Not so fast, AMD! GTX 790 on the way?

[Captain_Tom]

disolitude said:

Pemalite said:

disolitude said:

CGI-Quality said:
I would truly prefer a 790 vs 2 Titans at this point. Sure, the latter will offer superior performance, but an extra $1K is an extra $1K. Besides, if the 690 vs 680 SLI situation is anything to go by, the 790 should be quite enough of a powerhouse!

Why wouldn't you consider Captain_Toms suggestion and get 2X 780? Should be the same thing but you will get better overclocks and probably pay less. i really doubt that the 790 will be $1000 bucks...$1200-1300 minimum.

Or 3x Geforce 780's. :)
I'm pretty sure, CGI does have an Asus Sabertooth x79 with 2x PCI-E x16 slots and an x8 slot like myself.

Haha...go for it I say... but to utilize that much horsepower one would have to go 4K or your crazy tripple monitor setup...and Id be worried about investing in such limited VRAM at that point to be honest.

Single GTX 780 @ 100% performance and 3GB VRAM - perfectly ok

Dual GTX 780s @ ~170% scaling performance and 3GB of RAM - ok today but getting close to the limit of VRAM

Tripple GTX 780s @ ~230% scaling performance and still only 3GB of RAM - just asking for VRAM trouble in a year or two

And once you add overclocks...there really is no point of having close to 200% more GPU horsepower of a single GTX 780 and the same amount of VRAM IMO.

I game in 1080p and my 7970 has used over 2GB a few times, and people playing BF4 Alpha have reported ~2.2GB of VRAM used in just 1080p.  Honestly I wouldn't buy any card stronger than a 7970 unless it has 4GB of RAM.

Hence IMO the 780 should have 4GB (Especially since the damn thing costs double a 7970 and only mildly outperforms it), and the 770 should have at least 3GB.  

But has their ever been a time Nvidia hasn't cheaped out on RAM?  1.25GB GTX 570 anyone?