The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Review
by Ryan Smith on November 7, 2013 9:01 AM ESTGRID 2
The final game in our benchmark suite is also our racing entry, Codemasters’ GRID 2. Codemasters continues to set the bar for graphical fidelity in racing games, and with GRID 2 they’ve gone back to racing on the pavement, bringing to life cities and highways alike. Based on their in-house EGO engine, GRID 2 includes a DirectCompute based advanced lighting system in its highest quality settings, which incurs a significant performance penalty but does a good job of emulating more realistic lighting within the game world.
When it comes to GRID even cranking up the game’s quality settings to maximum hardly does anything to slow down our cards. At 90fps the GTX 780 Ti once again takes the top spot while delivering an extremely high framerate. This ultimately puts the GTX 780 Ti ahead of the 290X by 13%, while also beating the other GK110 cards by a bit more than average at 11% for GTX Titan and 23% for GTX 780.
Otherwise, moving on to 4K and multi-GPU setups, NVIDIA’s limited scaling once more becomes an issue. At 50fps for a single GTX 780 Ti NVIDIA starts off well enough, but we still need a second GPU to get above 60fps. And though GTX 780 Ti SLI will get us there, 290X CF and AMD’s superior scaling will get AMD there with room to spare.
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A5 - Thursday, November 7, 2013 - link
BF4 has a built-in benchmark too, but I have no idea how good it is. I'd guess they're waiting on a patch?If nothing else, there will be BF4 results if/when that Mantle update comes out.
IanCutress - Thursday, November 7, 2013 - link
BF4 has a built in benchmark tool? I can't find any reference to one.Ryan Smith - Thursday, November 7, 2013 - link
BF3 will ultimately get replaced with BF4 later this month. For the moment with all of the launches in the past few weeks, we haven't yet had the time to sit down and validate BF4, let alone collect all of the necessary data.1Angelreloaded - Thursday, November 7, 2013 - link
Hell man people run FEAR still as a benchmark because of how brutal it is against GPU/CPU/HDD.Bakes - Thursday, November 7, 2013 - link
I think it's better to wait until driver performance stabilizes for new applications before basing benchmarks on them. If you don't then early benchmark numbers become useless for comparison sake.TheJian - Thursday, November 7, 2013 - link
I would argue warhead needs to go. Servers for that game have been EMPTY for ages and ZERO people play it. You can ask to add BF4, but to remove BF3 given warhead is included (while claiming bf3 old) is ridiculous. How old is Warhead? 7-8 years? People still play BF3. A LOT of people. I would argue they need to start benchmarking based on game sales.Starcraft2, Diablo3, World of Warcraft Pandaria, COD Black ops 2, SplinterCell Blacklist, Assassins Creed 3 etc etc... IE, black ops 2 has over 5x the sales of Hitman Absolution. Which one should you be benchmarking?
Warhead...OLD.
Grid 2 .03 total sales for PC says vgchartz
StarCraft 2 5.2.mil units (just PC).
Which do you think should be benchmarked?
Even Crysis 3 only has .27mil units says vgchartz.
Diablo 3? ROFL...3.18mil for PC. So again, 11.5x Crysis 3.
Why are we not benchmarking games that are being sold in the MILLIONS of units?
WOW still has 7 million people playing and it can slow down a lot with tons of people doing raids etc.
TheinsanegamerN - Friday, November 8, 2013 - link
because any halfway decent machine can run WoW? they use the most demanding games to show how powerful the gpu really is. 5760x1080p with 4xMSAA gets 69 FPS with the 780ti.why benchmark hitman over black ops? simple, it is not what we call demanding.
they use demanding games. not the super popular games thatll run on hardware from 3 years ago.
powerarmour - Thursday, November 7, 2013 - link
Well, that time on the throne for the 290X lasted about as long as Ned Stark...Da W - Thursday, November 7, 2013 - link
I look at 4K gaming since i play in 3X1 eyefinity (being +/- 3.5K gaming).At these resolution i see an average of 1FPS lead for 780Ti over 290X. For 200$ more.
Power consumption is about the same.
And as far as temperature go, it's temperature AT THE CHIP level. Both cards will heat your room equally if they consume as much power.
The debate is really about the cooler, and Nvidia got an outright lead as far as cooling goes.
JDG1980 - Thursday, November 7, 2013 - link
It seems to me that both Nvidia and AMD are charging too much of a price premium for their top-end cards. The GTX 780 Ti isn't worth $200 more than the standard GTX 780, and the R9 290X isn't worth $150 more than the standard R9 290.For gamers who want a high-end product but don't want to unnecessarily waste money, it seems like the real competition is between the R9 290 ($399) and the GTX 780 ($499). At the moment the R9 290 has noise issues, but once non-reference cards become available (supposedly by the end of this month), AMD should hold a comfortable lead. That said, the Titan Cooler is indeed a really nice piece of industrial design, and I can see someone willing to pay a bit extra for it.