The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Review
by Ryan Smith on November 7, 2013 9:01 AM ESTCrysis 3
Still one of our most punishing benchmarks, Crysis 3 needs no introduction. With Crysis 3, Crytek has gone back to trying to kill computers and still holds “most punishing shooter” title in our benchmark suite. Only in a handful of setups can we even run Crysis 3 at its highest (Very High) settings, and that’s still without AA. Crysis 1 was an excellent template for the kind of performance required to drive games for the next few years, and Crysis 3 looks to be much the same for 2013.
Crysis 3 is another strong title for NVIDIA, leading to GTX 780 Ti easily taking the top spot at 2560 for single-GPU setups. At 62.4fps it’s the first and only card fast enough to deliver better than 60fps despite Crysis 3’s punishing rendering workload, and in the process outperforms the 290X by about 20%. Even 7990, the closest thing to single-card competition for the GTX 780 Ti, is still only less than 2fps ahead.
Meanwhile throwing on another GTX 780 Ti will further improve performance here, though with shaky results for NVIDIA. At 2560 this is enough to crack 100fps, but at a 4K NVIDIA’s SLI scaling starts coming up short. The difference in scaling becomes so great that the 290X closes the gap and then some, leading to the 290X CF taking the lead. Given the fact that the GTX 780 Ti SLI is largely overkill for anything but these high resolutions, this weaker scaling undercuts the practicality of going with a GTX 780’s Ti SLI in these situations.
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TheJian - Thursday, November 7, 2013 - link
Not sure you're correct. If NV set 780TI at 95 degrees default how fast would it be going out of the box? 1200mhz-1300mhz (that's 30% free!) judging by Ocing with stock fans already as I noted in the previous post with all the site links and it never goes above 83 doing it. They overclock them and don't hit uber noise. So you can get all the perf from overclocking and SMASH the 290/290x but still be more quiet. I don't call that keeping up. AMD put out a good card, but it has lots of issues (heat/noise and blown away by stock overclocks from NV that won't drive you crazy with noise).From the highest clock I saw so far (1304 at overclockers):
"On the GTX 780 Ti with the fan spinning at 100% locked in a chassis its not bad and will not wake your "neighbors" compared too the R9 290X."
So even at 100% nothing like 290x. :) I call that not competing too ;) How crappy is your fan/heatsink combo if you can't compare to a guy running 100%? Out of the box buyers for ref will be much happier with NV, not to mention all the features they have over AMD and 3 AAA games etc. You release a new card, while your competition just turns on some stuff they've disabled for a year waiting for you to catch them...LOL. On top, your card has "Variance" issues you are admitting you need to fix. You're running so close to crapout, they have been clocked at 669 in QUIET. That's UGLY right? Overclockers got 669 dips on quiet. How usable is that?
Da W - Thursday, November 7, 2013 - link
You done masturbating yet?DMCalloway - Thursday, November 7, 2013 - link
I think you under estimate just how 'happy' early gtx 780 adopters are with current pricing. For what they paid at launch they should've received a fully enabled chip. 7970ghz to r290x is a larger jump forward than gtx 780 to gtx 780Ti. We all remember what happened when AMD pushed their 7970 to the ghz. version in relation to the gtx 680. It's all relative except IMO Nvidia profits more for brand loyalty.Galidou - Thursday, November 7, 2013 - link
If nvidia would have enabled a full chip at 780 launch, imagine titan early adopter... We would have heard their anger far away in space...Margalus - Friday, November 8, 2013 - link
people got exactly what they paid for when they bought it. There is no reason to be upset because a better card is no available.Nevk - Thursday, November 7, 2013 - link
Nvidia fanboyz erererergrayson360 - Thursday, November 7, 2013 - link
Its so sad. I have a 780 and I basically only buy nvidia but that doesn't mean hate the competition. Any competition is good competition :DOverclockedCeleron - Thursday, November 7, 2013 - link
Trolls be damned. 290X = Bulldozer? Really? I am growing sick of these PR reps who troll tech sites. And for the record, a properly-cooled "GHz" edition of the R290X will probably beat GTX 780 Ti in many scenarios and still be over $100 cheaper. Enjoy paying more for less :-).1Angelreloaded - Thursday, November 7, 2013 - link
Probably not in this case, unless the 290x is fitted with a waterblock I don't see it happening. The problem is we will probably see triple slot vapor coolers like HOF galaxy which basically lends to the fact that multi GPU is a non possibility depending on your motherboard. Another thing is I would not put a 290x stock in a 350D or any other itx/matx solution case, between the thermals and the noise of the stock unit. I'm kinda excited for what Hawaii is, but also disappointed that this should have come out during the release of Nvidias 600 series not the end of 700 series cycle.PsiAmp - Thursday, November 7, 2013 - link
tomshardware tested Accelero Xtreme III with R9 290 and it made it nearly silent and very cool. Aslo had better performance.