ASUS GTX 780 Ti DirectCU II OC 3 GB Review

Name: ASUS GTX 780 Ti DirectCU II OC 3 GB
Brand: ASUS

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on Dec 30th, 2013,

in Graphics Cards.

Manufacturer: ASUS

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Temperatures

Temperatures are good and well below the 85°C limit beyond which NVIDIA's Boost 2.0 algorithm will start lowering clocks to keep the card cool.

GPU Temperature Comparison
	Idle	Load
ASUS GTX 780 Ti DC II	32°C	80°C
EVGA GTX 780 Ti SC ACX	31°C	72°C
Palit GTX 780 Ti JetStream	26°C	65°C
NVIDIA GTX 780 Ti	30°C	83°C
NVIDIA GTX 780	37°C	81°C

Important: GPU temperature will vary depending on clock speed, voltage settings,
cooler design, and production variances. This table just serves to provide
a list of typical temperatures for similar cards determined during TPU review.

Clock Profiles

Modern graphics cards have several clock profiles that are selected to balance power draw and performance requirements.

The following table lists the clock settings for important performance scenarios and the GPU voltage we measured. We performed the measurement on the pins of a coil or a capacitor near the GPU voltage regulator.

	GPU Clock	Memory Clock	GPU Voltage (measured)
Desktop	324 MHz	162 MHz	0.88 V
Multi-Monitor	324 MHz	162 MHz	0.88 V
Blu-ray Playback	324 MHz	162 MHz	0.88 V
3D Load	915 - 1098 MHz	1502 MHz	0.960 - 1.160 V

The card uses NVIDIA's dynamic overclocking mechanism, GPU Boost 2.0. It will dynamically adjust clock and voltage based on render load, temperature, and other factors.

For the graph below, we recorded all GPU clock and GPU voltage combinations of our 1920x1080 resolution benchmarking suite. The plotted points are transparent, which allows them to add up to indicate more often used values. A light color means the clock/voltage combination is rarely used and a dark color means it's active a lot.