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Power Consumption & Performance Summary
Two weeks ago we revisited the R9 390 and some of you gave the card a hard time over its power consumption. I get that the GTX 780 is an older GPU but it still consumes quite a bit more power, increasing total system consumption by 11%.
The GTX 780 wasn’t much faster than the 1050 Ti in many of the games tested, yet it increased total system consumption by almost 140%. For those running a 780, you will require a 500 watt power supply to avoid running into any problems.
In the 22 games we tested, the GTX 780 was on average 23% faster than the GTX 1050 Ti but 15% slower than the RX 470 and GTX 970. Not only that, but compared to the R9 390 it was 20% slower.
When the R9 290 first launched it was just a few percent faster than the GTX 780 and when the 390 arrived it delivered around 10% more performance than the 290 on average, so it seems over the years that margin has basically doubled.
For the margins to have remained similar, we would expect to see the GTX 780 averaging 70fps at 1080p and not 64fps.
As a reminder, the 22 games we tested are all modern releases, so for comparison’s sake, let’s take a look back at a couple of older titles using today’s drivers.
In Metro: Last Light, the GTX 780 and R9 390 provide similar or basically the same performance, and it’s also interesting to note that while the GTX 780 was just 20% faster than the 1050 Ti in modern games, it’s almost 50% faster here when looking at the average frame rate. The same is true for the R9 390: whereas it was 7% faster than the RX 470 on average in modern titles, it’s 20% faster here.
To verify Metro: Last Light’s results I ran the Sleeping Dogs benchmark. Again, the R9 390 and GTX 780 were neck and neck, there was just a slight variance in the minimum frame rate. Meanwhile, the GTX 780 was almost 30% faster than the 1050 Ti and 20% faster than the RX 470.
Closing Thoughts
It’s hard to believe that the GeForce GTX 780 is four years old, although the card is certainly showing its age.
In the 22 modern titles we tested, the 780 was just 23% faster than the 1050 Ti, despite the former GPU being four times larger, packing more than twice as many transistors and consuming well over twice as much power.
Compared to the R9 390, the GTX 780 has slipped well behind. It’s no secret that the Kepler architecture hasn’t aged as well, which is either down to the architecture itself or Nvidia neglecting driver development — or maybe a bit of both. Regardless, we’ve never seen an Nvidia architecture age as poorly as Kepler has. We don’t expect the same to happen to Maxwell anytime soon, but of course we’ll keep an eye on its performance.
My advice for those looking to save some money by purchasing a second-hand GTX 780: don’t bother. Current performance is sketchy at best. Some titles run okay while others are horrible. If you’re willing to tweak the visual settings at 1080p you can achieve smooth performance in all games, but the card’s power consumption is still going to be a shortcoming, especially compared to similarly performing current-gen GPUs.
Pricing for the GTX 780 is surprising. People are still asking over $100 for these things, with most being listed on eBay for between $120 and $150. Given that you can pick up a GTX 1050 Ti for $135, this makes the most sense to me. It might be a bit slower overall but it’s also worlds more efficient, thus it’ll run cooler and quieter. The GTX 1050 Ti is also less than a year old, which (hopefully) bodes well for future driver support.
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Of course, I would have suggested the RX 470 or RX 570, but good luck finding one. AMD’s graphics cards are pretty much out of the question right now because of inflated prices and shortages caused by demand from digital currency miners.
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Temperature
As we now know that the GTX 780 Ti features the fully unlocked GK110 core, we expected the card to run at a higher temperature than the GTX 780 and GTX Titan cards. However, during our tests, the GTX 780 Ti managed to operate at a lower temperature than the GTX Titan, even though the difference was marginal. All three cards have the same TDP of 250W. The other thing you should be aware is that all the new NVIDIA cards supporting GPU Boost 2.0 (which is all the compared cards) have a default GPU threshold of 80 degrees Celsius that they try to maximize to eek out as much performance as possible. This is the main reason all three NVIDIA cards registered similar GPU temperatures. Despite that, the performance results on the earlier pages show how they perform given a similar temperature threshold.
Over to the red camp, it’s not looking too great. The Radoen R9 290X has a TDP of 290W with a default maximum temperature threshold set at 95 degrees Celsius! It’s not wonder it registered the highest operating temperature of 87 degrees Celsius in our test. Even with greater leeway over the green camp, its actual game performance couldn’t keep up with the new GeForce GTX 780 Ti.
Power Consumption
The three NVIDIA GeForce cards shared almost identical idle power draws at 148W or so. At load, they ranged between 430 to 440W bracket — the power draw of the GTX 780 Ti was just 5W higher than the GTX 780, and 10W lower than the Titan. The Radeon R9 290X card had a power draw at load that was similar to the GTX 780 card. This is partly due to each cards’ performance-enhancing feature of PowerTune 2.0 and GeForce Boost 2.0 respectively, as both attempt to maximize the available power budget.
Overclocking
For our overclocking efforts, we had high expectations for the new GTX 780 Ti card.
To reiterate, the new card features a power balancing feature. This will attempt to prevent maximum power draw on any one of the three power rails that power the card during overclocking. This new power balancing feature is touted to automatically increase power draw on the lesser used power rails so that all three rails end up drawing similar power levels — thus preventing a scenario when the card throttles down when only one of the rails has maxed out. As such, the GTX 780 Ti will be able to achieve higher overclock speeds than the older GTX 780 and 770 GPUs.
In our tests, we managed to overclock the GTX 780 Ti to the highest clock speed of 1176MHz, an increment of 34% over its base clock of 876MHz! For its video memory, we reached an overclock speed of 7500MHz that is an increase of 7% over the default value of 7000MHz. In terms of resultant performance, this overclock had an average gain of approximately 20%!
The AMD R9 290X also showed promising overclocking capabilities as it managed to outclass the overclocked reference GTX 780 card.
During our overclocking exercise, we ran the fans at 100%; the AMD R9 290X cooling system registered a 69dB (decibel) noise level; while the GTX 780 Ti’s cooling system was much quieter, at just 60dB. As a note to our readers, during normal operations, the AMD system had a noise level of 60dB; while the GTX 780’s noise level measured 55dB. So we could see, or hear, how noisy the cooling system of the AMD R9 290X was, in comparison to the GTX 780 Ti.
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Review. Benchmarks and specs
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti (GPU) is ranked #100 in our performance rankings. Manufacturer: NVIDIA. Runs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti with a minimum clock speed of 875 MHz. The graphics chip is equipped with an acceleration system and can operate in turbo mode or when overclocked at a frequency of 928 MHz. The RAM size is 3 GB GB with a clock speed of 7.0 GB/s and a bandwidth of 336 GB/s.
The power consumption of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti is 250 Watt and the process technology is only 28 nm. Below you will find key compatibility, sizing, technology, and gaming performance test results. You can also leave comments if you have any questions.
Let’s take a closer look at the most important features of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti. To have an idea of which video card is better, we recommend using the comparison service.
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General information
A basic set of information will help you find out the release date of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti graphics card and its purpose (laptops or PCs), as well as the price at the time of release and the average current cost. This data also includes the architecture used by the manufacturer and the video processor code name.
| Performance Rating Position: | 142 | |||
| Value for money: | 46. 74 |
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| Architecture: | Kepler | |||
| Code name: | GK110B | |||
| Type: | Desktop | |||
| Release date: | November 7, 2013 (8 years ago) | |||
| Starting price: | $699 | |||
| Current price: | $432 (0.6x MSRP) | |||
| Value for money: | 17.97 | |||
| GPU code name: | GK110 | |||
| Market segment: | Desktop | |||
Specifications
This is important information that defines all the performance specifications of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti graphics card. The smaller the technological process of manufacturing a chip, the better (in modern realities).
The clock frequency of the core is responsible for its speed (direct correlation), while signal processing is carried out by transistors (the more transistors, the faster the calculations are performed, for example, in cryptocurrency mining).
| Conveyors: | 2880 | |||
| Core Clock: | 875MHz | |||
| Acceleration: | 928MHz | |||
| Number of transistors: | 7,080 million | |||
| Process: | 28nm | |||
| Power consumption (TDP): | 250 Watt | |||
| Number of texels processed in 1 second: | 210 billion/sec | |||
| Floating point: | 5.345 gflops | |||
| CUDA cores: | 2880 | |||
| Pipelines / CUDA cores: | 2880 | |||
| Acceleration speed: | 928MHz | |||
| Number of transistors: | 7,080 million | |||
| Estimated heat output: | 250 Watt | |||
Dimensions, Connectors and Compatibility
There are many form factors for PC cases and laptop sizes today, so knowing the length of the video card and its connection types (except for laptop versions) is extremely important.
This will help make the upgrade process easier, as Not all cases can accommodate modern video cards.
| Interface: | PCIe 3.0 x16 | |||
| Length: | 10.5″ (26.7cm) | |||
| Additional power: | One 8-pin and one 6-pin | |||
| SLI options: | + | |||
| Tire support: | PCI Express 3.0 | |||
| Height: | 4.376″ (11.1 cm) | |||
Memory (frequency and overclocking)
The internal memory is used to store data when performing calculations. Modern games and professional graphics applications place high demands on the amount and speed of memory. The higher this parameter, the more powerful and faster the video card. Memory type, size and bandwidth for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti + turbo overclocking option.
| Memory type: | GDDR5 | |||
| Maximum RAM amount: | 3GB | |||
| Memory bus width: | 384 Bit | |||
| Memory frequency: | 7.0 GB/s | |||
| Memory bandwidth: | 336 GB/s | |||
| Shared memory: | — | |||
Port and display support
As a rule, all modern video cards have several types of connections and additional ports, for example HDMI and DVI . Knowing these features is very important in order to avoid problems connecting a video card to a monitor or other peripherals.
| Display connections: | One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI, One DisplayPort | |||
| G-SYNC support: | + | |||
| Multi monitor support: | 4 displays | |||
| HDCP: | + | |||
| Maximum VGA resolution: | 2048×1536 | |||
| Audio input for HDMI: | Internal | |||
| HDMI: | + | |||
Technologies
Each graphics card manufacturer complements their products with proprietary technologies that are used both in games and in the workflow.
Below is a list of features that will be useful to you.
| 3D Vision: | + | |||
| GPU Boost: | + | |||
| CUDA: | + | |||
| GeForce Experience: | + | |||
| Blu Ray 3D: | + | |||
| 3D Gaming: | + | |||
| 3D Vision Live: | + | |||
| FXAA: | + | |||
| TXAA: | + | |||
| Adaptive VSync: | + | |||
API Support
All NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti supported APIs are listed below. This is a minor factor that does not greatly affect the overall performance.
| DirectX: | 12 (11_1) | |||
| OpenGL: | 4. 4 |
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| Vulkan: | 1.1.126 | |||
| Shader Model: | 5.1 | |||
| OpenCL: | 1.2 | |||
General gaming performance
All tests are based on FPS. Let’s take a look at where the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti ranks in the gaming performance test (the calculation was made in accordance with the recommendations of the game developer for system requirements; it may differ from real situations).
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| 5 | Stutter — The performance of this video card with this game has not yet been studied enough. Based on interpolated information from graphics cards of a similar performance level, the game is likely to stutter and display low frame rates. |
| May Stutter — The performance of this video card with this game has not yet been studied enough. Based on interpolated information from graphics cards of a similar performance level, the game is likely to stutter and display low frame rates. | |
| 30 | Fluent — According to all known benchmarks with the specified graphic settings, this game is expected to run at 25 fps or more |
| 40 | Fluent — According to all known benchmarks with the specified graphics settings, this game is expected to run at 35 fps or more |
| 60 | Fluent — According to all known benchmarks with the specified graphics settings, this game is expected to run at 58 fps or more |
May Run Fluently — The performance of this video card with this game has not yet been sufficiently studied. Based on interpolated information from graphics cards of a similar performance level, the game is likely to show smooth frame rates. |
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| ? | Uncertain — testing this video card in this game showed unexpected results. A slower card could deliver higher and more consistent frame rates while running the same reference scene. |
| Uncertain — The performance of this video card in this game has not yet been studied enough. It is not possible to reliably interpolate data based on the performance of similar cards in the same category. | |
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Benchmarks help determine performance in standard tests of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti.
We have compiled a list of the most famous benchmarks in the world so that you can get accurate results for each of them (see description). Pre-testing the graphics card is especially important when there are high loads, so that the user can see how the graphics processor copes with calculations and data processing.
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When choosing a new graphics card, one of the key things to consider is its power consumption. This is especially important if you are not yet ready to purchase a more powerful power supply for your computer system.
To avoid disappointment, do not be too lazy to take this factor into account in advance.
For convenience, we offer a table of energy consumption of the latest models of NVIDIA GeForce video cards, starting with the 400th series. The power consumption of the video card is indicated in peak value at maximum load. Naturally, this value will not be constant, since all modern video cards have a power saving mode.
The table also lists the minimum system power requirements recommended by the manufacturer (that is, the minimum power supply capacity). Please note that these are the minimum, not the recommended ones. This is especially true if you plan to «overclock» the system. In this case, do not forget about the necessary power reserve.
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