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Started by zeppast | | 10 answers
Gtx 980 reference vs Gtx 780Ti Kingpin Edition?
Does anyone know how these two cards would stack up? my guess is they would be fairly equal considering the Kingpin is a highly overclocked Gtx 780ti.
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a b U Graphics card
September 22, 2014 9:14:31 AM

You have a kingpin 780 Ti, you don't need to return it. Simply over clock it and you'll be just fine till 1080 or whatever they call it.
September 22, 2014 8:11:48 AM

PsyKhiqZero said:
Also there are games that will only do ultra settings with 4GB of vram. I mean you should be very happy with the card you bought. But if you can return it. For the money you could get 2x gtx 980 or gtx 970.


That's true, I think I'll be fine though I'm not interested in 4k the highest I'll go is 2k for gaming. As far as I'm concerned we are still not there yet in terms of single gpu performance. Crysis 3 at 4k destroys a single Gtx 980 hell even at 2K! so I guess we are going to have to wait for the Titan 2 or the 980Ti to see what they can do but honestly I doubt they will be able to run Crysis 3 at 60 fps at 4 k the performance and optimization simply isn't there.

a b U Graphics card
September 21, 2014 10:55:44 PM

Also there are games that will only do ultra settings with 4GB of vram. I mean you should be very happy with the card you bought. But if you can return it. For the money you could get 2x gtx 980 or gtx 970.
a c 428 U Graphics card
a c 163 Î Nvidia
September 21, 2014 3:55:12 PM

You can probably return it or go through EVGAs step up program.
Either cards perform well regardless.
September 21, 2014 3:53:05 PM

Gam3r01 said:
Out of the box the kingpin barely pulls an edge over a normal ACX card. The main draw is its OC capacity, if you can wait and get a non reference 980 it would perform even better.

If for no other reason the 980 is over 200 dollars LESS


Sadly purchased the Kingpin a day before the 980 and 970 were released...

September 21, 2014 3:47:30 PM

PsyKhiqZero said:
Even if both are equal the kingpin won't support all the new features built in the GTX 9xx series. This includes what should become direct X 11.3 and prolly Direct X 12 when it officially launched. Also Dynamic super resolution which can be seen as a improved version of Anti aliasing.


I just got the kingpin a day before the 980 and 970 where released I'm not butt hurt over it I'm going to keep my Kingpin I just wanted to see how the Kingpin stacked up and for some reason the Kingpin does support direct X 12 it says so on the Evga website so at least I can look forward to that. Well at least the Kingpin will beat a 970 without any trouble lol.

a b U Graphics card
September 21, 2014 3:38:15 PM

Even if both are equal the kingpin won't support all the new features built in the GTX 9xx series. This includes what should become direct X 11.3 and prolly Direct X 12 when it officially launched. Also Dynamic super resolution which can be seen as a improved version of Anti aliasing.
a c 428 U Graphics card
a c 163 Î Nvidia
September 21, 2014 3:33:05 PM

Out of the box the kingpin barely pulls an edge over a normal ACX card. The main draw is its OC capacity, if you can wait and get a non reference 980 it would perform even better.

If for no other reason the 980 is over 200 dollars LESS
September 21, 2014 3:29:07 PM

Gam3r01 said:
Even under the reference cooler the 980 should outperform the kingpin. Eventually clock speeds start to fall off in comparison to a new architecture.


So do you think they would be within 5% of each other? considering the Gtx 980 is only around 10% faster then a stock 780ti?
a c 428 U Graphics card
a c 163 Î Nvidia
September 21, 2014 3:22:15 PM

Even under the reference cooler the 980 should outperform the kingpin. Eventually clock speeds start to fall off in comparison to a new architecture.

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