I would either grab another ftw or get a 780, those 2 options are much lighter on the wallet, on the other hand if you want the fastest gpu on the planet grab the titan
Wait for the next series and get something with more than 2GB VRAM. If you need more than a 670 for today's games feel free to get a 780, it should last a while.
Not much time to post (half-time during rugby) but I fitted my GTX 780 earlier this afternoon so a few random observations follow (I play games at 1920x1200 with maxed settings)... 1. Managed to get +150 MHz on the core and +500 MHz on the memory, which so far has worked fine in all the games I've test as well as a 20 minute run of Heaven 4.0 using 8xMSAA and extreme tessellation (scored 1,350 and a framerate of 54 fps from memory compared with 1,750 and a framerate of 68 fps with GTX 680 SLI). 2. I set the Power to 106% and prioritized that over the temperature, which is set to 85%. 3. Card idles at 32 C and is extremely quiet. 4. BioShock Infinite runs really smoothly compared with my GTX 680, granted there has been a stutter fix in the last patch, and I'm using Alternate Post-processing too. VRAM usage can hit 2.3-2.4 GB which used to cause severe stuttering with my GTX 680s. More later...
Tomorrow I finally get my ASUS GTX 780....man I hate waiting, especially for something like this. EDIT I take it I won't run into any problems with AB and all with the 780?
Did u have the reference blower coolers on your 680's ? And if yes, whats the 780/Titan cooler like compared to the 680 at load ?
Fitted my EVGA 780SC over the weekend, replacing a 670SC. I can happily run Crysis 3 with Very High settings and x2SMAA pulling around 55-60FPS @ 1920x1080.
Yes, I had reference GTX 680s and the GTX 780 is much quieter. It still makes a noise once the card hits 80-85 C (I have raised the temp threshold from the default 80 C to 85 C) but it is a lower, less whiny sound. Of course, I had two GTX 680s in my case so it may not be a fair comparison since I now have just the one card. My card can hit 1,110 MHz with +150 MHz on the core, which seems to be stable in all the games I've tried. I have tried +175 MHz but I then had crashes (driver stopped responding errors) in Just Cause 2, Sniper Elite V2 and Sniper Elite: ***** Zombie Army. There doesn't seem to be any advantage to having the memory at +500 MHz as the gain is minimal when the card already has so much bandwidth anyway (with +500 MHz it's 336 GB/sec) so I've left it at +150 MHz on the core and +350 MHz (322 GB/sec!) on the memory for now, which coincidentally are the exact same offsets I used with my GTX 680s (which would hit 1,286 MHz and 1,260 MHz on GPU1 and GPU2 respectively). I've ran some benchmarks but obviously I have lower results than with GTX 680 SLI so I only did them out of curiousity. I score 12,564 on the Resident Evil 6 benchmark with the offsets I'm using (12,596 with a +500 MHz memory, proving my claims that there's a diminishing return above +350 MHz). I score 13,360 with GTX 680 SLI and, yes, that was with a working profile! But, yeah, that's just Resident Evil 6, right, I know what you're thinking. I score 52.7 fps (1,326) with Heaven 4.0 on 1920x1200, Extreme Tess + 8xMSAA vs. 68.4 fps (1,718) on the same settings with GTX 680 SLI.
Yeah, the GTX 780 can handle this game great on 1920x1200, Very High and TXAA High at around 45-55 fps for me which feels perfectly smooth. I don't think SMAA, even 4x, gets rid of the shimmering on specular highlights personally so I favour TXAA even though it does blur the image slightly. I never a perfect 60 fps with my GTX 680 SLI either so I don't feel that I've actually lost any performance. The game uses 2.3 GB of VRAM as well, yet another game like BioShock Infinite which uses more than the 2 GB my GTX 680 had available.
K thx man. I have 680's in SLI too and been wondering whether to switch back to 1 single powerful card since I discovered PhysX ran a hell of a lot better when i set one of my 680's as a dedicated PhysX card in Planetside 2. Although i never really experienced microstuttering with SLI, it does seem smoother using 1 card again at the moment, but could be placebo. Thing is I use a 120Hz monitor so would be nice being closer to 120fps in games, but like u said, in games like Crysis 3 maxed out, and even BF3 on a 64 player server it's hard to maintain 120fps even with 680 SLI. Might just sell one of my 680's and get a 780 and keep one 680 for PhysX. And could always just get another 780 later in the year if needed.
I forgot to add that another reason for lowering my memory offset from +500 to +350 MHz is that I saw some visual glitches in two games, BioShock Infinite and Deus Ex: Human Revolution, although I can't be sure that they're not driver bugs. In BioShock Infinite I was onboard one of those flying ships about an hour into the game and I saw the floor textures switch between looking bluish and looking dark grey and I could replicate it by walking backwards and forwards. In Deus Ex: Human Revolution I saw some flickering shadow. Neither issue looked like the usual stretched polygons and black dots you normally see when you overclock too far plus the temperatures were not that high at the time (between 65 and 70 C from memory).
I tried C3 with TXAA and have to say I hated it, x2SMAA seems to give me the best balance between image quality and performance. Cranked it up to x4SMAA and didn't really see much difference so dropped it back down.
Can anyone with a GTX 780 and either Sniper Elite V2 or Sniper Elite: ***** Zombie Army and the latest v320.18 WHQL drivers try this game with 2.25X SSAA and everything else maxed out please so see if it is crashing for them like it is for me please? I've revalidated the cache on both games but it will freeze and stop responding anywhere from a few seconds to a minute after resuming a save game. And just in case it is related, I'm using EVGA Precision X v4.2.0's OSD to monitor the framerate, etc. Both were working flawlessly with my GTX 680 SLI with the v320.14 and earlier drivers. Everything else is running fine and I've just played three hours of the wonderful Hitman Absolution maxed out at 1920x1200 with 4xMSAA (and it reached 3 GB of VRAM usage at one point, presumably a memory leak of some kind as when I restarted a checkpoint it dropped back to 1.3 GB).
I've had quite a few problems with 320.18 drivers on GTX 780. Crashes, freezes and even BSOD (after checking minidump files i realised it was nvidia drivers giving me BSOD). Metro 2033 is unplayable as i t crashes all the time. So i modded inf file for 314.22 to work on 780 and the whole day today it's been working perfectly.
Just checked ***** Zombie Army twice, right on the first mission I kill the first zombie, then longshot the one in the distance, crashes as soon as I shoot. Tested a third time, same even when I go back to stock settings.
My Newegg order lists "PACKAGE RECEIVED AT FACILITY" It's been like that since last Thursday and the ETA is supposedly tomorrow.
That's how it generally works in my experience, with that msaa i can imagine it using towards 3gb, but that's great news all the same, and yeah i have issues with these 320.18 drivers but not enough to uninstall em'.
Yes, that's what happens for me. Great... new card, new set of games with bugs. Guess I'm going to have to report this then and wait for a fix to be able to play both games again. How ironic though that I've ditched SLI for a single card so as to minimize driver issues and this crops up! :3eyes:
^^ Did you test what setting causes it, maybe its only direct compute fault? But then again its ok here with Direct compute.
Ugh, i hope i get my money soon, the wait is killing me. These cards are almost out of stock in Holland. Have to wait 2 weeks. Is it even worth getting for my system? (PSU is getting replaced ofc) I might OC my CPU to 4,8ghz.
