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780 vs 980

Not sure I understand the question. Are you asking how does the performance compare to a stock clocked 980 or are you asking how does it compare as an overclock to how a 980 might overclock?
 
A 980 isn't really a upgrade from a 780 (especially a good one such as your's) if that's what you are getting at. I have been toying with that idea myself and the only real upgrade is a 980ti and at £500+ that's never going to happen for me. I think your overclock put's your card past a stock 780ti and maybe around the Titan that came out around that time.
 
ins't +62mv going to drastically reduce the life of the card?

There are so many varying opinions on how far you can boost voltage.....
 
Geeman1979 said:
Stock for stock this is how they compare.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1351?vs=1036

Just bare in mind the 980's also clock well. The 980 will pull away again once overclocked.
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780 is a bit of a tricky one to compare due to the potential split between the original cards and revision B cards which typically, though not always, come boosting considerably higher out the box and with more potential overclocking headroom.

In my experience my card at its 1188 out the box boost was easily staying with a stock 780ti and at around 1300MHz was ballpark stock 980 performance - though there are some areas the 980 pulls ahead (but also some areas where the 780 has an advantage). You need to be well over 1400MHz clocks on the 780 to stick with an overclocked 980 - which requires a good clocker and some fairly serious cooling/modding i.e. firmware updates.

jonessa said:
ins't +62mv going to drastically reduce the life of the card?

There are so many varying opinions on how far you can boost voltage.....
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A few claims that the pushing the voltage over 1.2v on the 780 reduces lifespan to around 5 years - not sure what the source is but seen it repeated a few times including by people representing brands.
 
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Rroff said:
780 is a bit of a tricky one to compare due to the potential split between the original cards and revision B cards which typically, though not always, come boosting considerably higher out the box and with more potential overclocking headroom.

In my experience my card at its 1188 out the box boost was easily staying with a stock 780ti and at around 1300MHz was ballpark stock 980 performance - though there are some areas the 980 pulls ahead (but also some areas where the 780 has an advantage). You need to be well over 1400MHz clocks on the 780 to stick with an overclocked 980 - which requires a good clocker and some fairly serious cooling/modding i.e. firmware updates.



A few claims that the pushing the voltage over 1.2v on the 780 reduces lifespan to around 5 years - not sure what the source is but seen it repeated a few times including by people representing brands.
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Thanks man 1300 will do me just fine :), I'm waiting for Pascal. I'm just using the MSI afterburn on the msi website for the lightning card, I bought it for £179 on OCUK not bad for better then stock 980 performance tbh.
 
Hopefully you won't run into it but I've had some issues with some of my cards and overclocks with the past 2-3 nVidia drivers that means I have to enable k-boost to run the overclock stable in some older games (I can run newer stuff like Battlefront all day long).
 
faceman123 said:
Thanks man 1300 will do me just fine :), I'm waiting for Pascal. I'm just using the MSI afterburn on the msi website for the lightning card, I bought it for £179 on OCUK not bad for better then stock 980 performance tbh.
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A 1300 core 780 won't out pace a 980 at stock.
 
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^^ As I keep mentioning a lot of those benchmarks are using the original 780 and/or not actually re-running all the older cards (even when they say they do - its fairly obvious they don't when you use some of the cards day to day) - a rev B card even without overclocking would not be sitting at 108% on the 1440p results.

I've a 970 albeit on a slightly slower CPU sitting beside a rev B 780 (albeit GHz edition) at the moment and there is pretty much nothing in it in framerate at 1440p if I leave them both running at their out the box frequencies - while those results put them at 108% v 128% (conveniently the GHz edition is rated I believe at +19% over the original cards out the box).
 
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