GTX 970 vs GTX 780ti

[Mohdullah2]

Hey guys, I was looking into a graphics card for my white and black build, I settled on either a soon to be released, but don't want to wait for MSI GTX 970 white armored version. GTX 970 Strix from ASUS, or a GTX 780ti the white one from PNY. Could you please help me decide which one I should pick the 970 or 780ti, please use some good support to your claims on which one I should use

[Prastupok]

Hey guys, I was looking into a graphics card for my white and black build, I settled on either a soon to be released, but don't want to wait for MSI GTX 970 white armored version. GTX 970 Strix from ASUS, or a GTX 780ti the white one from PNY. Could you please help me decide which one I should pick the 970 or 780ti, please use some good support to your claims on which one I should use

 

970.

Support: I own two of them, they are very close to the same performance, but the 970s use less power, run cooler, and are still cheaper.

And EVGA would be my recommendation.

[Commander Llama]

Performance wise the 780Ti edges out the 970 but at the cost of more heat and power.

 

Also the 970 is like ten bajillion GOGOOL times cheaper.

 

GTX970.

 

Edit: Alternative, if you're in the neighbourhood for dropping the amount of cash a 780Ti would be, perhaps a GTX980?  More expensive but best of both worlds?

[Prastupok]

[GiantBeaverMoose]

Hey guys, I was looking into a graphics card for my white and black build, I settled on either a soon to be released, but don't want to wait for MSI GTX 970 white armored version. GTX 970 Strix from ASUS, or a GTX 780ti the white one from PNY. Could you please help me decide which one I should pick the 970 or 780ti, please use some good support to your claims on which one I should use

Go with the 970, I've got the Gigabyte 970 'windforce edition' installed in my rig. It's pretty fabulous, and a hell of a lot cheaper than the 780ti- Nice to overclock too! 

 

[GrimNeo]

Hey guys, I was looking into a graphics card for my white and black build, I settled on either a soon to be released, but don't want to wait for MSI GTX 970 white armored version. GTX 970 Strix from ASUS, or a GTX 780ti the white one from PNY. Could you please help me decide which one I should pick the 970 or 780ti, please use some good support to your claims on which one I should use

What is your monitor resolution?

[thatwasonce]

I just find buying old hardware kinda pointless unless you are getting the 780ti cheap, I saw one for 200$ on a deal on tigerdirect the other week.

[Tacitus]

They're close in performance, but the 780ti is better at 4k, particularly when in SLI. The 970 has a bottleneck, 256bit bus, perhaps. I'm not totally sure.

 

For 1080p just get whichever is cheaper.

[Miguel Sensacion]

Asus Strix 970. Overclocks like a champ !

[D3L3T3D]

The 780Ti has 1% more relative performance (according to chart linked above) compared to the 970, but the later has greater value because it uses less power, and heats less, and, I believe, overclocks more. Plus, because it heats less, fans can rotate at a slower speed and therefore be quieter.

[Accursed Entity]

The 970 has 0.5GB more of VRAM, go with that.

[i_build_nanosuits]

780ti, because: stronger card!

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1072?vs=1355

Unless the prices are significantly different, in which case go with the cheapest.

[Prastupok]

The 970 has 0.5GB more of VRAM, go with that.

 

It has 1GB more... not .5GB

[Accursed Entity]

It has 1GB more... not .5GB

 

Someone has been living under a rock lately...

[Prastupok]

Someone has been living under a rock lately...

 

The bandwidth is lower, not the capacity. Don't spread wrong information. It is a 4GB card that does indeed have 4GB.

[Mohdullah2]

So I should go for the Strix, I mean my build is near silent already unless I use passmark to load my cpu to 100%, then I start to hear some noise. The Gtx 970 would save me a 100$ + and I don't think that 1-5 fps is worth 100$.

[Prastupok]

So I should go for the Strix, I mean my build is near silent already unless I use passmark to load my cpu to 100%, then I start to hear some noise. The Gtx 970 would save me a 100$ + and I don't think that 1-5 fps is worth 100$.

 

The Strix is definitely not the best 970. Much better offerings come from Gigabyte (G1) and EVGA (SSC/FTW).

[Mohdullah2]

Here's my build, I was thinking of getting the strix and painting some of it white, unless you guys think I should get another one, also I want a backplate on my card 

[Accursed Entity]

Onto the subject, if I were you I would go with the G1 970, not only a good card but the blue led would fit nicely with your black and white theme. 

 

 

The bandwidth is lower, not the capacity. Don't spread wrong information. It is a 4GB card that does indeed have 4GB.

 

You need to chill out and understand when someone is joking, I'm probably older than you and I can take a joke. 

[Feeron]

The bandwidth is lower, not the capacity. Don't spread wrong information. It is a 4GB card that does indeed have 4GB.

 

But saying it's a 4 GB card is pretty much spreading wrong information. On most games and programs, they don't even recognize the last 0.5 GB rendering it useless and the fact that it's SO MUCH slower than the rest of the 3.5 GB makes it unwise to use all 4 GB of the card because you'll just get a worse performance from frame stutters. So to keep things simple, it's easier to consider the GTX 970 as practically a 3.5 GB card to avoid confusing the new people. 

[R_Golden]

Onto the subject, if I were you I would go with the G1 970, not only a good card but the blue led would fit nicely with your black and white theme.

You need to chill out and understand when someone is joking, I'm probably older than you and I can take a joke.

The joke got old a month ago.

[Accursed Entity]

The joke got old a month ago.

 

I see you are a owner of a 970... there's not much to say here, enjoy your card.

[Zulkkis]

970 is effectively a 3.5GB card, there is no beating around the bush when it comes down to it.

 

Unless you get a significant discount or have a specific use outside of gaming that works better compute-wise on the GTX 780 TI, go with the 970. Gaming-wise nVidia seem to have ignored Kepler already; hell, the 7970 Ghz edition which was made to compete with GTX 680 is tailing the GTX 780 already in new games.

[Prastupok]

You need to chill out and understand when someone is joking, I'm probably older than you and I can take a joke. 

 

One, it's not even funny.

Two, what does age have to do with anything?

Three, you aren't.

[Accursed Entity]

@Mohdullah2 What card you went with if I may ask? It had to be the Strix? Not saying is bad, just curiosity.

 

*You can subscribe to your own thread(top right, follow your topic) just in case you didn't know. 

 

One, it's not even funny.

Two, what does age have to do with anything?

Three, you aren't.

 

I thought you ignored me(you would have been super cool doing that), someone else quoted you as well you know. 3k posts in less than 2 months, spamming much?  I'm not going to be part of your spamming anymore, but you can keep going and spam to 4k posts alone if you want, right on.