Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 3 GB Graphics Card Review: +30% Everywhere
The preparations for the release of Nvidia’s new flagship graphics card
have been rather fast, skipping the phase of a couple of months of
rumors, info leaks and discussions of different versions of
specifications. Contrary to some skeptical predictions, Nvidia has
managed to introduce its new top-end solution quickly, and largely
because the company had released the special GeForce GTX Titan before. The new GeForce GTX 780 is just based on the Titan design and uses the same GK110 GPU.
Why do we call the GeForce GTX 780 the flagship product if we know
beforehand that the Titan is even faster? Well, the Titan is an
image-making product which is extremely expensive and has a very small
target audience. The GeForce GTX 780, on its part, is a fast but
standard graphics card. As its name suggests, it is meant to lead
Nvidia’s new product line-up. There’s also one more reason for calling
the GTX 780 a flagship product but we’ll explain it in the course of
this review.
The Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 is based on the same GPU as the Titan: the
GK110 chip with Kepler architecture. One SMX subunit is turned off,
however, in its GPU, so the total number of CUDA cores is reduced from
2688 to 2304, or by 14%.
The number of texture-mapping units is reduced from 224 to 192 but
the number of raster operators has remained the same at 48. The GPU
works at a somewhat higher clock rate: 863 MHz in 3D applications (up to
902 MHz in boost mode). The memory clock rate is still 6008 MHz but the
new card has 3 rather than 6 gigabytes of it, which affects its price
and PCB design. On the other hand, the GeForce GTX 780 has the same
power requirements as the Titan: 250 watts at peak load. A 600-watt PSU
is recommended for a computer with one GTX 780 inside.
Its recommended price is $649, which is 30% higher compared to the GeForce GTX 680 ($499 – but the actual retail price is lower now) and 35% lower compared to the Titan.
Nvidia gtx 780 Game Play
Specifications and Architecture
The Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 specifications are listed in the following table in comparison with the specs of the reference Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan and GeForce GTX 680:Its recommended price is $649, which is 30% higher compared to the GeForce GTX 680 ($499 – but the actual retail price is lower now) and 35% lower compared to the Titan.
Nvidia gtx 780 Game Play
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