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disolitude on 24 August 2013
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Captain_Tom said:
disolitude said:

 

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?

Fully agree... There are some Nvidia cards that have offered enough VRAM for enthusiasts, but they are never reference designed by nvidia. Someone that got a custom GTX 580 3 gb sli in early 2011 for example is still rocking almost any game at max at 1080p and can do surround as well at medium to high settings. While someone that may have bought 2 reference cards i surely hitting the 1.5 gb vram limit.

This leads me to the gtx770 4gb versions. I honestly think they are the best bang for the buck right now. They get all the features of a nvidia 700 series gpu(gpu boost 2.0, nvidia shield support...), but run the optimized drivers and scaling of the 680 cards since thats the gpu they are based on. With 7ghz GDDR5, that can be overclocked more, it makes up for the 256bit bus and high resolution gaming. And at 429, they are good value too...