The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Review
by Ryan Smith on November 7, 2013 9:01 AM ESTCompany of Heroes 2
Our second benchmark in our benchmark suite is Relic Games’ Company of Heroes 2, the developer’s World War II Eastern Front themed RTS. For Company of Heroes 2 Relic was kind enough to put together a very strenuous built-in benchmark that was captured from one of the most demanding, snow-bound maps in the game, giving us a great look at CoH2’s performance at its worst. Consequently if a card can do well here then it should have no trouble throughout the rest of the game.
Since Company of Heroes 2 is not an AFR friendly game, getting the best performance out of the game requires having the fastest GPU. While the GTX 780 Ti has a clear lead over the 290X across the average of our games, in this specific case it’s going to come up short, as AMD’s performance with this game is simply too high to be overcome without a significant performance advantage. Conversely this means that GTX 780 Ti and 290X are still close enough that NVIDIA won’t be able to sweep every game; in games where AMD still does exceptionally well, they’ll be able to close the gap and surpass the GTX 780 Ti.
Meanwhile, looking at a straight-up NVIDIA comparison, the GTX 780 Ti holds a slightly smaller than normal lead over its counterparts. At 5% faster than GTX Titan and 17% faster than GTX 780 it’s still the fastest of the cards, but it won’t pull ahead in this game by as much as it does elsewhere.
The minimum framerate story is largely the same. GTX 780 Ti is the fastest NVIDIA card, but it will trail the 290X by over 10% in both scenarios.
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Tetracycloide - Thursday, November 7, 2013 - link
Hardware vendors get much better prices than that which is why you so often find third party coolers on custom cards for a fairly modest markup ($10-20).nathanddrews - Friday, November 8, 2013 - link
The Arctic Accelero Xtreme III that Tom's used was only $70, but even if it was $100 extra, that's still a $150 gap. For vendors, subtract the cost of the bad cooler from the good cooler and I'll bet we see dual/tri-fan 290s for under $450.Also, this is interesting:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-r9-290-...
Mithan - Thursday, November 7, 2013 - link
Great card, but about $150 over priced. I would purchase this for $550 right now, but $700? No.1Angelreloaded - Thursday, November 7, 2013 - link
Maxwell is due out next year, so tbh this would be a bad bandwagon to jump on, an architechure change and possible die shrink will come next year and depending on yields I would anticipate a 10-15% jump in the next series with lower tdp.kwrzesien - Thursday, November 7, 2013 - link
Maybe even at $600. $700? No.Nirvanaosc - Thursday, November 7, 2013 - link
Great review, but the Overclocking section still has the same text as the R9 290 review.piroroadkill - Thursday, November 7, 2013 - link
290 and 290X look even better in this when used in CF. They scale better than 780Ti in SLI.You can save even more with 290X CF than 780Ti, AND get better performance in almost every test listed.
With that setup you'd be wise in either case to get a nice custom cooling loop anyway.
Gast - Thursday, November 7, 2013 - link
1st paragraph of the conclusion. "NVIDIA’s high-end cards a bit faster and a big cheaper each time."Should be "a bit cheaper each time".
Pneumothorax - Thursday, November 7, 2013 - link
Sad, this goes to show that Nvidia was selling us mid-range Keplers all last year at premium prices. This card is what the GTX 680 should've been all along. OTOH, if the 7970 was priced much better out of the gate, it might've forced the green team not to have ripped us off so much.EJS1980 - Thursday, November 7, 2013 - link
If Nvidia released this as their answer to the 7970, AMD would have simply gone out of business. Maybe AMD should thank NVidia for showing them mercy, and keeping them afloat...j/k!