NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Review: The New High End
by Ryan Smith on May 23, 2013 9:00 AM ESTCivilization V
Our other strategy game, Civilization V, gives us an interesting look at things that other RTSes cannot match, with a much weaker focus on shading in the game world and a much greater focus on creating the geometry needed to bring such a world to life. In doing so it uses a slew of DirectX 11 technologies, including tessellation for said geometry, driver command lists for reducing CPU overhead, and compute shaders for on-the-fly texture decompression.
Civilization V is another game that not only tends to favor NVIDIA video cards, but strongly favors GK110 cards in particular. As a result the lead over the 7970GE is an incredible 47%, and the lead over the GTX 680 is right next to it at 46%. Though admittedly we’ve reached a point where the difference is almost academic, since even a GTX 680 can hit 60fps at 2560.
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Rodrigo - Thursday, May 23, 2013 - link
Excellent choice for less money than Titan! :-)Ja5087 - Thursday, May 23, 2013 - link
"NVIDIA will be pricing the GTX 680 at $650, $350 below the GTX Titan and GTX 690, and around $200-$250 more than the GTX 680."I think you mean the 780?
Ja5087 - Thursday, May 23, 2013 - link
Accidently replied instead of commentedRyan Smith - Thursday, May 23, 2013 - link
Thanks. Fixed.nunomoreira10 - Thursday, May 23, 2013 - link
compared to titan it sure is a better value, but compared to the hight end 2 years ago its twice as much ( titan vs 580 ; 780 vs 570 ; 680 vs 560)NVIDIA is slowly geting people acoustmed to hight prices again,
im gona wait for AMD to see what she can bring to the table
Hrel - Friday, May 24, 2013 - link
She? AMD is a she now?SevenWhite7 - Monday, July 8, 2013 - link
Yeah, 'cause AMD's more bang-for-the-buck.Basically, NVidia's 'he' 'cause it's always the most powerful, but also costs the most.
AMD's 'she' 'cause it's always more efficient and reasonable.
I'm a guy, and guys are usually more about power and girls are more about the overall package.
Just my experience, anyway, and this is just me being dumb trying to explain it with analogies =P
sperkowsky - Wednesday, February 26, 2014 - link
bang for your buck has changed a bit just sold my 7950 added 80 bucks and bought a evga acx 780 b stockcknobman - Thursday, May 23, 2013 - link
At $650 I am just not seeing it. In fact I dont even see this card putting any pressure on AMD to do something.I'd rather save $200+ and get a 7970GE. If Nvidia really wants to be aggressive they need to sell this for ~$550.
chizow - Thursday, May 23, 2013 - link
Nvidia has the GTX 770 next week to match up against the 7970GE in that price bracket, the 780 is clearly meant to continue on the massive premiums for GK110 flagship ASIC started by Titan. While it may not justify the difference in price relative to 7970GHz it's performance, like Titan, is clearly in a different class.