AMD - Nvidia price war

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steamboateng

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Prices have dropped quite a bit on the NVidia GTX 770 and GTX 780 series graphic cards. Looking at a 780 as a Uncle Sam refund present to me; I compared performance of my GTX 570, against a GTX 780; and I almost fell over! WOW! The 780, in almost every instance, outperformed my whimpy beastie by a whopping 85% to 120%!
Anybody got one one of those hairy critters plugged in, an care to brag about its performance..............kind of a preview of what I may expect.
 
Well, I've had a EVGA GTX 780 plugged in for about a month, now. I figured I had better take advantage of that price drop while it's still offered. Cost a tad over $500 USD, and the Chief Mate was rather perturbed at my upgrade.............understandably! However, I just had to have it, Momma!
What a difference over the GTX 570............itself a decent card in its own right...........I could see the graphic quality difference right off. It's a two generation upgrade from the old card and it sports a wholesome 3 Gb V-ram, DDR5! I figure I added 2 years life to my computer with this upgrade alone. I also added 12Gb Corsair DDR3 to the system.......so I'm ready for TANE; no matter what it throws at me.
If you can afford it, I recommend the card.............as an upgrade or in a new build.
 
Patience, friend, is a virtue not often appreciated in this world.
I had written a carefully worded thanks and explanatory reply to your your first post. It was well written and explained what happened to the NE Mass Route (Crash!!!!). But I guess I downed one Bud too many because I forgot to press the 'Reply' button before leaving the Forums. So it got dumped by accident. No offence to you.
I was so disgusted, I just went off and.....................well..............I opened another Bud!
 
steamboateng said:
Patience, friend, is a virtue not often appreciated in this world.
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Maybe if you were writing an opera, but certainly not for 2-1/2 months for a forum reply.

steamboateng said:
I had written a carefully worded thanks and explanatory reply to your your first post. It was well written and explained what happened to the NE Mass Route (Crash!!!!).
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See you should have given your inner circle a copy for backup sake.

steamboateng said:
But I guess I downed one Bud too many because I forgot to press the 'Reply' button before leaving the Forums. So it got dumped by accident. No offence to you.
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And no defense for you!

steamboateng said:
I was so disgusted, I just went off and.....................well..............I opened another Bud!
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Short, straight tubing runs and a balanced colour scheme. :) Oh, and the performance to match of course! Lovely build, Lewisner.

My little R9 270X only pulls 5392 on Firestrike but obviously you get what you pay for! :hehe:

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deneban said:
Lewis, Can you give us some TS12 FPS in OpenGL and DirectX running an out of the box simulation?
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Sure, if you want to suggest which route and consist. I have nearly all the built in routes disabled so I would need to re-enable one.

Short, straight tubing runs and a balanced colour scheme. :) Oh, and the performance to match of course! Lovely build, Lewisner.

My little R9 270X only pulls 5392 on Firestrike but obviously you get what you pay for! :hehe:
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These are the current flavour of the month but I don't think I will be buying one just yet -

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8069/nvidia-releases-geforce-gtx-titan-z

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2014/04/08/amd-radeon-r9-295x2-review/1
 
OK, I bit!
I downloaded the Firestrike Demo from Steam and ran the tests. I'm using the new NVidia GTX 780 (x1) video card and an i7 950 processor overclocked to 3.95 GHz.
The overall Firestrike score was 8429. Graphics score is 9597; Physics score is 9777; Combined score is 3978
The Firestrike score falls about 700 points short of a High End Gaming PC. All things considered I'm not disappointed. I took the 'more bang for the buck' route.
 
lewisner said:
These are the current flavour of the month but I don't think I will be buying one just yet -

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8069/nvidia-releases-geforce-gtx-titan-z

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2014/04/08/amd-radeon-r9-295x2-review/1
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I'm well aware of the current crop and must admit that the R9 295X2 is actually a rather good card! Not only does the card boast it's full allotment of stream processors (2816 per GPU) but also pushes the boost clock beyond that of a stock R9 290X thanks to it's liquid cooler. All while not costing roughly £2300, unlike the Titan Z, which in itself is has slightly downgraded GK110 cores (700MHz core clock) compared to a single Titan Black.
 
Well, since we got a few 'geek speak' types wandering about this a.m. (US East Coast) would adding another 12 Gb of ram do anything for the Firestrike score (performance?)? I presently have 12 Gb Corsair DDR3 1600 installed.
 
steamboateng said:
Well, since we got a few 'geek speak' types wandering about this a.m. (US East Coast) would adding another 12 Gb of ram do anything for the Firestrike score (performance?)? I presently have 12 Gb Corsair DDR3 1600 installed.
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The simple answer is that you extremely unlikely to see any benefit at all as a result of the difficulty to saturate current typical RAM quantities with typical consumer software such as games. Those who do tend to use their PC's for significantly demanding tasks such as media creation, CAD and the like which require significantly larger RAM quantities when compared to normal PC user activities. Personally I see 8GB as being an acceptable minimum as this is a sweetspot for general performance and cost effectiveness. As far as speed and timings are concerned this video from LinusTechTips explains why higher performance RAM is generally not required unless in special circumstances such as when used with software that benefits from it.

 
Thanks for the responses, guys.. That short video was a great help. Another 12 Gb of matching Corsair ram (DDR3, 1600 Mhz, latency 9-9-9-24) would go about another $150 USD. I can see it being a useful upgrade if I ran multiple apps across several monitors. I'm not so sure it would serve any other purpose.
 
Actually, I do have an external hard drive connected to my system.......................but thanks for the reminder...............
And.............I don't feel that way about the IRS.............but I do often react that way to Trainz!!!
 
steamboateng said:
Prices have dropped quite a bit on the NVidia GTX 770 and GTX 780 series graphic cards.
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I wish the price war would come Down-Under to Kiwiland!!! Nvidia's 780Ti's are still somewhere between $1,020 to $1,350 here, (depending on the core clock speed & brand)...

Cheers, Mac...
 
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