Introduction
Hi all, Hailing from Manchester, This is my first proper review since i was 21 and that was 9 years ago, since then I found no real cause to step up because in the UK, the industry then was prematurely small, and hard to pursue a career in that industry without any real investment into your own "empire".
So I perused a career in the IT hardware industry, and through those years in that career I have learnt a lot from the micro level of PC's to a the macro level of data center networking and professional rack mount servers.
As I also own a business in online hosting solutions in 4 EU countries which has been established for 6 years, it means dealing with clients from different backgrounds as they all require different levels of resources, operating systems, non-bottlenecking solutions. Faster data read, write, and transfer.
I also work in the software side of the web design industry, from MYSQL, HTML, CSS, PHP to CMS and then into graphic design which is another passion of mine. This has all really come from the sheer passion and ambition of the IT industry and the drive to know more and do better. Such a broad background in IT and i like it.
My hobbies don’t actually stem that far away from my career, I enjoy building PC's, not as often as i want to, but when it happens, a sense of pride takes place and a beam of light from the sky hits that piece of engineering genius,indicating to turn it on !!!
Work ethic
For me this has always been to enjoy what you do, is having a great work ethic. Being creative looking at all angles and listening to constructive feedback for improvements on the work at hand and how that work was executed. Another aspect has been to use my "noggin" or initiative.
It’s hard for me to trust other people’s opinions especially when they are only talking about their experience as their opinion may be different to mine, and that’s why I started early through my career to use the initiative to learn more about it, really because I cared about the work I was doing, if you don’t care then you won’t use the initiative, so that for me was another key point.
My weakness I suppose is my strong point.
Attention to detail, admiring the work that’s gone into genius and taking the time to getting everything right, this can be time consuming process.
“Anything PC related cannot be rushed. You want something done quicker, I say Build a script to get that work load done, some things require a more personal note to gain a greater understanding. "
Enough of me, Let’s crack on
Item to review GTX 780
If you are like me, in your spare time you will enjoy some commercial games, follow up some projects off kickstarter.com, and look for some cracking indie games. If you’re the same then sit back, and give me your feedback on whether you think the same as i do about the 700 series Graphics cards.
Enjoying a game someone has put their heart and passion into with next to no backing of any gaming industry other than the gaming community itself is an accolade that is slowly showing that the gaming industry is becoming self-sufficient with less developer companies and more gaming communities contributing to the games they want to see.
For example, robertsspaceindustries.com/ reaching 15 million dollars just on donations from the community and eternity.obsidian.net/ reaching 9 millions means that companies like these can develop games they love without the approval of developers, which is great because it shows how much influence firstly the gamers have and what the PC gaming industry is going to be for the future.
Of course some developers will disagree and instead adopt a new method of "pay to play" or "play for free" games even though they are commercial games like the up and coming commandandconquer.com/ where its free to play buy you will buy things by choice inside the game to boost rank or performance.
This adaptation has taken place with some unfortunate 38 gaming companies become liquidated/ dissolved, and the games that they made I really enjoyed as a kid growing up on a sega master system and the playstation .
Through this transition showing how the gaming industry is changing and yet the graphics industry has remained on a steady course of improving and competing against each other. Yes you guessed it, Nvidea and AMD.
It is really through the competitiveness as businesses throughout the years that, has pushed the graphics industry this far which from what I can see will remain consistent, but more importantly for us the consumers to witness and enjoy awesome graphics through the eyes of the creators of the new gen games they create.
So without further ado The GTX 780 (KEPLER architecture)
To look at, Nvidia have really done well with the design layout, and possible one of the best default designs I have seen to date. Someone please… pass the pop corn !
Power
At full system draw the power consumption is better than previous series cards, idling around 70 watts and pushing out at max around 274, that’s at factory defaults, before becoming geeky and sticking a water block on it to Over clock. The comparison to the GTX680 is a noticeable difference.
780 full load 274 - idle 70
680 full load 308 - idle 78
Temperature
The temperature is higher by almost 10% in full output, but when in idle its 5 degrees less, And this is really focused on the new Kepler being optimized and using the resources for a better performed output than the 600 series.
780 full 81 - idle - 32
680 full 72 - idle - 37
Frame Rate
It’s evident in the detail below with some testing that the GTX 780 is clearly outperforming in frame rate compared to the GTX680 by around 15 to 20 percent overall in the frame rate section. This was all on maximum settings and maximum resolution. The fact that you can achieve 112 fps in Bioshock infinite is astonishing, as it’s a intensive visually well created game.
BF3
GTX780 - 58/90fps
GTX680 - 44/68fps
Crysis
GTX780 - 49/75fps
GTX680 - 37/56fps
Bio shock Infinite
GTX780 - 76/112fps
GTX680 - 58/88fps
Metro Last light
GTX780 - 42/59fps
GTX680 - 34/49fps
Conclusion
The GTX780 by far out performs its own previous series cards as well as the competitive market for a single card performance, temperature and power usage. Not only does it look sleek and noted that they kept the TITAN design, but they also thought things through for the future too, and that’s what I like.
The Kepler design release with the 600 series I didn’t see that it was being used to its full potential and there was only a marginal difference in performance between the 500 and 600 series cards, so as a critic I wasn’t convinced but they still out performed its previous series cards.
It was about the KEPLER for me waiting for nvidea to properly adjust after its first release of the 600 series Kepler cards, and the price tag I didn’t feel justified that.
Now with the GTX 780 and the optimized KEPLER with better power consumption, temperature and performance output, this for me justifies buying the card at £500 - £550.
However not everyone is the same as me and doesn't have hobble money to waste on gadgets, even looking at a 770 or a 760 still uses the same KEPLER and you wouldn't be disappointed they still run games at good frame rates and quality, it’s still a high performance 700 series card. I class the 780's model as an enthusiast’s card because of the price tag, and it appeals to a specific consumer kind.
As it is a enthusiasts card, i wouldn't buy this if i wasn't thinking of water cooling the system as well, Matching the performance of the card with the rest of the Rig, I would have to personally look at SSD options alongside a high end gamers motherboard, case unit, and water cooling to suit, It is a expensive lifestyle and competitive not everyone can afford, but the great thing is that you don’t need to, you can still down grade and have an awesome gamers system future proof for around 5 years, Its all ideally about asking yourself what you want from your system.
As I use 3 x 24 inch monitors for multi web related editorial applications and that I love gaming and cant wait for a few games to come out this winter, I know I need something high end to maintain the performance over three monitors, so to me I can justify spending that money. If you just have one screen then it becomes harder for me to see that you need the GTX780.
So let’s be realistic, it’s a truly fascinating card where nvidea hasn’t held back on anything including the price, You can most likely still get the same use out of a lower end 700 series card than the 780, and still be happy, But for those who wants the absolute best series card on the market, then your “want” will cost more than the others on the market.
You could also consider buying two GTX 760’s saving around £100 - £150, if you are worried about the performance to cost ratio of a GTX780. This way you’re sharing resources over two cards instead of a higher output on one card, and a possible increase in performance.
I jumped from GTX480 sli to GTX 780. the GTX480’s I was content with and when the 500 series and 600 series came around I did the research to note that there would be little difference at the time comparing them to a single card 580GTX or 680GTX, it just wasn’t a notable difference from what I could see even though I played around with both cards.
Pros and cons over GTX780 series
+ 4 screen setup per card
+ Updated optimized keplerversion
+ SMX multiprocessor 50% faster than 600 series
+ Increased GDDR5 memory compared to 600 series.
+ Increased memory controller (386 bit ) compared to 600 series KELPER
+ Quiet
+ Holds less temperature on idle
- Expensive
Verdict
8.9 / 10
What roles am I applying for :
The low usage i3, i5 bracket – case and cooling – Graphic cards if there is an option for this that is. .
Hi all, Hailing from Manchester, This is my first proper review since i was 21 and that was 9 years ago, since then I found no real cause to step up because in the UK, the industry then was prematurely small, and hard to pursue a career in that industry without any real investment into your own "empire".
So I perused a career in the IT hardware industry, and through those years in that career I have learnt a lot from the micro level of PC's to a the macro level of data center networking and professional rack mount servers.
As I also own a business in online hosting solutions in 4 EU countries which has been established for 6 years, it means dealing with clients from different backgrounds as they all require different levels of resources, operating systems, non-bottlenecking solutions. Faster data read, write, and transfer.
I also work in the software side of the web design industry, from MYSQL, HTML, CSS, PHP to CMS and then into graphic design which is another passion of mine. This has all really come from the sheer passion and ambition of the IT industry and the drive to know more and do better. Such a broad background in IT and i like it.
My hobbies don’t actually stem that far away from my career, I enjoy building PC's, not as often as i want to, but when it happens, a sense of pride takes place and a beam of light from the sky hits that piece of engineering genius,indicating to turn it on !!!
Work ethic
For me this has always been to enjoy what you do, is having a great work ethic. Being creative looking at all angles and listening to constructive feedback for improvements on the work at hand and how that work was executed. Another aspect has been to use my "noggin" or initiative.
It’s hard for me to trust other people’s opinions especially when they are only talking about their experience as their opinion may be different to mine, and that’s why I started early through my career to use the initiative to learn more about it, really because I cared about the work I was doing, if you don’t care then you won’t use the initiative, so that for me was another key point.
My weakness I suppose is my strong point.
Attention to detail, admiring the work that’s gone into genius and taking the time to getting everything right, this can be time consuming process.
“Anything PC related cannot be rushed. You want something done quicker, I say Build a script to get that work load done, some things require a more personal note to gain a greater understanding. "
Enough of me, Let’s crack on
Item to review GTX 780
If you are like me, in your spare time you will enjoy some commercial games, follow up some projects off kickstarter.com, and look for some cracking indie games. If you’re the same then sit back, and give me your feedback on whether you think the same as i do about the 700 series Graphics cards.
Enjoying a game someone has put their heart and passion into with next to no backing of any gaming industry other than the gaming community itself is an accolade that is slowly showing that the gaming industry is becoming self-sufficient with less developer companies and more gaming communities contributing to the games they want to see.
For example, robertsspaceindustries.com/ reaching 15 million dollars just on donations from the community and eternity.obsidian.net/ reaching 9 millions means that companies like these can develop games they love without the approval of developers, which is great because it shows how much influence firstly the gamers have and what the PC gaming industry is going to be for the future.
Of course some developers will disagree and instead adopt a new method of "pay to play" or "play for free" games even though they are commercial games like the up and coming commandandconquer.com/ where its free to play buy you will buy things by choice inside the game to boost rank or performance.
This adaptation has taken place with some unfortunate 38 gaming companies become liquidated/ dissolved, and the games that they made I really enjoyed as a kid growing up on a sega master system and the playstation .
Through this transition showing how the gaming industry is changing and yet the graphics industry has remained on a steady course of improving and competing against each other. Yes you guessed it, Nvidea and AMD.
It is really through the competitiveness as businesses throughout the years that, has pushed the graphics industry this far which from what I can see will remain consistent, but more importantly for us the consumers to witness and enjoy awesome graphics through the eyes of the creators of the new gen games they create.
So without further ado The GTX 780 (KEPLER architecture)
To look at, Nvidia have really done well with the design layout, and possible one of the best default designs I have seen to date. Someone please… pass the pop corn !
Power
At full system draw the power consumption is better than previous series cards, idling around 70 watts and pushing out at max around 274, that’s at factory defaults, before becoming geeky and sticking a water block on it to Over clock. The comparison to the GTX680 is a noticeable difference.
780 full load 274 - idle 70
680 full load 308 - idle 78
Temperature
The temperature is higher by almost 10% in full output, but when in idle its 5 degrees less, And this is really focused on the new Kepler being optimized and using the resources for a better performed output than the 600 series.
780 full 81 - idle - 32
680 full 72 - idle - 37
Frame Rate
It’s evident in the detail below with some testing that the GTX 780 is clearly outperforming in frame rate compared to the GTX680 by around 15 to 20 percent overall in the frame rate section. This was all on maximum settings and maximum resolution. The fact that you can achieve 112 fps in Bioshock infinite is astonishing, as it’s a intensive visually well created game.
BF3
GTX780 - 58/90fps
GTX680 - 44/68fps
Crysis
GTX780 - 49/75fps
GTX680 - 37/56fps
Bio shock Infinite
GTX780 - 76/112fps
GTX680 - 58/88fps
Metro Last light
GTX780 - 42/59fps
GTX680 - 34/49fps
Conclusion
The GTX780 by far out performs its own previous series cards as well as the competitive market for a single card performance, temperature and power usage. Not only does it look sleek and noted that they kept the TITAN design, but they also thought things through for the future too, and that’s what I like.
The Kepler design release with the 600 series I didn’t see that it was being used to its full potential and there was only a marginal difference in performance between the 500 and 600 series cards, so as a critic I wasn’t convinced but they still out performed its previous series cards.
It was about the KEPLER for me waiting for nvidea to properly adjust after its first release of the 600 series Kepler cards, and the price tag I didn’t feel justified that.
Now with the GTX 780 and the optimized KEPLER with better power consumption, temperature and performance output, this for me justifies buying the card at £500 - £550.
However not everyone is the same as me and doesn't have hobble money to waste on gadgets, even looking at a 770 or a 760 still uses the same KEPLER and you wouldn't be disappointed they still run games at good frame rates and quality, it’s still a high performance 700 series card. I class the 780's model as an enthusiast’s card because of the price tag, and it appeals to a specific consumer kind.
As it is a enthusiasts card, i wouldn't buy this if i wasn't thinking of water cooling the system as well, Matching the performance of the card with the rest of the Rig, I would have to personally look at SSD options alongside a high end gamers motherboard, case unit, and water cooling to suit, It is a expensive lifestyle and competitive not everyone can afford, but the great thing is that you don’t need to, you can still down grade and have an awesome gamers system future proof for around 5 years, Its all ideally about asking yourself what you want from your system.
As I use 3 x 24 inch monitors for multi web related editorial applications and that I love gaming and cant wait for a few games to come out this winter, I know I need something high end to maintain the performance over three monitors, so to me I can justify spending that money. If you just have one screen then it becomes harder for me to see that you need the GTX780.
So let’s be realistic, it’s a truly fascinating card where nvidea hasn’t held back on anything including the price, You can most likely still get the same use out of a lower end 700 series card than the 780, and still be happy, But for those who wants the absolute best series card on the market, then your “want” will cost more than the others on the market.
You could also consider buying two GTX 760’s saving around £100 - £150, if you are worried about the performance to cost ratio of a GTX780. This way you’re sharing resources over two cards instead of a higher output on one card, and a possible increase in performance.
I jumped from GTX480 sli to GTX 780. the GTX480’s I was content with and when the 500 series and 600 series came around I did the research to note that there would be little difference at the time comparing them to a single card 580GTX or 680GTX, it just wasn’t a notable difference from what I could see even though I played around with both cards.
Pros and cons over GTX780 series
+ 4 screen setup per card
+ Updated optimized keplerversion
+ SMX multiprocessor 50% faster than 600 series
+ Increased GDDR5 memory compared to 600 series.
+ Increased memory controller (386 bit ) compared to 600 series KELPER
+ Quiet
+ Holds less temperature on idle
- Expensive
Verdict
8.9 / 10
What roles am I applying for :
The low usage i3, i5 bracket – case and cooling – Graphic cards if there is an option for this that is. .
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