Has the GTX 780ti been discontinued? And best/most powerful GPU for £200?
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PlymouthJoseph
September 23, 2014 3:29:14 PM
Question 1.
Hey guys, I was recently watching a YouTube video from TechOfTomorrow and apparently the 780ti has been discontinued? Can anyone tell me why? It was the most powerful single GPU on the market with over 2800 CUDA cores. TOT said it has been replaced by the 970 or the 980? (I cannot fully remember) Is this true and if so, how? The 970 has 1664 CUDA cores and the 980 has 2048. Also, the 780ti has a higher Texture Fill Rate, a larger Memory Interface Width and a higher Memory Bandwidth.
So, how has it been "replaced" with something worse? The only main differences between them is that the 970 & 980 have 3GB GDDR5 RAM and more up-to-date GPU Architecture. I know the architecture can make quite a difference, but surely not that much. Can it?
My next question is: Now that the 780ti has been discontinued (apparently), will the 970 and the 980 make up for it? Are they more powerful? If so, by how much? Will there be any difference in FPS while playing games such as BF4, Watch Dogs, Skyrim? It's just that I'm building another desktop with the new i7 5960x CPU and I want to make sure I can't get any better at the given time.
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Question 2.
My brother is also a PC gamer but is only 13 years old and I bought him a budget gaming PC. (PC specs listed at bottom) and because he is currently using a XFX Radeon HD 6670 GPU, it isn't running the games as well as he wishes. So, I was going to give him a upgrade, but I don't want to spend any more than £200. £250 absolute max. So, I was wondering if you guys could give me a hand on trying to find the most powerful GPU for £200. He want's to play games such as Skyrim, Team Fortress 2 and other games of that nature at 1080p on high/max settings without geting frame rate issues. I've looked around but I really don't have the time to do all the research on all these different GPUs for him.
Spec:
Motherboard: Gigabyte Ultra Durable 4 78LMT-USB3
CPU: AMD FX-4100 OC to 4GHz (Ordered the FX8350)
GPU: XFX Radeon HD 6670
SSD: Kingston HyperX 3k 240GB
HDD: Western Digital 1TB
OS: Windows 7 Professional 64bit
Hey guys, I was recently watching a YouTube video from TechOfTomorrow and apparently the 780ti has been discontinued? Can anyone tell me why? It was the most powerful single GPU on the market with over 2800 CUDA cores. TOT said it has been replaced by the 970 or the 980? (I cannot fully remember) Is this true and if so, how? The 970 has 1664 CUDA cores and the 980 has 2048. Also, the 780ti has a higher Texture Fill Rate, a larger Memory Interface Width and a higher Memory Bandwidth.
So, how has it been "replaced" with something worse? The only main differences between them is that the 970 & 980 have 3GB GDDR5 RAM and more up-to-date GPU Architecture. I know the architecture can make quite a difference, but surely not that much. Can it?
My next question is: Now that the 780ti has been discontinued (apparently), will the 970 and the 980 make up for it? Are they more powerful? If so, by how much? Will there be any difference in FPS while playing games such as BF4, Watch Dogs, Skyrim? It's just that I'm building another desktop with the new i7 5960x CPU and I want to make sure I can't get any better at the given time.
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Question 2.
My brother is also a PC gamer but is only 13 years old and I bought him a budget gaming PC. (PC specs listed at bottom) and because he is currently using a XFX Radeon HD 6670 GPU, it isn't running the games as well as he wishes. So, I was going to give him a upgrade, but I don't want to spend any more than £200. £250 absolute max. So, I was wondering if you guys could give me a hand on trying to find the most powerful GPU for £200. He want's to play games such as Skyrim, Team Fortress 2 and other games of that nature at 1080p on high/max settings without geting frame rate issues. I've looked around but I really don't have the time to do all the research on all these different GPUs for him.
Spec:
Motherboard: Gigabyte Ultra Durable 4 78LMT-USB3
CPU: AMD FX-4100 OC to 4GHz (Ordered the FX8350)
GPU: XFX Radeon HD 6670
SSD: Kingston HyperX 3k 240GB
HDD: Western Digital 1TB
OS: Windows 7 Professional 64bit
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Reply to PlymouthJoseph
I haven't seen anything about it being discontinued. The 980 may have less cores and stuff, but they are more efficent. Go look at benchmarks. The 980 kills the 780ti in every single benchmark, with less cores, less power and cheaper. The 980 has certainly replace the 780ti, and I don't see a reason to buy one at all.
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PlymouthJoseph said:
So, how has it been "replaced" with something worse? The only main differences between them is that the 970 & 980 have 3GB GDDR5 RAM and more up-to-date GPU Architecture. I know the architecture can make quite a difference, but surely not that much. Can it?Yes it can (and yeah it is quite impressive):

As for your second question, maybe an R9 270 would be sufficient. But otherwise you can get an R9 280 or GTX 760 with that budget.
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Because0789
September 23, 2014 3:44:54 PM
Sakkura said:
PlymouthJoseph said:
So, how has it been "replaced" with something worse? The only main differences between them is that the 970 & 980 have 3GB GDDR5 RAM and more up-to-date GPU Architecture. I know the architecture can make quite a difference, but surely not that much. Can it?Yes it can (and yeah it is quite impressive):

This plus it is cheaper. The 980 beats the 780 ti but is priced to replace the 780
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Because0789
September 23, 2014 3:46:42 PM
Because0789 said:
And I think the best card for around 200 pounds is probably the R9 280XAgreed.
Specifically, one of the following two seems to be the best choices at that price:
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/sapphire-video-card-100...
or
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/xfx-video-card-r9280xtd...
The FX-4100 won't perform quite as well in some games such as Skyrim as a modern Intel CPU but it should give a good experience. Futures games that use Mantle or DX12 will use his CPU better.
Useful read: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/fx-4100-core-i3-210...
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PlymouthJoseph
September 23, 2014 11:31:12 PM
photonboy said:
Because0789 said:
And I think the best card for around 200 pounds is probably the R9 280XAgreed.
Specifically, one of the following two seems to be the best choices at that price:
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/sapphire-video-card-100...
or
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/xfx-video-card-r9280xtd...
The FX-4100 won't perform quite as well in some games such as Skyrim as a modern Intel CPU but it should give a good experience. Futures games that use Mantle or DX12 will use his CPU better.
Useful read: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/fx-4100-core-i3-210...
Thank you. I did say that the FX4100 will be being upgraded to the FX8350 and also, water-cooled at some point. I'll look up the R9-280X. Thank you.
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PlymouthJoseph
September 23, 2014 11:36:47 PM
Oh, I forgot to add this.
My brothers build only has a 500watt PSU. Will this make much of a difference?
And is this R9-280X decent enough? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sapphire-Dual-X-Radeon-GDDR5-Gr...
My brothers build only has a 500watt PSU. Will this make much of a difference?
And is this R9-280X decent enough? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sapphire-Dual-X-Radeon-GDDR5-Gr...
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PlymouthJoseph
September 23, 2014 11:56:19 PM
Because0789
September 24, 2014 12:33:40 AM
Executeorder66
September 24, 2014 1:45:58 AM
getochkn said:
I haven't seen anything about it being discontinued. The 980 may have less cores and stuff, but they are more efficent. Go look at benchmarks. The 980 kills the 780ti in every single benchmark, with less cores, less power and cheaper. The 980 has certainly replace the 780ti, and I don't see a reason to buy one at all.Kills the 780Ti? Lol that's laughable at best! It does indeed beat the 780Ti in SOME benchmarks but there are also benchmarks where the 780Ti is beating the 980.
Bottom line if you own anything below a 780Ti these are great cards to buy.
If you own a 780Ti these cards are not worth a purchase. Especially with rumors of both the Gtx titan 2 and 980Ti about 4 months away that will render these cards and the 780Ti irrelevant.
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PlymouthJoseph
September 24, 2014 9:54:29 AM
Executeorder66 said:
getochkn said:
I haven't seen anything about it being discontinued. The 980 may have less cores and stuff, but they are more efficent. Go look at benchmarks. The 980 kills the 780ti in every single benchmark, with less cores, less power and cheaper. The 980 has certainly replace the 780ti, and I don't see a reason to buy one at all.Kills the 780Ti? Lol that's laughable at best! It does indeed beat the 780Ti in SOME benchmarks but there are also benchmarks where the 780Ti is beating the 980.
Bottom line if you own anything below a 780Ti these are great cards to buy.
If you own a 780Ti these cards are not worth a purchase. Especially with rumors of both the Gtx titan 2 and 980Ti about 4 months away that will render these cards and the 780Ti irrelevant.
You, do you think it would be a good idea to wait 4 months and get a GTX 980ti? I mean, my i7 4930k, 2x EVGA GTX 780ti SC ACX SLI is freaking brutal. Eats anything. Hence I could wait 4 months or so to see if the rumours are true.
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PlymouthJoseph
September 24, 2014 9:55:58 AM
getochkn said:
I haven't seen anything about it being discontinued. http://youtu.be/J5dTLNNlN8o?t=1m
View this and it will tell you.
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