If any of you guys are looking at picking up that msi gaming card, Im buying card #2 tonight. If somebody wants to move a nice reference card ill buy if the price is right.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814127770
Newegg has the MSI Gaming Ti for anyone that was waiting for one.
I'll be interested to hear how you feel this compares to 680SLI.
I went with a single 780 over getting 670SLI for BF4, and it's very good (but I am very bad right now in the game...).
I tried 7870CF as an alternative, and despite similar fps, it was worse overall.
Is the 780ti slower than two 680's? Did you choose the 780ti to avoid SLI?
Finally got around to installing the GB GTX 780 Ti OC . Looks to be around 20% faster than 680 2GB SLI in BF4.
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Also made a video, and if you look at the graph it looks more consistent.
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I'm kinda surprised it ended up being this much faster. I can almost run 1080p at Ultra settings at 120fps, which is what I want. I was running 680 SLI at a mix of med-high, with some stuff turned off like AO and ran at 2X MSAA. I should be able to maintain most of the Ultra quality settings and still hit 120fps. I was also capturing with Shadowplay, so that is a few frames more here and there. I'm tempted to overclock it, but as it is I am pretty happy with the card. I was thinking a 6 core i7 would be my next update, but I couldnt help to wonder what it would be like to have this card in SLI...
If you main intention of the 780Ti SLI is Battlefield 4 then it probably wouldn't be worth it because SLI doesn't scale well in BF4, which is probably also why your 780Ti does so much better than your 680 SLI.
That 4930k would definitely help heaps in BF4 though.
Excellent video Childs, impressive results overall for that 780ti. God does the 680 look pathetically small and 2 are still slower in BF4 then a single 780ti.
If you main intention of the 780Ti SLI is Battlefield 4 then it probably wouldn't be worth it because SLI doesn't scale well in BF4, which is probably also why your 780Ti does so much better than your 680 SLI.
That 4930k would definitely help heaps in BF4 though.
sli scales just fine in BF4
Maybe I phrased it wrong. I didn't say that BF4 has bad to no SLI scaling. It just doesn't have good SLI scaling.
A stock reference 780 Ti shouldn't be beating a stock reference 690 in any game with good SLI scaling.
And that's most likely a canned benchmark, the best case scenario for 690.
The scaling is likely to be even worse in multiplayer, where the game is most definitely CPU limited, and the extra CPU driver overhead of SLI isn't likely to help it out.
Haha, I know what you mean.. I gave up waiting only to continue waiting...
The video Ghods are upset I didn't wait for the 780 Ti Classified.
Classy premium was $40 at evga.com, GHz will probably be $20 or $30 over reference.
I seem to get at the same settings twice the frame rate from 2x 680 than I do when just running a single card. I suspect either drivers or the game has been patched to fix the SLI scaling, because its near perfect in multiplayer and singleplayer for me. Not that I recommend 2x 680 anymore but SLI scaling is usually pretty good and in this particular case I have no quibbles at all, I run the game at 110-177 fps on 64 player servers.
Classy premium was $40 at evga.com, GHz will probably be $20 or $30 over reference.
Are you using the in game FPS display or something like Afterburner or Precision? Just wondering if there is a fix for the latter yet?
I would love to find a way to trade my two cards for one of these. The CF thing was fun to mess around with, but I miss the simplicity.
$40 when you are already talking $700 plus is a drop in the bucket. We are talking 5% here. It's comical how much people sweat a couple of bucks here and there.... Time is money too. Waiting weeks for something to drop $20-$30 bucks is crazy. It's literally like a buck a day. My sanity and time is worth way more than that. I would rather get the thing and use it while all the other people spend their time arguing over it.
Not saying that's exactly what's going on here.... Just saying that's funny how $20-$30 holds up a purchase that is $700 bucks.
780 Ti Classified is on Newegg and getting gouged $60 over initial list price of EVGA (which went up as they sold out constantly).
Even at $799 had I not bought this 780 GHz I'd have payed that premium, not even sure why I didn't get the 780 Classified other than ohh shiny
Did you get your 4K monitor in yet ? :ninja:
I'm still waiting on my 780ti SLI myself. I entered the stepup queue mid November at about 300 in the line and I am at 210/209 currently.... lol. I will get them in time for the Summer at this rate, when I least want to waste time on them.
If I was buying them new I would only get the 780ti Classified. As Lava has said, why the feck would you worry over $30 or whatever if you are spending $700. Get the best 780ti available. If you don't care for having voltage control then I can understand getting one of the custom aftermarket OC cards, there are plenty available.