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Geforce GTX 780, 770 coming in May

pgi947 said:
^rumours suggest the 760Ti will at the very least rival the 7950 on all fronts, with ~670 performance with price estimates in the $300 region.
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Can't say I'm impressed. That would make it £240 - £260. Without AMD's games bundle. And you've been able to pick up good non-ref 7950s for £240 for what, 6 months now?
 
ubersonic said:
Its doubtful they can really, their new architecture isn't ready yet and they can't really release boosted versions of the 7970/7950 because they did that already when the GTX680 and GTX660Ti launched (7970GE and 7950B).

The only surprise I could see coming is if AMD or one of their 3rd party manufacturers drop a HD7950-X2, that would shake things up big time.
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Hmm but most people don't like dual cards or crossfire due to the probelms they have and would rather have a single card... AMD must be a bit worried with the new Nvidia cards..
 
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opethdisciple said:
When are the 770's due?

A great card if Nvidia get the pricing right could be the 760. It could blow the 7950 out the water price/perf.
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nV haven't had a truly *amazing* price/performance card since the 460 :p Hence the reason for me moving to a 7850 this time around. I'd initially planned on moving to a 660, but when finally released it seemed overpriced for what it was.
 
At GTX600 launch it wasn't bad - it's just that as AMD have improved their drivers, NVidia seem happy to keep arguing that things are still the same as they were at launch.

So basically the NVidia range are all a price point too high - the GTX680 should be priced against the 7970, the GTX670 against the 7950, and so on and so forth.
 
NirK said:
Hmm but most people don't like dual cards or crossfire due to the probelms they have and would rather have a single card... AMD must be a bit worried with the new Nvidia cards..
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True, I would rather have a single card over a dual GPU card too, and I would rather have Nvidia than AMD (not fanboyism, recently burned by the HD9750 drivers). But if it was a choice between a GTX780 or a HD7950-X2 for £100 less with 30-40% more performance I wouldn't hesitate. The 3D1/3850X2/4850X2 were great cards, pity manufacturers ignore that segment now.
 
FoxEye said:
nV haven't had a truly *amazing* price/performance card since the 460 :p Hence the reason for me moving to a 7850 this time around. I'd initially planned on moving to a 660, but when finally released it seemed overpriced for what it was.
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I remember getting the top of the range MSI Hawk GTX460 from here for £160 delivered, it was factory overclocked to >GTX470 performance, and that was when the GTX480 was the worlds fastest GPU, /sigh.
 
Don't the dual cards have all the issues of crossfire / SLI though?

I would rather have 20% less performance but no input lag, stuttering, compatability probs etc.

I guess this is why the titan outsells the 7990 / 690 by a lot even though they are faster and cheaper?
 
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nickrorschach said:
How long do you think it will be before we see 4 or 6GB GTX780s (if at all?).

Isn't 3GB a bit risky considering the VRAM specifications of the new consoles?
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The new consoles don't have dedicated VRAM.

They have 8GB DDR3/GDDR5 of shared RAM.

The limitation isn't likely to show up this generation since the new consoles are rendering at 1920x1080, which is a standard and rather non-demanding resolution.
 
nickrorschach said:
How long do you think it will be before we see 4 or 6GB GTX780s (if at all?).

Isn't 3GB a bit risky considering the VRAM specifications of the new consoles?
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4GB won't work, you may see 6GB cards in future but that's basically a Titan!

Remember the console memory is usually shared. Most Gaming PCs's have 4+ GB system RAM plus vRAM.

IMO there is no way the under-powered gfx on a console can come close to high spec PC with a 780. IIRC the console GPUs are similar to AMD 78XX cards. Consider the 780 is ~20% faster than a 7970GE! Which in turn is MUCH faster than a 7850 (or similar).

The CPUs are also weaker on consoles based around AMD chips at lowish clock speeds.
 
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