BigMack70 said:
Thing is, a GPU's value doesn't come from how well it performs in games. A GPU's value comes from how it performs relative to other GPUs on the market. And the 780 is not anywhere even remotely close to 50-60% better than the 770/7970GE, even though it carries a 50-60% higher price tag.
I know there's some folks - even some reviewers (TTL @ OC3D, for example) - who got bamboozled by the $1000 joke Nvidia released earlier this year, but the 780 isn't a good deal at $650. The Titan is just so overpriced it's a farce - the 780 is just your standard flagship release of "overpriced because it has no competition".
That's what I'm saying as well, but to the fact that it is not overpriced. The GTX 680 is just slightly better than the 7970 Ghz, but the Ghz is about $400 vs the 680's $550-$600. Now with this 700 series, look at the price to performance. A DCUII 770 gets slightly better performance than the 680, if not a little better, and it's $410 off new egg.. That's literally the average price of a 7970 Ghz, whilst to get the same performance to the 770, you'd need to overclock a 7970 Ghz edition a fair amount.
The 780 is a whole new ball field. As it's performance is right on the neck of a Titan at the most used resolution (1080p), it is a "super high end card" basically. It's in the "Oversize Load" department on what it can handle. Meanwhile, it's only $660 for the DCUII version from newegg. About a few months ago, right before and right after the 780's release, the DCUII 680 was ~$550, but is now $390, which would make sense. However, the Titan which is now equivalent to an oced 780, is $1000 still. Since most games (minus a few heavy graphical games) use no more than 2GB of VRam, the 3GB is right in there are will last a while. And when you overclock it, you can get much superior performance to a Titan, for $350 less. You have to look at it from the Top down. You are getting (basically in comparison) a supreme card, for a very low price for it's level.
Then when you want to get into reality, by spending $300 more than a Titan, you can get Two of those suckers, overclock them, and have (even though it's seperate vram), 6GB of Vram running in SLI, and when overclocked are the same, if not stronger than two Titans. At that point, you're saving a good $700-$750, which, heck if you want to, you'd have saved so much money from buying that versus a Titan to get a 3rd! (Even though it barely has any real performance gain).
Then again, yes, $600 is about the limit that any normal consumer would pay to get one, even though they are still good for the money. Considering the price of the Titan, it should be worth $850-$900 in reality.
This series basically is a re-vamp of the last series, but whilst saving people money. The 780 is literally the Titan's little brother, which is why people put it as "overpriced".
Wait until the new AMD cards come out, I bet that it will drop to $500-$550 dollars, maybe even less. ^_^