
At every resolution, GeForce GTX 780 Ti is the fastest single-GPU graphics card you can buy. Granted, that distinction isn’t uncontestable—it’s only a couple of frames up on AMD’s Radeon R9 290X press board with its higher 40% fan speed, and could easily be challenged by a third-party board with better cooling. However, our retail card shows us that when Hawaii heats up and cannot be cooled fast enough, 780 Ti could be up to 22% faster at 2560x1440 as 290X drops below the performance levels of a vanilla GeForce GTX 780.
Bumping up fan speed on the AMD card is going to help that. However, then you’re also messing with acoustics, and noise can be a big issue with the reference cooler, too.



I personally think the average frame rate chart is more telling than any of the frame rate over time graphics, if only because the spread between boards appears so tight. It is worth pointing out that the GeForce GTX 780 Ti doesn’t drop below 30 FPS at 2560x1440, while our retail R9 290X does flirt with this boundary.

These are the same frame time variance outliers observed in our Radeon R9 290 coverage. We have four different GPUs with varying memory configurations represented, so it’s unlikely that any one variable is to blame. More than likely, if we were to zoom in to 96th or 97th percentile numbers, similar worst-case conditions would crop up for the other cards, too.
- GK110, Unleashed: The Wonders Of Tight Binning
- Meet The GeForce GTX 780 Ti
- Test Setup And Benchmarks
- Results: Arma III
- Results: Battlefield 4
- Results: BioShock Infinite
- Results: Crysis 3
- Results: Metro: Last Light
- Results: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
- Results: Tomb Raider
- Results (DirectX): AutoCAD 2013 And Inventor
- Results (OpenGL): LightWave And Maya 2013
- Results (OpenCL): GPGPU Benchmarks
- Results: CUDA Benchmarks
- Gaming Power Consumption Details
- Detailed Gaming Efficiency Results
- Power Consumption Overview
- Noise And Video Comparison
- Unquestionably The Fastest Single-GPU Graphics Card
It could also come down to production variance between the chips. Seen in before in manufacturing and it's not pretty. Sounds like we're starting to hit the ceiling with these GPUs... Makes me wonder what architectural magic they'll come up with next.
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If it has a negligible impact on what it looks like I am wondering how performance is with single cards on ultraHD screens WITHOUT ANTI-ALIASING. Please could you investigate? or point me to somewhere that has. Cheers all!
Apples to apples it looks like the 780 ti will remain faster than the 290x even after we begin to see custom cooling AMD cards . . . but at a high premium.
and yet, people will continue to eat up their products like mindless sheep. guess a lot of people have disposable income.
Well, it is possible, but highly unlikely, given that Nvidia has a hard defined minimum clock rate, and a much narrower range...plus this is a reference board, it's fully possible that a retail card with a custom cooler will perform much higher (like the Gigabyte 780 in this article).
And, it's not an issue with the Titan or the 780, which are both based on GK110...which has been out for months, and has stable drivers.
and yet, people will continue to eat up their products like mindless sheep. guess a lot of people have disposable income.
What i can't understand is why this has to be a ****ing war.
When they had no competition, they charged a lot of money for their top end cards. No one was forced to buy these overpriced cards. If no one bought them, they'd drop prices. When AMD released solid competition, they dropped prices.
That's how the market works. If you think AMD wouldn't do the same, well, what can i say..
AMD haven't been in a position to do that for a long time on either the GPU or CPU front, which is why they haven't.
When they tried to release an $800 FX CPU (this is without a monopoly or lead in the market, btw), no one bought it, and AMD had to drop prices by more than half.