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Nvidia 780 Ti Classified - What is the difference?

MjFrosty said:
Actually the frame rate did plummet. I hit 3030MB and performance canned it. I think Shadow Play running also contributed. But BF4 will use 2800MB+ with maximum settings when 3GB is available.

Anyone who thinks 3GB is enough for 4K is kidding themselves all the way to the bank.

For the record I'm using a 500GB RAID0 array of 2x Samsung 840Pros, no amount of SATA bus speed is going to compensate for GDDR5.
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Exactly. I've been told by people on here who haven't run out of VRAM what happens when you run out of VRAM. They say it's a flat performance drop versus a similar card with available VRAM.

Nonsense. The game becomes completely unplayable as you constantly stream from the page file where the speeds are way down on GDDR5. It manifests in stuttering although I'd say it's more 'hitching' where the game will freeze momentarily, catch up to normal frame rate again and then hitch again.
 
^^ I ran out as well on the 680's but apparently, I was wrong in what happens, as those who had never run out knew best.
 
Rusty0611 said:
Nonsense. The game becomes completely unplayable as you constantly stream from the page file where the speeds are way down on GDDR5. It manifests in stuttering although I'd say it's more 'hitching' where the game will freeze momentarily, catch up to normal frame rate again and then hitch again.
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+1

Using a 2gb card with RTW2 @1600p, it is a bit like hitting a brick wall
 
Kaapstad said:
I would rather have a bigger screen (about 40") with 4K so I could play something like Civ5 with most of the map on screen.
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I only had the 3x screen setup for reviewing purposes. Personally I prefer one screen since is rarely notice what's being displayed on the other two when gaming. It's only in flight simulators I found it very useful. But these days I haven't time for the advanced flight sims.
A 40" TFT for my PC I think would be to much for me when only sitting 40cm from the screen.

Gregster said:
Ahhh ok :)

I can't see me being in a hurry to go for 4K. After buying a 1440P Dell, I was expecting to see a clear difference in picture sharpness and all I have noticed is tearing or input lag :(

It does look sweet in games that are not fps's (BF3/4 style) and V-Sync can be used but if I am truly honest, I was very disappointed with 1440P over 120Hz 1080P. Give me the latter any time.
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I had one of the first 120Hz screen back in the day, but was disappointed with the washed out colours it presented (Samsung RZ223 I think it was called), so I went back to a larger screen at 1920x1200. Back in May I changed my Asus VW266H 1200p to an Asus PB27Q 1440p and I must say I am very pleased with this "upgrade" I have noticed a bit more crisp picture and my games still run like they use to.
 
I am probably being harsh on the Dell in truth, as my Asus monitors are the VG278H models which are the top of the range and such a good picture. If I went to the 1440P from my old Acer monitor that cost ~ 78p, then I would love it :D
 
Gregster said:
^^ I ran out as well on the 680's but apparently, I was wrong in what happens, as those who had never run out knew best.
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I think the confusion comes into play because of the fact (BF4 in particular as it's VRAM intensive) these games are very good at balancing what's available. So people think they're toppling their limit when in fact they're not. If anything it's a testament to the people at DICE.
 
MjFrosty said:
I think the confusion comes into play because of the fact (BF4 in particular as it's VRAM intensive) these games are very good at balancing what's available. So people think they're toppling their limit when in fact they're not. If anything it's a testament to the people at DICE.
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Agreed.

I remember Kaap benching BF4 at 1600P on his 690's and someone wanted the 2GB to fail so badly, he dismissed Kaap's results and said he was looking at the sky and didn't play long enough in his benching :o The 256bit bus on the 680/70 is weak though and is starting to get shown up a fair bit. The 770 has much faster memory, so it can hold its own, even at the bigger resolutions.
 
It would be quicker than caching to an SSD by a fair margin but still not as quick. GDDR5 and DDR3 are both fundamentally very different, not to mention miles apart in speed. GGDR can handle input and output on the same clock cycle where as DDR can't, it handles them on separate ones. Also using DDR you're still caching it outside of the PCI-E bus so there's latency there..

Simple answer is there is no simple answer other than more VRAM
 
Gregster said:
Agreed.

I remember Kaap benching BF4 at 1600P on his 690's and someone wanted the 2GB to fail so badly, he dismissed Kaap's results and said he was looking at the sky and didn't play long enough in his benching :o The 256bit bus on the 680/70 is weak though and is starting to get shown up a fair bit. The 770 has much faster memory, so it can hold its own, even at the bigger resolutions.
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Last time I tried I used a map with very few other players so I could spend a long time going everywhere (no sky was looked at) without getting killed. My two GTX 690s averaged 110fps and two of my R9 290Xs averaged 107fps, this was @1600p maxed out. The downside for the GTX 690s was a minimum of 47fps where as the R9 290Xs stayed above 70fps.
 
I'm not sure how anyone can cope with one card TBH. When I had my 290x it felt like a snail compared to my SLI setup. I know that is blatently obvious, but I just couldn't cope with having one card. Would drive me insane
 
rpggamesplayer said:
just ordered a ti classified i couldn't handle the issues i was having with crossfire r9 290's
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same here with sli 580s i wanna move away from that now and it looks like a single 780ti is the way to go for me. hopefully there will be some improvement from before. i had to wait a while as it usually wouldnt be worth upgrading from what i have
 
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