780 good enough for 34inc 1440p Superwide ?

old gamer · 27 Oct 2015 at 19:47

get back in the monitor threads and lets see some pics

easyrider · 28 Oct 2015 at 15:28

Lol ok...

looking at the specs the 980 is more of a side grade or is this my upgrade route?

If I can pick one up in MM for 250 ?

It's getting stuttery when really busy in the pre sequel...

easyrider · 28 Oct 2015 at 15:37

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
The best thing is for you to run a few games and see how they do on your new monitor. If you delay your card upgrade longer there is more chance your next one will be a 14NM/16NM which will be more powerful and have better DX12 support.

When are these new cards due mate ?

Rroff · 28 Oct 2015 at 15:41

easyrider said:
Lol ok...

looking at the specs the 980 is more of a side grade or is this my upgrade route?

If I can pick one up in MM for 250 ?

It's getting stuttery when really busy in the pre sequel...

Hope for a good deal on the 980ti on black friday sales?

Personally don't rate the 980 as a significant upgrade over the 780 though it would help in VRAM limited situations and 1-2 games where Maxwell seems to be a big advantage.

easyrider · 28 Oct 2015 at 15:43

Rroff said:
Hope for a good deal on the 980ti on black friday sales?

Personally don't rate the 980 as a significant upgrade over the 780 though it would help in VRAM limited situations and 1-2 games where Maxwell seems to be a big advantage.

Yeah 980 is not shouting loudly TBH....

As a general overview what clocks should I be looking at on the 780 ?

whyscotty · 28 Oct 2015 at 15:43

Rroff said:
Personally don't rate the 980 as a significant upgrade over the 780

^^^
This

easyrider · 28 Oct 2015 at 15:45

Ok rules the 980 out then ...would rather tweak than side grade for the time being...

Mostly I'm at 60fps...and on the Dell in Superwide it look the nuts...

whyscotty · 28 Oct 2015 at 15:46

Wait if you can

Rroff · 28 Oct 2015 at 15:47

easyrider said:
As a general overview what clocks should I be looking at on the 780 ?

Depends on which core revision a bit - the older ones will often struggle over 11xx without BIOS mods, etc. but the OC models with the revision B cores should do 12xx easily, 13xx with BIOS mods for voltage/k-boost, etc. beyond that you'd need uprated cooling (or a very good clocker).

Check what boost clock you are actually running in game with GPU-z.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 28 Oct 2015 at 15:50

easyrider said:
When are these new cards due mate ?

Probably another 6 to 12 months time.

chroniclard · 28 Oct 2015 at 15:57

980 is about 25-30% quicker than a 780. Reference design/stock.

Rroff · 28 Oct 2015 at 16:24

^^ Problem is it isn't a straight forward story - if you jump from an early 780 to an OC model 980 then you'd probably see fairly decent gains, if you jump from a rev. B OC model 780 that can be boosting upto 20% faster than the older 780s out the box to the cheapest model 980s you'd probably be disappointed. At higher resolutions the difference in memory bandwidth can reduce the gap as well in some cases.

chroniclard · 28 Oct 2015 at 16:27

Need to compare apples to apples.

Rroff · 28 Oct 2015 at 16:41

chroniclard said:
Need to compare apples to apples.

Thats the problem - early 780s usually tapped out at 1176MHz sustained boost max when OC'd with only a few cards managing ~1250MHz with lots of voltage, etc. and a lot of the review numbers are based on 1006MHz clocks. A B1 stepping 780 will usually be boosting to about 1200MHz out the box and the good ones can hit 1400-1450 clocks (as someone mentioned above) which can make quite a difference when upgrading to a GTX980 - you really need to go to like a 980ti or something to marginalise the variation.

easyrider · 28 Oct 2015 at 16:43

Rroff said:
Depends on which core revision a bit - the older ones will often struggle over 11xx without BIOS mods, etc. but the OC models with the revision B cores should do 12xx easily, 13xx with BIOS mods for voltage/k-boost, etc. beyond that you'd need uprated cooling (or a very good clocker).

Check what boost clock you are actually running in game with GPU-z.

Ive got B1

Here are my current clocks

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What about my mem? I've not overclocked it as never needed to running 1080p

RavenXXX2 · 28 Oct 2015 at 16:53

What's the ASIC quality. Check what ram it uses, epileda sucks for clocking.

Rroff · 28 Oct 2015 at 16:58

I've never seen real gains from VRAM overclocking on mine outside of specific benchmarks like Heaven.

What does the sensors tab in GPU-z show after running a game for a bit?

easyrider · 28 Oct 2015 at 17:04

RavenXXX2 said:
What's the ASIC quality. Check what ram it uses, epileda sucks for clocking.

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easyrider · 28 Oct 2015 at 17:05

Rroff said:
I've never seen real gains from VRAM overclocking on mine outside of specific benchmarks like Heaven.

What does the sensors tab in GPU-z show after running a game for a bit?

I'll check now and report back...

For reference I have set the card to default clocks as a starting point.

Rroff · 28 Oct 2015 at 17:07

You "should" get some decent results - mine is 1020 GPU/1072 boost in GPU-z but does 1188 out the box actual ingame boost.