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Another GPU launch and time for me to have a quick look at how all these cards bench on Air. For me this stuff is very interesting as it gives me a feel for the efficiency of the card and how this will translate into record breaking scores on LN2 cooling.
In this mini bench off I am looking at the stock performance (yes that dirty word stock!!!!) of the two new GPU on the block the Nvidia 780 ti and Nvidia 780ghz edition. I previously looked at R290X and 780 at stock in this review http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18551642 so should you require stock figures for those two cards please refer accordingly.
I am then going to overclock the 780ti on air and put it up against a 780 Classified by EVGA and AMD's new R9 290 and R9 290X. The 780ghz given its phenomenal boost clocks out of the box (1123/6000) had no overclocking headroom to speak of sadly. |I tested two different manufacturers cards with the same results. For a plug and play card showed a good set of benches. I could not prove at least for the 780 ghz SKU that Nvidias claims of B1 stepping cards offering more overclocking to be true. They are just optimized to be fast out of the box.
For all the Nvidia Cards I am using the latest driver version 331.65 and for AMD I am using the new 13.11 Beta 8 driver. Windows 7 64 Bit is the OS of choice.
The rag I mean rig
used for this review is Intel 4770K HT enabled 5ghz Uncore 4.4ghz, ASUS M6G, Corsair Vengeance tuned to DDR3 2666mhz C9-12-12-21 1T. PSU is Antec 1200 (to ensure these power houses are not short of a watt or two!!
In the graphs below you see the results for Heaven 3.0 at 4xAF, 4XAA and Normal Tessalation (As used all over these forums), Valley in Xtreme HD preset ,3D Mark 11 Performance Pre set ,Firestrike and Firestrike Xtreme Presets.
The winner in all but one benchmark was the Overclocked 780ti. Which I managed to overclock stably on the stock Nvidia cooler to 1284/7500. That's a 28% Overclock on the core which is very impressive. This card is a graphical power house and with Nvidia actually supporting overclockers by allowing overclocking boards such as Lightning, HOF and DC2 with redesigned PWM I can only see even more performance with this GPU being possible in future.
The clear second spot card that even took out Nvidia's mighty new offering in 3D Mark 11 was R290X. This card which I selected at random was capable of 1210 on the core a 21% overclock but sadly the memory only got as far as 6000 mhz which is the weakest sample I have tested in 6. Normally you can expect 6400+ on the memory of these GPU which would make the results in the other benches very very close indeed. Again custom PCB are coming on this card too!!! to give us even more FPS!!!
For sheer Overclocking headroom you cant fault the EVGA's 780 Classified. The build quality of the card is top notch with uprated PWM as standard and a near silent stock cooler. At 1384 mhz stable on Air it overclocked better than any air 780 I have tried. It did this by not just great Core clocks but also consistently high memory clocks of 7400mhz. Role on 780 ti Classy King Pin edition!! Put me on the list Vince
Last but not least is undoubtedly the best value card on the planet right now. The R290. This card overclocked to 1220/6400 and came very very close to both the R290X and the 780ti performance at much less cost.
So in summary, ultimate performer 780ti closely followed by and eclipsed in one instance by R290X. Best Value R290. Great plug and play ghz edition and most fun for overclocking and with low noise whilst still competing on performance EVGA Classified.
The LN2 on the R290X starts today and I am going to China in December to hammer a 780ti in a similar way. Benching just got very interesting and the very powerful ti will no doubt be a great choice of bench markers around the world for breaking the odd record
Did that 1000litre LN2 truck arrive yet???
In this mini bench off I am looking at the stock performance (yes that dirty word stock!!!!) of the two new GPU on the block the Nvidia 780 ti and Nvidia 780ghz edition. I previously looked at R290X and 780 at stock in this review http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18551642 so should you require stock figures for those two cards please refer accordingly.
I am then going to overclock the 780ti on air and put it up against a 780 Classified by EVGA and AMD's new R9 290 and R9 290X. The 780ghz given its phenomenal boost clocks out of the box (1123/6000) had no overclocking headroom to speak of sadly. |I tested two different manufacturers cards with the same results. For a plug and play card showed a good set of benches. I could not prove at least for the 780 ghz SKU that Nvidias claims of B1 stepping cards offering more overclocking to be true. They are just optimized to be fast out of the box.
For all the Nvidia Cards I am using the latest driver version 331.65 and for AMD I am using the new 13.11 Beta 8 driver. Windows 7 64 Bit is the OS of choice.
The rag I mean rig
used for this review is Intel 4770K HT enabled 5ghz Uncore 4.4ghz, ASUS M6G, Corsair Vengeance tuned to DDR3 2666mhz C9-12-12-21 1T. PSU is Antec 1200 (to ensure these power houses are not short of a watt or two!!In the graphs below you see the results for Heaven 3.0 at 4xAF, 4XAA and Normal Tessalation (As used all over these forums), Valley in Xtreme HD preset ,3D Mark 11 Performance Pre set ,Firestrike and Firestrike Xtreme Presets.
The winner in all but one benchmark was the Overclocked 780ti. Which I managed to overclock stably on the stock Nvidia cooler to 1284/7500. That's a 28% Overclock on the core which is very impressive. This card is a graphical power house and with Nvidia actually supporting overclockers by allowing overclocking boards such as Lightning, HOF and DC2 with redesigned PWM I can only see even more performance with this GPU being possible in future.
The clear second spot card that even took out Nvidia's mighty new offering in 3D Mark 11 was R290X. This card which I selected at random was capable of 1210 on the core a 21% overclock but sadly the memory only got as far as 6000 mhz which is the weakest sample I have tested in 6. Normally you can expect 6400+ on the memory of these GPU which would make the results in the other benches very very close indeed. Again custom PCB are coming on this card too!!! to give us even more FPS!!!
For sheer Overclocking headroom you cant fault the EVGA's 780 Classified. The build quality of the card is top notch with uprated PWM as standard and a near silent stock cooler. At 1384 mhz stable on Air it overclocked better than any air 780 I have tried. It did this by not just great Core clocks but also consistently high memory clocks of 7400mhz. Role on 780 ti Classy King Pin edition!! Put me on the list Vince
Last but not least is undoubtedly the best value card on the planet right now. The R290. This card overclocked to 1220/6400 and came very very close to both the R290X and the 780ti performance at much less cost.
So in summary, ultimate performer 780ti closely followed by and eclipsed in one instance by R290X. Best Value R290. Great plug and play ghz edition and most fun for overclocking and with low noise whilst still competing on performance EVGA Classified.
The LN2 on the R290X starts today and I am going to China in December to hammer a 780ti in a similar way. Benching just got very interesting and the very powerful ti will no doubt be a great choice of bench markers around the world for breaking the odd record
Did that 1000litre LN2 truck arrive yet???
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