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GeForce GTX 780 from NVIDIA this comes in and replaces the GeForce GTX 680 and
is positioned slightly below the GeForce GTX Titan in terms of performance
spoiler alert but significantly below the GeForce GTX Titan which is a $1,000
card in terms of price our testing
methodology is pretty straightforward we always overclock all of our cards you
can find our overclocking results in the spreadsheet that is in the video
description if you want to check it out and we are using fraps because we don't
have a frame rating capture setup yet but we're hoping to add something like
that in the future we are only testing single GPU setups however so the
discrepancies between fraps and a capture setup are not nearly as
significant as they are in particularly cross fire configurations our test bed
is our usual test bed we've got a 3960x behind me at 4 GHz 16 gigs of RAM a p9x
79 Deluxe motherboard a 128 gig SSD
powered by an antech high current Pro 1,000 watt and cooled by a Corsair h100
we're running Windows 7 still for our test platform just because that is the
way we wanted to do it for our drivers we're doing something we don't usually
do and we are using the latest beta drivers from both NVIDIA and AMD this is
giving us the latest performance enhancements and what's kind of cool
about what you're about to see is that there have been some changes in terms of
rankings so we've done performance guides featuring some of these graphics
cards on some of these games where the results are different than what you're
going to see now so remember guys beta drivers are non-f finalized and there
can be weird bugs and glitchiness which is why we try to avoid using them for
performance reviews but what you're about to see is more of a glimpse into
how they perform like exactly now or even a little bit into the future now
we're almost to the point where we're talking performance numbers but I want
to talk about some of the things that make this card special besides performance it shares a lot with the GTX
Titan it uses the same GK 110 core it uses the same cooler with an updated
acoustic profile meaning that the fan doesn't spin up and down unnecessarily
it maintains things very steadily it also has GPU Boost 2.0 which allows you
to do really cool stuff like you can either say Okay temperatures be damned I
want you to run at the highest performance possible I'm okay with 90°
on my GPU or and it'll perform better or
you can say you know what I want my card to run really cool I'm only comfortable
with 70° and the card will dynamically turn itself down in terms of voltages
and clock speeds to stay within that Target that you've determined now it
doesn't have 6 gigs of RAM like the GTX Titan but it does use the same PCB so
you got support for all the NVIDIA Technologies SLI two-way 3-way four-way
NVIDIA 3D Vision NVIDIA 3D Vision surround with three around displays plus
an auxiliary display and the fact that it uses the same PCB means we've got a
very beefy designed card that should be great for overclocking and once we
overclock these cards you're going to see the performance is very similar the
one thing that's missing on the back of the card here and why I have it turned around is an additional 3 gigs of memory
this card has 3 gigs versus the 6 gigs of memory on the GTX Titan let's start
with Metro last Light and we are cranking the details on all the games
for this video because these are high-end cards and if you're spending $300 plus dollars on a card you better
be turning up the details this is where we see how our overclocked methodology
really reveals the uh the Lesser price to Performance value of some of the
higher-end cards when you're overclocking everything so the GTX 780
performs almost the same as a Titan and a 7950 performs almost the same as a 7970
only the GTX 660 Ti really falls behind
in this particular test in BioShock Infinite we see about a 10% performance
advantage over the 7 80 going to the Titan with the Titan outperforming
everything and the 780 outperforming everything else however I'd like to take
a moment while you enjoy these graphs to point out that it's about more than
performance Acoustics is a huge part of the experience particularly for silent
freaks like me and you may or may not have noticed already that there's a
significant amount more background noise to this particular segment of the video
compared to the rest of it and I'd like to see if you guys can figure out where
the problem lies in Tomb Raider we see a bit more of
a spread with the Titan outperforming the GTX 780 by about 10% the 780
outperforming everything else by a wide margin and then the AMD cards nice and
close to the GTX 680 and the 660 Ti trailing behind in Far Cry 3 we see
another example of almost identical performance between the Titan and the
780 with the 680 falling behind significantly clustered with those other
cards this is one of those games where these look like next Generation cards
and everything else looks like a last generation card in Far Cry 3 blood
Dragon surprise surprise the Titan's the big winner it's a $1,000 video card so
it pretty much better win I mean I mean it's good that it does uh the 780
however is once again only about 10% slower but what's neat to see here is
that in Far Cry 3 blood Dragon we've seen a significant change in the way
those last generation gpus lined up in terms of performance so what's cool
about this is the fact that NVIDIA has
the 680 literally all on the way out of
their product lineup it is replaced as of today but it is still getting driver
enhancements that are making it perform better in these new games and again the
GTX Titan and 780 look like they don't even belong in the same set of
benchmarks as these other cards the 3 gigs of RAM particularly at 1080p
doesn't seem to hold back the 780 in any way and it performs almost as well as
the Titan about 50% better than anything
else on the field so what did we take away from all of this
the GTX 780 looks compared to the Titan like a stunning price to Performance
proposition it performs at worst about 10% slower once you overclock them and
guys if you're buying GTX 780s and not overclocking them shame on you okay so
it performs very close to a Titan and cost significantly less than a Titan
with all that cool Titan feature stuff that goes on I mean even the illuminated
GeForce GTX logo that you can set up to breathe or you can increase the
brightness when it's under a gaming load and all kinds of cool stuff like that is
included on this card at a significantly lower price now with all of that said it
doesn't just come down to price to Performance ratio and this is
particularly of note when you look at the competition now normally I don't
talk about game bundles in these videos because I don't know if that game bundle
is still going to exist 6 months down the line when you might be watching this
but an AMD has had the never settle bundle running for almost 6 months now
which means that I better talk about it because they are serious about this you
may or may not have noticed that a lot of the games uh the 7970 didn't
outperform the GTX 780 not by a long
shot but what's kind of neat about it is a lot of those games are included with a
7970 or AMD radon graphics card purchase
so it's something to think about make sure that you're doing the math if
you're planning to buy that game anyway especially immediately factor that in
but if you are looking for the balls to the- walls best performing single card
solution and single card really is what I recommend more than a dual card setup
particularly on the AMD side where it can hurt the experience more than it
actually helps it seriously guys Google frame rating it's true if you're looking
for the ultimate single card experience I would point at this guy as opposed to
the GTX Titan it performs almost as well as a Titan has all those cool features
and really leaves the last generation GTX 680 in the dust thank you for
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