Nvidia's GTX780 - 11 Years Later!

[@BobPony]

In the early 2020s, it was insane how the price for those GPUs were very expensive on the used market.

[@broughton1835]

i bought a 1070 for like 250 in 2020 :((((((

[@ESKATEUK]

Yep, I sold a gtx 770 2gb for £140 the day I uploaded it onto eBay… sold within an instant. Crazy

[@pax124]

​@@broughton1835 I bought an 1080 for 360.....

[@auturgicflosculator2183]

@@broughton1835 Sounds like a pretty fine deal, for the time. 1650s with barely over half the performance of a 1070 were priced at $400 here~ rural Canada

[@takehirolol5962]

Well yes, developed nations had strict Quarantine regulations and even the old Playstation 2 was expensive.

[@ChloeVFX]

Eleven years ago.... Why must time do this to us.... 💀😭

[@Chaotic-po8oj]

I was 10 (turned 11 later that year since my bday is in September) when this card was released. I was almost done with the 4th grade, going on to 5th after the summer. I didn’t get a computer til late 2014 when I started middle school. It was a shitty Toshiba laptop, followed by a much better Dell Insprion 17 2 in 1 laptop in late 2017. I didn’t have a proper PC till 2022, with my first pc graphics card being the RTX 3060 12gb. Massive upgrade over the Inspiron’s MX150 2gb GPU. Crazy how much has happened in the last 11 years.

[@CableWrestler]

Enjoy. Now. Cherish it.

[@jimtekkit]

It was 11 years ago I got my first "real" custom gaming PC (Haswell 4670K). And while it's cool seeing 8, 12 and 16 cores becoming normal at the higher-end, what I like even more is that the low-end budget PCs are no longer stuck with those horrible dual core Pentiums and Athlons. Budget PCs a decade ago used to be a very regrettable purchase decision that made you hate your life, now it's easy to get at least 6 decent cores and 16GB memory for cheap.

[@mclarenf1gtr99]

@Warewolverineski Nope, just things don't evolve as fast today. In the 90s and 00s things were evolving fast because there was room for it. Today it is way more difficult to get faster products without investing tons of money into research. From 2000 to 2009, we went from 1-core sub 2GHz, to 4c/8t 3.5GHz+. From 2015 to 2024, we went from 4c/8t 4.2GHz, to 8c/16t 5.5GHz (or 12c/24t if counting with inflation). Still a decent improvement but not as big as in the 2000s, with quadruple the core count (double that on threads) and double the frequency (plus IPC gains were bigger back then).

[@C0bblers]

£12 for a 780 is a mega deal, I used to have one and it was great in GTA at 1440p at the time.

[@nitricoxide1]

Woah! You basically stole the GPU!

[@joefifa8415]

It's power consumption really isn't justified tbh.

[@mohamedaminekhadhraoui6417]

Even 4k too at around 40fps at low.

[@DanielCardei]

Considering it`s a mini Titan, I'm not surprised the GTX 780 can still handle modern games.

[@danielivanov930]

✌😎

[@auturgicflosculator2183]

The 780 Ti was faster than the Titan.

[@tomstech4390]

@@auturgicflosculator2183 it's all shader counts and clocks gtx780: 2304 Titan : 2688 780 Ti: 2880 Titan Black 2880 Given the same core (last 2) you can make the 780TI perform faster unless you run out of Vram. the 780 only looked good because the Titan was so overpriced, Gamers got mugged and sold the "£next best thing" again and again. Nvidia could have made a "super titan" just by giving the Titan black an overclock and higher power limit and everyone would have thrown their titans and 780Ti's in the trash climbing over each other to buy it.

[@WayStedYou]

​@@auturgicflosculator2183 titan black was higher clockee than the 780ti

[@auturgicflosculator2183]

@@WayStedYou 5% performance boost for 43% higher cost didn't exactly blow customers away, but yes. 😅

[@NamelessPyro]

I am new watcher of your content and you have been a lovely watch when i'm enjoying my breakfast or dinner

[@BenjjjDW]

Won’t be long now until my RX570 appears on here 😂

[@moezarella1261]

I hope so. That's the only card I have bought brand new.^^

[@darthwiizius]

Won't be long until my 2060S follows it.

[@BenjjjDW]

I guess it’s fitting that I bought it at CEX for the bargain price of £100..

[@NexusFantismo]

I would expect my RX 6600 to show up on this channel soon enough.

[@Stardomplay]

Wont be long till my 3070 Laptop appears on that list

[@windowsvista3193]

The GTX 780(in Australia) on eBay is still $70-ish

[@SamyDeluxxe]

In germany it's also still 50 €-ish

[@daelionmr4782]

Also around 50+ $ on one of our best second hand marketplace in Hungary. Which is in the same price range as the 4GB RX 470-570 and tbh I would rather get those if I really needed a card in that budget range.

[@runforestrunfpv4354]

Good enough for itx build?

[@UncannySense]

@@runforestrunfpv4354 depends on the ITX case how big a GPU will fit.

[@runforestrunfpv4354]

@UncannySense its an open case.

[@rubenphonecollector2533]

This was my previous graphics card :D This exact model. Glad to see you covered it on your channel!

[@arthurmann578]

Mine too, only I had the ti version.👍👍

[@darthwiizius]

I had an MSi 770, damn I could have used the extra gig of RAM at the time. Ah well, ya lives and learns, I suppose.

[@peterkarlsson1825]

Mine too.

[@arthurmann578]

I have the exact same card only it's the ti version. It IS missing its cover though. I just replaced it with a GTX 980 because I believe the memory was getting eratic. I actually got the 780 as part of a whole system that someone dumped on my front lawn back in 2020. It was perfect timing because the GPU "wars" started at that time. It did serve me well. It even kept my house warm in the winter because it gobbles 250 watts of juice! 😂👍👍

[@Lurch-Bot]

The 780Ti is not the 'exact same card only it's the Ti version'. The 780 Ti has 25% more cores and slightly outperforms the GTX Titan.

[@TheVanillatech]

This was a crazy period of GPU's. I was running an HD5970 and had been waiting to upgrade for a long time. I was eyeing the GTX780 and R9 290, but I decided to wait for Maxwell to drop. When the GTX970 was released at £330, I figured thats the card to grab - it was only £10 more expensive than the Toxic R9 290 I was gonna buy, but it was some 10-15% faster! So I ordered the GTX970. Just 3-4 days later, when my card arrived, I noticed that eBuyer had reduced the price of their R9 290 range by 30%! That Toxic R9 290 was now just £240 and they even had a Sapphire model for £235! I was devastated! If only I'd have waited a few days! They even reduced their R9 290X's by the same amount, meaning I coulda grabbed one of those for the same price as the GTX 970. I bought a second 970 for SLI that November. About 12 months later I sold the pair of them for £400 and put the money towards a GTX980ti, which I still have somewhere in my parts box! XD

[@upyermaw2732]

Had the same HD5970, my friend gave me it when I was down on my luck it lasted until I found that r9 290 on ebay all great cards

[@auturgicflosculator2183]

Sounds amazing, for anyone who got their hands on those! I didn't know Toxics were actually sold...I wanted one, but never saw one in a store, so I settled for the Tri-X OC, which was okay because it OCed great. First GPU I ever owned that required support to combat sag. 😄

[@TheVanillatech]

@@upyermaw2732 Yeah I got that HD5970 FOR FREE! Believe it or not! My friend owned a computer store (Axem Computers) and a customer had come in with his teenage son's PC complaining it was hard resetting now and then during gaming. We tested the PC and it was his GPU over heating / malfunctioning. So we sold him an HD 6990 (closest thing we had) and he was about to bin the HD5970 but I told him to bake it instead, see if it was just bad solder joints. He baked it - and behold that fixed the card and he gave it to me for teaching him something new! Had that amazing card for almost years.

[@TheVanillatech]

@@auturgicflosculator2183 Haha they were LONG, HEAVY cards.

[@max.racing]

GTX 770 and higher, GTX 960 and higher and GTX 1050ti and higher can still offer great gaming experience, especially for older games. and depending on the model, even in 1440p. same goes for the AMD competition. i remember playing Metro Last Light Redux on my overclocked AMD 280x in 1440p on medium settings with 60+ fps and only dops to like 55fps in the high demanding areas Battlefield 5 ran on 60+ fps in high settings in 1080p. Only my OCd Phenom X6 had some little problems when playing online, but it wasnt to bad! which was damn impressive and my good old GTX 1060 Aorus master ripped thrue absolutely everything after i gave it a proper overlock

[@hendrixc6988]

My gtx 970 was retired with intel arc release but it still sits in its OEM box waiting for the day it’s needed again.

[@ProtoMario]

Currently have a gtx 780 windforce paired with a i7 870 in an older system. Not sure what to do with it...

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

Windows XP?

[@arthurmann578]

I was using mine with Win 7 for the last four years until I just replaced it with a 980 because the memory was starting to give out on it. I originally had an i7- 920 with it but upgraded to a XEON X5670. It ran real well and I would still be using it if the memory wasn't wonky now. No DX12 in Win 7, though.👍👍

[@Compact-Disc_700mb]

XP, Vista, 7, 8.1 are good for older games or linux, BSD, Haiku if you want to use the internet and some newer games. Plenty of OS options and compatibility with an older system like that, really unless you want to play the latest stuff at the highest settings a system like that is still great daily system still.

[@penguinsushi8442]

@@arthurmann578 By memory giving out, you mean it not being enough V-RAM for modern games? Or that the V-RAM was failing

[@Vekstar]

Glad to see your still kiking around. Did like your content

[@thcriticalthinker4025]

Well you completely forgot about the existence of the 780ti, but good video!

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

A story for another day

[@UltimaOmega07]

I remember buying the reference model as a graduation present right on release and ended up using it for a solid 7 years, got an insane amount of mileage out of it and I think it was totally worth the 700 euros I paid for it and then some. Still have it in its box in storage and it'll possibly see some use in a hilariously overkill XP PC I've been thinking about building sometime

[@C96Alia]

There's Supermium (Chromium 130 ESR fork) for modern browsing on XP, and you can use the POSReady updates to get modern TLS/SSL. Have fun :) Plenty of tricks with Java to get modern-ish versions running, XP kernel mods, etc. If you wanna explore that. Some third party Minecraft launchers work out of the box, as well. NEONFLOPPY_.sytes has some guides on that, placing most of the URL in comments because it's hard to find on google.

[@L4ftyOne]

Still a good medium settings 1080p card! For 10-20 bucks. For 40-70 a rx580 of course

[@grantmackinnon1307]

Get the polaris card, much better

[@auturgicflosculator2183]

@@grantmackinnon1307 Not that much better, if those are the prices. 580 is like 30-40% faster.

[@grantmackinnon1307]

What i seen a 780 is like 100-120 and an rx570 is like 50-75. I was looking hope to see a 780ti for 20 bucks but nothing that cheap, I have a 780ti but I think sli could be interesting to try. I could pretend I have a 2000 dollar computer in 2013. I've used an rx570 8gb and it is a much better card then a GTX 780ti. ​@@auturgicflosculator2183

[@aleksazunjic9672]

Well, do not fool yourself, it cannot run really modern games even on 1080p low with FSR.

[@auturgicflosculator2183]

@@aleksazunjic9672 It'll run Factorio just fine.

[@SimplyTheSloth]

This was my intro to high-end gaming when it came out. At the time, I had an AMD Radeon HD 7770 going from that to this was insane to 15-year-old me.

[@solidpetal]

Wow, 11 years! I still daily drive my Late 2013 27” iMac with the 3.5GHz i7 4771 and GTX 780M 4GB with 32GB RAM I got back then. Even this mobile version of the 780 can keep up with some modern games, but it’s showing its age a lot more than the desktop counterpart.

[@dathekingofguildwars]

Love the video man :)

[@InvictusManeo.]

Problem with it is it only supports DX12 (11-0) so no good for any games higher than that, but if you aint bothered about that then looks like a viable cheap option.

[@JaytheLay1]

I remember when I was a kid, I bought a pre-built from CybertronPC, long story short, I killed the GPU with the built-in overclocker by accidentally changing fan speeds to high, they actually replaced the GPU with a Zotac GTX 780 3gb model, for completely free. That card is still my favorite for nostalgia alone, with only the 1080FE beating it for me in adoration. Being able to play any game without worrying about the settings was magical as a lil dude.

[@rodeWouww]

Do sad that they discontinued support. They were so goob man

[@D4RKV3NOM]

GOOB man also reminds me of gtx 780.. /s xD

[@acronym.4328]

Very goob.

[@arenzricodexd4409]

nvidia support kepler for like 9 years. that is freaking long.

[@ElDavo9000]

@@arenzricodexd4409 They did a goob job

[@moezarella1261]

I have bought a R9 290 4 GB for 29 €... I think that's a passable deal, considering it is stronger than the gtx 780 and has better DX12 and vulkan support. Also have my beloved RX Vega I saved from a miner - got it for 30 bucks and it runs perfectly. I can pass on the 780 I think ;-) looking forward to your thoughts on the R9 290!

[@EllaKarhu]

I had an R9 290 before, can confirm it's a great card. Played through Elden Ring at 1080p medium settings, consistently locked at 30 fps. And that's without any community drivers. I would probably still be using that beast if the fan didn't break.

[@NolanAlighieri]

I'm surprised you didn't mention the special EVGA version of this card that tripled the VRAM. That version of the 780 was truly the Poor Man's Titan at the time. I used that thing for a long, long time before upgrading to a 1080ti (shortly after the release of the 20-series cards). I think I still have it, collecting dust in my old ITX case somewhere... RIP EVGA 😥

[@L337f33t]

I remember Jayz video about this card when it came out… and I had a new in box 750ti from EVGA.

[@skizecraft]

FSR would help the card a lot since for works on pretty much every gpu

[@cosmicnebula3023]

FSR 1.0 is the only one that consistently works on Kepler GPUs. FSR 2.0 only sometimes works depending on the game, and FSR 3.0/3.1 usually just causes crashes.

[@integerofdoom69]

If only all upscaling tech didn't look like absolute garbage.

[@EllaKarhu]

FSR literally looks worse than just running the game at a lower resolution

[@ps5professional]

@@integerofdoom69DLSS Quality looks better than native 4K with TAA 99% of the time. What are you on?

[@alejandrocanadasgomez8701]

Still using this on my XP/ w7 machine

[@C96Alia]

If you still actively use XP, there's Supermium for a modern web browser. You can also trick XP into installing POSReady updates with one button click in Legacy Update, for better internet security. Some minecraft launchers, and other programs will work out of the box (even if not officially said so), and some modern programs can be ran with a bit of TLC.

[@patscanlan2678]

Watching on a GTX 680 in 2024...😄

[@KnightofAges]

Spend 15 bucks and upgrade to a 780.

[@inflatablemeat]

I only upgraded from my GTX 670 about a year ago. Twin Frozr ftw.

[@CableWrestler]

Me too!

[@0ka354]

​@@KnightofAgesits not 15$ where I live. I have gtx 660 and its 20$ on used market, 780 is 40$ and I don't think its worth it

[@Dictatortot-n3d]

​@@0ka354damn dude a GTX 980 is $40 here. For $50 I could get a GTX 1060 6gb

[@meecob]

Great video. I still have a 780TI and a GTX960 which I haven't used for a few years. I run a RTX4060 now but I still have those classic cards as a backup.

[@Xeraser2]

I think it's extremely important to remember the time period when the 780/Ti came out, it was right when AAA games' optimization started spiraling downwards (even without the countless NVIDIA gimmicks EVERYONE had at that time, be is physx or hairworks or what have you) and 3GB were already starting to feel like they weren't enough at 1080p Ultra. When the 980/Ti came out just a while later it felt like it had some actual longevity. Was it really unfair to expect 1080/60/Ultra for a few years out of that price range? I don't think so.

[@Xeraser2]

It's MENTAL how Crysis is just about playable on Ultra with a tiny bit of breathing room on the best card you could get nearly six years after the game came out.

[@Lurch-Bot]

That's the modern Steam version of Crysis. The original version of Crysis will run at 1080p Ultra at 60 fps on a slightly overclocked C2Q with an R7 250 running in Windows 7. It is mental how they can just magically make the game way more demanding for absolutely no benefit.

[@Xeraser2]

​@@Lurch-Botthat explains it. Not the first time I've seen a steam release of a Crysis game do this.

[@FarmerSlideJoeBob]

The perfect Video after a hard work on tuesday!!!!!!

[@Dtr146]

I just had a brilliant idea for a series that you could do that I would click on and I'm pretty sure a lot of people would as soon as we see it. Take cards like the 780 and find the modern day equivalent to it. Like say, for instance, the 780 versus a 1650 or something. I think that would truly give scope on how good these cards still are.

[@Lurch-Bot]

The 1650 is gonna win that battle. Not by a lot but it will still win, especially with titles from this decade, many of which won't even run on a 780. Then there is the fact that there are more recent titles that won't run on a 3GB GPU.

[@AlexraptorGameDev]

This GPU was my first stop when I got back into Windows XP gaming, earlier this year. I have three in perfect working order and one with a dodgy fan, all cheap! :) Main downside with this card is that it physically doesn't seem to be possible to run 3-way or 4-way SLI, as the cooler shroud prevents 3-way and 4-way bridges from reaching the connectors. For 2-way SLI one will also want use a ribbon bridge and ensure you have at least 1-slot spacing, between the two.

[@auturgicflosculator2183]

At launch, the 760, 770 and 780 supported 3-way, and the first three Titans and the 780 Ti supported 4-way. Kingpin made a version of the 780 with a custom BIOS allowing for 4-way, but then Nvidia disabled 3- and 4-way and locked it out in their software so it could no longer be modded with the inf file, so any BIOS version that does support more than 2-way is not going to be the latest from Nvidia. I think. It's been a while.

[@Lurch-Bot]

Good thing for you 3 way and 4 way SLI are pretty much useless. Also, you don't necessarily need to use a bridge for SLI to work. In fact, when I was playing around with a LGA 775 SLI machine last year with a pair of 7800 GTX cards, the machine wouldn't post with the bridge installed but ran fine and utilized both GPUs without it when I played Crysis. For a pair of 780s, you may be getting into the territory where running without a bridge will cost you performance.

[@Ariund0]

This was my first "real" gpu back in 2020ish! I traded some rc stuff and was able to upgrade from a gtx 260... So quite the jump lol. I remember being very happy with the performance, but it needed more vram for more modern games. Still, its a solid card especially at how cheap it is. If I remember right, the rx 580 is just barely faster but can have 1-5 more gigs of vram, but at the price of a gtx780 vs an rx580 the gtx780 is still incredibly relevant.

[@henshin587]

The 290 card was just a better overall option (ignoring the reference cooler design). It had 4GB of VRAM with a massive 512-bit interface. I remember people saying it was overkill for anything below 4K. Later, with the 780 Ti, Nvidia surpassed the 290, but of course, at a much higher price. Also, with the launch of the 9xx series, Nvidia quickly dropped support for the 780, and it’s possible they even throttled its performance to make the 970 look better by comparison.

[@BrunodeSouzaLino]

Even the R9 Nano/Fury/Fury X was better because it had a 2048-bit interface despite only having 4GB of VRAM.

[@RaPtOr9600]

11 years ago i got Gigabyte R9 290X WindForce 3X, i bought it cheep when crypto at time crashed. Thermals and noise were excellent. But TDP oh my better to forget that. Tested it against GTX780 and they were pretty close, but nVidia as always had drivers on their side. 290x served me well until one late night 5 years ago Civilization 6 killed it.

[@94XJ]

Man, I remember going from my 1100t and twin GTX 480 setup to a 4770k and two 780s. I was able to max stuff out in Nvidia Surround on 3 1440p monitors. What a time. What a time. That was the first system I did a custom water loop on and the overclocking gains were gigantic.

[@cal2127]

speaking of wich id love to see a video on how the 390x held up

[@VanillaButterscotchIceCream]

I still have one of these in my grandmother's PC. Tried pushing it a few months ago and still works like a charm as long as you keep your expectations realistic

[@unnamedchannel1237]

If you push your grandmother , running the risk of breaking a hip.

[@pederb82]

When this gpu came out I bought the flagship computer of the Norwegian company Komplett with two of these cards (tho founders edition) in sli. I still have one of them laying around and the case and power supply is still in use.

[@electricindigoball1244]

GTX 780 is on Nvidia's legacy driver support on Windows so it's not surprising it's so cheap. That being said it still has open source driver support on Linux and Kepler is the last generation that worked properly with those drivers so it still has a use case even if Windows updates will break the existing drivers at some point.

[@TheJimminiShow]

Ti was the Titan. Not the base 780. The GTX 780ti has The GK110BCore 2880 cores with 240 TMUs 48 Rops. Titan Was closer to TI. Just had more memory. 2688 Cuda cores, 224 TMUs on the titan. The extra Ram helped. great Video though

[@OakSorcerer]

What an awesome content, can watch it whole day long. Thank you!

[@pugs5014]

Man my built my desktop in 2015 I used a 780 and lasted until last year Was one hell if a workhorse

[@Svein-Frode]

Another great video. Keep up the good work! Great card BTW. I use this for my Windows XP rig. A bit overkill, but it never hurts to have some overhead... :) What software do you use for fps counting?

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

Afterburner or FRAPS

[@Igbf]

I paid a bit more than that amount for a BROKEN/for parts GTX780 just a few weeks ago. Maybe prices in my region are a bit worse, but dear lord we have gone insane. The price you paid for it seems quite fair, since even if they are quite powerful and enough for most games, the fact that they are not supported in the current driver release makes me recommend to go only up to the 900 series on the second hand market. In Spain people asks about 40-50-ish USD for a working one. Which is just insane given the prior facts. I would probably pay that for a Titan from that generation, and only because of the collectors/nostalgia value. Nice little card, and nice video as always!

[@RoCSaran]

I had a flat mate get one of these cards brand new and remember him benchmarking it throughout the weekend. It replaced his 660s in SLI and it matched/exceeded their performance in every test.

[@Wushu-viking]

Thanks for the upload. This Was a good card and good to see still quite usable (more or less). And the cooler used on this Asus model is great. Looks great also. IMO the 3 Reason for the low price now: 1. Age (whatever that means nowadays) plus (expected) wear n tear. 2. Support (Nvidia not supporting Kepler now with driver updates) 3. Alternatives from other "old" cards (GTX 970 and 1060 3GB. Faster, more efficient and still supported) In the light of the GTX 970 now also selling dirt cheap (though more expensive than the 780), I just can't justify any reason to get a GTX 780, other than for "sentimental" reasons :) It's in the age phase now being old, but not a "classic" like the GTX 480 (which technically is horrible in every way compared to the 780). And there is two many 780's on the market now. However, The Titan 6GB model of the GK110 is what might be worth something one day in the future / collectors market. I do believe that for old titles like Crysis, the GTX 780 probably is stronger than the more modern GTX 1060 3GB, due to the memory bus (raw muscle). For maxing out 2007-2015 games, this can be a very good choice.

[@Tomcat115]

My first “big boy” graphics card was a GTX 770 with 4GB of vram. Back then, I thought it was an absolute beast! It could run anything I threw at it at 1080p 60 FPS. Coming from an honest Radeon HD 4670, it blew my mind how powerful it was at the time. Nowadays, it’s not very useful for many modern games, but I still keep it as a memento of those times. Thanks for the video!

[@Lurch-Bot]

The first PC I built didn't even have a 3D accelerator. Just 2D.

[@Tomcat115]

@@Lurch-Bot Yeah, my first PC had integrated motherboard graphics. The 4670 was actually the upgrade and my first actual graphics card.

[@SeeJayPlayGames]

@@Lurch-Bot the first PC (and the second, and possibly the third) I built, 3D accelerators didn't even EXIST. And then there was the Voodoo Graphics.

[@Betonoszlop]

I greatly digging GPU history lessons. Cheers!!!

[@Dansoo]

I still have this same exact card paired with a 5600x in my old computer, and I'm honestly surprised how it fares compared to newer cards ! I remember back when I got this literally 6 months later the 970 was released at half the price of the 780 and better, and I got so pissed off haha, good times.

[@DanilaPit]

Know what was even more frustrating? When I bought 970 late 2015, than 10xx series came out, 1070 in particular) twice as much memory, huge performance increase... So my new card felt old for me almost instantly. Yet still - it served me more than 8 years lol.

[@Dansoo]

@@DanilaPit I can feel the pain haha, back then price remained relatively reasonable and we still got big performance gains each generation, good times !

[@doublevendetta]

Worth remembering though, $3, $5, $10+ monthly electricity costs to operate in many places. Makes the value a LITTLE less insane

[@sandwich2473]

I remember wanting one of these for so long The first new 80 card I got was the 1080 around 8 years ago, and I'm still using it!

[@Lurch-Bot]

I had one of those for awhile. The problem is that it is only a matter of time before the majority of new releases won't run on Pascal. The 1080 can barely maintain 30+fps in AW2 at 1080p low because the GPU has to emulate the mesh shaders in software on the CUDA cores. The fact the 1080 can brute force its way through them to deliver a playable experience just goes to show you what an amazing GPU it has been.

[@sandwich2473]

@Lurch-Bot absolutely!! Fingers crossed I get a new card soon, but I don't know if there'll ever be another generation like it

[@phr3dmcc0y]

I am using a gtx 780 and I love it. Been on it for years. Paid 40 bucks for it back in 2019, before the video card boom.

[@a.c.4054]

Unfortunately, in my developing country, crushed by the world's highest taxes, a card like that is at least 100 dollars. A gamer with little money here in Brazil would dream of a GPU like that.

[@RGn2-YT]

I really like your videos. Interesting to know that the 780 ti is still relevant today.

[@MichaeltheORIGINAL1]

Man, can't wait to see a r9 290x sometime in the future with a decent cooler design and perhaps some custom overclocking. That would be so dope. :)

[@TrusteftTech]

Did you try by any chance Cyberpunk, Starfield and Robocop Rogue City? Just curious. I have in my hands a GTX 780 Ti which I can't use (dead desktop PC and no money) and was wondering how they would compare. I never tried it myself as I was given it last January to test my then already dead desktop PC. Number wise, at least according to GPU-Z the regular 780 destroys my GTX860M. Which is not surprising of course. Cool, informative and entertaining video as always, thank you for sharing.

[@Avelos]

I used Radeon HD 7970 CFX and R9 290X (asus DCU2) CFX cards at the time but I got my hands on an original Titan, and later on an Asus GTX 780 Poseidon. The Kepler cards overclocked so good. One could feasibly stretch a little bit of extra out of these 780s if they wanted to and possibly see a tangible improvement.

[@ldjg-wb4mt]

I had these in 4 way sli back in the day with the mighty 4770k. I loved to waste money :) Also they are 28 on cex did you buy this some time ago?

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

Purchased a couple of months ago, it was however listed with the wrong memory configuration.

[@Aranimda]

I had the GTX 780 Ti Founders Edition. It was basically a GTX Titan for a much better price. An absolute beast of a GPU.

[@octopusgaming4027]

I still use an old i7 980x Extreme Edition with a Asus 780 Ti Graphics card. Still an absolute beast

[@EvilTurkeySlices]

I have an x58 machine as well, but mine has an x5675 and a GTX 980.

[@picchioknossus8096]

Me watching this video on a core 2 duo because by the time I had a job to enjoy gaming I stopped having time for it. Anyway thanks a lot man for the video, it's very nice to see what these older beasts can do. I'm also sorry for the modern trend of limiting the memory throughput of midrange cards (while keeping the insanely high price). Like when I see bad moves like the RTX 4060 I am simply pushed to ask myself "do I really really need an overpriced piece of sand when modern integrated AMD GPUs achieve GTX 1050-1060 level of performance and I don't feel insulted by buying them?".

[@wills.5762]

Man my first build had a 660 Ti in it...crazy to see the flagship from the following generation on here. Im still using that rig with over 100,000 hours albeit with a 1070 now

[@bogo9727]

I was gonna post this on your last video with the first gen I7, with regards to retro gaming. I think you should take a look at some ASRock motherboards, as up until z77 I believe they still come a floppy drive header, PCI slot, FireWire and a bunch of other goodies. With the benefit being that you can use 2nd and 3rd gen i7 which can be had for under $25 easily.

[@APARAT79]

I still have the same ASUS GTX780 put away in original box. It was great card, but that small 3GB VRAM was really Achilles heel of that card and that was one of the main reason, why people upgraded from that card.

[@werwito6723]

For a guy, that still uses GTX 680 in 4gb variant, this is a really nice reminder, that you don't really need the latest and greatest to have some fun. Especially, when most of your games that you just play from time to time, are those older classics, that can really nicely run even at higher resolution with something like this. Its also not so bad when it comes to the bills, at max what i see with my card is like 160w, mostly 130/140w playing at 1440p resolution and full gpu utilization, so for such an old gpu, i'm not complaining :)

[@MrTonglong]

I remember buying a new gtx 780 for my very first computer build second year of university. Then a couple months later the 780ti came out and I kicked myself. The card lasted me 5 years or so until I upgraded to a used 1070ti, and a year or so ago a used 3080. I’ve learnt to never buy gpus new ever again. It’s just not worth it. The card was awesome for its time though, but you notice the years adding up and the frame rates slowly decreasing with every new game release. I feel so old now. Can’t believe it’s been 11 years

[@aghostyboi3075]

Always been my dream card, hope i can still buy one for cheap in the near future

[@IHazPeppers]

Technology evolving is so cool.

[@hyperturbotechnomike]

I started playing in 4K with the 770 Ti 4GB, which was a good deal back then. As far as i remember, it was a 280€ card. 4K medium/high balanced ran at above 60fps. Last year, i paid 600€ for an RTX 4070 which sometimes requires upscaling even at medium settings. A bummer. I hope this will change in the future.

[@Lurch-Bot]

770Ti 4GB at 4k, lol. Talk about being waaaay early to the party. That isn't something to brag about, doing 4k gaming long before there was ever any point.

[@Josue31627]

For a $30-$40 I still recommend it for pre-2021 games. It usually consumes around 210 watts rather than the 250. Solid performance even today, if it can launch the game!

[@SeeJayPlayGames]

2:56 I kinda get why you didn't install the PhysX driver; that's been pretty much deprecated lately... but why not install the HD Audio driver? I thought that was necessary for getting sound over HDMI? In any case, I always install it... I connect my speakers to my monitor's headphone out port and bypass the motherboard audio entirely. It's still there for input purposes, but I don't use its output.

[@pyrojinn]

Used to rock the 460 until it died from undercare (on my part), I can still remember wanting to own this since it can play Crysis 3 on max setting.

[@grindycore3438]

What about the Ti version and GTX 970? Wonder what are the prices on those GPUs from where you got this GTX 780.

[@EXILEvenom]

man i know at the time being stuck on 28nm kinda sucked, but Maxwell really showed you could pull more performance from the same node, something I wish they'd ocnsider today if not for cost reasons

[@PuppyGirl__Rosie]

i can't wait for budget builds to do a video on the vega 56... my power colour model i had costed around $150 canadian, so soon it should be pretty cheap... and definitely better price to performance than my rx 6600.

[@JoshNotJohn0]

I was actually just thinking of a video like "how does the original titan perform today?" and well, this is honestly pretty close, I'm shocked.

[@basically_chris]

Hi, question. My laptop has the 750m 2gb. Is the 700 series in the Mobile variant technically built like the 600 series from the desktop side? For example, I cannot install the newset nvidia drivers, I think the newest one working is something like ver 380 or so and it cannot run vulkan in emulators for example. I'll check again. - it's technically the 2013 macbook pro 15", but I'm talking drivers under Windows 10 now.

[@brianwalker7771]

I upgraded to an rx6600 8gb from my 4gb gtx 680 ftw two years ago. The ONLY reason I had to upgrade was some games were just not satisfied with 4gb of vram any more. I was still getting solid frame rates and excellent results at 1080p. I also got my brother one at the same time for the same reason his 970 was working great BUT 4gb or 3.5gb +.5gb was not satisfactory for some more demanding titles..

[@fragalot]

How does it compare with the GTX 970, since I think that card was a direct generational replacement of the 780.

[@integerofdoom69]

Hard to believe how ancient these cards are already.

[@moonsattic]

I bought this card used right before fallout 4 launch, I was all set for when I got off work the morning after release to play it haha.

[@NecroFlex]

I remember Kepler, it was a powerhouse in its day, but the architecture fell off fast in terms of performance. But IIRC they are the last ones with proper XP support while having an analogue DVI port, so might be a good pickup for an overkill Xp/W7 machine.

[@10WA]

My buddy paid $700 for his 780Ti in 2014. He kept it for 5 years then upgraded to to GTX 1660Ti for $250 in 2019. He sold the GTX780Ti for $300 locally. So I'd say it can payoff to buy high end when you can. More bargaining down the road.

[@cinerir8203]

Wasn't there a version of the GTX 780 with 6 GB VRAM?I had some issues with low VRAM in some games on my trusty old EVGA GTX 780. When one of the fan bearing gave up, I was looking for spare parts, but they were expensive, so I bought some GTX 980 fans with the same size and switched them in. Working fine, just had to hide some too long cables.

[@JamesSmith-sw3nk]

I wish Canada had a CEX. Those cards are still around $100 on the marketplace here. Most sellers warranty is until you get out their front door, as long as you don't drop it.

[@austinwahl2945]

I ran xfire 7970ghz at that time on a korean overclocked 1440p which I still have all three of them. They sure did crank out some heat. I paid a hair over a 100 each for a vapor x and dual x used at that time.

[@ClickingPixels]

Beamng was running out of VRAM, lowering textures and shadows would free enough VRAM to push that fps to the moon lol I remember this card giving very similar performance to a 1060 3gbs and it's nice to see they both aged quite well for the current ask price

[@WRo1901]

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[@UmbreWolf]

Ok I have to ask you this. What about the 780TI? Think you forgot about that one but the 780 did have a Ti version besides the titan

[@UwUshun]

I picked up one of these in around 2014 for somewhere between £350 and £450, eventually replaced it with a 2060 lol. Good card, even though i went through 3 of them due to failures.

[@TheBcoolGuy]

This is around the time I started building computers.

[@Lurch-Bot]

If you want a 700 series GPU for cheap, buy it now. I paid $25 for a 670 SC earlier this year so those are starting to creep back up in price because they're moving into collectible status. You can't call 700 series a different generation because 600 and 700 are all Kepler architecture. They just increased core count on 700 series and called it a day. The GTX 760Ti is literally just a renamed GTX 670. The 770 was just a renamed 680.

[@HardwareNZ]

You sadly omitted the last card AMD had that was actually on top, the R9 290/X . The 780/ti was Nvidia's scrambling to get back on top and it took until the 780ti for them to edge out a victory again. Unlike Kepler, Hawaii based cards have aged SIGNIFICANTLY better due to having full DX12_0 support and an unhampered caching system. Would be worth the comparison but i doubt they would be as cheap as a 780 is these days

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

I will be covering the R9 290 as soon as I can 👍

[@HardwareNZ]

@BudgetBuildsOfficial appreciate your reply sir! I owned two back in the day before I started water cooling and decided that a constant jet engine in my room was too much to bare so looked for alternative solutions. If you are after a waterblock (for the reference model) let me know, might interest you as much as it had me. Also if you are interested in being in touch, would LOVE to have you on a podcast. If that up your alley at all. Keep up the great work!

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

Give me an email 👍 should be linked in the about section

[@HardwareNZ]

​@@BudgetBuildsOfficialI sadly don't see any email address and your discord link is broken as well!

[@jayb2705]

The R9 290X was literally called "the titan killer". Also it was possible to flash 290's into the 290X unlocking more performance, this wasn't a clear cut win for Nvidia

[@iiisaac1312]

This is the card I had to buy just to run Ark. I feel old. Also looking at it today, graphics card coolers haven't changed much in the past 10 years. The only new thing is the flow through design.

[@Reknilador]

I was 16 back then, had a gtx 660 which was a big deal to me at the time, and then this came out😁, not to mention the 780 ti. Evga had a 6gb version of the 780, that would've been interesting to see but I think it's hard to find. Nvidia stopped optimizing games from these cards as early as 2015, but I guess it's still usable which is cool.

[@AmirZaimMohdZaini]

Still a good card for Hackintosh hobby and this card be supported up to Big Sur. Other than that may require patching via special measures. Also, I’m have the Tesla K40M GPU, works well on Windows only, but to make it as a desktop GPU (basically GTX 790?) requires registry hack and of course, it requires different GPU from different brand as primary GPU.

[@pickle879]

Did you check out the rx580? Its like 30-50 euros (depending on if it's 4gb or 8gb)

[@balaam_7087]

Trying to build my first pc and on an infinitely tight budget. If I could acquire one of these ~$20 GPU’s, what is the CHEAPEST motherboard and cpu I can buy to pair with it? Please cite a general price for each