Graphics Speculation Shenanigans - NVIDA GTX 7XX Series - GTX 770 £330

Regarding 780 I checked the Step Up Prog from EVGA. I can step up. But for an extra £200 which I dont have at the moment.

And is it worth it? I could SLI for just that little bit extra.

Well for the same price as a single 780 plus a SLI Mobo.

 

SLI is way to go. What kind of SLI mobo? You mean socket 2011? That's dual x16 right?

 

I wouldn't bother if your gaming at 1080p Dom!

SLI and Uber cards should be the preserve of 1440p + HD resolutions so don't sweat it.

 

I know exactly what you mean. I will be jumping to 1440p soon though if all goes well with review samples coming my way.

 

It's worth jumping to a GTX 780 for 1440p. These days a single GTX 670 doesn't really cut it at 1440p so I took advantage of a second that became available in the marketplace last year. Haven't looked back since.

 

I'm torn. I run at 1440p, so I could definitely do with the horsepower over my EVGA 680 2GB SC (the 3GB of RAM will come in useful already). However, £550 is a lot of cash, and the prices of 680s on the second hand market is going to plummet rapidly I would think, depending on what prices the 770s hit at.

 

Memory bandwidth is the limiting factor in most cases as opposed to the amount of VRAM. The GTX 780 benefits from a 384-bit interface which is the technical specification that draws my attention more than the 3GB. All be it nice to have more!

 

Scan have 780's listed at around £500-600 price range. Which is pretty good for the performance. I kind wish I held back for 700 series but a 670 is doing me just fine at the moment.

If I where to SLI I would need to replace my motherboard too.

 

ebuyer have the better prices for GTX 780 at the moment plus a little Quidco cashback.

 

That is good to know thanks.

 

I think I'll just SLI my 670 when the prices drop.

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Incidentally, does anyone know how much of a money-maker these super-high-end cards actually are for companies like Nvidia? I'd always imagined they were just a tech exercise and that most of their revenue actually came from the mid-range cards.

Also, it does kinda worry me that the highest-end single-GPU cards cost about twice as much now as they did ten years ago. Inflation has been bad, but not that bad. Is PC gaming just getting more expensive?

 

Rule 1: don't subsidise your lower end with the profits of your higher end (unless absolutely necessary).

Thus we can see that the basic cost of a 6 series card is close to the bottom-of-the-range's MSRP. The extra costs of the high-end GPUs are in the binning, the extra memory and other bits and bobs - pretty marginal stuff. Nvidia make an absolute killing on the high-end, which is why they've been happy to leave the low-margin mid-low cards to AMD.

 

+1

 

I'm thinking the same but with my 680...

 

I'm thinking the same but with my 790...









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They will be making money on them as after all the GK110 consumer cards are nothing more than Tesla K20's that didn't meet the grade. Better to sell them than simply bin them. The relative R&D costs to making them into a consumer card would have been quite low.

However I would imagine Nvidia are making considerably more money off of the GK110 in Tesla form than in consumer form (A quick google shows A K20x (Fully enabled GK110)for around $4,000).

 

What will the price bump from 670 to 770 be? Looking at speccing a rig (pre-built, heresy), and have a good quote with a 670, but always nice to have the latest toy

 

Nvidias profits come from tesla, mobile, server usage in that order.

Gaming gpus and the devision itself has never done that well. 50-100mil profit yearly which is pocket change for nvidia.

They do the gaming stuff cause its good PR.