NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Review: The New High End
by Ryan Smith on May 23, 2013 9:00 AM ESTCivilization V
Our other strategy game, Civilization V, gives us an interesting look at things that other RTSes cannot match, with a much weaker focus on shading in the game world and a much greater focus on creating the geometry needed to bring such a world to life. In doing so it uses a slew of DirectX 11 technologies, including tessellation for said geometry, driver command lists for reducing CPU overhead, and compute shaders for on-the-fly texture decompression.
Civilization V is another game that not only tends to favor NVIDIA video cards, but strongly favors GK110 cards in particular. As a result the lead over the 7970GE is an incredible 47%, and the lead over the GTX 680 is right next to it at 46%. Though admittedly we’ve reached a point where the difference is almost academic, since even a GTX 680 can hit 60fps at 2560.
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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.