Is a GTX 780 worth a punt at this stage?

Shiminay

Hello friends and well wishers!

The 780's dropped to about the €320 mark and let's be honest, it's still a great card despite the 9xx's being out. Puts it on par with the 970 price wise, but with the memory issue on the 970 (and my triple monitor setup seems likely to induce its rath from the brief bit of reading I've done) leaves me a bit lukewarm towards it.

Dcully

Got my new GTX 970 SC yesterday and its a fricking beast,running @ 2560X1080.
The memory issue is marginal with only a couple of frames lost when accessing more than 3.5 GB vram apparently,plus they are working on a driver for the issue.
Both great cards either way you look at it.

SterlingArcher

Shiminay wrote: »

Hello friends and well wishers!

The 780's dropped to about the €320 mark and let's be honest, it's still a great card despite the 9xx's being out. Puts it on par with the 970 price wise, but with the memory issue on the 970 (and my triple monitor setup seems likely to induce its rath from the brief bit of reading I've done) leaves me a bit lukewarm towards it.

Isn't the 780 a 3 gig card. Making the memory issue on 970 redundant.

a good 970 is going toe to toe with with the 780ti in alot of games.

Really couldn't recommend a 780 over a 970. Its still in its infancy driver wise.
Maybe r9 290 be more value for money with what you are doing.

Dcully

Forgot about the 3 gig

pleasant Co.

Dcully wrote: »

Got my new GTX 970 SC yesterday and its a fricking beast,running @ 2560X1080.
The memory issue is marginal with only a couple of frames lost when accessing more than 3.5 GB vram apparently,plus they are working on a driver for the issue.
Both great cards either way you look at it.

That's all changed, they're no longer/never were working on a driver for the issue because there is no issue. That's the way the card was designed, they just forgot to tell anybody about it and posted misleading specs in error apparently :rolleyes:

Still the card should be grand, it just kinda screws the pooch when it needs to use that slow 512mb lane, on the plus side there'll be plenty of open box/b stock floating about cheapishly so maybe hold out for that

TerrorFirmer

Unless you got one for far less than that, there's no real point in the GTX780 anymore. R9 290 is a way better choice and it's considerably cheaper.

Shiminay

Thanks for the insight folks, new PSU is already in the post, so it'll be next month at the earliest before anything gets bought Seems like jumping to the 970 is the better option.

stfrancisboxer

I'm selling a gigabyte 780 ocd ghz edition

Kirby

Dcully wrote: »

Got my new GTX 970 SC yesterday and its a fricking beast,running @ 2560X1080.
The memory issue is marginal with only a couple of frames lost when accessing more than 3.5 GB vram apparently,plus they are working on a driver for the issue.
Both great cards either way you look at it.

Architectural design choice man. Look at the memory controller for the L2 in the bottom right. No driver can change the physical make up of the card.

drunkmonkey

I'm using the Gigabyte GTX 970 Gaming G1 and it's blasting through anything I throw at it, Can play War Thunder at max settings on the Oculus DK2 without any judder.
8gb Ram and i5 Devils canyon.

Dcully

Kirby wrote: »

Architectural design choice man. Look at the memory controller for the L2 in the bottom right. No driver can change the physical make up of the card.

Agreed but at the end of the day we are talking a few frames lost IF the card uses more than 3.5gb, to me in terms of real world use its hardly worth even talking about as the card simply devours everything thrown at it.

challengemaster

drunkmonkey wrote: »

I'm using the Gigabyte GTX 970 Gaming G1 and it's blasting through anything I throw at it, Can play War Thunder at max settings on the Oculus DK2 without any judder.
8gb Ram and i5 Devils canyon.

DK2 is only 1080p resolution, it'd be fairly crap if it couldn't do it.

Wossack

Im still enjoying my 780 at 1440p - might pick up another once they've come down a bit more

cherryghost

Dcully wrote: »

Agreed but at the end of the day we are talking a few frames lost IF the card uses more than 3.5gb, to me in terms of real world use its hardly worth even talking about as the card simply devours everything thrown at it.

I think its universally tested and proved that only frameloss occurs at 4k and beyond on select games.

z0oT

I wouldn't worry too much about the memory issue. The reviewers didn't notice a difference, so I'm pretty sure you're not going to notice a difference, but as usual people are up in arms about it.

As for the 780, it's still a pretty hefty graphics card. I have one (it's a year old now), I don't intend on upgrading it for at least another year to come. If it can be had cheaply it's worth a look even now, but a 290 or 290X would be better options I reckon given their prices.

Kirby

Dcully wrote: »

Agreed but at the end of the day we are talking a few frames lost IF the card uses more than 3.5gb, to me in terms of real world use its hardly worth even talking about as the card simply devours everything thrown at it.

Oh yeah don't get me wrong. I'd recommend one easily and would have no issue sticking one in my machine. It's just that talk of drivers "fixing" the issue should not have been proliferated last week as that is not understanding the issue. That's what I was getting at.