NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Review: The New High End
by Ryan Smith on May 23, 2013 9:00 AM ESTBattlefield 3
Our final action game of our benchmark suite is Battlefield 3, DICE’s 2011 multiplayer military shooter. Its ability to pose a significant challenge to GPUs has been dulled some by time and drivers, but it’s still a challenge if you want to hit the highest settings at the highest resolutions at the highest anti-aliasing levels. Furthermore while we can crack 60fps in single player mode, our rule of thumb here is that multiplayer framerates will dip to half our single player framerates, so hitting high framerates here may not be high enough.
Battlefield 3 is another game that NVIDIA traditionally does well in, despite the fact that both sides have wrung out some rather impressive performance increases over the last year. At 2560 the GTX 780 enjoys a 33% lead over the 7970GE, a 27% lead over the GTX 680, and a massive 85% lead over the GTX 580. Furthermore this is fast enough to get it past 60fps at 2560, which means our minimum framerates should dip no lower than the mid-30s even in the most hectic multiplayer maps.
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Stuka87 - Thursday, May 23, 2013 - link
Not for the 780 they don't. There are some cards that have Duke Nukem Forever (lol) and some that have Metro: Last Light. But nothing like what AMD offers.chizow - Thursday, May 23, 2013 - link
Metro was not listed when I checked today, EVGA in the past has done their customers right by sending them codes, but not always, depends how tightly Nvidia controls the promotion.jonjonjonj - Thursday, May 23, 2013 - link
i want free games. wah wah wah. screw free games. i would rather a cheaper more competitively price card then get some game i don't even want.Homeles - Thursday, May 23, 2013 - link
I really like the "Delta Performances" method of comparing the smoothness between each card.hero1 - Thursday, May 23, 2013 - link
This is one awesome card. I really don't think that AMD can compete with Nvidia atm but I would like to see what they have to offer. I want this card but I will be buying the custom cooled ones due to better cooling. Thanks for an awesome review, I have been waiting patiently, not!formulav8 - Friday, May 24, 2013 - link
I haven't seen anything even close to dire for AMD that they should all that worried about. Unless I missed something?mayankleoboy1 - Thursday, May 23, 2013 - link
$649 ?Move along, nothing to do here.
EzioAs - Thursday, May 23, 2013 - link
That was my original plan, but I ended up reading the article. Ahh, curiosity...Spoelie - Thursday, May 23, 2013 - link
The paragraph on SMXs and GPCs is confusing without the information available from the original Titan piece. One has to remember or infer that Titan already had an SMX disabled, and that in fact GK110 has 15 SMXs built in. This conclusion is also non-obvious because the text before discussed there were no disabled functional units in *most* product tiers.Otherwise the reduction from 14 SMXs to 12 SMXs would imply 2 disabled clusters, not 3.
chaosbloodterfly - Thursday, May 23, 2013 - link
Waiting to see what AMD has for the 8970. Hopefully they don't do what nVidia did for the 680 and release something with barely better performance with almost zero pricing pressure 6 months later.I want something worth liquid cooling damn it!