NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Review: The New High End
by Ryan Smith on May 23, 2013 9:00 AM ESTSleeping Dogs
Another Square Enix game, Sleeping Dogs is one of the few open world games to be released with any kind of benchmark, giving us a unique opportunity to benchmark an open world game. Like most console ports, Sleeping Dogs’ base assets are not extremely demanding, but it makes up for it with its interesting anti-aliasing implementation, a mix of FXAA and SSAA that at its highest settings does an impeccable job of removing jaggies. However by effectively rendering the game world multiple times over, it can also require a very powerful video card to drive these high AA modes.
Sleeping Dogs is another game where the 780 fills out a gap, but falls closer to the 7970GE than NVIDIA would like to see. At 64.4fps it’s fast enough to crash past 60fps at 2560 with high AA, but this means it’s narrower win for the GTX 780, beating the GTX 680 by 23% but the 7970GE by just 7%. Meanwhile the GTX 780 trails the GTX Titan by 12%.
The minimum framerates, though not bad on their own, do not do the GTX 780 any favors here, and we see the GTX 780 fall behind the 7970GE here by over 10%. Interestingly this is just about an all-around worst case scenario for the GTX 780, which has the GTX 780 trailing the GTX Titan by almost the full 15% theoretical shader/texture performance gap, and the lead over the GTX 680 is only 10%. Sleeping Dogs use of SSAA in higher anti-aliasing modes is very hard on the shaders, and this is a prime example of what GTX 780’s weak spot is going to be relative to GTX Titan.
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formulav8 - Friday, May 24, 2013 - link
AMD is competing just fine unless I looked over something? It seems this card and price wouldn't have AMD worried.i_max2k2 - Thursday, May 23, 2013 - link
This is a big request, but could we please, please add GTX 580 SLI results in there too. I have that setup and I feel, its more then enough for something like a Full HD to 2560x1600 resolution monitor, for most recent games.gonks - Thursday, May 23, 2013 - link
What about bitcoin mining? it's the same as the GTX TITAN?Daeros - Thursday, May 23, 2013 - link
"...of a casted aluminum..."Seriously?! Casted? That made it through proof and spell-check and anyone over the age of six?
Ryan Smith - Thursday, May 23, 2013 - link
Noted and fixed. Thank you. And I'd note at 5am in the morning, a six year old is about where my mental capacity is at...Daeros - Thursday, May 23, 2013 - link
and I may have been a bit harsh, apologiesjust4U - Friday, May 24, 2013 - link
I understood what he meant... and sadly I am not sure why it's a spelling mistake.. (without checking haha..) Im 44! but I do lack grammer skills.Ryan Smith - Friday, May 24, 2013 - link
Nah, there's no need to apologize. You were spot-on.Nfarce - Thursday, May 23, 2013 - link
Okay so when are 680 prices going to drop so I can get a second one for my new 2560x1440 monitor?Airjarhead - Thursday, May 23, 2013 - link
When is the Gigabyte Windforce coming out? I can't find it on Newegg, TD, or Amazon.BTW, I was at work when the 780 hit the stores, so I probably missed it, but did Amazon have any 780's in stock? By the time I looked they said they were out of stock of every brand. Newegg still has reference boards available, but I want the Windforce or ACX cooler.