14 Jun 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 780 Ti DirectCU II OC Edition graphics card as a serious price to performance entry point. This card will meet and play most demanding AAA games and do so with good graphics setting as standard, and confidently pushing past the recommended game system requirements needed to run today’s games. Capable of running games with up to a DirectX 11 requirement.

Here is a performance review on how capable the GeForce GTX 780 Ti DirectCU II OC Edition is at running the more popular games of 2021. Specifically looking at this PC hardware’s ability to get suitable frames per second to play on Ultra game settings and what FPS it might get on 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen res. The GeForce GTX 780 Ti DirectCU II OC Edition can run the recommended graphics system requirements for 392 games today, of the top 1000 most demanding.

First we looked at 1080p resolution for the GeForce GTX 780 Ti DirectCU II OC Edition performance to explore what sort of benchmarks it would achieve on the popular title Battlefield 2042 and predict it will deliver playable frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 74 FPS, Medium: 57 FPS, High: 50 FPS and Ultra: 40 FPS. We proceeded to look at GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE- to see how that compared and saw that it returned a strong 113 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

One of the growing popular screen resolutions for PC gaming is the wider 1440p. So we wanted to see how well the GeForce GTX 780 Ti DirectCU II OC Edition performed at 1440p by taking a look at some of the current popular games. First we looked at Battlefield 2042 and predict it will deliver playable frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 56 FPS, Medium: 43 FPS, High: 38 FPS and Ultra: 31 FPS. We then checked the performance on GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE- to see if that runs well. It was strong with a 86 FPS at Ultra 1440p. In summary we feel the GeForce GTX 780 Ti DirectCU II OC Edition running at 1440p is one of the better graphics cards for gaming at this screen resolution. We will see 1440p Ultra and High settings across almost all current games.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 780 Ti DirectCU II OC Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 780 Ti DirectCU II OC Edition in your PC? This GeForce GTX 780 Ti DirectCU II OC Edition card has 12 to 18 months of latest AAA game play left in it before upgrading should be considered

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 780 Ti DirectCU II OC Edition? A good upgrade choice for this graphics card today would be the 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB. For comparison of the 1000 most demanding games around today this suggested upgrade is 28% better and can meet 773 of their recommended requirements. Alternatively a suitable upgrade choice for the GeForce GTX 780 Ti DirectCU II OC Edition is the R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB, which is 37% more powerful and can run 903 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements.