The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Review
by Ryan Smith on November 7, 2013 9:01 AM ESTHitman: Absolution
The second-to-last game in our lineup is Hitman: Absolution. The latest game in Square Enix’s stealth-action series, Hitman: Absolution is a DirectX 11 based title that though a bit heavy on the CPU, can give most GPUs a run for their money. Furthermore it has a built-in benchmark, which gives it a level of standardization that fewer and fewer benchmarks possess.
On a competitive basis Hitman: Absolution ends up being the second and last title where the GTX 780 Ti just doesn’t have enough performance to overcome AMD’s lead. Compared to where we were 2 weeks ago the GTX 780 Ti significantly cuts into the 290X’s lead, but in the end it’ll come up 3% behind. Though as with Bioshock we’re admittedly looking at another scenario where everyone is already past 60fps, so the absolute performance difference is somewhat academic.
As for our multi-GPU setups at 4K the story is much the same. Both 290X CF and GTX 780 Ti SLI get above 60fps, but it’s 290X CF that takes the top spot.
Looking briefly at our minimum framerates, as we’re approaching a CPU limited scenario we have a mix of results. Despite losing on averages, the GTX 780 Ti wins on minimums by 2fps, bottoming out at 64fps and making it the first GK110 card to offer a minimum over 60fps. On the other hand if we scale up to 4K and multi-GPU setups, the GTX 780 Ti SLI will clearly come up short versus the 290X CF, with the latter being the only setup to break 60fps there.
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IUU - Saturday, November 9, 2013 - link
So, the high end of video cards can run shamelessly all the "high" end titles at 2560x1440. What are the game developers doing? So much computing power being wasted for viewing our games at nonsensical resolutions? There's still room for improvement of the game visuals, why don't they take advantage of the cards' muscle?I may be eccentric, but for some peculiar reason, I don't get excited by playing pacman and supermario at ultra hd.
Vortac - Saturday, November 9, 2013 - link
Folding@home double precision benchmark results are somewhat strange to me. How can a 780 Ti card (with FP64=1/24 FP32) beat a 7970 aka 280X (with FP64=1/4 FP32)?abhishek_takin - Sunday, November 10, 2013 - link
780ti is great card in terms of performance. But 700$ is too much to ask. As a gamer Max FPS is not everything. It should smooth and fast with Ultra / High details. I have 7970GHZ crossfire with 27 inch Dell dual monitor setup. My pc smokes all the latest game in the market. And ask me how much i paid 640$ and bunch of free games. I know the problem of crossfire but its not that huge for which one should opt for a single card for 700$.I am not a fanboy of Nvidia or AMD. If the card's price would be under 550$ then everyone would be saying that.... its the best card ever made. Only because of its big price tag lots of people are voting for 290X, 290 and 780(normal) which is very much fair.
nsiboro - Sunday, November 10, 2013 - link
780ti burnthttp://www.chiphell.com/thread-897838-2-2.html
NV issue stop sale
http://www.chiphell.com/thread-897383-11-1.html
What's happening?
Can someone confirm this?
polaco - Sunday, November 10, 2013 - link
who on earth will be able to confirm a post on a page written in chineese?nsiboro - Sunday, November 10, 2013 - link
Yer right.How about in English.
http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/74131-chiphell...
nsiboro - Monday, November 11, 2013 - link
Could be a hoax. The posted image of the burnt PCI-E connector doesn't look like a 780ti.nsiboro - Monday, November 11, 2013 - link
It's confirmed to affect Galaxy branded GTX-780ti.http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&...
UPDATE: It is reported GALAXY official has released a formal announcement, said 2013 sales between 11.7-11.10 GTX 780 Ti existence of quality defects, serial number 13B0020705-13B0020759 a total of 55 cards between the user can call the official customer service phone 400-700 -3933 for a free replacement.
Skr13 - Sunday, November 10, 2013 - link
Please fix typo at the Company of Heroes 2 page: http://postimg.org/image/u96hy7skf/62e3b91a/DPOverLord - Monday, November 11, 2013 - link
What about on Surround monitors, the main draw for the Titan was that it has 6GB of Ram.