NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Review: The New High End
by Ryan Smith on May 23, 2013 9:00 AM ESTCrysis: Warhead
Up next is our legacy title for 2013, Crysis: Warhead. The stand-alone expansion to 2007’s Crysis, at over 4 years old Crysis: Warhead can still beat most systems down. Crysis was intended to be future-looking as far as performance and visual quality goes, and it has clearly achieved that. We’ve only finally reached the point where single-GPU cards have come out that can hit 60fps at 1920 with 4xAA.
Thankfully for NVIDA, Crysis: Warhead is the last of the games where we see the GTX 780 struggle to get well ahead of the 7970GE. Once more the performance advantage is just 8% over AMD’s best single-GPU card at 2560, with both cards hitting the mid-40s for frames per second. On the other hand Crysis benefits greatly from the extra memory bandwidth and ROPs of GTX 780 compared to the GTX 680, leading to a 37% performance gap in favor of the GTX 780. Finally, the GTX 780 once more trails the GTX Titan by about 11%.
When it comes to minimum framerates things actually improve a bit for the GTX 780. Against the 7970GE it retains its 8% lead, but versus the GTX 680 it’s now a sizable 47% lead.
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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.