GeForce GTX 780

[Zac007]

IGN Article - Nvidia Debuts GeForce GTX 780, New Gameplay Recording Tool http://m.au.ign.com/articles/2013/05/23/nvidia-debuts-geforce-gtx-780-new-gameplay-recording-tool

This is going to be amazing

 

[Phoenix]

Looks pretty cool, and probably will do the job, but still a bit expensive, and im not a big fan of just a single fan on the graphics card.


But who am I to judge, i've only ordered a Rog 2.

 

[Grayfox]

I have a EVGA GTX680SC and I hate the nvidia reference cooler.

 

[Bram Turismo]

I'm waiting eagerly to see the release of the GTX 760Ti. Based on the price of that card when it arrives, I'm either going for a GTX 760Ti, or see how much the GTX 670 and GTX 680 drop in price and perhaps go for a 680 instead. Still have a GTX 660Ti on my wishlist over at Amazon, but I just might wait until the GTX 760Ti is unveiled before I make a final decision on a card.

 

[sesselpupser]

As I posted in the other thread on this subject:

This doesn't seem worth a new thread, but:

Week In Tech: Nvidia's 'New' Graphics Cards - Rock Paper Shotgun

- The GTX 780 will be based on the Titan (i.e. it uses a GK110 instead of the 680's GK104). It should cost around £400 and it'll have 2,496 shaders instead of 2,688, 208 texture units insteads of 244, 40 render outputs instead of 48 and all that.

- The GTX 770 will be a rebadged GTX 680 at around £300.

- The GTX 760Ti will be a rebadged GTX 670 at around £200.

- Should be launching at the end of May.


So I'm wondering if I'll be able to SLI a 680 with a 770, or maybe I'll swap my 680 for two 760Tis?


Unfortunately, it sounds like AMD will be digging in and the 8000 series will be system builder-only, and rebadges of the 7000 series to boot. So basically there's no upgrades this year, since very few people will go for the 780. Even though it has twice the transistors, most of the difference between the 680 and 780 will benefit graphics work more than gaming because it's mostly General Purpose GPU stuff.

So the GTX 770 is a GTX 680 at 670 prices, the 760Ti is a 670 at 660Ti prices. I have a 680 now so I'm hoping it'll be SLI compatible with the 770!

 

[Joel]

I just bought a 670 FTW but I'll be well within EVGA's step up program (trade in your card, pay shipping and the difference in price to a new card within 90 days of purchase). Might trade up to the 770, the 780 is too expensive for me.

 

[Crash]

Funny how the name is kind of now reversed. I'm still running a Geforce 7800 GTX in my desktop.

 

[RX-7_FD3S]

Tom's Hardware did a test on the 780, result are pretty close to a titan. So I guess this might be my next card. I'm not sure yet on what to do, sell my 670 and buy a 780 or buy a 2nd 670. Which would cost me approximately the same.

Guess time will tell. I dont want any 1st generation card tho. I'm waiting for better cooling system than the generic one.

Here's the link for the review if some of you are interested

 

[12thgear]

Well I decided to take the plunge. I've got a 560 ti right now. I've been intrigued by the 670 but decided to keep saving my pennies. I just ordered an EVGA GTX 780 SC ACX earlier today. I know it's hardly the best value (7970GE still holds that crown), but I'm really impressed at the jump in performance I'll gain and I can at least sort of rationalize the price. It looks like a no compromise 1080p card and will also handle my triple monitor/single GPU racing dreams down the line. Can't wait.

 

[Grayfox]

I'll just upgrade my 680SC with a water cooling block and OC it a bit.

And that will do me.

 

[dice1998]

I just ordered an EVGA GTX 780 SC ACX earlier today.

Do a review!

I hate the nvidia reference cooler.

Why?

 

[dan0543]

looking forward to a 760ti myself, looks pretty similar to what the 770 is rumored to be but with a few less cuda cores. hopefully will have the same amount of memory and bus as the 770 (2gb gddr5, 256 bit bus) which would make it a really good price to performance ratio if it really has the rrp of $300. Of course all i've just said is rumors...

 

[Nasadus]

Tom's Hardware did a test on the 780, result are pretty close to a titan. So I guess this might be my next card. I'm not sure yet on what to do, sell my 670 and buy a 780 or buy a 2nd 670. Which would cost me approximately the same.

Guess time will tell. I dont want any 1st generation card tho. I'm waiting for better cooling system than the generic one.

Here's the link for the review if some of you are interested

I'm in exactly the same position as you. I've got a GTX670 2GB and i game at 1080p and am not considering going up in resolution for a while so my thinking is a second 670 would be a better choice seeing as at 1080p the memory requirements don't exceed the 2GB mark most of the time.

But then you have to consider the arrival of next-gen consoles and the games that accompany them which will push the memory requirements way up. So, i don't know really.

A single GTX670 can still hold it's own in todays games at 1080p and at full settings with AA (some exceptions exsist) so in that sense i can wait a couple of months and see what follows after the GTX780. But if you game at a higher resolution then you are better off going with a GTX780 if you'd like your games to run at smooth fps.

 

[12thgear]

Do a review!

Sure, though it probably won't be the most exhaustive. Plenty of sites have already reviewed it quite well. I'll be happy to give impressions before and after, coming specifically from a GTX 560 ti. Honestly, my 560 ti is still great, but every once in a while you just get that craving to go big, you know?

 

[Grayfox]

Do a review!

Why?

Scroll fans are just crap when it comes to air movement compared to the case fan type for airflow to noise ratio.

 

[djinline]

I'm still running a Geforce 7800 GTX in my desktop.

I'm still running a GTS 250 1GB with this beauty attached to it. 👍

I have no idea when I'm going to upgrade my GPU. I might as well keep using it until it doesn't want to co-operate anymore and then have a look at the latest stuff.

 

[dice1998]

Scroll fans are just crap when it comes to air movement compared to the case fan type for airflow to noise ratio.

What was the last refrence design Geforce that you owned? My 670 pushes quite a lot of air. Granted, it's noisy but that's because of the fan profile I set up for it since I don't mind the noise.

 

[Joel]

What was the last refrence design Geforce that you owned? My 670 pushes quite a lot of air. Granted, it's noisy but that's because of the fan profile I set up for it since I don't mind the noise.

Same experience here (although my 670 has the reference 680's fan and PCB). On the default fan curve I was hitting about 75-76C playing Metro 2033, at 55% fan speed which is really pretty quiet. I now have a fan profile set that keeps the card at 69C, at 65-66% fan speed. At 70C or above the card throttles back the boost clock, and I wear headphones when I'm gaming anyway so noise isn't a huge concern.

 

[LaBounti]

Only interested in a card in the $400 range. None of the silly $500+ stuff... 770?

 

[Grayfox]

What was the last refrence design Geforce that you owned? My 670 pushes quite a lot of air. Granted, it's noisy but that's because of the fan profile I set up for it since I don't mind the noise.

EVGA GTX680SC

This kind of thing is much better and much quieter

 

[12thgear]

This kind of thing is much better and much quieter...

I haven't directly compared a like-for-like 600 series reference card vs a third party card, but I thought the Titan and GTX 780 reference coolers were supposed to be pretty good. And I think they could do a better job of exhausting hot air out the back vs dissipating it into the rest of a system. That said, I went with the EVGA ACX cooler, as I know that something like that would work best in my machine. I have an exhaust fan on the top of my case due to my funky motherboard layout and that keeps GPU temperatures and fan speeds very low, resulting in lower noise overall.

 

[sesselpupser]

looking forward to a 760ti myself, looks pretty similar to what the 770 is rumored to be but with a few less cuda cores. hopefully will have the same amount of memory and bus as the 770 (2gb gddr5, 256 bit bus) which would make it a really good price to performance ratio if it really has the rrp of $300. Of course all i've just said is rumors...

Look at the 670 and 680, they are exactly what the 760Ti and 770 are going to be.

 

[dice1998]

EVGA GTX680SC

Good, so you should know that refrence design fans do indeed push a lot of air and are not crap. They're also as noisy as you allow it via fan profile settings. So for you to call its "scroll fan" crap, well..

Why?


The 700 series looks like it drastically improved on the reference design too. I wish I had a Titan to see what kind of improvements were had over the 600 series reference card...

 

[Bram Turismo]

Look at the 670 and 680, they are exactly what the 760Ti and 770 are going to be.

So what you're saying is that the GTX 780 is the only actual "new" card that is coming, and that one might as well go for a GTX 670 or 680 instead if they become cheaper?

I was planning a 660Ti for my build, but if the prices of the 670 and 680 drop, and they perform just as well as the 7-series cards, I might as well go for a 670 or even 680 instead of a 660Ti.

Of course I have no idea what kind of price drops would occus on the 6-series cards, if any at all.

 

[sesselpupser]

It's not likely the 680 and 670 will drop to what the 760Ti and 770 will cost, but yeah, the 780 is the only actually new card, everything else is shuffling down the line (and will most likely be priced accordingly). I'm hoping we'll be able to SLI a 680 with a 770, if not I guess I'll wait for the 780 to drop a bit.

 

[dan0543]

It's not likely the 680 and 670 will drop to what the 760Ti and 770 will cost, but yeah, the 780 is the only actually new card, everything else is shuffling down the line (and will most likely be priced accordingly). I'm hoping we'll be able to SLI a 680 with a 770, if not I guess I'll wait for the 780 to drop a bit.

good point, the only thing that would really tempt me to a 760ti over a 670 is the reference cooler. If it has the similar cooler to the titan and maybe gpu boost 2.0, it could end up hitting higher levels of performance for the price.

 

[Grayfox]

Good, so you should know that refrence design fans do indeed push a lot of air and are not crap. They're also as noisy as you allow it via fan profile settings. So for you to call its "scroll fan" crap, well.

I know that my card runs hot when in game, just wished they'd use some other kind of cooling like one of these as these fans move more air, and run much more quite for at the air flow rate.

 

[sesselpupser]

I have a Twin Frozr III on my factory OC 680 and I've never seen it go any higher than 70C, so that's nice. That's in a FD Define R3 as well, the soundproofing of which retains (probably negligible, possibly not) heat. It's also practically silent until it reaches 70C too.

 

[dice1998]

I know that my card runs hot when in game, just wished they'd use some other kind of cooling like one of these as these fans move more air, and run much more quite for at the air flow rate.

I don't. I don't want hot air blowing back into my case thus raising overall temperature inside. I don't want to be forced to buy a closed loop liquid cooler because NVIDIA decided "hey, let's do an open air designed reference card instead!"

I like it how it is. The refrence design is perfect for me. The aftermarket cooler, although lets the GPU run cooler, isn't what I want.

 

[12thgear]

That's sort of what I was alluding to in my most recent post. Keeping hot air out of the case vs keeping the GPU as cool as possible. The current Nvidia reference design goes for the former, while still keeping GPU temps within spec. Some of us have different wants, or different cooling needs depending on our enclosures and how we've configured our airflow. I know in my system I'm better off with the GPU cooling that Grayfox prefers. Even so, I was tempted by the reference board, because that metal shroud is pure sex. But I don't like side panel windows, so the aesthetic would have been completely wasted.