NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Review: The New High End
by Ryan Smith on May 23, 2013 9:00 AM ESTFar Cry 3
The next game in our benchmark suite is Far Cry 3, Ubisoft’s island-jungle action game. A lot like our other jungle game Crysis, Far Cry 3 can be quite tough on GPUs, especially with MSAA and improved alpha-to-coverage checking thrown into the mix. On the other hand it’s still a bit of a pig on the CPU side, and seemingly inexplicably we’ve found that it doesn’t play well with HyperThreading on our testbed, making this the only game we’ve ever had to disable HT for to maximize our framerates.
Moving on to the back-half of our games, we’re starting to hit the games that traditionally favor NVIDIA’s architectures over AMD’s. Case in point, the GTX 780 has a very solid 23% lead over the 7970GE. Meanwhile the Titan gap is once more around 10%, and this is another Title where the GTX 780 does particularly well relative to the GTX 580, clearing the last generation frontrunner by 77%. Far Cry 3 ends up being an excellent example of where the GTX 780 becomes a filler card; it cleanly fills the gap between the GTX 680 and GTX Titan.
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Finally - Thursday, May 23, 2013 - link
The GTX770 is a GTX680 with a different BIOS.Degong330 - Thursday, May 23, 2013 - link
Amused to see blind fanboy comments=PaulRod - Friday, May 24, 2013 - link
Well it is... slightly tweaked core, new bios, slightly improved performance... only worth buying if you're still on a 500/6000 series card or older.YukaKun - Friday, May 24, 2013 - link
Actually, it is true... At least, for the curent PCB GTX680'sCheers!
Ninjawithagun - Monday, May 27, 2013 - link
No, Finally is correct - the GTX 770 really is a GTX680 with a different BIOS! Unfortunately, there is no way to flash an existing GTX680 to a GTX770, in spite of early reports that such a capability existed. It was found out that in fact, the BIOS that was used to flash a GTX680 to a GTX770 was in fact a fake. The BIOS was a modified GTX680 BIOS made to look as if it were a GTX770 BIOS. Confused yet? lol The bottom line is that the only difference between a GTX680 and GTX770 is the clock speeds. The GTX770 comes in at around 11-12% faster clock speeds and as such is about that much faster in frame rate rendering in games. So if you already own one or more GTX680s, it is definitely NOT worth upgrading to a GTX770!An00bis - Friday, May 31, 2013 - link
this reminds me of the 7870, differences of under 10%, about 5% clock to clock compared to a 7850 that can OC the same, and people still buy it even though it's like $50 or more expensive than a 7850, just because it comes with a 1ghz OC, compared to a 7850 that only comes at about 800mhz stock.DanNeely - Thursday, May 23, 2013 - link
The 770 is using a revised version of the chip. While we're unlikely to see a large improvement it should run slightly faster for the same TDP.Hrel - Friday, May 24, 2013 - link
500Machelios - Thursday, May 23, 2013 - link
Better value than Titan, but still very niche...I'd like to see what Nvidia and AMD can bring at $250 in their next gen cards
AssBall - Thursday, May 23, 2013 - link
Agreed. A good video card should cost about as much as a good CPU, or a good MB.