Thursday, October 31st 2013
NVIDIA Preparing GeForce GTX 780 GHz Edition?
With AMD's Radeon R9 290X and the upcoming Radeon R9 290, both NVIDIA's GTX TITAN, and GTX 780 are disrupted at their price points. NVIDIA is fixing its GTX TITAN competitive woes with the GeForce GTX 780 Ti, but it's looking like the GTX 780, despite its price cut to $500, could face trouble from the cheaper Radeon R9 290. NVIDIA's more hands-on solution? Launch a new SKU, that's and backed by non-reference designs for the most part, which some of its add-in card (AIC) partners are referring to as "GeForce GTX 780 GHz Edition."
Simply put, the "GeForce GTX 780 GHz Edition" is your ordinary GTX 780 with increased clock speeds of 1006 MHz core, 1046 MHz GPU Boost, and an untouched 6.00 GHz memory. The card is based on a new stepping of the GK110 silicon, labeled "GK110-300-B1," compared to the original's "GK110-300-A1." Expreview discovered its Inno3D GTX 780 iChill HerculeZ 3000 graphics card to be based on this new silicon, and at its given speeds of 1006/1046/6008 MHz, found to to be about 15 percent faster than a standard GTX 780, and about 7 percent faster than a GTX TITAN. It's also about 6.2 percent faster than an R9 290X on the same test-bed. Power consumption isn't up significantly, and the cooler that's an Arctic Cooling solution, does a good job at keeping the temperatures manageable, and keeps throttle limits away. Find the complete review at the source.
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Expreview
Simply put, the "GeForce GTX 780 GHz Edition" is your ordinary GTX 780 with increased clock speeds of 1006 MHz core, 1046 MHz GPU Boost, and an untouched 6.00 GHz memory. The card is based on a new stepping of the GK110 silicon, labeled "GK110-300-B1," compared to the original's "GK110-300-A1." Expreview discovered its Inno3D GTX 780 iChill HerculeZ 3000 graphics card to be based on this new silicon, and at its given speeds of 1006/1046/6008 MHz, found to to be about 15 percent faster than a standard GTX 780, and about 7 percent faster than a GTX TITAN. It's also about 6.2 percent faster than an R9 290X on the same test-bed. Power consumption isn't up significantly, and the cooler that's an Arctic Cooling solution, does a good job at keeping the temperatures manageable, and keeps throttle limits away. Find the complete review at the source.
43 Comments on NVIDIA Preparing GeForce GTX 780 GHz Edition?
so GTX 780ti> Gtx 780 GHz> Titan> Gtx 780.:banghead: Christ nvidia, you are not giving much confidence to you consumers.
GTX 780ti> Gtx 780 GHz> Gtx 780
as you can even see from the naming scheme the Titan was never designed to be a full throttle gaming card
then i guess nvidia will respond with 780 Ghz Ti Ultra :o
and finally Titan Ghz Ultra Ti :rockout:
From T4C Fantasy post : www.techpowerup.com/forums/showpost.php?p=3006663&postcount=3
**Not an AMD fanboy just in case, I have Nvidia cards in both my machines but I am kinda angry at the green team because they have been overpricing the crap out of every single product they've released at least for the past two years selling marginal upgrades to existing products. Geforce 8800 GT-> rebranded to 9800GT (price premium)-> 8800 GTX banished-> 9800 GTX (a little better than an 8800 (9800GT). The 2 series (260, 270, 280, etc...) totally forgettable and some of them overclocked rebrands (GT 250), four series, tollaly forgettable too with the exception of the 460 which was the only card that didn't melt because of its heat output. Then a true upgrade the 5 series even the 560 which was a super overclocked 460 but even then the difference in performance was really noticeable. 580, 570 really memorable cards good tough work horses. Six series was basically good overall and I see no reason to upgrade to the 7 series unless you're looking for super high resolution gaming across multiple screens. 780 ti, Ghz ed just gimmicks trying to steal AMD's Thunder and failing miserably. Titan is a great card stuck on the market due to its ridiculous price tag, the 7 crown jewel being the GTX 770 (better if its the 4GB ed), Two of them for $660 put any of the other overpriced cards out of the water or two 7970's (280x) for $600 would keep you warm and cozy for a while. I being one who fell to the Nvidia 7 fever would urge you fellow gamers and enthusiasts; skip this half assed generation of upcoming Nvidia cards and wait for the new ones next year (4K gaming works somewhat but triple screens c'mon I see the beginning of another Nvidia 3D Vision) or buy one of the aftermarket (mid to late November) AMD 290X's (because lets be real these New AMD cards rock but they are really helping glacial melting) with needed aftermarket cooling. The 290 seems to be the sweet spot though, so even if you're rich or have money to burn; Don't let the companies keep us, the gaming community, buying unneeded hardware because they need to splurge out some leftover silicon. It's not about economics or social class, its about us gaming, this is what we do.
Terribly sorry for the rant but had been holding back for a couple of weeks and finally Nvidia made me say it.
Anyway, I'm gonna drop my cash on the AMD 290X Ass Reamer edition.
then we will have ''R9 Zeus TI ultra OC''
Until fabs can get below 20-22nm we are going to be stuck here and each step down will take longer .
Unless Intel would take there work , which not sure would ever happen ,just on price but you never know .
here good read on it
www.pcper.com/reviews/Editorial/Next-Gen-Graphics-and-Process-Migration-20-nm-and-Beyond
Case closed.
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