, my 780s at 1320/ 7650 and my 3930k at 4.8 in games that use above 2.5gb I have about 80-120 FPS, so I'd imagine if I was to use over 3 I'd have unplayable FPS if I had 6gb.

 

I'm unsure how well optimized crysis 3 is, I get drops down to 50~ but the average is about 70-90ish @ ultra + max aa 1440p and it uses about 2.5-2.7gb 

Well the textures in Crysis 3 are more intensive than Skyrim if both use 2.5gb but I get your point. Just quick side note: Titanfall uses here 3GB on a 1080p monitor with all settings on max would that mean you can't run this game with a 680? Not really, lots of that memory usage were cached resources and thats mainly why I never monitor the vram usage or go ahead on forums tell people to get a 3GB card because BF4 used 2.5GB.

3GB will be plenty for a while on 1440p and before you're going to need a tiny bit more than 3GB, it's not really worth it anymore to add a 3rd 780 or replace them all with a 6GB version, so why not now save some money? About 4K: looking at SLI scaling it's not really worth it to have a 3rd card for 20% fps and currently 3GB seems plenty and 2 780's are already struggling. If you need a tiny bit more to avoid the GPU using your ssd/hdd (which is the main reason why your performance is bad) as swapfile, you'd be better off just reducing some settings. I don't really think any 780 owner would use his card more than 5 years really, most of them will just upgrade within 2 or 3 years.

I don't think I've ever seen the 3GB 580 being very useful to the 1.5GB version but I bet their at higher resolutions like 3x1080p is crap.

[Miloshki]

For those who need high amounts of VRAM and high speed computing. Eg: being able to play BF4 at Ultra Settings at 1440p (However I don't do this). And also if this person wants to render high resolution animations and renders with large compositing node trees.

Also...

I'd buy it just because.