Aftermarket 780 Ti's REVIEWS

[That Norwegian Guy]

I get top end e-peenin around here buying 4970ks and titans is fun and all but when it comes down to it i feel the Ti is a horrible value. Want to have the fastest card, go right ahead but honestly I cant find a reason to buy it. Now if it would have come out @ ~500-549 then i would see the value but I guess that would make far to much sense.

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Well, like I already said in another thread, for me personally, it makes more sense to spend $650 on one GTX 780Ti for Star Citizen ultra than two 290s for $800. As after OC and aftermarket cooler, I doubt the 290 has a snowball's chance in hell to pull off Star Citizen, but a 780Ti should be the first card ever that will do it without multi-GPU setup without dropping under 30 FPS minimum.

[Brainless906]

Well, like I already said in another thread, for me personally, it makes more sense to spend $650 on one GTX 780Ti for Star Citizen ultra than two 290s for $800. As after OC and aftermarket cooler, I doubt the 290 has a snowball's chance in hell to pull off Star Citizen, but a 780Ti should be the first card ever that will do it without multi-GPU setup without dropping under 30 FPS minimum.

I would retort that if the 290 stands no chance than neither does the Ti as the performance differance isnt all that big. That being said we dont know anything about mantle or any of that nonsense but its still a bad value right out the gate and the 290 can only go up from here.

Its like the whole titan vs 2x7970 thing except the dual 290s do cost a little more this time but will massively bigger performance just like the dual 7970s did so in over all performance per dollar they will still come out on top. I dont, and neither do the creators, think there will be a single gpu that will run Star Citizen well on ulti settings for a few years now so the arguements seems non-relivent.

but hey, thats just my opinion man.

[Humbug]

I doubt the 290 has a snowball's chance in hell to pull off Star Citizen, but a 780Ti should be the first card ever that will do it without multi-GPU setup without dropping under 30 FPS minimum.

at what resolution?

Won't it be fare to say that none of us know how well star citizen will run across various GPUs.

And the 20nm GPUs from nvidia and AMD will be commonplace by then which will make both 290 and 780ti look like inefficient dinosaurs.

[That Norwegian Guy]

I would retort that if the 290 stands no chance than neither does the Ti as the performance differance isnt all that big

 

At stock. The 780Ti has heaps of headroom as the aftermarket air coolers released today beat user watercooled results from 290x's. 780Ti will pull more and more away as the thermal and dielectric disadvantage of the 290x is exposed.

[Brainless906]

At stock. The 780Ti has heaps of headroom as the aftermarket air coolers released today beat user watercooled results from 290x's. 780Ti will pull more and more away as the thermal and dielectric disadvantage of the 290x is exposed.

I'll bet almost anything you wont even get another 5 percent performance out of the 780 ti even overclocked. And then were just looking at the PCB lotto so may the odds ever be in your favor and all that.

and again i'm talking 290 not 290x

and deciding the 780ti will magically start to get more performance "as thermal and dielectric disadvantage of the 290x is exposed" makes me think this converstation is devolving to a slight bit of fanboyism trying to cover for an overley expensive card. (also the whole ignoring the Star Citz thing kinda doesnt help)

but again, thats just my opinion man.

[bramturismo]

Well, like I already said in another thread, for me personally, it makes more sense to spend $650 on one GTX 780Ti for Star Citizen ultra than two 290s for $800. As after OC and aftermarket cooler, I doubt the 290 has a snowball's chance in hell to pull off Star Citizen, but a 780Ti should be the first card ever that will do it without multi-GPU setup without dropping under 30 FPS minimum.

 

So you're pretty much saying that it's worth spending $250 more to dip to 34fps rather than 26fps.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37OWL7AzvHo

[Lord Pantaloons]

So you're pretty much saying that it's worth spending $250 more to dip to 34fps rather than 26fps.

 

absolutely

[bramturismo]

absolutely

 By that logic then it would be worth spending another $150 for a second 290 and never go below 40fps.

[Lord Pantaloons]

 By that logic then it would be worth spending another $150 for a second 290 and never go below 40fps.

true, if you're ok with playing for the Red team.

[Brainless906]

So you're pretty much saying that it's worth spending $250 more to dip to 34fps rather than 26fps.

 

Whats fun is in the tests resaults posted in the other thread about the 290 dominating the 290 had higher fps on the "lowest fps" then both the 770 and the 780 (the TI was not done in this test) while matching/getting 3-5 fps off of the 780 at almost hafl the cost.

So in theory we may see an after market cooled 290 that has higher lows then the Ti

So thats a thing.

http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2013/11/8/amd-radeon-r9-290-blowing-the-doors-off-the-competition.aspx%C2'>

 

[bramturismo]

true, if you're ok with playing for the Red team.

 

Oh, absolutely. 

 

Where I live an R9 290 starts at 350 euros. The 780 Ti starts at 700 euros. So for the price of one 780Ti I could get two 290s.

 

But this is all just performance-wise. With an aftermarket cooler I'm expecting a 400 euros 290 that performances better than the reference card,stays cooler and is more quiet.

 

No matter which way you look at it, the R9 290 is by far the best bang-for-buck card.

[Lord Pantaloons]

Oh, absolutely. 

 

Where I live an R9 290 starts at 350 euros. The 780 Ti starts at 700 euros. So for the price of one 780Ti I could get two 290s.

 

But this is all just performance-wise. With an aftermarket cooler I'm expecting a 400 euros 290 that performances better than the reference card,stays cooler and is more quiet.

 

No matter which way you look at it, the R9 290 is by far the best bang-for-buck card.

well that's AMD's specialty isn't

[Kuzma]

Well, like I already said in another thread, for me personally, it makes more sense to spend $650 on one GTX 780Ti for Star Citizen ultra than two 290s for $800. As after OC and aftermarket cooler, I doubt the 290 has a snowball's chance in hell to pull off Star Citizen, but a 780Ti should be the first card ever that will do it without multi-GPU setup without dropping under 30 FPS minimum.

we'll have to see how Mantle does cause if it's a 20% performance increase even that's pretty much GG 780TI.

[Lukiose]

Well, like I already said in another thread, for me personally, it makes more sense to spend $650 on one GTX 780Ti for Star Citizen ultra than two 290s for $800. As after OC and aftermarket cooler, I doubt the 290 has a snowball's chance in hell to pull off Star Citizen, but a 780Ti should be the first card ever that will do it without multi-GPU setup without dropping under 30 FPS minimum.

Just... something i created for all offenders.

Everyone feel free to copy/paste and replace Nvidia's logo with AMD for opposing fanboys too 

[KakaoDj]

Colorful GeForce GTX 780 Ti

first fully custom PCB

It comes with a fully custom PCB with a 12+2 phase power delivery system  and a 2mm steel reinforced back-plate. It uses high-quality electrical components like aerospace-grade tantalum capacitors. It has two 8-pin PCIe connectors for power requirements.

source:http://www.chiploco.com/colorful-geforce-gtx-780-ti-igame-30419/

 

Gawd dayum, that is one sexy card