HumanSmoke If you're buying a $500+ card for BF4 then sure. Other than that, both cards in most titles are already within a few percentage points of each other. If the object is benchmarking or being able to claim that you notice a gameplay difference of a few frames per second, then all good - PCGH's 290X review has already supplied an insight into what the added clock might bring ( without ofc the 7% shader and 17% internal bandwidth increase)

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You do realize that if Nvidia lopped $100 off the price the forums will again explode with the "Non-GTX Titan/780 Owners Club" feverishly posting how the new price is a kick in the teeth for those who bought GK 110 cards at their original price points. Besides, if AMD have no problem selling the Air Raid Siren Edition 290X for $550-580, then $699 + games for something a lot quieter, a little faster, and with higher resale potential a year down the line will undoubtedly find willing buyers.



Apart from benching, I doubt you'd see any real world differences between a 780 and 780Ti except a healthier bank balance. Achievable image quality would be identical in the vast majority of cases. A GTX 770 or 280X is going to struggle at 1440P/1600P (and some 1920x1080/1200) gaming. If you're not into max image quality as the be-all-and-end-all, then the lower tier cards offer much better value for money.

Crap Daddy As usual on 28nm. It has been exactly three years ago when a fully functional GF110 was launched under the name GTX580 for $500. It took Nvidia three bloody years, a $500 mid-range card, a crippled $1000 flagship and a $650 even more crippled GTX780 to release the true successor of GF110, the GK110 aka GTX780Ti. For just... $700.

I used BF4 becauseA. The game just came out and it's upgrade season for anyone with lacking GPUs, myself included -- it's already THE multiplayer game on PC this year (COD Ghosts is a non-issue and Titanfall isn't due 'til next year) GTA V is about the only game that may follow suit in BF4s success on PC (multiplayer wise)B. Even if Mantle never shows up or is a complete fail, R290X has a healthy performance gain over the GK110 cards, with room to improve with driver updates. If Mantle actually delivers what it promises, a 290X will add more performance to an already much better value for money card for this title.Am still waiting to see how this will play out, but BF4 performance is going to be the biggest deciding factor for me by far and I'm sure a lot of people will agree. Any games older than this won't be a problem (except maybe Metro LL/Crysis 3 but they're mostly SP games which don't need the extra frame rates as much as competitive MP games like BF4) for way lower tier cards anyway, let alone these $500+ behemoths.I know it sounds bad now, but it will be much worse with Maxwell -- there was a huge backlash/shitstorm over the GTX 680 having the mid-range codename, so Nvidia's solution will be to butcher the familiar naming scheme altogether to something unrecognizable -- mark my words. They've already started it with the GK180 and it's only going to get worse. For all we know, this time next year, we may be buying $100 value designed cards at $600 without knowing any better because it will be called GM101 or something similarly stupid.