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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EJS1980 - Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - link
If by on par you mean wayyyyyyy better, than yeah.PatriciaBau42 - Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - link
upto I saw the paycheck four $8176, I be certain that my father in law had been realey bringing home money part-time at their computer.. there uncles cousin has been doing this 4 only 22 months and resently cleard the mortgage on their villa and bourt a gorgeous Citroλn 2CV. this is where I went, Exit35.comCHECK IT OUTAn00bis - Friday, May 31, 2013 - link
I really appreciate that the guy who made this article showed us the texel and pixel fill rate in the synthetic benchmarks part of the review, instead of doing what me, and apparently inexperienced guy that isn't hired by one of the biggest tech reviewing websites on the internet and clearly lacks knowledge in this field, would do, which is, INCLUDE RESULTS MADE WITH 3DMARK11 IN PERFORMANCE PRESET (please don't include scores made in extreme preset, not everyone pays like 1000$ to get a license for a benchmark program, have some common sense) or in another popular benchmarking program, like Heaven, or maybe include the normal score for 3dmark vantage (even though nobody uses that anymore, even gpus from the amd 5XXX and nvidia 4XX series had support for dx11).I don't want to be rude, you're supposed to do your job, but when a stranger with no experience can do it better at least have the decency of actually caring about what to do, you do get paid for doing this, right?
yeeeeman - Sunday, June 9, 2013 - link
Get a HD7970 and spend those 200$(650-450) on a vacation...Mithan - Friday, June 14, 2013 - link
Finally, a worthy upgrade for my GTX580.Unfortunately, it is priced too much.
If it was $500, I would probably order one now and be happy for the next 3 years or so, but I will wait for Maxwell.