Any good for gaming at......

Holdon Tight · 9 Jul 2013 at 19:25

Is this card ok for gaming at 2560x1440

Gainward GeForce GTX 770 Phantom 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

What other would you guys recommend? Budget around £400

banjoted · 9 Jul 2013 at 22:07

For £400 some folk will probably advise you to go for a Radeon 7970 of some sort. Personally, I'd go with the GTX 770 on that budget (unless you can stretch to a GTX 780) - it'll do absolutely fine at that resolution in all but the most demanding titles, and even then all you'd need do is knock down the AA a bit most likely. The 770 is a great card, particularly the new 4GB versions.

arc@css · 9 Jul 2013 at 22:08

The 2gb version will suffice imo.

spoffle · 9 Jul 2013 at 22:10

There's really no need to spend £400 on a 770, you'd get much better value going for a 7970 at £300~, and get the same performance.

One of these would run very well:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-063-HS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1502

and they come with 8 games for free.

Tombraider

Bioshock Infinite

Farcry 3

Farcry 3 Blood Dragon

Crysis 3

Sleeping Dogs

Simcity

Dirt Showdown

Tonester0011 · 9 Jul 2013 at 22:11

2Gb version to save you some monies

Holdon Tight · 9 Jul 2013 at 22:53

Thank you

Weazle · 10 Jul 2013 at 01:25

Wouldn't 2GB really limit games at 2560x1440?

synixx · 10 Jul 2013 at 02:11

Many people on this forum would favour the 7970 at that resolution because of the greater bus width and higher memory capacity.

oldestgregg · 10 Jul 2013 at 11:58

banjoted said:
For £400 some folk will probably advise you to go for a Radeon 7970 of some sort. Personally, I'd go with the GTX 770 on that budget (unless you can stretch to a GTX 780) - it'll do absolutely fine at that resolution in all but the most demanding titles, and even then all you'd need do is knock down the AA a bit most likely. The 770 is a great card, particularly the new 4GB versions.

You only need x2 AA at the most for 1400p anyways. It makes me laugh to see one of the tech sites saying you need quad sli titans to run crysis 3 and smaa turned up to like x16 at high resolutions. Totally redundant and they should know better!

oldestgregg · 10 Jul 2013 at 11:59

arc@css said:
The 2gb version will suffice imo.

You would run out of grunt before the VRAM became an issue.

Uncle_Gravy · 10 Jul 2013 at 12:03

Like to say the MSI 770 Lightning is on the deal of the week.

arc@css · 10 Jul 2013 at 12:04

oldestgregg said:
You would run out of grunt before the VRAM became an issue.

+1

spoffle · 11 Jul 2013 at 19:35

oldestgregg said:
You would run out of grunt before the VRAM became an issue.

This isn't really true. That aside though, the main issue is the memory bandwidth of 256 bit, rather than the RAM quantity.

Kaapstad · 11 Jul 2013 at 22:35

spoffle said:
This isn't really true. That aside though, the main issue is the memory bandwidth of 256 bit, rather than the RAM quantity.

One of my Titans runs out of GPU grunt before it uses more than 2gbs of vram.

spoffle · 11 Jul 2013 at 22:36

Sure, situational. It doesn't mean it's a blanket rule.

Kaapstad · 11 Jul 2013 at 22:37

oldestgregg said:
You only need x2 AA at the most for 1400p anyways. It makes me laugh to see one of the tech sites saying you need quad sli titans to run crysis 3 and smaa turned up to like x16 at high resolutions. Totally redundant and they should know better!

I use quad sli Titans to play Crysis 3 and it looks beautiful fully maxed @1600p.

Kaapstad · 11 Jul 2013 at 22:40

spoffle said:
Sure, situational. It doesn't mean it's a blanket rule.

If you can not use than 2gbs of vram on a Titan before it runs out of gas I don't think there is any other card that is going to do better.

tipes · 11 Jul 2013 at 22:43

Kaapstad said:
I use quad sli Titans to play Crysis 3 and it looks beautiful fully maxed @1600p.

I bet it does - but please don't rub it in - I am stuck with a solitary 6970 Lightning. Lol. Enjoy your mega rig.

Mark

Kaapstad · 11 Jul 2013 at 22:49

tipes said:
I bet it does - but please don't rub it in - I am stuck with a solitary 6970 Lightning. Lol. Enjoy your mega rig.

Mark

There is nothing wrong with a 6970 lightning, some of the cards I own are even older but I still have a lot of fun with then. I still use my HD 5970s even though they don't have a lot of vram they can still get the job done.

spoffle · 11 Jul 2013 at 23:21

Kaapstad said:
If you can not use than 2gbs of vram on a Titan before it runs out of gas I don't think there is any other card that is going to do better.

RAM usage isn't linked to GPU usage though. Say a new game comes out with super high res textures, RAM will get filled up, but GPU usage won't go up much.