Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 Ti review

MULTI-MONITOR MAGIC
Given its immense single-monitor performance, the GTX 780 Ti is predictably capable of playing the latest games in Nvidia’s Surround gaming mode across three monitors. With three monitors attached to the GTX 780 Ti, resolution set to 5,760×1,080 and graphics quality set to Ultra, the GTX 780 Ti produced a smooth average frame rate of 56.2fps in Dirt Showdown. Curiously, the Radeon R9 290X once again beat the GTX 780 Ti in these optimal conditions, with an average frame of 66fps.

However, the GTX 780 Ti consistently beat the Radeon R9 290X when we reduced graphics quality, with the GTX 780 Ti producing 114.6fps with graphics quality set to High and the Radeon R9 290X producing 100fps in the same test, to show just one example.

Sadly, we didn’t get the chance to test the R9 290X with Crysis 3 across three monitors, but we did test the GTX 780 Ti. With graphics quality set to High, the GTX 780 Ti produced a fairly smooth average frame rate of 28fps. Reducing graphics quality to Medium had little effect, with the average frame rate rising to just 30fps.

COMMON EXPERIENCE
As is common with GeForce cards, users can download and install GeForce Experience, which is a utility that lets users record their game play to create videos that can be uploaded to social media. GeForce Experience also lets you optimise certain games so that they run at the highest frame rates.

We used GeForce Experience to optimise the graphics quality settings of Crysis 3. GeForce Experience set the Shading and Shadows options to High and Medium respectively, and set anti-aliasing to 1x SMAA. At these settings the GTX 780 Ti produced a very smooth and highly impressive average frame rate of 54fps at a resolution of 2,560×1,080. We recorded a minimum frame rate of 39fps and a maximum frame rate of 62fps.

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 Ti is a fantastic gaming card, and is easily the best gaming card currently available. It even beat the GTX Titan in our Dirt Showdown benchmarks. Other than the quirk with Dirt Showdown at optimal graphics settings, the GTX 780 Ti outperformed the 290X. If you want to play the latest games at the highest quality settings with the highest frame rates then you should seriously consider the Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 Ti as your next graphics card.