Geforce GTX 780, 770 coming in May

[Boomstick777]

When company X gives better value and performance, and company Y gives less performance for a higher price, you know company Y is Nvidia (;

I agree with your statement about loyalty, people attach emotions to products when it comes to PC's and are buying out of some strange sense of loyalty, or they think buying Nvidia somehow gives a higher status of E-Peen.

Anyway we will see how long that loyalty lasts if Nvidia charge £600 for GTX 780

 

[IvanDobskey]

No idea why anyone would be loyal to any hardware manufacturer

Personally, I buy whatever I view as best value for the performance it gives as long as it fits my needs

 

[Suarez7]

Manufacturer loyalty is the biggest reason people used to argue on here. The value for performance argument always gets covered up by people claiming AMD doesn't satisfy their needs.

 

[bru]

Used too.....?

 

[LtMatt]

Manufacturer loyalty is the biggest reason people used to argue on here. The value for performance argument always gets covered up by people claiming AMD doesn't satisfy their needs.

Terrible drivers more like.

I'm still awaiting my first serious driver problem.

 

[Suarez7]

Used too.....?

Well it doesn't seem as bad these days, maybe that's because I don't spend too much time in this sub forum anymore.

Terrible drivers more like.

I'm still awaiting my first serious driver problem.

Woops, forgot about drivers still being brought up.

 

[Gregster]

GPU,s are very much like football teams, it doesn't matter how bad they are at times, we will only see the good side.

 

[Suarez7]

Apart from the team you support is usually due to the area you grew up in or who your father supports. If that's what makes you decide your graphics card manufacturer then I want to live a day in the life of you lol

 

[ubersonic]

Manufacturer loyalty is the biggest reason people used to argue on here. The value for performance argument always gets covered up by people claiming AMD doesn't satisfy their needs.

Yeah, who needs decent drivers...

 

[Boomstick777]

I buy whatever I view as best value for the performance it gives as long as it fits my needs

Damn straight, I've been waiting for a really good single card GPU and think the 780 could be it if it's priced at around £400.

Anybody know when NDA is over? I wanna know the launch date dammit !!

 

[ackersfury]

Ohhh, glad i saw this thread, i was going to buy myself a 670 next week, guess i'll hold off for the 770

 

[Borsch]

Terrible drivers more like.

I'm still awaiting my first serious driver problem.

I play flight sims and AMD drivers suck for ALL of my choices- Rise of FLight (AMD has no SGSSA support to get rid of shimmers), IL2:Cliffs of Dover (AMD has "exclusive" bugs with landscape graphics). FSX also apparently runs better on Nvidia, as (allegedly) does DCS:World.

 

[Darujhistan]

No idea why anyone would be loyal to any hardware manufacturer

Personally, I buy whatever I view as best value for the performance it gives as long as it fits my needs

Loyalty to GPU manufacturers is absolutely tragic. It's one of the very saddest phenomenons I have ever seen. It truly is sad beyond measure.

Gaming is always going to be a bit of a geeky world - but these people who invest their hearts and souls into defending one side or the other must be so lonely. I could understand 12 year olds arguing about GPU's I guess, but to read grown men having their ickle feelings hurt about their graphics card manufacturer just blows my mind.

I just buy the right fit for need and buy whatever gives the best bang for the buck, anything else is just childish and sad.

 

[Jono8]

Why does everyone think that because the 770GTX is as fast if not faster than the 680GTX it means it will be the same price, if not more than a 680GTX

This is a new generation of cards (albeit only a refresh) so obviously they will replace current price points. Just because a card is the same performance or faster, it doesnt mean it will be more expensive.

If we lived in this la la land that most of the people in here are proposing then Graphics cards would cost a million pounds each by now

 

[Suarez7]

Jono this is Nvidia we're talking about, there's not a chance the 780 will replace the 680 price point. In fact if I could bet on it I'd put every last penny I had on it.

 

[ubersonic]

Why does everyone think that because the 770GTX is as fast if not faster than the 680GTX it means it will be the same price, if not more than a 680GTX

Because the 770 is the replacement for the 680, the 780 is a higher tier in the lineup. They are reorganising the numbers so they don't have to have some cards end in a 5 like with previous generations as that looks messy when you try and cram a card in between two or at the top of the scale.

They could have called the GTX 770 the GTX 685 and the GTX 760Ti the GTX 675 but then what about the GTX 780? theres already a GTX690 so it couldn't be the GTX 687.5 that would just be stupid, and Titan LE/SE/XT would be silly too. As crazy as it sounds incrementing the generation number and reorganising the model numbers is actually the sensible thing.

 

[chaparral]

If we lived in this la la land that most of the people in here are proposing then Graphics cards would cost a million pounds each by now

Don't worry NVidia doing it best to get close to that price...

 

[Mr Krugga]

Because the 770 is the replacement for the 680, the 780 is a higher tier in the lineup. They are reorganising the numbers so they don't have to have some cards end in a 5 like with previous generations as that looks messy when you try and cram a card in between two or at the top of the scale.

There's no indication that they're doing that. All sources actually point to the contrary.

 

[MichaelM]

Yeah, who needs decent drivers...

Me?
BSOD's with 306.97, even at stock frequencies.

Then 314.22, missing water and strange geometry lines

Had to re-install them to fix it.



Neither can produce 100% perfect drivers but 6970 CF was plain sailing compared to this single 670

 

[Suarez7]

Awaits one of the many excuses to MichaelM's nvidia driver problems with the first probably being PEBKAC.