Change from 960 to 780 ?

[dodo21x]

I currently have Evga 960 SSC 4GB i have opportunity to swap it for MSI 780 Lite Edition.
My GTX is 2 months old and the 780 is one month old - both under warranty - no issue there.

I know that at 960's launch old(ish) 780 was faster, but i know that Nvidia is not focusing the drivers for 7xx series for some time now and there is no benchmarks with latest drivers.

Battlefield is my go to game BTW


SPEC
6600K
8GB DDR4
Seasonic M12II Evo 620w

Is it worth changing or should i stick with 960 SSC.

Thank you for your help.



//EDIT
I think i have my answer?

Not sure if that's the case only with this new game or is it will every new game.

 

[Kushiro]

The 780 is a much better card and the 7XX series wont be put on legacy support for some time to come.

If you dont mind extra heat, less vram etc then by all means go for it.

 

[dodo21x]

I only game at 1080P, never with AA (looks wired when on) so i don't need 4GB.
My only concern are the drivers, Nvidia is focusing on current gen of GPU with support.

Look at the Doom benchmark, 960 is faster than 780 :/

 

[shambles1980]

issue with buying a 780 is that nvidia will make the drivers perform worse on the 780 than the 960 so even though its a much better card as you get new drivers the 780 will continue to perform worse and worse.
maybe you would want to see how the 480 bench marks on release as it should be very inexpensive and more like a 970/980, and amd dont build in obsolescence in to their drivers like nvidia do.

 

[dodo21x]

Done a BF4 test with my m8

I'm getting AVG 60fps with OC (1530 boost)
He's GPU with just over Ghz on the GPU core and he's hitting AVG of over 80 fps.

He's minimum fps is much higher as well

 

[Kushiro]

issue with buying a 780 is that nvidia will make the drivers perform worse on the 780 than the 960 so even though its a much better card as you get new drivers the 780 will continue to perform worse and worse.
maybe you would want to see how the 480 bench marks on release as it should be very inexpensive and more like a 970/980, and amd dont build in obsolescence in to their drivers like nvidia do.

That is not true. Have you actually done any testing? Cause I have a seperate system with tri sli 780ti cards and they perform.the same if not better than what they used to. Are nVidia slacking on support for kepler, sure. But they arent imposing limits on performance on older products.

OP, as I stated.in my previous post, the 780 is the better card. Its up to you whether or not you are willing to overlook its short comings.

 

[shambles1980]

That is not true. Have you actually done any testing? Cause I have a seperate system with tri sli 780ti cards and they perform.the same if not better than what they used to. Are nVidia slacking on support for kepler, sure. But they arent imposing limits on performance on older products.

OP, as I stated.in my previous post, the 780 is the better card. Its up to you whether or not you are willing to overlook its short comings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7fA_JC_R5s

 

[Kushiro]

Might want to run those benchmarks yourself. You will get different results. My 780tis are just below my 980s Seems like crap made up to flame nVidia TBH. Not gonna deny some of the info has merit tho.

 

[shambles1980]

i should have tagged the vid at about 10:50 because previous to that isnt relevant to the discussion.