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which of this is better when watercooled & overclocked like balls to the walls

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GTX 780 Ti, especially if it gets more vram

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GTX 780 ti since the R9-290x has already been over clocked quite quite hard.

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780Ti, it will murder the 290X

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I don't any part in the performance conversation but I believe M-ursu's r9 290 did something like 1250 on the core with the stock cooler(loud), so they should oc. But the performance question I have no answer

Stock coolers - The sound of bare minimum

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Take it with a grain of salt as the silicon lottery does play a huge role but it seems from the cards that this guy got that the R9 290X significantly outperforms the GTX 780 ti.

Both are on water btw.

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http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1790016

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oh and well never use unigine benchmark as reference for AMD performance.  Search Firestrike because  both sides release drivers to optimize it's performance...since it's used in world benchmark competition 

 

also hitman absolution = amd optimized

       BF4 = both almost same

       Bioshock infinite = nvidia do better ...even if it's AMD title

       crysis 3 = same as above

       tomb raider = amd

       

it's what you'll find if read some reviews... also most of other games or are not optimized for both sides or you'll have performance above 60fps for both sides...even maxed with 8xAA 

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The best option is 2 watercooled 290s

 

The best option is 2 watercooled 780 Ti (or 3 or 4)

 

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Take it with a grain of salt as the silicon lottery does play a huge role but it seems from the cards that this guy got that the R9 290X significantly outperforms the GTX 780 ti.

Both are on water btw.

Taken from this thread.

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1790016

 

Read the stuff you post, before you post it. That is a 780, not a 780 Ti

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I go with the GTX 780 Ti watercooled for now.

 

But I will try my R9 290X as well once Mantle is out. And then I'll OC it balls to the wall and see which GPU I'll keep in my gaming rig.

 

As it was said before it's sometimes all about the silicon lottery either you win or loose.

 

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As Linus said on the last live stream, the good thing about AMD and Nvidia right now is, you can't go wrong with either platform.

To answer your question, a 780Ti will perform better at 1440p or less. A 290X will perform better at 1080p*3 or more (see Anandtech reviews). However, the most cost effective method is two 290 cards (non-X). You just cannot beat performance for that price right now.

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Apparently the R9 will overclock a lot more if you can get those temperatures down. Heat is the limiting factor of the R9's performance so if you have an exceptional WC setup and you don't live in an oven; try the R9 as you should be able to overclock it a lot more. Although I see you live in India which if I am not mistaken, it can be pretty hot there. What is your ambient room temp?

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The 780Ti will murder the 290X air cooled... So it will still murder it watercooled and OC'd.

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The 780Ti will murder the 290X air cooled... So it will still murder it watercooled and OC'd.

The problem here is that the 290x is being throttled, and then compared to the ti. When you remove the throttling with even decent air coolers (accelero x3) it still manages 1200mhz. On the reference cooler, it throttles around 760-800 mhz. That's a 50% clock speed increase.

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Apparently the R9 will overclock a lot more if you can get those temperatures down. Heat is the limiting factor of the R9's performance so if you have an exceptional WC setup and you don't live in an oven; try the R9 as you should be able to overclock it a lot more. Although I see you live in India which if I am not mistaken, it can be pretty hot there. What is your ambient room temp?

my temp is about 85C

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which of this is better when watercooled & overclocked like balls to the walls

 

depends on what screen resolution you are using and what games you are playing.

 

W/C a 780 Ti will likely not gain you much over a good non-reference air cooler from ASUS, Gigabyte etc as heat is not a huge limiting factor on that card but I have not seen any numbers yet on W/C. Here is a non-reference 780 Ti - http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/graphics/62537-gigabyte-geforce-gtx-780-ti-oc/

 

Heat is a huge factor in determining the performance of the R9 290/290X so W/C one of these will give you a big jump in performance as already discovered by those who have installed EK waterblocks over on Overclock.net forum as mentioned previously. Some are over 1300Mhz

http://www.overclock.net/t/1436497/official-amd-r9-290x-290-owners-club

 

Dual W/C R9 290 will likelybe your best bet if you must W/C for an extra $200 but I would wait for all the non-reference coolers on both sets of cards to get a better idea.

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my temp is about 85C

 

If your ambient room temperature is 85C then you really do live in an oven. :P

 

Is 85C the temperature of your gfx card under load? What I wanted to know is what is the average temperature of the room you keep your PC in. If your room is always very warm (25C +) you are not going to be able to cool your gpu really really well therfore hindering the massive overclock this card could reach. Like I said earlier, the colder you can keep this card, the more you can push the limits. The 780 isn't limited by heat. Not sure what it is limited by but it ain't heat. Remember the overclocking of the newest cards is done automatically by the gpu software. The R9 will overclock till she hits 95C.

 

This is all according to linus's videos/wan show anyway.  I haven't put that much research into these cards so don't take what I say as gospel.

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2 290s

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