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all right good morning and welcome back once again to tech tomorrow and our launch day review series of the gtx 780 now this video we're bringing the table right now is going to be a pretty quick down and dirty video but we really know that a lot of people out there already own a gtx 680 and you guys are going like man should I upgrade why should I upgrade and if I'm going to upgrade what's it really going to cost me and what's going to be a difference right so for you folks we specifically made this video for you so with that said let's jump in and let's talk about some of the differences between the two cards now first off you guys all know that the titan is pretty much the fastest card that you can get in single GPU technology now cost an arm and a leg but you know it's the top thing and one thing about the 780 is it's based off the gk110 GPU now the 680 was based off the GK 104 another big feature the 780 has 50% more CUDA cores in the GTX 680 it has 2,304 compared to the 1536 that you see on the GTX 680 another feature is a jump in the memory now one gigabyte may not seem like a lot but it really is for different reasons and the new gtx 780 features 3 gigabytes of gddr5 memory through a 384 bit memory interface which compared to the gtx 680 which only has 2 gigabytes of memory and a 256 bit interface now before the comments start rolling in I know that you can get from some people like EVGA you can buy 4 gigabyte gtx 680 s but right out of the box you get 3 and you also get all the new technology that comes along with it now another difference to discuss is GPU boost on the 680 you can only use GPU boost 1.0 but with the gtx 780 you can use GPU boost 2.0 which offers a lot more flexibility in how your card dynamically overclocks itself within certain parameters right now I'm not going to go into too much detail about this but if you guys do want to learn more about that you guys can check that out in the full review that you guys can see down in the description below me another thing to take note of is power requirements the GTX 780 requires more TDP requires 250 watts and it also requires an 8 pen and a 6 pin power connector the gtx 680 has 195 watts of TDP and requires two 6-pin power connectors so you may want to make sure that your power supply supports that if you're thinking about doing an upgrade so now that we've seen the differences on paper between the gtx 780 and the gtx 680 let's jump in and let's see the performance and see how that translates an actual gameplay so the first game we're going to see is battlefield 3 and these are its ultra settings we see the gtx 680 at a resolution of 2560 by 1440 have an average frames per second of 40 for the gtx 780 however has 58 average frames per second the gtx 680 at 1920 by 1080 shows 68 average frames per second and the gtx 780 at 1920 by 1080 shows 90 average frames per second quite a game there next up we see Metro last light now it's set at very high with the AF at 4x first thing is the gtx 680 at a resolution of 2560 by 1440 where we see it showing 34 average frames per second now the gtx 780 the same resolution however shows 42 average frames per second now at 1920 by 1080 we see the gtx 680 showing 49 average frames per second and the gtx 780 showing 59 a verge frames per second so you're gaining about 10 frames per second there next up Batman Arkham City now we have the highest settings with 8x MSAA and high phys X first resolution tested to 2560 by 1440 in the GTX 680 which shows 43 average frames per second now the GTX 780 at 2560 by 1440 shows 60 average frames per second so that's a pretty good game there now the GTX 680 at 1920 by 1080 shows 62 average frames per second while the GTX 780 at 1920 by 1080 shows 69 average frames per second this is a clear example of how the new gtx 780 performs at higher resolutions next up we have a synthetic benchmark this is a 3d mark firestrike extreme benchmark we show the GTX 680 scoring 3156 while the GTX 780 scores 4338 let's take a look at Lux mark version 2.0 which does open CL and this is the Sayla seen here the GTX 680 shows a score of 593 K rays a second and now you're going to see actually a giant rays here the GTX 780 scores 1125 K rays a second so it's almost double the score in that particular test now let's look at BioShock Infinite these are the DirectX 11 ultra settings now first up we have the GTX 680 had a resolution of 2560 by 1440 showing fifty eight point forty nine average frames per second next up the GTX 780 at the same resolution showing seventy six point seventy eight average frames per second pretty cool jump there now at a resolution of 1920 by 1080 first off we see the GTX 680 showing a score of eighty eight point zero six average frames per second the GTX 780 however the same resolution shows one hundred and twelve point forty six average frames per second last up but definitely not the least Crysis 3 and it's high settings we see the GTX 680 at 2560 by 1440 showing 37 average frames per second while we see the GTX 780 showing 49 average frames per second so about twelve frames per second boost it up there now at 1920 by 1080 we see the gtx 680 scoring 56 average frames per second while the gtx 780 scores 75 average frames per second earlier in the video you guys will notice that i talked about the TDP differences between the two cards now let's actually see how that translates into real road temps first off we see the gtx 680 having temperature of 35 Celsius and a maximum temperature of 72 Celsius the GTX 780 on the other hand has a minimum of 37 and a maximum of 78 Celsius so the car does run a little bit hotter but it is faster so there you have it folks if you're somebody who is either an owner right now of a GTX 680 or you're considering buying one which by the way the price is probably going to drop and you guys can check out all the current pricing down the link in the description below I think that it all depends on what you want to do if you're doing 1920 by 1080 gaming on a single monitor I really don't feel there's any need for you at all to need to upgrade this card at all if you're at that spot you're good to go however if you're somebody who does have a giant monitor that has 2560 by 1440 or 1600 resolution then this card will give you a lot better performance and if you're somebody who's using multi monitor technology that extra one gigabyte of memory is going to really come in very very handy alternatively if you're using Photoshop or premiere any of those programs they actually run a lot better and you guys saw that even open sealed performance was actually doubled on the 780 so depending on what you're doing I hope this gives you a guideline of whether you need to upgrade or not so last up before I booked you on out of here and go get me some sleep if you guys want to see pricing and availability on the GTX 680 or the 780 make sure you guys check out the link in the description below we'll have all that stuff and if you guys have missed out on any of our content make sure you click on that right here I'm Elric we'll see you guys back here on teka tomorrow with more gtx 780 goodness you