Thanks for clarification… BUT I actual have a ASUS ROG Matrix GTX580 P installed and the card was at memory limit in GTA4 (1,5 GB). Before GTA4 people used to say: “People with more than 1 GB GDDR are senseless and it’s just for using it with High-End Gaming LCD’s with 3D Vision support…”
After that, the all wanted 2GB for GTA4, Crysis 3 and so on…
Nowadays we have the first games that going hard on the memory limit, like Watch_Dogs in ultra settings and I would bet GTA5 on PC will again use a lot of GDDR to stream all textures and models of housings/cars/NPC’s/Player on time.
Also there will come new improved engines like the last CryEngine version or the next 3 games on Frostbite (BF: Hardline, Star Wars: Battlefront, Mirror’s Edge 2), which will also make use of ultra fine textures in open environments and a lot of GDDR.
Including PSU upgrade I’m on the price of a GTX780Ti and if I want hear a turbine next to me, I just open my windows and listen to the Boings and Airbuses landing on the airport nearby!
A 290x with a aftermarket cooler, isn’t loud… Only the reference can get loud. Although it is louder than a aftermarket 780ti, but you wouldn’t notice the difference. (Common mistake, everyone likes to say it’s much louder, and tend to not know what they are talking about, but people who have aftermarket ones, they don’t complain.) So is that worth 100-300 dollars? Plus you get 4 free AAA games with the 290x (1 gold 3 game package, and 1 bonus for the 290x)
The 780ti has 1 free game; Watch_Dogs, which isn’t good on PC right now, and with that saved money you could buy Watch_Dogs. But then again, you’d need good other specs, or else you’re gonna bottleneck. a 580 to a 780ti is a major change, so I’d check up on your cpu too. If it’s a 6300, then you may need to upgrade, lol.
Also if you only have a 1080p monitor, then you are wasting a lot of money. A 780 is better for 1080p, and a 780ti is better for 1440p and better (AMD is better at 1440p then nVidia) and is about even with them on 1080p.
I don’t think the 880 will be able to pull it off. 880ti may, or the 390x will. The GTX 8xx will be cheaper than the other cards when they released though
(which means AMD may go cheaper too, which would make me ohh so happy)