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Wednesday, January 01, 2014 2:34 AM
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I have a fair bit of extra cash and I think I'm finally going buy a Qnix 2710 1440p monitor (one's on Craigslist in my area for $215 and if it checks out when I try it I'll buy it), and that makes it time for some more GPU horsepower. I already have a Titan, so it would e less hassle to SLI but it wouldn't really cost any extra to go either route. I can get a pretty good 1150+MHz OC stable on my Titan now, but undoubtedly 1300+ on the Classified will yield a fair bit better performance. That brings us to the age old VRAM question again :P. Any thoughts from you guys? I know many will say to keep the Titan, but I'd like to see if there are some good arguments for the 780Ti side.
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Re: 780Ti Classified SLI vs Titan SLI 1440p
Wednesday, January 01, 2014 2:46 AM
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I am struggling with a similar decision...I have two Dell U3011 30 inch panels, I only game on one though. I have come to enjoy gaming at 2560X1600. I think money wise, either choice would not be a big deal considering you are willing to buy another Titan. I say sell the Titan, then purchase two 780ti's. At 1440P the extra 3GB of VRAM does not seem to matter. 780ti still beats it in most benchmarks I have seen. The extra CUDA cores, and considerably faster memory seems to make a huge difference. This choice might actually be cheaper considering you can prob get 700$ easy for the Titan. Some might make the argument to get the Titan and buy another for 4K gaming. I am not sure if that is something you are even considering down the line, but honestly I am not very impressed with anything AMD or Nvidia has out there now for 4K gaming. It will probably take the next gen of video cards before we start seeing respectable framerates at 4K. So I say sell the Titan, and get two 780ti's. At 1440P, you will own any game out there, even with 3GB of VRAM.
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Re: 780Ti Classified SLI vs Titan SLI 1440p
Wednesday, January 01, 2014 2:51 AM
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Thanks for the response! I've actually considered Dell's 24" 4K panel, but that would render me unable to get another GPU right away so I'd be pretty stuck on the gaming front. I will most likely upgrade to the next gen of nVidia GPUs (880) when they come out, so that would most likely be a better time to investigate 4K. But would it be better to just get the 4K panel now and wait on the GPUs? There's also games like CoD Ghosts where even at 1080p it uses boat loads of VRAM, so there's an argument for the TITANs side.
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Re: 780Ti Classified SLI vs Titan SLI 1440p
Wednesday, January 01, 2014 3:01 AM
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Solar Trans I have a fair bit of extra cash and I think I'm finally going buy a Qnix 2710 1440p monitor (one's on Craigslist in my area for $215 and if it checks out when I try it I'll buy it), and that makes it time for some more GPU horsepower. I already have a Titan, so it would e less hassle to SLI but it wouldn't really cost any extra to go either route. I can get a pretty good 1150+MHz OC stable on my Titan now, but undoubtedly 1300+ on the Classified will yield a fair bit better performance. That brings us to the age old VRAM question again :P. Any thoughts from you guys? I know many will say to keep the Titan, but I'd like to see if there are some good arguments for the 780Ti side.
Well your choice boils down to, buy another TITAN or sell the TITAN and buy two 780Ti. I'd say go with the TITAN SLI simply because you can already exceed 3GB vram on current games at 1920x1080. This is not going to go the other way. Of course it's true you can reduce a few setting to reduce vram usage but then what is the point of spending the dinero with the intent with running all the eye candy maxed? You might as well have saved $500 and went with cheaper a GPU. No doubt for most current games 780Ti's in SLI will get you a bit better performance but for how long?
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Re: 780Ti Classified SLI vs Titan SLI 1440p
Wednesday, January 01, 2014 3:03 AM
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Re: 780Ti Classified SLI vs Titan SLI 1440p
Wednesday, January 01, 2014 3:07 AM
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All very valid arguments. While it might be fun OCing a Ti Classy, it may not be the most feasible plan right now :P. 6GB 780Ti and I'd probably be on board...
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Re: 780Ti Classified SLI vs Titan SLI 1440p
Wednesday, January 01, 2014 3:09 AM
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If you know that you want that 4K Dell monitor, and you also know you will be interested in the 800 series from Nvidia, it may make more sense to skip the 780ti's this round and wait. I guess a lot of it depends on how much money you are willing to commit to this crazy hobby of ours. 4K is just so demanding right now. I consider 60FPS as a playable frame rate. (and I don't like to bottom out too far below that) And it just takes so much to drive that type of frame rate at 4K. I am personally waiting on new 21:9 ultra wide monitors from LG and Dell. Its like the Dell U2913W, only instead of 2560X1080, its 3440X1440. I love the 21:9 aspect ratio, and the fact now that you can have that 1440P vertical resolution. Now I figure that still pretty demanding for SLI 780ti's, but not as bad as 4K. I would start looking at benches for single Titan cards at 4K. If you perhaps thing 30 FPS is good enough with the games you like, you may do just fine with one Titan. Get the Dell 4K monitor, and then down the line, invest in SLI 880's. (whenever those come out, hopefully no later than this summer.) I think you will be in good shape either way.
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Re: 780Ti Classified SLI vs Titan SLI 1440p
Wednesday, January 01, 2014 4:52 AM
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Why invest in a monitor without the horsepower to actually use it. 30 FPS is not really a playable game rate. Either TITAN SLI or wait on both until the next series of GPUs are released and 4K monitors are also cheaper. The 4K technology will be changing and coming down in price. I am not as optimistic as everyone. I think it will take about 3 years before games and GPUs are ready for 4K. It will great for the 2 games that can actually handle 4K.
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Re: 780Ti Classified SLI vs Titan SLI 1440p
Thursday, January 02, 2014 6:41 AM
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For me, the big attraction for 4K is the screen real estate in productivity software. Games are not optimized for it as of now, and I agree it will most likely take a little bit of time before it takes the place of 1440p as the "enthusiast standard". However, if AMD keeps the pressure on nVidia and stays competitive, we may see 4K handling GPUs sooner rather than later. Four Titans are almost necessary to provide smooth gameplay on good settings with a 4K panel, and even then you're not getting much more than 60FPS.
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Re: 780Ti Classified SLI vs Titan SLI 1440p
Thursday, January 02, 2014 7:38 PM
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Get another titan, with settings turned to max at 1440p in AC$ i've already passed 2900mb of vram with my gtx 780 :( , If i was to buy another card i'd want 4gb of ram as a min
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Re: 780Ti Classified SLI vs Titan SLI 1440p
Thursday, January 02, 2014 7:45 PM
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Triss Get another titan, with settings turned to max at 1440p in AC$ i've already passed 2900mb of vram with my gtx 780 :( , If i was to buy another card i'd want 4gb of ram as a min
Well, if it's available, what's wrong with the game using it? (so long as it's not crashing) Look at like this, what if you had the Titan and 6GB of VRam, and the game was using 5.9GB, would you then be looking for card with even more VRam?
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Re: 780Ti Classified SLI vs Titan SLI 1440p
Thursday, January 02, 2014 7:55 PM
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Because if todays games nearly fill it why would you buy a new card to last that has the same issue? soon as that next game comes out uses a bit more and hits the vram wall u will have slowdowns etc Hey already has 1 titan imo best way forwards if its a simular cost is another
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Re: 780Ti Classified SLI vs Titan SLI 1440p
Thursday, January 02, 2014 8:09 PM
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Titan if you can find one for $600-650 (after the 780ti announcement, they were selling for this much nonstop). While the 780 Ti Classified will rape a titan FPS wise, more than 3gb at 1440P+ is something to highly consider. If you can get a 3rd Titan for <$650, then blow your money there and watercool the 3. I'm a 780SLI and now 780Ti SLI owner, and at 1440p, BF4 uses 2.9gb of vram without any upped resolution scale.
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