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excited around here than highend graphics card launches and as far as
single gpus go the GTX 780 Ti is about
as high-end as it gets we'll start with the tech specs it has the same GK 110
lineage and Titan DNA as the GTX Titan
and the GTX 780 it also has a full
2,880 Cuda cor that is 25% more than GTX
780 that is a full-fledged gk10 core it
is clocked at an 875 base clock
928 boost clock clock speed meaning we have not only more Cuda cor but also
higher clock speeds and it comes with 3 GB of gddr5 memory at 7 GHz on a 384-bit
bus so we're actually getting faster memory as well physically the card looks pretty
darn similar to the last gen so there's two SLI connectors with support for two
three or four-way SLI you've got that same acoustically optimized fan with the
slow ramp up and down so that it's less jarring when it has to speed up or slow
down we've got a cast aluminum shroud
with dark aluminum fins visible through the polycarbonate window so those are
mounted on a vapor chamber that takes heat away from the GPU on the back of
the card we have two dual link DVI ports HDMI and and DisplayPort now with
support for 4K and triple surround however I maintain that this is pretty
expensive and kind of irrelevant right now I think it's just a feature checkbox
that they want to have compared to the competition we've yet to see a gaming
rig with a 4k monitor on it posted on the line of tech tips Forum so I'm just
not convinced that it exists yet at the bottom we find a PCI Express 3.0 16x
connector and then at the top to correspond with that 250 W TDP we've got
an 8 Pin and six pin power connector the
cooler is a blower style design so while a little bit of heat is going to be
exhausted out the back of the card into your case most of it is going to be
exhausted out the rear of your PC case so that it doesn't affect the cooling of
your other components we've got the usual suspects in terms of in-game
Technology direct X11 ambient occlusion txaa tessellation fizx and there are
some upcoming games and hot new titles that support these features on the
screen right now hopefully there's no mention funnily enough of 3D Vision but
don't worry guys it's still very much supported I just guess that that
particular Trend didn't take off the way that TV manufacturers and some other
folks hoped that it would gsync on the other hand is a game changer it looks
dramatically better when the frame rate is variable at all which happens in
every game as you move from more or less demanding scenes and in between them it
dynamically adapts the refresh rate of your monitor that is how many images per
second according to the frame rate actually being output from your GPU now
it does rely on Hardware support but we're expecting to see monitors sometime
in 2014 you'll also need a Kepler based GPU and hopefully from the manufacturers
that you see here that are already partnered up we're going to see great high resolution High refresh rate
designs with a variety of different panel types whether it's TN or IPS or
whatever else and these are going to come in at reasonable prices because trust me guys I'm one of the several
people on Earth that's actually seen this it is amazing and once you try it
you are going to want it GPU boo 2.0
functionality has been tweak somewhat with their power balancing feature and
Luke will tell you more about that after but fundamentally the technology hasn't
changed much so it's monitoring voltage temperatures power consumption and clock
speeds in order to deliver the most balanced performance at any given time
without exceeding any of those parameters now there's a difference
between how AMD views balance performance and how NVIDIA views balance
performance with this generation it runs substantially cooler and much quieter
than the r9290 series but there were some things that we didn't necessarily
like about this implementation there's very limited control in terms of
voltages and uh Power limits it gives us a whopping 100 16% power limit maximum
and even with things like temperature settings it seems to be ignoring what we
say anyway we set a maximum of 95 degrees because we were like go to town
I mean AMD set 95 degrees let's run at 95 degrees it didn't run at 95 Dees so
it just ran at 83 degrees so it doesn't even seem to it seems to be taking our
input as suggestions with that said we still achieved over 12200 MHz on the
core so that is one hell of an overclock and very beastly performance as you guys
are going to see so maybe it just runs at 83° and that's all there is to it
this could be partly due to the larger die as well as the more mature design so
a larger die allows you to inherently spread the heat out more easily using
the heat sink GeForce experience continues to get updates but first the
stuff that hasn't been changed it still gives you automatic driver update so you
get a little notification in the corner hey you got that new game hey there's a
new driver to go with it make sure you install that yay uh it also gives you
optimized settings for your games and there's actually quite a complicated
process to determine these actual people sit there and play the game find
Benchmark segments that are demanding then they determine a Target frame rate
for these demanding segments weigh Graphics settings against each other you
know play around with the sliders well does this actually make it look that much better and how hard is it for the
graphics Hardware to handle and then they find the best settings that satisfy
the FPS Target and still make it look as good as possible then they run all that
information through automated validation across thousands of Hardware
configurations in order to deliver you a playable gaming experience I've tried it
and it works um I ended up tweaking a couple things further but the great
thing about GeForce experience is that you can have it deliver better graphical
Fidelity to high-end Gamers who don't want to Tinker with things you can have
it help low-end Gamers like you can see this example with a
gt540m uh achieve playable frame rates even on low-end machines and most
importantly for people like me who are going to tweak things anyway you can install it then come completely ignore
it and do everything manually through the driver now on to the newer stuff now
these next two features do require a GTX 650 or up you have to have a Kepler GPU
with a built-in h264 encoder but man are they cool game stream is awesome I've
been using an NVIDIA Shield to play Batman Arkham City because I'm a little
bit behind on the Batman franchise um using the GTX Titan in my desktop PC and
then a very solid wireless router guys a beast wireless router is required I'm
using ASUS's AC n66u or whatever it is
but it is amazing PC grade graphics on a
handheld or with their new console mode for shield you can stream them to your
TV at 720p or 1080p with an upcoming
patch that's coming later on and when you factor in that with high-end graphics cards 77 up you can get $100
off a shield that's a $200 add-on that is essentially a PC game console adapter
thing for your TV and a handheld that can stream from your PC it's pretty
freaking awesome and then next up is Shadow play right now it supports local
recording only although Twitch streaming integrated into your graphics card
driver essentially is coming soon it records at 60 FPS at up to 1080p so it's
better than most Standalone Hardware recorders and it can just record
passively in the background so you can kind of go oh well that was awesome I
want to grab that and you can actually retroactively grab up to 20 minutes of
pre-recorded footage in Windows 8 using their passive shadowplay mode or you can
have unlimited recording in manual mode now it's not perfect it's like not
perfect yet by all means but I mean there's no opengl support so no
Minecraft guys but it has very very
small file sizes and the quality looks great and it is a negligible less than
10% performance impact so it's something that you can actually have running all
the time which is very very cool for game streamers compared to software
recording like fraps so that's it for the tech now on to Performance we ran
all of our graphics cards on our standard overclocked 3960x test bench
all video cards were overclocked as usual if you want stock benchmarks there
are a hundred other guys that do things that way so go for it go look at their
benchmarks you can see our overclocking settings in the Google Doc Link in the
video description if you have any questions about how we overclocked the
graphics cards or what frequencies they're running at we recorded frame
rates using fraps after giving each graphics card a few minutes to warm up
in game this is important because the way GPU boosts 2.0 and powertune adjust
Performance Based on temperatures it's a necessary step for getting accurate GPU
performance so without further Ado over to Luke just so you guys know the
overclocking dock is linked in the description below and has all of our settings for all of our cards and just
in case you haven't seen it yet on the far right side there's a new column that we introduced a little while ago called
core clock actual which is displaying our observed clock speeds for the cars
with GP boost 2 and all these new technologies they happen to throttle
back quite easily so what we're showing is not what we set it at what we're
showing is what it's actually performing as and our card is performing quite well
at 1256 now now that's with an offset of
plus 250 if I ignored the crashing that I was having in Tomb Raider at higher
clock speeds I was pushing easily 300 the charts have been pretty
self-explanatory thus far with the 70 TI pretty much crushing everything although
that does make sense due to its much higher price point that's something you have to keep in mind the question that
is most likely on quite a few of your minds is what happened to the Titan a
it's not in your benchmarks B it's a slower card to see it's much more
expensive well it's kind of a developer card now it's not really a gaming card
anymore it has that double Precision feature on it which is kind of awesome
for certain developers that can actually utilize it and other than that it's just
kind of sitting up there by itself if you're looking for an extremely high-end
gaming card and you were looking at the Titan I would maybe divert your focus to
the 780ti you may need that 6 gigs of RAM I have noticed in some of our higher
resolution benchmarks that it is starting to utilize a lot of the RAM and
getting fairly close to its Max although not that close mind you so one thing to
do if you need that extra RAM might be wait a little while and see if there's
different versions of the 780 Ti coming out later we have no idea but I hope
there is because that would be very interesting I'm sure a debate that will
go on is is this card overkill for 1080p
I would not say quite yet in Far Cry 3 and Crisis 3 with all the settings Max
we don't get our average FPS over 60 and I would personally think that the
perfect 1080p experience would be 60 FPS plus and with starson on the horizon we
don't know what's going to happen there but it's probably going to push it even
harder so I could still see this card being justified for 1080p but I might
want to go a little bit higher and where this card really shows its prowess is in
the higher resolutions our 2560 x600
benchmarks were very impressive although again in Crisis 3 we saw a little bit
sub30 for our average SPS so I would
love to see two of these cards in s start crushing games in those higher
resolutions this card is kicking butt and taking names but it definitely comes
with a price tag in the comments below are you be looking for a card like this
with a premium price tag but with that level of experience or are you going to
go for something more like say an r9290
where you can save a bunch of money and it's a little bit hot and heavy but
you're still getting a lot of performance out of it what do you guys think if you like this video like the
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