Geforce GTX 780, 770 coming in May

Nuclear Fusion · 23 May 2013 at 16:05

illuz said:
It's a rebadged 680.

Ah, I suppose their yields of GK110 are probably good enough not to need to disable any more than 3 SMX clusters as they are on the 780. In that case, no point me getting a 770 then.

IvanDobskey · 23 May 2013 at 16:06

Rusty0611 said:
The 770 will be an incremental update. The 780 is actually a lot, lot closer in architecture to the Titan than it is the 680.

GK104 vs GK110

770 is highly likely to be a re-badged GK104 (680 basically) with possibly more voltage. So at 1080 the 7950s are likely to be ~10% slower when both are overclocked and this gap will widen at higher resolution.

The 780 is still not massively faster than a year old 680. What, about 25% faster? For an extra £200? Hilarious.

I'll wait for deals on the older cards like I did when I bagged my 480 for £180 after the 580's came out

illuz · 23 May 2013 at 16:07

Probably will have GPU Boost 2.0, but limits in voltage. The memory is a standard 7000MHz effective, instead of 6000MHz. Which is a *decent* upgrade. The core I think comes in at 1100Mhz and will overclock further, tbh the 770 is what the 680 SHOULD have been. It's to directly compete with the 7970GE.

Rusty0611 · 23 May 2013 at 16:08

IvanDobskey said:
The 780 is still not massively faster than a year old 680. What, about 25% faster? For an extra £200? Hilarious.

25% is not what I would call incremental though. It's a pretty decent bump.

Price... the market will determine if it is acceptable or not just like it did with the Titan

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Time will tell.

illuz said:
It's to directly compete with the 7970GE.

It'll still be slaughtered at high res and triple screen resolution. The 256 bit bus does tank in some games quite badly if you apply AA.

IvanDobskey · 23 May 2013 at 16:11

Rusty0611 said:
25% is not what I would call incremental though. It's a pretty decent bump.

Price... the market will determine if it is acceptable or not just like it did with the Titan .

Time will tell.

It'll still be slaughtered at high res and triple screen resolution. The 256 bit bus does tank in some games quite badly if you apply AA.

If it released at the 680's price and gave 25% then ok. But to wait a year and then have to pay an extra £200 over a 680 is just unbelievable.

I will not be buying any more nvidia cards until their pricing policy changes.

They are just price gouging as amd don't have a new round of cards. Sorry nvidia, but not all of us have less sense than money.

alex_123_fra · 23 May 2013 at 16:11

I am a bit miffed. The waterblocked 780s are now out and available to buy. I wanted one of these in the first place but OCUK told me they won't be available for another week at least so I bought a normal ref Gigabyte card instead.

Now had to place a separate order for a compatible waterblock and backplate and I'll have to fit it myself and paid postage twice. Rare for you but that is a bit poor OCUK :mad:

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Zeed · 23 May 2013 at 16:11

Anyone seen one of those cards tested in 3D gaming ??

Five.Stars · 23 May 2013 at 16:14

For it to have been good value the 780 would have needed to have come in at 680 prices, 770 at 670 prices etc.

This is meant to be a generational leap, yet the part replacing the current high end (680 being replaced by 770) is only marginally faster for the same price. The actual top end part, which is a good bit faster is another £200-£250 more expensive.

It looks a fantastic card. If it had been priced at 680 prices, it would have been a phenomanaly good card. Possibly 1 of the all time greats.

However, due to Titan, that was never likely to happen.

Five.Stars · 23 May 2013 at 16:16

alex_123_fra said:
I am a bit miffed. The waterblocked 780s are now out and available to buy. I wanted one of these in the first place but OCUK told me they won't be available for another week at least so I bought a normal ref Gigabyte card instead.

Now had to place a separate order for a compatible waterblock and backplate and I'll have to fit it myself and paid postage twice. Rare for you but that is a bit poor OCUK .

Cancel original order? A quick phonecall and they will sort it out, I'm sure. Always had excellent customer service anytime I have needed to contact them.

andybird123 · 23 May 2013 at 16:22

Rusty0611 said:
It'll still be slaughtered at high res and triple screen resolution. The 256 bit bus does tank in some games quite badly if you apply AA.

have you got any links for that?

cheers,

alex_123_fra · 23 May 2013 at 16:28

Five.Stars said:
Cancel original order? A quick phonecall and they will sort it out, I'm sure. Always had excellent customer service anytime I have needed to contact them.

I would but my 780 has already been shipped. This would create a massive ballache as I would need to pay £670-ish on top to get the waterblocked card and then send back the original 780 they sent to me and wait for them to refund me.

I have posted in the customer services section to see if I can at least get my postage refunded given that I had to place a second order for a waterblock/backplate.

Kaapstad · 23 May 2013 at 16:30

alex_123_fra said:
I would but my 780 has already been shipped. This would create a massive ballache as I would need to pay £670-ish on top to get the waterblocked card and then send back the original 780 they sent to me and wait for them to refund me.

I have posted in the customer services section to see if I can at least get my postage refunded given that I had to place a second order for a waterblock/backplate.

If I remember right, I don't think they will ship it until this evening.

You still have time to phone them and change your order.

andybird123 · 23 May 2013 at 16:31

alex_123_fra said:
I would but my 780 has already been shipped. This would create a massive ballache as I would need to pay £670-ish on top to get the waterblocked card and then send back the original 780 they sent to me and wait for them to refund me.

I have posted in the customer services section to see if I can at least get my postage refunded given that I had to place a second order for a waterblock/backplate.

if you made another 20 or so posts you would get free shipping anyway

Rusty0611 · 23 May 2013 at 16:36

andybird123 said:
have you got any links for that?

cheers,

My own testing of both 680s and 7950s

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alex_123_fra · 23 May 2013 at 16:46

andybird123 said:
if you made another 20 or so posts you would get free shipping anyway

I obviously don't post enough

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Kaap I checked and they are super quick these days. Order already shipped so time for me to learn how to crack open a card and apply a block/backplate.

ubersonic · 23 May 2013 at 16:49

alex_123_fra said:
I obviously don't post enough .

Kaap I checked and they are super quick these days. Order already shipped so time for me to learn how to crack open a card and apply a block/backplate.

Its counter intuitive but the Titan PCB is a really easy first card to do it on due to the layout being less cluttered than most

spixelspixel · 23 May 2013 at 16:49

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ4g_J3CMfw

Kaapstad · 23 May 2013 at 16:51

alex_123_fra said:
I obviously don't post enough .

Kaap I checked and they are super quick these days. Order already shipped so time for me to learn how to crack open a card and apply a block/backplate.

It is very easy to fit a waterblock/backplate, I think you will find it interesting.

I was a little worried when I did the first one the other week but it was very straight forward.

Meeeellar · 23 May 2013 at 16:57

alex_123_fra said:
I obviously don't post enough .

Kaap I checked and they are super quick these days. Order already shipped so time for me to learn how to crack open a card and apply a block/backplate.

You dont need another 20 posts. You can get free delivery now.

Spie said:
OcUK Forums members who have been registered for over 12 months and made at least 100 posts

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17943556

alex_123_fra · 23 May 2013 at 16:57

Kaapstad said:
It is very easy to fit a waterblock/backplate, I think you will find it interesting.

I was a little worried when I did the first one the other week but it was very straight forward.

Very encouraging

. I look forward to it.