780 Ti user experience

[lavaheadache]

Perfect, my 2600K at 4.6 is nearly equal to a 4.4 Ivy. Thanks!

ARRRRGGHHHH, Stay on topic!!!!!!



ps. I kid =)

 

[Unoid]

ARRRRGGHHHH, Stay on topic!!!!!!



ps. I kid =)

Lol, I'm curious of 780ti user experience, so I can compare to my own

Don't make me drive down to the cape and show you how to cook for realz!

ps: I'm waiting for maxwell. gsync and Shield have me tied to nvidia atm.

 

[Sho'Nuff]

Just got my 780TI at work today. Can't wait to pop it in tonight.

 

[lavaheadache]

Lol, I'm curious of 780ti user experience, so I can compare to my own

Don't make me drive down to the cape and show you how to cook for realz!

ps: I'm waiting for maxwell. gsync and Shield have me tied to nvidia atm.

Fellow New Englander eh? Did you guys get snow where ever you are?

 

[AdamK47]

What percentage did your K/D ratio improve in Battlefield after you started using the card? This should be the number one measurement for video card performance.

 

[24601]

Anyone with an overclocked (any cooler, or even water) 780TI that can run a couple benchmarks for me, with comparable CPU/mem.
Thinking maybe Tomb Raider, Unigine Valley, at 1080P or ideally 1440P.


I want to compare to my 680SLI's at 1.2ghz each.

I wanna get out of using SLI, but if a 780ti is too much a downgrad ein Performance,m then it's not worth the 300+$ offset

The standalone benchmark programs are bad for gauging SLI/Crossfire scaling in games.

 

[lavaheadache]

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/1625862?


13326 graphics score @ 1225/8000

 

[toyota]

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/1625862?


13326 graphics score @ 1225/8000

11379 and then 13326 for graphics? thats all the ti and 2700k at 4.6 will do? my 770 at 1242/7500 and slower 2500k does 10612 and then 11892 for graphics. I thought there would be bigger gaps than that.

 

[lavaheadache]

11379 and then 13326 for graphics? thats all the ti and 2700k at 4.6 will do? my 770 at 1242/7500 and slower 2500k does 10612 and then 11892 for graphics. I thought there would be bigger gaps than that.

3dmark is hardly the tell tale performance benchmark. I can clock my 2700k to 4.8 and try again.

What size monitor do you have? I can throw some other numbers at you to compare. I'm sure the gap is a lot bigger than 3dmark is showing.

 

[toyota]

3dmark is hardly the tell tale performance benchmark. I can clock my 2700k to 4.8 and try again.

What size monitor do you have? I can throw some other numbers at you to compare. I'm sure the gap is a lot bigger than 3dmark is showing.

oh of course you will kill my card in actual gaming. I was just saying that I thought the scores in 3dmark would be more reflective of you having a faster cpu and much faster gpu.

 

[Sho'Nuff]

So I popped my 780TI in last night. Was hoping to have some more time to play with it but the install took longer than expected. Took forever to find the 8 pin power connector for my PSU (a tagan piperock), and my system kept hanging at the splash screen after installing the card. PSA - if you have a Gigabyte Z77 motherboard and your system hangs or take a really long time to boot after installing a new video card, one possible solution is to update the bios, reboot, enter the UEFI bios, reset all default settings, reboot, enter the bios, and set PCI graphics to the default graphics adaptor. That fixed the issue in my case, but YEMV.

Once I finally got things up and running, I spent some time testing out the card with various games. I was pleasantly surprised that there was such a noticeable improvement in general relative to my old gtx 680. I didn't have time to run any game benchmarks, but the improvement in framerate and overall image quality was very noticeable in Battlefield 4, Batman Arkham Origins, Far Cry 3, Assassins Creed 3 . . . basically every graphically intensive game I threw at it.

I did run a unigine valley benchmark - with all the settings cranked at 1920x1200 I was seeing framerates consistently over 100FPS, with only a couple very short dips. I'm not sure if I got a good card or if the measurements were accurate, but the unigine valley benchmark was reporting that the core clock for my card was up around 1300Mhz, with temps holding steady at 79C. That seems like a pretty darn good boost clock if its accurate, particularly as I had to do nothing to achieve it and the temps stayed reasonable.

Overall impression - very nice card. A worthy successor to my gtx680, and worth the $500 or so that it will cost me once I sell my gtx 680. At least to me.

For those of you that care, here is my system:

Intel 3770K @4.2GHZ
Gigabyte Z77X-UP5 TH Mobo
16GB RAM
EVGA GTX 780TI
24" Dell Ultrasharp U2412 (1920X1200)
24" NEC 2490WUxi2 "(1920X1200)
20" NEC 20WGMX2 (1680x1050) - Probably going to replace with another 24" soon

 

[Pandora's Box]

lava have you noticed that your card runs at 3d speeds while playing movies with DivX? My card was running at 1046Mhz with full 3d volts in divx this morning. I switched back to the stock bios and now its running at 324mhz 2d volts.

 

[blackened23]

lava have you noticed that your card runs at 3d speeds while playing movies with DivX? My card was running at 1046Mhz with full 3d volts in divx this morning. I switched back to the stock bios and now its running at 324mhz 2d volts.

You can usually fix this by making a program profile specifying "adaptive" power management. Or you can do that same thing in global settings.

I don't think would apply to a custom BIOS, though - i've noticed custom BIOS do some weird things to power management and not in a good way. Temps tend to be way higher even at idle, which is why I avoid custom BIOS' at all costs. I don't care if skynet's BIOS gives me 26 more mhz, not worth the high idle temps.

 

[AdamK47]

So I popped my 780TI in last night. Was hoping to have some more time to play with it but the install took longer than expected. Took forever to find the 8 pin power connector for my PSU (a tagan piperock), and my system kept hanging at the splash screen after installing the card. PSA - if you have a Gigabyte Z77 motherboard and your system hangs or take a really long time to boot after installing a new video card, one possible solution is to update the bios, reboot, enter the UEFI bios, reset all default settings, reboot, enter the bios, and set PCI graphics to the default graphics adaptor. That fixed the issue in my case, but YEMV.

Once I finally got things up and running, I spent some time testing out the card with various games. I was pleasantly surprised that there was such a noticeable improvement in general relative to my old gtx 680. I didn't have time to run any game benchmarks, but the improvement in framerate and overall image quality was very noticeable in Battlefield 4, Batman Arkham Origins, Far Cry 3, Assassins Creed 3 . . . basically every graphically intensive game I threw at it.

I did run a unigine valley benchmark - with all the settings cranked at 1920x1200 I was seeing framerates consistently over 100FPS, with only a couple very short dips. I'm not sure if I got a good card or if the measurements were accurate, but the unigine valley benchmark was reporting that the core clock for my card was up around 1300Mhz, with temps holding steady at 79C. That seems like a pretty darn good boost clock if its accurate, particularly as I had to do nothing to achieve it and the temps stayed reasonable.

Overall impression - very nice card. A worthy successor to my gtx680, and worth the $500 or so that it will cost me once I sell my gtx 680. At least to me.

For those of you that care, here is my system:

Intel 3770K @4.2GHZ
Gigabyte Z77X-UP5 TH Mobo
16GB RAM
EVGA GTX 780TI
24" Dell Ultrasharp U2412 (1920X1200)
24" NEC 2490WUxi2 "(1920X1200)
20" NEC 20WGMX2 (1680x1050) - Probably going to replace with another 24" soon

Unigine Valley reports the core clock speeds incorrectly. The benchmark also starts out with high FPS, but drops down near the end when it starts raining. Be sure to run the benchmark again and post the results in the Unigine benchmark thread!

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2317696

 

[Pandora's Box]

You can usually fix this by making a program profile specifying "adaptive" power management. Or you can do that same thing in global settings.

I don't think would apply to a custom BIOS, though - i've noticed custom BIOS do some weird things to power management and not in a good way. Temps tend to be way higher even at idle, which is why I avoid custom BIOS' at all costs. I don't care if skynet's BIOS gives me 26 more mhz, not worth the high idle temps.

yeah i changed it to adaptive in global profile and it still does it. stock bios the card runs cooler and stays at 2d speeds.

 

[imaheadcase]

What percentage did your K/D ratio improve in Battlefield after you started using the card? This should be the number one measurement for video card performance.

I was normally in bottom half, now normally in top 10. TDM servers top 5

 

[Sho'Nuff]

Unigine Valley reports the core clock speeds incorrectly. The benchmark also starts out with high FPS, but drops down near the end when it starts raining. Be sure to run the benchmark again and post the results in the Unigine benchmark thread!

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2317696

Will do. Thanks for the tip re: the core clock. I knew it seemed wrong.

 

[Hauk]

I'm ready to snag one but am trying to wait on non-ref cards.. wish I knew what day to start paying attention!!

 

[OCGuy]

I'm ready to snag one but am trying to wait on non-ref cards.. wish I knew what day to start paying attention!!

http://www.evga.com/Products/Product.aspx?pn=03G-P4-2884-KR

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00GFZPE5A/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?qid=1384513417&sr=8-3&pi=AC_SX110_SY165_QL70

 

[Hauk]

http://www.evga.com/Products/Product.aspx?pn=03G-P4-2884-KR

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00GFZ...110_SY165_QL70

Thanks.. I had the EVGA in my cart 20 minutes ago, kept thinking about the Classified PCB, forcing myself to wait a bit

 

[Grooveriding]

Thanks.. I had the EVGA in my cart 20 minutes ago, kept thinking about the Classified PCB, forcing myself to wait a bit

I wanted a pair of Classifieds as well, problem is they are still over a month out and you can't step up to non-reference EVGA cards. Resale value of my current cards is probably less than $700 now because of the 780ti, so I just went with stepping up both my cards to 780ti reference cards, cost me nothing but shipping.

I think I will just run these on air and ride it out until 20nm comes. The 780ti will have better resale value next year than my current cards will as well.

 

[Unoid]

Fellow New Englander eh? Did you guys get snow where ever you are?

I'm in the free state of NH. I like my guns as much as computers No snow yet.

Only snow I see is when I spray compressed air into my 680's and see white dust come out the rear of my case!

I wish the 780TI was $550. would be worth selling my 680's and replacing them with a 780ti at that price.

 

[Rvenger]

I wanted a pair of Classifieds as well, problem is they are still over a month out and you can't step up to non-reference EVGA cards. Resale value of my current cards is probably less than $700 now because of the 780ti, so I just went with stepping up both my cards to 780ti reference cards, cost me nothing but shipping.

I think I will just run these on air and ride it out until 20nm comes. The 780ti will have better resale value next year than my current cards will as well.

Good move. That is where the 780 price drop came handy for you.

 

[OCGuy]

I wanted a pair of Classifieds as well, problem is they are still over a month out and you can't step up to non-reference EVGA cards. Resale value of my current cards is probably less than $700 now because of the 780ti, so I just went with stepping up both my cards to 780ti reference cards, cost me nothing but shipping.

I think I will just run these on air and ride it out until 20nm comes. The 780ti will have better resale value next year than my current cards will as well.

EVGA.....kinda hard not to be a fan.

 

[Grooveriding]

Yeah at first I thought why bother it will hardly be an upgrade, basically the same performance without needing a massive overclock like I have now, just a mild one. But when I considered that I always sell my cards when I replace them it made a lot more sense, it's generally easier to sell reference cards than custom water-cooled cards as well. Plus I like the idea of having the full chip for some reason.