GRID 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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  • 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 burnt
    http://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.

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