Great review, beastly card, and again it's a shame it only has 3GB vram. This card would be pretty future proof otherwise.

Same here, although I do want to upgrade, I don't want to be vram chocked again by this time next year when "next gen" games will be out and I'm 100% sure they will be more and more vram hungry, and I'm playing at 2560x1440.

Very impressive, but is still over priced. This should be priced at around $600. plus only 3GB of VRAM? I am getting close to the 4GB on my 290s in BF4 @ 1600p with the resolution slider at 160%. I never understood why you can buy the 760s and 770s with 4 GB but their higher end models only have 3GB VRAM, it doesn't make sense to me. Unless there is a tech limitation or something preventing 4GB on the 780s.

There is no limitation in ripping people off. They know that as soon as gamers get a 4k monitor, they will want to get a new gpu.

I never understood why you can buy the 760s and 770s with 4 GB but their higher end models only have 3GB VRAM, it doesn't make sense to me. Unless there is a tech limitation or something preventing 4GB on the 780s.

It is a technical limitation. The memory bus on 760/770 is 256bit and the memory chips have to be divisible by that: 256mb x 8 chips for 2gb (2048mb) or 128mb x 8 for 1gb or 512mb x 8 for 4gb. If asymmetrical, it loses efficiency/performance. The 780/ti/Titan have 384bit busses which in the same way can only be 3/6gb. There are ways around it and exceptions to the rule (ie, 660ti with 192bit bus/2gb), but I dont think Nvidia is keen to do this on their upper end cards. Same applies to AMDs cards: 290/x = 512bit bus, 4gb. 7950/7970 = 384bit, 3gb cards.

It is a technical limitation. The memory bus on 760/770 is 256bit and the memory chips have to be divisible by that: 256mb x 8 chips for 2gb (2048mb) or 128mb x 8 for 1gb or 512mb x 8 for 4gb. If asymmetrical, it loses efficiency/performance. The 780/ti/Titan have 384bit busses which in the same way can only be 3/6gb. There are ways around it and exceptions to the rule (ie, 660ti with 192bit bus/2gb), but I dont think Nvidia is keen to do this on their upper end cards. Same applies to AMDs cards: 290/x = 512bit bus, 4gb. 7950/7970 = 384bit, 3gb cards.

I figured it must be something like that (tech limitation), it would not have made sense otherwise. Thanks for sharing. 🙂

Even those high end beast are incapable of keep good fps at UHD and people wonder why they arnt readily available, And why I keep saying they wont be till GPU can actually handle them and not cost 500+. Though on the 1080p those cards should run circles around my card, But 1080p test seem to be missing from those tests and 1080p isnt going anywhere any time soon