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Nvidia 780 Ti Classified - What is the difference?
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I wouldn't go near 3 or 4 gpus with a 3770k. You need to be looking at moving to hex core on x79, putting it on water and clocking it as high as you can. 2 card scaling is generally quite good, 3 card is ok in a fair few games, 4 gpu rarely gives anything significant in terms of gains over 3 gpu's.
Cpu usage changes game to game, also ideal scenario is gpus at 99%, cpu usage below 100%.
Cpu usage changes game to game, also ideal scenario is gpus at 99%, cpu usage below 100%.
These cards have been tested even in 4K and they cope just fine.
What are you talking about?
Most people game at 1080p, and there is no game that it couldn't run on that.
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Tested, tested for a dose maybe...
There is no way 3GB VRAM is enough for 4k.
I'm playing Battlfield at 1440P and with Shadow Play enabled I'm hitting my VRAM limit occasionally.
There is no way 3GB VRAM is enough for 4k.
I'm playing Battlfield at 1440P and with Shadow Play enabled I'm hitting my VRAM limit occasionally.
And every time you hit the Vram limit do you get an insane stutter where it buffers Vram to the HDD and it turns unplayable for a few secs?
No? Maybe the only reason you notice it hitting the limit is because you are looking for it.
If it doesn't make a difference..
you might not notice stuttering too much if you're just on the borderline, but if you're severely lacking in VRAM you'll suffer quite a hit.
4k will need more than 3gb unless you're just using it for office.
Actually they don't
They are often tested with the settings turned down which makes the whole point of 4K a joke.
There are only two cards I can think of that are suitable for 4K maxed out and even then you are going to need three of four of them working together. The first is the 6gb version of the HD 7970 and the other is the Titan.
And to bring up the that old chestnut, Skyrim with lots of mods, when tested at 4K it used 5.5gb of VRAM.
There are also other games like Crysis 3 and RTW2 that make very big demands on VRAM before anyone says Skyrim modded is...............
Battlefield 1942 ?
I don't have any issues with mine in 1440p ! but perhaps it's because I'm running of an SSD so texture caching/swapping is done much faster.
Oh no... that won't happen until some time 2016. I don't see the bigger need for such a high pixel density on only 27~29" screens yet.
But I have been running 7680x1440p for about a month while doing some reviews for a HW site.
I would rather have a bigger screen (about 40") with 4K so I could play something like Civ5 with most of the map on screen.
Ahhh ok
I can't see me being in a hurry to go for 4K. After buying a 1440P Dell, I was expecting to see a clear difference in picture sharpness and all I have noticed is tearing or input lag
It does look sweet in games that are not fps's (BF3/4 style) and V-Sync can be used but if I am truly honest, I was very disappointed with 1440P over 120Hz 1080P. Give me the latter any time.
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Actually the frame rate did plummet. I hit 3030MB and performance canned it. I think Shadow Play running also contributed. But BF4 will use 2800MB+ with maximum settings when 3GB is available.
Anyone who thinks 3GB is enough for 4K is kidding themselves all the way to the bank.
For the record I'm using a 500GB RAID0 array of 2x Samsung 840Pros, no amount of SATA bus speed is going to compensate for GDDR5.
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HardOCP had serious problems with it on the Ti IIRC. A lot of these games are very conservative these days depending on how much is available which is why you don't get what we used to, where textures and explosions would appear as big white block place holders lol.
But there's only so many things they can hold back on. When I toppled BF4 my frame rate instantly went down from 100+ to 30 and below. It was pretty f'ing obvious lol.
But there's only so many things they can hold back on. When I toppled BF4 my frame rate instantly went down from 100+ to 30 and below. It was pretty f'ing obvious lol.
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