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GTX780 vs 770 4gb ?

Buckster

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looking to upgrade my highly overclocked 570 (950/2300)

what do people reckon are better value for money

a Gigabyte Windforce 770 4gb @ circa 360

vs a Gigabyte 780 Reference version @ circa 510 or so

I've a feeling the 780 is possibly better value - but not sure ? Would like card to last me a good 18 months at least. Currently game at 1200p, but am considering an upgrade to a larger monitor later in the year

thanks for any advice :)
 
I dont think you need a 770 4gb or a 780 3gb.
If you want Nvidia a 770 2Gb will do the job and you will save a little bit for a future upgrade/sli
 
Well to be fair the 780 is a good card, however the only problem for most is the high price, if your ready to drop that money on it then go for it but in terms of price/performance in terms of a single card then the 770 would be best, have you thoight about doing an SLI setup if you plan on going to a larger monitor? Still though;
780=high price but if you can afford it why not
770= decent price with good performance and will handle what your trying to do at £200 less
 
mm further thinking and looking at benchmarks I think - thanks for replies

I was thinking the people had similar views on the 3gb 580 vs 1.5gb 580 - yet now the 3gb 580s are worth a lot more 2nd hand than the 1.5gb ones - and whilst games still don't use 3gb they prob use more than 1.5

if that makes any sense
 
Buckster said:
mm further thinking and looking at benchmarks I think - thanks for replies

I was thinking the people had similar views on the 3gb 580 vs 1.5gb 580 - yet now the 3gb 580s are worth a lot more 2nd hand than the 1.5gb ones - and whilst games still don't use 3gb they prob use more than 1.5

if that makes any sense
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They're not worth *that* much more, from recent MM sales only another £30-£40. It's also the same thing with the 580s. If you're just using a single card 1.5GB fits the power of the 580 perfectly, meaning to go over the VRAM the game is already unplayable :D

The 4GB cards will have a higher resale as they cost more to begin with, it's up to you whether you wish to fork out the extra £40 now or save the money and spend elsewhere as you really wont need the extra VRAM unless you're planning on using 3+ cards with surround gaming.
 
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arc - how did you get on with your 570 btw - was it a good clocker ? :)
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Absolute pants mate. The overclocked core, as you know, is 845. I'm lucky if mine reaches 855! :D

I suppose I shouldn't be too bothered, since compared to the reference stock clocks of 732, 845 is still a respectable overclock.

Out of interest, roughly how much fps gain have you seen when taking yours up to 950? :)
 
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Absolute pants mate. The overclocked core, as you know, is 845. I'm lucky if mine reaches 855! :D

I suppose I shouldn't be too bothered, since compared to the reference stock clocks of 732, 845 is still a respectable overclock.

Out of interest, roughly how much fps gain have you seen when taking yours up to 950? :)
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not sure - will do some tests - I found the memory made quite a difference, I think at stock the memory can be a throttle point on the 570, quite a bit of memory bandwidth difference from say 1900 stock to 2300, 150gb/sec or so up to 185

855 isn't too great - thats a shame :( mind you as you said - vs reference thats pretty good :)

you are adjusting voltage I guess ? I think mine at "stock' could get to around 900

Darujhistan - thanks
 
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Unless you're planning to run a triple screen setup I wouldn't be concerned about the VRAM. 2Gb is plenty for your res.

The 770 is undeniably "better value", but the 780 will give you a decent boost in performance (20% or so). At 1920x1200 I would be tempted to go with the 770 to be honest... If performance isn't up to your standards then you can add a second 770 down the road, which will give you much better performance than a single 780. The single 770 should be fine in all but the most taxing applications though (e.g. Crysis 3 at max settings and AA).

[SLI 780 user at 2560x1600-res BTW]


edit; 2Gb should be fine for 2560-res as well, based on my testing. If you want a triple-screen setup though, look for more than 2Gb of RAM.
 
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Duff-Man said:
Unless you're planning to run a triple screen setup I wouldn't be concerned about the VRAM. 2Gb is plenty for your res.

The 770 is undeniably "better value", but the 780 will give you a decent boost in performance (20% or so). At 1920x1200 I would be tempted to go with the 770 to be honest... If performance isn't up to your standards then you can add a second 770 down the road, which will give you much better performance than a single 780. The single 770 should be fine in all but the most taxing applications though (e.g. Crysis 3 at max settings and AA).

[SLI 780 user at 2560x1600-res BTW]


edit; 2Gb should be fine for 2560-res as well, based on my testing. If you want a triple-screen setup though, look for more than 2Gb of RAM.
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+1

My GTX 690s come with 2gb of vram per GPU. Running them in quad sli @2560x1600 they don't have a problem running games maxed out.
 
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