>Breaking from our usual benchmarking of recent images playing cards, these days we're revisiting one of the maximum powerful GPUs you could've bought 4 years ago. The GeForce GTX 780 launched in May 2013 and become the second one card to be based on Nvidia's Kepler structure, which debuted with 2012's GTX 680.

The GTX 680 became later refreshed because the GTX 770 with higher clocked GDDR5 memory, but quickly prior to that we obtained the GTX 780, a state-of-the-art little bit of silicon that boosted the center remember by using a whopping 50% and took the die size to 561mm2, which wasn't even the full configuration. All 2880 CUDA cores weren't enabled till the GTX 780 Ti landed six months later.

At the time, those big Kepler cards had been robust superb. For instance, at launch, the GTX 780 turned into ~24% faster than the GTX 680 and 16% quicker than the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition.

The GTX 780 remained king of the hill for six months until the GTX 780 Ti shipped, although it became AMD's Radeon R9 290 series that proved to be the actual issue as its arrival compelled Nvidia into hefty charge cuts, slashing the GTX 780 from its introductory MSRP of $650 to $500, wherein it become nevertheless a really susceptible proposition towards the cheaper, faster R9 290.

According to the tests we ran in 2013, the R9 290 changed into slightly faster in Battlefield three, Crysis three, Far Cry three, Medal of Honor Warfighter, Metro Last Light and BioShock Infinite. Meanwhile, the R9 290 changed into a terrific bit faster in Battlefield 4, Dirt three, Max Payne three, Sleeping Dogs and Hitman Absolution. In reality, the best sport where the GTX 780 came out on pinnacle became Tomb Raider.

Since then, the GTX 780 has been on its again foot while the R9 290 has been as speedy or frequently slightly quicker, with many game enthusiasts complaining that Kepler-based pics cards which includes the GTX 780 have persisted to fall away. Whereas the R9 290 and its reincarnation the R9 390 are nonetheless capable of maintain their floor these days, it is stated that the GTX 780 has crumpled into a heap, putting out overall performance on par with modern day access-level GPUs.

To study whether it's accurate, I've tested 22 PC games at 1080p and 1440p to peer how the once mighty GeForce GTX 780 compares towards extra current GPUs. In location of the R9 290 is the R9 390 and while I'm sure a lot of you will have liked to peer the R9 290 in this battle, there may be clearly little to no clock-for-clock difference between the 290 and 390.

All benchmarks had been carried out the usage of our Core i7-7700K test machine clocked at 4.9GHz and the today's AMD and Nvidia drivers to be had.

Test System Specs & Memory

  • Intel Core i7-7700K @ four.nine GHz
  • Asrock Z270 Extreme4
  • 32GB DDR4-3000 RAM
  • Samsung SSD 850 Evo 2TB
  • Gigabyte GTX 1050 Ti G1 Gaming [4GB]
  • Gainward GTX 970 Phantom [4GB]
  • MSI RX 470 Gaming X [4GB]
  • MSI RX 480 Gaming X [4GB]
  • MSI GTX 1060 Gaming X [3GB]
  • MSI RX 480 Gaming X [8GB]
  • HIS R9 390 IceQ X2 OC [8GB]
  • Gainward GTX 970 Phantom [4GB] OC
  • EVGA GTX 1060 FTW+ [6GB]
  • HIS R9 390 IceQ X2 OC [8GB] OC
  • Gigabyte GTX 1070 G1 Gaming [8GB]
  • Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
  • GeForce Game Ready Driver 381.89
  • Crimson ReLive Edition 17.4.Four

Let the Benchmarks Begin

The GTX 780 isn't a extremely good deal slower than the 970 in Far Cry Primal at 1080p and this supposed it become 24% faster than the GTX 1050 Ti. That stated it changed into 17% slower than the R9 390 which become correct for a median of sixty three fps.

The margins grew ever so slightly at 1440p, right here the GTX 780 became 20% slower than the R9 390 and nevertheless a few frames at the back of the RX 470. That stated the GTX 780 is now nearly 30% faster than the GTX 1050 Ti.

This time checking out with Tom Clancy's The Division the GTX 780 reveals itself located right among the GTX 1050 Ti and GTX 970. This meant at 1080p it was 20% slower than the R9 390.

Moving to 1440p the margin stays a good deal the identical, the GTX 780 became 24% quicker than the 1050 Ti but 14% slower than the GTX 970 and this positioned it properly off the tempo of the R9 390 in addition to the current era mid-variety contenders.