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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1Angelreloaded - Saturday, November 16, 2013 - link
False I Hit the 3.5 Gb limit quite a few times due to it being a 32 bit game, now if they are 64bit games then yes they will use more than 3GB for textures and draw distance , but meh you know what your talking about.......right.ahlan - Friday, November 8, 2013 - link
Damage control Nvidia fanboy! Nvidia fanboys are delusional as MS and Apple fanboys...Keep paying more for the same performance...
dylan522p - Thursday, November 7, 2013 - link
Not at all. In quiet more. It runs hotter, is louder 95% of the time and is using more power.dylan522p - Thursday, November 7, 2013 - link
And performs significantly worse.DMCalloway - Thursday, November 7, 2013 - link
Definition of upsetting: Early gtx 780 adopters now able to purchase a 'true' gtx 780 at the same price point previous gtx 780's were at launch. Nvidia sat back, took everyone's cash, and now to remain competitive finally release a fully enabled chip..... wowSpunjji - Thursday, November 7, 2013 - link
I think early adopters on both sides got dicked here. The R9 290 makes everything else look like a joke in terms of pricing, for all its manifest flaws.dylan522p - Thursday, November 7, 2013 - link
I would rather not have the 480v2, in my machine.Yojimbo - Thursday, November 7, 2013 - link
And next year they'll release something even faster at the same price point. You can't have both increasing performance/price over time and also not have your new hardware become a comparatively bad deal in the future. People who bought the GTX 780 when it came out got 5 to 6 months of use of the card in exchange for a card which is now ~15% slower than what's available at the same price point.ShieTar - Friday, November 8, 2013 - link
In other words: Nvidia did what absolutely every other CPU & GPU provider has also done over the last 30 years? Wow indeed.Everybody wants to bring the most profitable product possible to the market. That means, you need to be good enough to interest customers and cheap enough to be affordable. And you don't get better or cheaper, unless something changes the market, e.g. competition.
extide - Thursday, November 7, 2013 - link
You stated the 290x is "unable to compete with an older architecture." That is false. LOL