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Re: EVGA GTX 780 6GB Step-Up
2014/05/10 18:55:32
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I was just hoping enough people asking would catch the eye of somebody from EVGA. I do a daily Google for anything new.
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Re: EVGA GTX 780 6GB Step-Up
2014/05/10 19:24:44
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I think it's not because Titan only, some rumors talk about possible Maxwell on summer or autumn. For such strong and expensive card near Titan Black need at least 6 months free space without something new on horizon. If NVIDIA delay Maxwell to the New Year or 2015 and deliver small number of Titan Black than GTX780Ti 6G could be excellent option. I don't know but if EVGA decide to go with GTX780 6GB maybe is smarter option. Because 6GB is usually connected with SLI configuration and more people could pay GTX780 6GB SLI and that would be incredible setup for higher resolutions. Because for 1050$ you get 780 6GB SLI , same memory as Titan Black, much better performance and GTX780 is excellent for OC too.
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Re: EVGA GTX 780 6GB Step-Up [Updated 3/25/14]
2014/05/12 12:34:36
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Hello My Friend
I want to ask about difference between EVGA GeForce GTX 780 6GB SC w/ EVGA ACX Cooler and EVGA GeForce GTX 780 3GB Dual Classified w/ EVGA ACX Cooler
I have noticed the GTX 780 3GB Dual Classified is better in Base Clock,Boost Clock ,Texture Fill Rate and overclocking but in memory the GTX 780 6GB SC is better.
Is that mean the GTX 780 6GB SC is better because it has memory size more than GTX 780 3GB Dual Classified
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When I could choose EVGA GeForce GTX 780 3GB Dual Classified w/ EVGA ACX Cooler or EVGA GeForce GTX 780 6GB SC w/ EVGA ACX Cooler
My best regard
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Re: EVGA GTX 780 6GB Step-Up
2014/05/12 12:45:42
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damn so much for the "auto-notify" -- Didn't get a peep from EVGA and it is now sold out on newEgg.
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Re: EVGA GTX 780 6GB Step-Up
2014/05/12 13:20:40
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so just pulled the trigger on a 780Tiam i screwed on stepping up to 6GB ?
Don't bother stepping up. If you look at reviews of the Titan Black (virtually a 6gb 780ti) vs a 3gb 780ti there is no difference. Even at high resolutions. Even most recent reviews of the new Radeon 295x2 (4gb x 2) vs a Titan or 780ti at high surround resolutions the Nvidia cards are not as good. Keep in mind the Radeon only has 1gb more of ram than your 780ti. Its only at 2560x1440 and under is when Nvidia pulls ahead. So with 3gb or 6gb there will not be much difference as you'll most likely run out of gpu horsepower before you hit the ram cap. This of course excludes modded games like Skyrim, but this goes back you'll almost always run out of gpu hp before running out of gpu memory.
One word X-Planei do a lot simming and i can max out the ram on the 3GB card with out tryingalso games coming out in next year or 2 will easily use more then 3GB of ram (im looking at you Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk)
sorry.. never played X-Plane.
As for Watcher and Cyberpunk, if they aren't multiplayer games I will never play them on pc. In the next two years ill have upgraded at least once. Again... you'll run out of horsepower before ram -----> if you upgrade once a generation it will not matter.
The 6gb 780 or 6gb 780ti will only benefit those at 4k resolutions, but rght now Nvidia's high end cards do not do as well as the high end Radeon cards with just 1gb more of ram. Many reviews show the ram isnt the issue either. To me... any current gen Nvidia's card being re-released with more ram is Fool's Gold to those who already plopped hard earned $ on 700 series card; this comes from someone who has/had sli Titans.
The 780ti is a monster card and it oc like crazy. Sajin (very cool EVGA forum's member) and many others have also confirmed counterpart cards with the less memory tend to oc better. My friend's 780ti oc to 1255 on air, whereas my Titan only clocked up to 1150. Both are on stock bios, too.
Witcher 3 doesnt come out till next year and if Witcher 2 is any thing to go by IT WILL use that much ram
Titan Fall already can use 4GB
X-Plane and other flight sims can use 6GB of vram with out blinking
mine is running 1200 on just its own boost with out any help from me and settles in around 1150 Mhz i did nudge the base up to 1Ghz for the heck of it
but for my needs i want more ram even if it costs some speed
Titanfall does not use 4gigs of vram, no game does. No game uses 3gb of ram either. Use and allocation are 2 different things altogether.
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Re: EVGA GTX 780 6GB Step-Up
2014/05/12 13:25:08
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Vlada011
I think it's not because Titan only, some rumors talk about possible Maxwell on summer or autumn.
For such strong and expensive card near Titan Black need at least 6 months free space without something new on horizon.
If NVIDIA delay Maxwell to the New Year or 2015 and deliver small number of Titan Black than GTX780Ti 6G could be excellent option.
I don't know but if EVGA decide to go with GTX780 6GB maybe is smarter option.
Because 6GB is usually connected with SLI configuration and more people could pay GTX780 6GB SLI and that would be incredible setup for higher resolutions. Because for 1050$ you get 780 6GB SLI , same memory as Titan Black, much better performance and GTX780 is excellent for OC too.
$1100 you mean for 780 sli w/6gb memory.............Id rather wait and save up an extra $300 and get the 3gb 780 ti that has 1152 more CUDA cores................SMX/shader count is ALOT more important than a few extra gigs of vram regardless of the resolution. The standard 3gb of vram on the 780/780ti in single or 2 way sli card setup is not going to be the bottleneck featuring a GK110.
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Re: EVGA GTX 780 6GB Step-Up
2014/05/12 13:33:01
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Guys, for 3x1080 LCD - 3 or 6 GB SLI? 
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Re: EVGA GTX 780 6GB Step-Up
2014/05/12 13:34:25
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Guys, for 3x1080 LCD - 3 or 6 GB SLI?
3gb sli, $100 premium for double the vram will get you 0 extra performance.........been proven already.
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Re: EVGA GTX 780 6GB Step-Up
2014/05/12 13:52:32
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Well, thats surprising, so 6GB only for more than 60Hz or better 4K? Can i ask for any link to "evidence"?
I'm waiting for Ti 6GB version but maybe just hit with 3GB to play with 3xlcd?
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Re: EVGA GTX 780 6GB Step-Up
2014/05/12 14:15:30
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Well, thats surprising, so 6GB only for more than 60Hz or better 4K? Can i ask for any link to "evidence"?
I'm waiting for Ti 6GB version but maybe just hit with 3GB to play with 3xlcd?
There are posts and write-ups on Anandtech, techpower, OC.net, TH etc etc............the bottleneck regardless if your running a single or triple monitors has always proven to be either the gpus or cpu BEFORE the memory even plays a factor. For example, assuming all graphical settings are the same(except native resolution): To equal the performance of a single GTX 780 ti @ 1080p you would need 4 GTX 780 ti's at 2160p......and that's assuming 100% linear scaling(which is not the case as 4 way sli in most cases is no better than 2 way sli, and can be WORSE). Knowing this I get a kick outta people worrying about having 6gigs of vram....................by the time you can actually utilize that amount of memory on applications, your going to have other bottlenecks kick in WELL BEFORE. Which is why I think and KNOW that 6gb on a GK110 is worthless, especially on the entry level 780 version with 576 less CUDA cores. Id rather save up a bit more and get a 3gb 780 ti with all the extra SMX/cuda cores enabled..................that is a SIGNIFICANT performance boost.
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Re: EVGA GTX 780 6GB Step-Up
2014/05/12 14:24:20
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damn so much for the "auto-notify" -- Didn't get a peep from EVGA and it is now sold out on newEgg.
The auto-notify here will only inform you when they are available from the EVGA store.
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Re: EVGA GTX 780 6GB Step-Up
2014/05/12 18:20:03
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noto_vfx
damn so much for the "auto-notify" -- Didn't get a peep from EVGA and it is now sold out on newEgg.
The auto-notify here will only inform you when they are available from the EVGA store.
thanks for the info. Anyway to know what other retailers they were distributed to? Doesn't appear to be available on TigerDirect.
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Re: EVGA GTX 780 6GB Step-Up
2014/05/12 18:57:17
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noto_vfx
thanks for the info. Anyway to know what other retailers they were distributed to? Doesn't appear to be available on TigerDirect.
Newegg and Amazon are all I see at the moment.
post edited by Minacious - 2014/05/13 23:05:01
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Re: EVGA GTX 780 6GB Step-Up
2014/05/14 10:55:51
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Has anyone else here tried these 6GB cards in SLI? I am having nothing but problems.
Of the first 2 cards I received, 1 was bad out of the box. When SLI was enabled, any game that I would run above fairly low resolutions would cause my PC to hard shutdown/reboot itself. Trying each card individually revealed that the 2nd card was in fact bad, and so I returned it via RMA for a replacement. Fast forward to yesterday (5/13/2014) and I got my new card in the mail. Low and behold, it does the same thing in SLI. The caveat this time is that both cards work fine individually. If I have them both in the system, and I disable SLI, the system works fine also. Only when SLI is enabled, and I try running a game (Metro Last Light is a good example), the game will load fine, and start up, but once you get past the opening CGI and the game actually has to render something, the machine hard reboots itself. This is 100% repeatable.
Troublelshooting attempted: 2 different SLI bridges, 3 different power supplies (also tried daisy chaining various combinations using an Add2PSU adapater, no joy), running each card individually, running each card in various slots on my motherboard (Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4 Socket 2011, supports 4 different PCI Express slots). I have the latest motherboard chipset drivers installed, and updated to the latest BIOS which is only 2 months old from Gigabyte (released 4/30 I think, revision F7). The issue is not heat. My cards aren't even running long enough to get hot. They're running idle around 38 degrees. My CPU is not overheating either. Some other info that I think is relevant is that I have used several dual-gpu configurations in this machine in the past with no issues.
Setups in the past:
2x AMD HD7970 3GB (reference)
2x AMD HD7970 Sapphire 6GB cards (use more power than these 780's do)
2x AMD R9 290x Sapphire 4GB cards
2x GTX780 EVGA 3GB Reference cards (use the same exact power requirements as the new 6GB ACX cards)
All of the above setups worked fine. I believe the issue at this point is drivers. The latest full release driver from Nvidia doesn't even work with these cards. It will tell you you don't have any Nvidia hardware in your machine. The only driver that will even install is the latest Beta driver (337.50 I think is the version). With that installed, I can game on either card individually up to 4k resolution just fine (obviously we get some slow down at 4k, but thats expected), but as soon as SLI is enabled, and a game starts to render, viola, the machine hard resets itself.
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If this is the wrong place to be posting technical questions, please advise/moderators please move the post. Any help would be apppreciated. All the tech help line can suggest is to RMA the card again, which at this point I don't think is the problem.
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Re: EVGA GTX 780 6GB Step-Up
2014/05/14 15:50:51
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I haven't played any games yet (none are installed at the moment), but have run some synthetic benchmarks that pushed both cards with no issues.
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Re: EVGA GTX 780 6GB Step-Up
2014/05/14 16:46:35
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Minacious
I haven't played any games yet (none are installed at the moment), but have run some synthetic benchmarks that pushed both cards with no issues.
What driver are you using? Seems like we have similar systems. Have you benched at 1440p or higher? I found on the 1st bad card I received that it worked fine if it wasn't using over 3GB of memory. The EVGA Scanner program doesn't test past 3GB so it won't return any errors in mem tests, yet the card was still bad.
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Re: EVGA GTX 780 6GB Step-Up
2014/05/14 22:21:52
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What driver are you using? Seems like we have similar systems. Have you benched at 1440p or higher? I found on the 1st bad card I received that it worked fine if it wasn't using over 3GB of memory. The EVGA Scanner program doesn't test past 3GB so it won't return any errors in mem tests, yet the card was still bad.
I am on 337.50. Interesting, and concerning, that you say anything over 3GB usage and the cards give up. I did notice that the Unigine benchmarks only see 3 of the 6GB. I'll need to do something further testing. I saw these pop up.
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Re: EVGA GTX 780 6GB Step-Up
2014/05/14 22:31:27
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Downloading 337.81 right now, will see if it does anything. Each card I have works individually. I am using the card I just got yesterday right now, in the 2nd PCI Express slot @8x and was able to run Metro Last Light with no problems, and Heaven benchmark @1440p again with no issues. Doing the same with my other card is also fine. Put them in SLI? Metro causes instant system reboot. Have you installed any games yet? Strangely it seems like benchmark software doesn't cause the issue but games do. If there was no SLI profile available, could that be the culprit? A hard sytem reboot seems like a pretty serious result from simply not having a profile. Shouldn't the computer simply use just 1 card if SLI is not supported by the driver..? **Edit/Update** Ok this is incredibly annoying and stupid. I can run Benchmarks like Heaven, Valley and 3DMark Firestrike and SLI is definitely working, but the instant I try Metro, the computer hard reboots itself. My 3DMark score went down about 1000 points using those UK drivers also, but it makes no sense that it can properly use SLI, and even run Heaven/Valley @1440p and max settings which should be using pretty darned close to 3gb or more memory, yet ANY game I try to run in SLI causes a hard reboot. I'm calling EVGA again.. this is ridiculous. **Another Update** If I run Heaven/Valley in SLI @4k, it will eventually trigger the crash. I think it has to build up to a certain amount of memory being used to trigger the crash event. Games are still insta-crash if they utilize SLI and lots of memory. I was able to play heavily modded HL2 @1440p for like 5 minutes in SLI without a crash, but the moment I try Metro it's insta-crash.
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Re: EVGA GTX 780 6GB Step-Up
2014/05/17 04:23:23
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Got mine yesterday 6GB 780 super clocked . Its my first *80 I have always had *60 versions It is brand new it came well boxed not even a scratch on the box. Can Overclock it with out error so far 15% plan to go higher soon. Was worried but now I want one more for sure. 2 of these puppies would be like a Titan-z
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Re: EVGA GTX 780 6GB Step-Up
2014/05/17 20:41:06
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Silly question, and I apologize if it has been answered before. I was checking out the "Details" page on this card, and saw these listed under Interface, "PCI-E 3.0 16x DVI-I, DVI-D, HDMI". These were the only ones listed on sites like Amazon and Newegg as well. However, in the images I can clearly see displayport on the card. The regular 780 also has displayport, so I was just wondering if this was a mistake, or if it really doesn't have displayport. Thanks.
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Re: EVGA GTX 780 6GB Step-Up
2014/05/18 06:11:17
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Silly question, and I apologize if it has been answered before. I was checking out the "Details" page on this card, and saw these listed under Interface, "PCI-E 3.0 16x DVI-I, DVI-D, HDMI". These were the only ones listed on sites like Amazon and Newegg as well. However, in the images I can clearly see displayport on the card. The regular 780 also has displayport, so I was just wondering if this was a mistake, or if it really doesn't have displayport. Thanks.
Yes it has the DP. its worth getting and its graphics it produces are fantastic.
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Re: EVGA GTX 780 6GB Step-Up
2014/05/18 20:04:08
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Can I assume it's a total waste to step up for 1200p gaming? It's not much in the cost category but if it's not worth it I'll just be happy with my EVGA GeForce GTX 780 SC w/ ACX Cooler.
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Re: EVGA GTX 780 6GB Step-Up
2014/05/20 09:34:54
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will the EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Superclocked Graphics Card with ACX Cooler - 6GB fit into my evga hadron air case?
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Re: EVGA GTX 780 6GB Step-Up
2014/05/21 23:49:15
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I got a 280GTX and got this email about a trade-up, only to get the message "Sign ups are closed."
Has EVGA now collected enough spare parts to repair older 280GTX cards?
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Re: EVGA GTX 780 6GB Step-Up
2014/05/22 01:23:14
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Sign ups are closed???? What does this mean?
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Re: EVGA GTX 780 6GB Step-Up
2014/05/22 07:02:43
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Sign ups were never be open since i receive the email, so i think will be open soon, right?
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Re: EVGA GTX 780 6GB Step-Up
2014/05/22 07:19:46
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bastogio
Sign ups were never be open since i receive the email, so i think will be open soon, right?
Marshma11oman
Sign ups are closed???? What does this mean?
Sign up was available to have your name on the list, to receive the notification for the 6gb card as soon as it was released for step-up. To start the Step-up process, go to my products, click on view details, and you will see the area where you can start the process. Depending on what card you currently have, if you did not register your card within 14 days after purchase, then you will need to purchase extended warranty for Step-up to be available for you. If you did register it within 14 days, you should be able to step-up (As long as you are still in the 90 day window to Step-up).
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Re: EVGA GTX 780 6GB Step-Up
2014/05/25 07:58:37
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I got a 280GTX and got this email about a trade-up, only to get the message "Sign ups are closed."
Has EVGA now collected enough spare parts to repair older 280GTX cards?
Are you meaning trade-up as in the step up program? If so, where did you find a brand new EVGA 280 in the last 90 days?
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Re: EVGA GTX 780 6GB Step-Up
2014/05/25 19:39:34
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Somewhat off topic but this old GTX 285 is finally on it's death bed. Almost six years old and it's dying on me. It runs between 60c and 70c idle and nears 100c while gaming. Crashes are abundant as well and no amount of thermal paste reapplication will help it anymore.
That being said I've been putting off upgrading for a lot longer than I should have and now find myself at a crossroads. Originally I was planning to pick up a single 780 3gb as I am not a fan of SLI configurations but wasn't sure if it's 3gb of VRAM would be up to the task of a heavily modded Skyrim (Texture mods, ENBs, over 100 others, etc.) While the 780 might be slightly less powerful than the ti it is more than enough for me.
While I currently only game on a single 1080p monitor I had plans for eventually moving on to a second at the very least soon. Those things being said, which way should I go? The new 6gb version now that it's available or the original 3gb? Perhaps something else altogether?
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Re: EVGA GTX 780 6GB Step-Up
2014/05/26 04:55:20
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Edit: Turns out I can't post links? Anyway, I am wondering if someone from EVGA can verify which EVGA 780 backplate is right for a 6GB GTX 780 w/ ACX cooler? I am thinking it's the one with the models 3783/3784 from the store, but the 6GB version has a different model number (3787 for the SC version).
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