Max Overclocked GTX 780ti vs GTX 970 @ 2560x1600

[Pneumothorax]

I can't help but finding this funny.

nVidia abandons old cards. ppl punish them by ... buying their new cards.

AMD pushes 7970 forward, it's probably the first time a card has such a long (usefull and high end) life. Ppl thank them by ... not buying their newer cards, since it's not really needed yet.

When my GTX580 got forsaken, I moved to 7970. Not because I thought AMD would support it longer, but because a 350€ 7970GHz felt much better than a 10% slower 33% less RAM 450€ GTX680.

No regret Since. Moving to 680 would mean I nearly would have had to move to 780Ti/980 given 680's current "performance".

I've learned my lesson lol. The best predictor of the future is the past and seeing how Nvidia is treating the Keplers, makes the 970 even more a dubious future proposition. Nvidia's reps on their message board are promising a 'driver fix' to get the 0.5mb to be less noticeable. To me this reeks of the driver telling the game not to use more than 3.5 (which is already happening). If this supposed 'fix' works, it'll only be temporary as once the next gen Nvidia chips come out, I really doubt the driver teams will be focusing on the gimped 970.

 

[Silverforce11]

The exact same thing is currently happening with the 290/x vs 970 right now, and people keep acting like you're insane for suggesting the card thats $70-100 less and almost identical in performance, and now we've discovered it effectively has .5GB more RAM too.

Some people will never consider AMD, regardless of price or performance.

There's a dude on [H] forum who said the only way he would ditch NV is if his faulty 970 raped his wife and burn his house down... something to ponder about.