FRONTPAGE EVGA GTX 780 Superclocked ACX Graphics Card Review

All sold out on all sites!!

not like I have the budget... lol at self.

but proves the GTX 780 is quite popular so far. Good stuff.
I am drooling like a diseased animal just looking at the results.

nice review. i'm curious how these will run @ PCI Express 2.0.

Clutch_Head said:

nice review. i'm curious how these will run @ PCI Express 2.0.

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Just fine there wont be a bottleneck 16x 2.0 is plenty of room for faster cards.

What about 8x PCI-E 2.0 for the 7xx series?

Culbrelai said:

What about 8x PCI-E 2.0 for the 7xx series?

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I think we will have to wait for a review to see.

It's going to hurt.
My guess, 5%, maybe 8%.
That's total guesswork though.

Do you think it will matter more with the 7xx series than the 6xx series?

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2012/07/18/pci_express_20_vs_30_gpu_gaming_performance_review

Doesn't seem like a lot.

Great Review Matt!

Yes the GTX 780 is really nice. One thing people forget why the Titan is a bit better is not only more Vram but it also has DP. DP from what I recently read is disabled on the 780s. I don't use that kind of stuff but would've loved for this price range to be included even though I wouldn't use it but nice to have that incase you end up with simulations and or modeling (Cad) etc of the like. Not sure if DP utilizes better for Folding, Bitcoin so I am not sure but just throwing it out there.

Question for those out there that know as I might have confused myself a bit. From my understanding the reason why theres such a gap in price is because the Titan and 780 are under the GK110. The 770 and 680/670 are GK104. I would assume because of the jump theres such a premium price out there for those top 2 cards. Am I right? Isn't the GK110 basically a K20 chip from the Tesla GPUs used in the Titan server? So than would these GK110s basically are binned K20 GPUs? I'd like some verification as my mind can run off and fanaticize until its tamed.

Edit: One last thing, will I be ok on a PCI-E 2.0 x16 with a 780 Classy HC in a 5760x1080 platform?

Looks like it's in the 2-4% range on average. Some oddballs prefer PCIe 2.0 on the Nvidia side, which is odd.
The higher the performance of the GPU the more data it needs and the more the bus can bottleneck it, hence my expecting these cards to fare a bit worse than the 6xx series.

EDIT:
Bitcoin is SHA encryption (integer stuff), Nvidia doesn't have anything that I'm aware of that can come close to matching AMD's cards.

This should give you a decent idea of the scaling.

It'll be a bit more than this like Bob said, but you're looking at <5%.

thanks guys

Updated this article with the data from our HD 7970 Gaming Benchmark Results Update.