The GTX 780 Ti is unleashed on PowerColor’s 290X OC
Performance summary charts & graphs
Here are the summary charts of 30 games and 4 synthetic tests. The highest settings are always chosen and it is DX11 when there is a choice; DX10 is picked above DX9, and the settings are ultra or maxed. Specific settings are listed on the Main Performance charts.
The benches are run at 1920×1080 and 2560×1600. All results, except for Vantage, Firestrike and 3DMark11, show average framerates and higher is always better. In-game settings are fully maxed out and they are identically high or ultra across all platforms.
Here is the main summary chart:
We see some incredibly impressive results of the new GTX 780 Ti. At its stock speeds it is faster in almost every case over the user overclocked EVGA GTX 780 which managed +150 core/+550MHz!
Our chart provides a lot of information across 30 games and 4 synthetics. What we can take away from the results is that the GTX 780 Ti is the fastest single GPU video card – period! The reference GTX 780 Ti easily beats its main competitor, the mildly overclocked R9 290X, which maintains its 1030MHz boost clock as it base clock through all of the benching in our cool testing environment. And the PowerColor 290X is a very strong performer as it goes toe to toe with the Titan!
We also see very good scaling from overclocking the reference GTX 780 Ti which gives a taste of what Nvidia’s board partners will be able to do with the clocks with more exotic cooling. When overclocked, the GTX 780 Ti is within about 10% of the performance of the dual-GPU GTX 690. This is an amazing feat for the GTX 780 Ti as it has none of the issues of SLI.
We also see that at 1920×1080, our CPU is not fast enough as in some games, scaling is poor. The GTX 780 Ti is perfect for 2560×1600 resolution.
PhysX
We test PhysX in Batman: Arkham Origins which makes great use of PhyxX and it is a shame to play it without it. In both cases, turning on PhysX, although affecting the frame rate, it is enough to play the game with fully maxed out details and with AA with our GTX 780/Ti, GTX Titan and our GTX 690. We also bench with 4xMSAA versus High FXAA.
The first number represents FXAA High/PhysX Normal; the second is (4xMSAA/PhysX Normal); the third is FXAA High/PhysX High. The Radeons cannot run with PhysX on High in this game.
Let’s head for our conclusion.
