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780 SLI or 780Ti or 290 Xfire?

hernaldo

hernaldo

hernaldo

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Sorry, I know I know it's one of "those" questions. (I hate it too)...

I'll keep it short and sweet to avoid the fluff, basically I'm a little scorned from my only two previous experiences with Crossfire, a 2 x 7950 setup and a 2 x 6950 setup. Both were utter crap due to microstutter, all games basically unplayable as far as I'm concerned (OK, not all but all ones with a FPS/3rd person perspective, Civ5 was great). Oh and NOISY as hell too!

So...Consider me "scorned" with AMD.

Moving on...

Basically can get 2 x GTX780s for about £600 delivered after all games are sold.

What's the deal with microstutter and Nvidia cards this gen, I know that they've always been a much better bet than AMD in that respect. Also aware that AMD has cleaned up it's act with a recent driver, excluding DX9/OpenGL games.

Is obvious microstutter a rarity on a dual gpu 700 series setup? Or am I being a little optimistic here etc?

I'm completely disinterested in a 290/X setup of any kind to be honest, mainly due to my previous experience with AMDs GPUs of the last 5 years feeling flaky, the awful noise, and power draw/heat. Can't be bothered waiting a couple of months for aftermarket coolers and all that jazz either. Furthermore, not impressed with their "boost" implementation and find all benchmarks highly dubious showing how great the performance is. The benchmarks that have show it for it's real potential put it behind a bog standard 780...anyway, we'll save my bitterness for another time, so I'll stop there :p

I guess just the bolded is my relevant question

Thanks :)

Edit...Oops, was going to ask if I'm being a bigoted idiot and should consider the R9 290s in crossfire again, yes I want to be convinced, or maybe just told that the 2 x 780s in SLI is going to give me no microstutter hassle :)
 
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I run SLI 780s no microstutter.
Before this I ran 6990 + 6970 and had microstutter but I don't know how the new 290s perform with this aspect.
 
Neither camp has microstutter any more on their latest products. I have 780's in SLI and experience no microstutter.

From the sounds of your post, you have already made up your mind. If you are going dual cards, I really couldn't recommend the reference 290x's. If you simply want the overall fastest cards currently available, go for the 780ti's. If you want almost identical game play whilst spending less, wait for the 290x custom cards. There is also Mantle to consider.

I really wouldn't want to commit £1000+ right now without seeing the custom 290x's and Mantle.

Edit: Oops, thought you were also considering 2 780ti's. I still wouldn't buy before December.
 
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Since 13.8 AMD has no microstutter on 7800/7900+ cards. It only exists on weaker one.
Same with the weaker (660 or smaller) Nvidias.

Either way @ 1080p a single Evga GTX780 overclocked at 1.3Ghz+ will cut it easily.
No need for more.
 
BubbySoup said:
I would really hope he wasn't :rolleyes:
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Panos said:
Since 13.8 AMD has no microstutter on 7800/7900+ cards. It only exists on weaker one.
Same with the weaker (660 or smaller) Nvidias.

Either way @ 1080p a single Evga GTX780 overclocked at 1.3Ghz+ will cut it easily.
No need for more.
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peahead said:
If he is playing at 1080p SLI 780 is a waste imo :p
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Thanks for the replies, including those not quoted.

Sorry, I'm using a 2560x1600 30 inch Dell U3011, not very helpful of me not to include that. :)

Right given the replies, in terms of microstutter it seems that is long gone for both camps using that recent driver from AMD, and allegedly even the DX9/OpenGL stuff will be resolved by end of year.

I'll be going for 2 x 780s in SLI then methinks. Were it not for the heat of the 290s I'd give them some consideration. I think the 290X are a bit overpriced now for what they are and should be £400 tops. Just opinion, I'm sure under water they'd be a much more appealing though :)

Thanks again, I can now sleep at night :) Half serious there, stuttering in games seems to be a problem for me since god knows 10-12 years or so ago! It all went wrong after swapping my trusty Geforce MX400 for a Radeon 9800...or was that 9700...getting old!!!

Cheers!
 
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