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Originally Posted by damien c
Please point out where a GTX780 is beating a 780Ti in every single test, considering a 780 has a cut down core and the 780Ti has the full core unlocked?
Vram is not going to make up for the card having it's main core reduced!
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My god how blind are you? I've already pointed this out and provided links
three times.
Since you've proven yourself incapable of clicking the links I provided earlier, here's a direct view of the ACTUAL IMAGES proving you wrong:
http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/638...ew/index6.html
http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/585...ew/index8.html
GTX 780 6GB: 123fps/178fps/207fps
GTX 780 Ti: 118fps/168fps/193fps.
GTX 780 6GB: 74fps/114fps/135fps
GTX 780 Ti: 69fps/105fps/126fps
GTX 780 6GB: Avg 100fps/145fps/163fps
GTX 780 Ti: Avg 55fps/100fps/136fps
GTX 780 6GB: 53fps/77fps/91fps
GTX 780 Ti: 50fps/74fps/88fps
And it goes on and on...
And lowest price for a GTX 780Ti: £500 (excluding foreign Ebay retailers)
https://www.google.co.uk/search?outp...&oq=gtx+780+ti
Lowest price for a GTX 780 6GB OC: £400
https://www.google.co.uk/search?outp...6gb+twin+frozr
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Originally Posted by damien c
The 780's are good cards don't get me wrong but they can only compete with a 780Ti when the 780 is overclocked and the 780Ti is left at stock.
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And yet, the overclocked 780 is STILL £100 cheaper than the stock 780Ti,
and is faster in every single test.
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Originally Posted by damien c
When I look at reviews for cards I look at them based on the reviews using games with graphics that are actually decent rather, than cartoon graphics or that are gimped because the developer doesn't want to much of a difference between the pc graphics and the console graphics, which has been happening for a long time but has only recently been made public.
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I get it, you're annoyed with yourself because you wasted £1000 on a pair of overpriced graphics cards that you don't know how to use properly. However, just because you choose to play crap games that you're force fed by the mainstream media in order to justify your investment, does not mean everyone else is just as shallow. I've already proven several times your idea of "most games" does not reflect the reality of what most people play.
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Originally Posted by techguyone
I have the 780 GTX, I could have got the Ti but I felt for the difference in price, the performance gain wasn't worth it. You get to the point of ever diminishing returns. I'm sure it's a fine card, but it's not giving £100 worth more performance, and that to me, makes it not good value.
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I know several people who did the exact same, even before the overclocked 6GB cards came out. But now, with OC'd GTX 780's being faster than the Ti in every way and over £100 cheaper, there's no sense in buying the 780Ti at all.
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Originally Posted by Uncle Peter
I decided to go for the R9 290 (XFX Black) for my latest rebuild - on the basis of bang for buck. Big sucker, I hope it fits in my case without fouling the drive cage :O
Surely top of the range everything doesn't really make sense unless you're going to spend your life sat on your arse playing games!
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Yeah, I got a R9 290 as well, for the same reason. It's loud, it runs hot, but it's also by far the best bang for the buck right now. Though that said you can get smaller ones as well as quieter ones with aftermarket coolers for a little extra, which is often worthwhile considering how crap the stock AMD cooler is.
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Originally Posted by peanut
I nearly went with the R290s but for noise and the problems associated with them I decided against it.
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The noise and problems were really just because of the horrendous AMD reference cooler design. There's a lot of aftermarket coolers that perform a lot better, and indeed the R9 295x2 is a stupendously fast card that runs ridiculously cool and quiet as well thanks to the bundled water-cooling (which just proves what the chip is capable of when cooled properly). Sadly the market knows this which is why the R9 290s with decent coolers cost so much more.