Gigabyte nVidia GTX780 SLI vs GTX Titan SLI Comparison

[Vlada011]

780 is excellent card. I mean really worth buying. If I remember they give us little better performance for this time than GTX680 and GTX580.
I change euro in dollars today and for two days send in USA because buying of my card is little complicate because I want and nice look, hard core card, nice flat and wide card.

 

[ShaunB-91]

Cheers Tom, I needed that review. 780 it is then.

 

[Ciric]

Nice review mate, I have wondered what the difference would be. I'll be honest and say that two Titans were never on my splurge list, but two 780's...perhaps .

I think it would be a good addition to your review if you added in a third 780, so comparing them on cost per set up rather than physical cards. However, it doesn't take much deducing that it'll be better, I'd just like to know by how much .



I too would like to see this, if only to settle the debate. I think the difference between either series or parallel wouldn't be that large, and would say loop design/placement/aesthetics should be a factor when deciding between. In saying that though, I could either have gone serial and used 2 x8 slots, or parallel and 2 x16 slots. I went parallel . If I had any time I would try the series to compare, but my temps are so good with a 1080 rad (never 50C, oc'd, even in this weather), it's moot.

One last thing - how about a 2560 x 1600 30" monitor? That'll stretch the legs of both set ups, and if a person has the coin for sli such as these, then surely they have the same for big screen gaming. Multi-screen? Nah, tried that, horrid!

It's been tested several times.
First of all: The difference in temps are so small, that wichever method you choose, you'll be fine. You would have to be REALLY anal to use temps as reason for choosing one over the other.
Pros for parallel, is that you even out the temps on your gfx's ...again, really small and anal differences.
Cons is primarily, that your pump need to deliver a bit more flow, to not starve the gfx's.
All in all, use astectics, ease of installation ect as guidelines for what you choose instead of temps.

I personally prefere the looks of parallel, but that is purely subjective.

On topic:
As allways, a great review
To bad there's no money with gfx printed on them in my bank atm

 

[AemonTheDK]

Cool, i'd go for the gtx 780 but that's just me.

 

[acana79]

Hi Tom,

I saw your review and was very excited, so I went out and bought myself a pair of ASUS GTX 780 and a pair of Dell's U3014. However, I'm having serious problems when running the monitor in "daisy chain".

It appears that when my monitor is set to DisplayPort 1.2, Windows won't boot up. But at 1.1 it's fine. The hang happens right after post.
Once in Windows I can enable 1.2 and runt the two screens just fine. (F!"#% awesome by the way!)

Any ideas what might be the problem?

Yes, latest drivers. Running Win 7 64-bit.
ASUS R3E + i7 930 @ stock - BIOS 1502
ASUS GTX 780 SLI (tried with one card only as well - same results)
Corsair AX1200i
12GB Dominator RAM

 

[JR23]

Thanks Tom, great review, just what I wanted to hear after going with 780's and 1440p.

You mentioned briefly PCIe3.0 x8, if you could elaborate on your thinking behind that it would be great as i'm still on Sandy thinking about Ivy and Haswell.

JR

 

[tinytomlogan]

Thanks Tom, great review, just what I wanted to hear after going with 780's and 1440p.

You mentioned briefly PCIe3.0 x8, if you could elaborate on your thinking behind that it would be great as i'm still on Sandy thinking about Ivy and Haswell.

JR

No massive point switching if your CPU clocks well tbh.

0 point going Ivy either.

 

[angel247]

great review, gtx780 is a must, price/performance from what i can see and in the games that i usually play BAC, metro , crysis 3 i see no difference in average fps in sli between the 2 cards. Me personally i have the gtx770 and i'm pretty happy with it , i was on 1155 sandy 2500k , and now i'm changing to haswell

 

[Rastalovich]

Nice kit, nice testing, nice results.

People still get hung up on ram for graphics ? It's good to have, but it isn't a game stopper by any means. Often it proves itself unnecessary.

 

[tinytomlogan]

Nice kit, nice testing, nice results.

People still get hung up on ram for graphics ? It's good to have, but it isn't a game stopper by any means. Often it proves itself unnecessary.

Rasta is back from under the rock!


I think these results show if nothing else even Nvidia are putting more time into the 780 drivers. Sure the Titan is good but its true when people say the Titan is just there to make people think the 780 is better value......

 

[Rastalovich]

Yeah, stuck in the studios for 8 hours covering for someone and most of the editing, ala DrWhat? have gone. i.e. nothing to do. - oh I set someone up with a printer a few hours ago....

Titan's more of a one-off exercise in niceness, willy waving and cash.

The market has gone crazy mind. £200+ for a 760 ? £200 for a mid range card ?

We're all being milked anywho. AMD 9000 series in the fall, to get some more cash.

 

[tinytomlogan]

Yeah, stuck in the studios for 8 hours covering for someone and most of the editing, ala DrWhat? have gone. i.e. nothing to do. - oh I set someone up with a printer a few hours ago....

Titan's more of a one-off exercise in niceness, willy waving and cash.

The market has gone crazy mind. £200+ for a 760 ? £200 for a mid range card ?

We're all being milked anywho. AMD 9000 series in the fall, to get some more cash.

8800GT was £200+ years back and that wasnt top end.

 

[Rastalovich]

True enough. I just looked into the 7600gt for way back when they came out and they're about that.

Thing is tho, I'd not recommend £200 for a 760, I'd look at the 6xx or even 5xx (if you can find them) for the same money or less.

 

[tinytomlogan]

True enough. I just looked into the 7600gt for way back when they came out and they're about that.

Thing is tho, I'd not recommend £200 for a 760, I'd look at the 6xx or even 5xx (if you can find them) for the same money or less.

7870 Tahiti LE for around that money tbh. The 760 is a good card as its basically a 670 but a LOT cheaper than they were/are now new.

 

[Rastalovich]

Yeah that's pretty good. I pointed someone in the direction of the 3GB MSI GTX 580 Twin Frozr II @ Scan for £180 not too long ago.

 

[walkerjian]

Hi,
Thanks for the review. Just a couple of points - I replaced a 7970 with a titan in my latest build because of two reasons - I wanted to run crysis 3 in stereoscopic 3d (1920*1080*120) and because I wanted good double precision floating point performance for cuda and open cl for mathematica. Arguably niche uses, but ye gods is crysis good in 3d! So I intend to get another titan (or not...) and sli them. I bought the titan before i knew the 780 was coming out... but for my use cases I still think that I bought the right card - I don't think that the double precision floating point performance of the 780 is up to that of the titan. Is it? I cant get a straight answer anywhere... Finally, can I sli a 780 with my titan (dumb question I know but... I am not made of money and it is EXPENSIVE to test for myself)

cheers - just wanted to point out that there may be some use cases for sli titans after all

 

[GoogalyMoogaly]

Interesting to see the 780s doing so well. Must admit I've been tempted to get a couple but I'm gonna wait and see if AMD can do any better (I'm sure they'd argue that they already have with the 7990).

Interesting to see if the 6GB Titan gains any advantage now we have 4K monitors. I'm assuming 1 4K monitor will use similar amounts of VRAM to 4 1080p monitors?

Since you can get 3 7970s for the price of 2 780s and possibly even 1 Titan depending on exactly what you buy, how would 3 of them compare? Does TriFire scaling work that well?

 

[NeverBackDown]

Hi,
Thanks for the review. Just a couple of points - I replaced a 7970 with a titan in my latest build because of two reasons - I wanted to run crysis 3 in stereoscopic 3d (1920*1080*120) and because I wanted good double precision floating point performance for cuda and open cl for mathematica.

AMD destorys Nvidia in OpenCL. :huh:

 

[loglog]

just got my EVGA 780 acx in the mail today. I'm pretty excited to open it after work.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Interesting to see the 780s doing so well. Must admit I've been tempted to get a couple but I'm gonna wait and see if AMD can do any better (I'm sure they'd argue that they already have with the 7990).

Interesting to see if the 6GB Titan gains any advantage now we have 4K monitors. I'm assuming 1 4K monitor will use similar amounts of VRAM to 4 1080p monitors?

Since you can get 3 7970s for the price of 2 780s and possibly even 1 Titan depending on exactly what you buy, how would 3 of them compare? Does TriFire scaling work that well?

No Tri SLI/Xfire works well. Hardly any games support it correctly.