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Best GPU of 2013 - PCPerspective

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Winner: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

Runner Up: R9 290 with Non-Reference Cooling Solution

Let us start with the most concise, epic controversy. The Hawaii GPU is an amazing chip at an amazing price point with a bad reference design. As Josh stated, if the AIB partners had designs ready (and readily available) this year then the discussion would be much different. As it stands, however, the GK110-based GeForce GTX 780 is available at an acceptable price considering what you get and thus gets our vote.
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And....

Worst Trend of 2013

Winner: GPU Shortage Because of Coin Mining

Let us face it, it is too late to get rich from mining fresh Bitcoins. Not only is the complexity and payoff getting too troublesome but also many are using dedicated and custom-designed circuits for maximum performance at a minimum power draw. The way to get rich with GPUs is, as a reseller, to inflate prices on the poor suckers who think that an R9 290X will explode their bank account. Stop it and take a few seconds to smell the poop. Microphone... dropped.
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Whole podcast for those who are interested.


Incidentally, I subscribe to PCFormat and they gave the GTX 780Ti as 'High performance gear of the year' award and the GTX 770 picked up the 'Mid range gear of the year' award and to top it off, the GTX 650Ti bagged the 'budget gear of the year' award.

GTX 780Ti - "Stunning at stock clocks. Incredible overclocking performance. It's simply as fast as pixel pumping gets"

GTX 770 - "nVidia have absolutely nailed the price/performance metric with the new GTX 770. It's GK104 done right"

Zotac GTX 650Ti Boost - "This is where proper gaming performance begins. The best memory interface at this price by far"
 
I'm actually surprised that the titan isn't first, especially when you consider how long it dominated the absolute high end market. Would have put the 290 second too (or tie with a 780) as heat, noise and black screens aside, its a lot of card for the cash.
 
Nickolp1974 said:
Nvidia FTW! :D

Dont know if i'm suprised by this or not.
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What did surprise me was the GTX 770 picking up the mid range gear of the year award with PCFormat. I would have thought the 280X would have grabbed that but I guess they were expecting mid range to be 1080P users and the GTX 770 is a beast in that department. It wins in 15 of the 18 games benched on TechPowerUp, so I see why it won.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_770/7.html
 
pgi947 said:
I'm actually surprised that the titan isn't first, especially when you consider how long it dominated the absolute high end market. Would have put the 290 second too (or tie with a 780) as heat, noise and black screens aside, its a lot of card for the cash.
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UkHardware.info agree with you.

3D chip & graphics cards

Best 3D chip 2013: Nvidia GK110

Early in 2013 Nvidia introduced the GTX Titan, based on the GK110 GPU, a powerful enough beast that AMD was left without an answer until much later this year. The rival managed to get the better of Nvidia for all of a few weeks with the R9 290X - with the competition causing some much needed price drops - until Nvidia simply unleashed the full unlocked power of the GK110 with the GTX 780 Ti, which turned out to be the most powerful single-GPU graphics card we tested so far. As such, our readers voting the GK110 as best 3D chip of 2013 seems quite fair. AMD's Hawaii chip follows in second place.
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http://uk.hardware.info/reviews/508...s-2013---the-winners-3d-chip-a-graphics-cards

They do say GK110 though but as they mention the Titan, I am saying that is what the readers meant. I will read it how I like it :D
 
Tbh i think they have it spot on

Titan = amazing card but out of reach for most
290 = again an amazing card at a fantastic price but too may reported faults for my liking, would probably be cheaper if it wasn't for the mining boom.
780 = the wise mans choice for trouble free high end action.
 
pgi947 said:
I'm actually surprised that the titan isn't first, especially when you consider how long it dominated the absolute high end market. Would have put the 290 second too (or tie with a 780) as heat, noise and black screens aside, its a lot of card for the cash.
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+1

If you look at what you get with the Titan, performance, 6gb of vram and the compute functions it makes it serious value for money if you are going to use all the extra it comes with.
 
The 780 is/was a great piece of kit.

Clocking up to around 1200/1700, and considering the 290 issues, you've got stonkingly good performance. I'm very happy with mine.
 
AMD 290 at the top for me.

Without it nvidia would still be ripping people off right left and centre with the 780's.

Just a shame it was 6 months later than it should have been.

The 780 at a more sensible launch price would have had the year to itself.
 
I would have picked the 7970, the Titan was a wonderful piece of kit missing a killer application. The 7970 was what? £250? Could the difference be told between it and a standard 780 in game? I bought mine in Jan 2012 and it was only truly outclassed when the 780ti came along. I am happy to pay the entry cost on a the top end custom 780ti, it think it is worth the money.

A heavily clocked 7970 still holds its own for a rock bottom price.

Like I say, Titan was well ahead of its time it's just a shame the gaming industry went through a bare patch in 2013 in terms of heavyweight 3d games. It wasn't even a great bencher card, £800 and you still needed to run void your warranty to use it correctly.
 
Sorry mate I just don't get excited at running some games at 140fps rather than 120fps.

Even I look now at some of the 4k benches, there is like 10fps difference between top and bottom.

Value has to be a big metric and spending £600 on a crippled Kepler was noway the buy of the year. I feel sorry for the people who bought one and now see nvidia flog the Titan muncher 6 months on for the same money. This is classic nvidia Pr at work .
 
Besty said:
Sorry mate I just don't get excited at running some games at 140fps rather than 120fps.

Even I look now at some of the 4k benches, there is like 10fps difference between top and bottom.

Value has to be a big metric and spending £600 on a crippled Kepler was noway the buy of the year. I feel sorry for the people who bought one and now see nvidia flog the Titan muncher 6 months on for the same money. This is classic nvidia Pr at work .
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Without getting into deep debates, the 7970 was released at $500 and the early adopters were happy to pay that (as I understand it), 10 months later, they released the 12.11 drivers which bought the 7970 to a level it should have been at after a max of 3 months (my opinion). It struggled to pass a 580 in some games but I do understand it was a new tech, so needed time to improve. Don't get me wrong, as for a time I thought about jumping to a pair of 7970's when I see how crap the 256bit bus of the 680's were at 5760x1080 and only 3D kept me with nVidia at that time.

And if you had a GTX 460/6870 for instance and upgrading now, you will be seeing worthwhile gains. If you had a 280X/680, again I feel you will see beneficial gains from upgrading (game dependent of course) and we on these types of forums are a breed apart from Jo Public in general and upgrade because we want to, not because we need to.
 
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