NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Review

Name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Graphics Card
Brand: NVIDIA

by Marco Chiappetta — Thursday, May 23, 2013, 09:00 AM EDT

Though it's a little bit dated at this point, Alien vs. Predator is still a bone-crushing benchmark test that stresses even the fastest graphics cards money can buy.

Alien vs. Predator

DirectX 11 Gaming Performance

Alien vs. Predator

The Alien vs. Predator benchmark makes use of the advanced Tessellation, screen space ambient occlusion, and high-quality shadow features available with DirectX 11. In addition to enabling all of the aforementioned DirectX 11-related features offered by this benchmark, we also switched on 4X anti-aliasing along with 16X anisotropic filtering to more heavily tax the graphics cards being tested.

AvP has historically been a strong point for AMD hardware and the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Ed. is actually nipping at the heels of the GeForce GTX 780 and GeForce GTX Titan cards. Regardless, NVIDIA can now lay claim to the top two slots in this benchmark as well.

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Frame capture data with the single-GPU powered GeForce GTX 780, GTX 680 and Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition show no major issues with frame pacing. It's the multi-GPU configurations, however, that you have worry about...

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And worry you should, if you've for a pair of Radeon HD 7970 cards running in CrossFire at least. The GeForce SLI configurations delivered frames at a relatively even clip here. The CrossFire setup though has significant issues in this game.

We'd be remiss not to mention a new driver that address frame pacing issues in the works at AMD, but an exact release date for those drivers hasn't been disclosed. We're told to expect them sometime this summer, but they're not ready just yet.

Tags: GeForce, Gaming, graphics, video, GTX, dx11, 780

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com