290 vs 780

[Bart_Hunt]

I still have my 780s.
Wouldn't switch them for anything else, but maybe will have to soon - but it will be Titan Black most likely
780 for 290 would be a downgrade for me - my 780s still beat any 290 in benches.

 

[Tonester0011]

Damn, I could've saved some dollar and just got a 750Ti

 

[shankly1985]

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If it's mantle he using, then he correct.

 

[Gregster]

If it's mantle he's using, then he's correct.

I agree, Whyscotty is indeed correct

 

[Tonester0011]

I agree with the above.

 

[uksoldierboy]

I still have my 780s.
Wouldn't switch them for anything else, but maybe will have to soon - but it will be Titan Black most likely
780 for 290 would be a downgrade for me - my 780s still beat any 290 in benches.

what benchmarks?

 

[DLD]

what benchmarks?

Heaven and Valley of course!

On a more serious note, I had a 290 and 780 and they both were like identical. My 780 scored higher in some benches but it was by like 5 fps.

If you have either a 780 or 290 I see no reason to switch between them.

 

[tayto_0]

Went from a 780 to 290 to 750ti to 780ti, no difference between the lot.

To be honest i also notice very little difference with the games i play.

780 for 290 would be a downgrade for me - my 780s still beat any 290 in benches.

A 290 is not a downgrade from a 780 and i'd love to see these benches of yours where your 780s beat any 290s! That's quite the claim there. 780s are fine cards but lets not get carried away here

 

[Nickolp1974]

A 290 is not a downgrade from a 780 and i'd love to see these benches of yours where your 780s beat any 290s! That's quite the claim there. 780s are fine cards but lets not get carried away here

Do i realky need to list the bench's where the 780 does beat the 290??

 

[tayto_0]

Do i realky need to list the bench's where the 780 does beat the 290??

Nope! he needs to list the benches where his 780s beat any 290s

 

[Panos]

Anyone made the jump from 780 to 290? Im going to be down to a single 780 soon for a while and I have the chance to swap for an MSI GE 290 (same as 780) if I wish. Gaming on a single 1400p monitor and I know they pretty similar performance wise but would I gain anything from the 290?

Mantle could be useful as they are saying the new dragon age is 200 hours to wrap up everything and thats my biggest game this year easy.

Anything else? And please no fanboy-ism,productive answers only!

Keep your 780 until we see what are the new offerings later this year.
A GSync monitor is better investment now, and it will help you weather off any low fps.

I have a 780 3GB, having set couple of games I play* on 4K (downsampling) and it holds well. The game that consumed most VRAM (2930MB) was ESO in Cyrodiil, with 300 people fighting, and around 40 siege engines per side. And yes the fps went all way down to 43. (Gsync will solve the low fps issues....)


None of them is BF4 or Watchdogs or Metro, but I do not care nor playing those games. If you do though, I would rather get a 780 6GB than a 290.
At the end of the day, except some pretty poor developed games (Watchdogs) not many games can cripple the 780 core while overclocked ~1200Mhz at 1440p.

Of course I keep my eyes open to sell my 780 and get a 780 6GB when an opportunity arises.


*Games tested : Elite Dangerous, ESO, WT, WoT, Endless Space.

 

[ubersonic]

If it's a straight swap and your going to be hammering the hell out of a Mantle title in the near future then I say go for it. If money is involved however then the is no point paying to side-grade at this point at this late stage of this GPU generation.

 

[uksoldierboy]

If it's a straight swap and your going to be hammering the hell out of a Mantle title in the near future then I say go for it. If money is involved however then the is no point paying to side-grade at this point at this late stage of this GPU generation.

+1

Op I'd hang tight.