NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Review: The New High End
by Ryan Smith on May 23, 2013 9:00 AM ESTFar Cry 3
The next game in our benchmark suite is Far Cry 3, Ubisoft’s island-jungle action game. A lot like our other jungle game Crysis, Far Cry 3 can be quite tough on GPUs, especially with MSAA and improved alpha-to-coverage checking thrown into the mix. On the other hand it’s still a bit of a pig on the CPU side, and seemingly inexplicably we’ve found that it doesn’t play well with HyperThreading on our testbed, making this the only game we’ve ever had to disable HT for to maximize our framerates.
Moving on to the back-half of our games, we’re starting to hit the games that traditionally favor NVIDIA’s architectures over AMD’s. Case in point, the GTX 780 has a very solid 23% lead over the 7970GE. Meanwhile the Titan gap is once more around 10%, and this is another Title where the GTX 780 does particularly well relative to the GTX 580, clearing the last generation frontrunner by 77%. Far Cry 3 ends up being an excellent example of where the GTX 780 becomes a filler card; it cleanly fills the gap between the GTX 680 and GTX Titan.
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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!