Quite a performer but with high price
Showed and teased to the public back when Nvidia was hosting its TWIMTBP event in Montreal, Nvidia has now officially launched its newest Geforce graphics card, the Geforce GTX 780 Ti. The GTX 780 Ti came with a clear mission to take away the performance crown from the recently launced AMD Radeon R9 290X graphics card and although it had a good chance on paper, the performance is definitely on AMD's side for now.
Based on the same 28nm GK110 GPU with 7.1 billion transistors seen with the GTX 780 and the GTX Titan, the GTX 780 Ti GPU has 5 enabled graphics processing clusters (GPCs), 15 stream multiprocessors (SMs) or simply 2880 CUDA cores. It also features 240 texture units (TMUs), 48 ROPs and 1536K of L2 cache as well as 3GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 7000MHz and paired up with a 384-bit memory interface, which adds up to 336GB/s of memory bandwidth.
The base GPU clock is set at 875MHz with the Boost GPU clock set at 928MHz. As expected, Nvidia used the same PCB, as well as the same dual-slot cooler previously seen on both the GTX 780 and the GTX Titan, so it it does not come as surprise that the GTX 780 Ti is well cooled and has a better overall power consumption when compared to the R9 290X. It still needs 8+6-pin PCI-Express power connectors, has 250W TDP, recommends at least 600W PSU and has a thermal threshold of 95°C.
It also has HDMI, DisplayPort and two Dual-link DVI outputs.
The new Geforce GTX 780 Ti also brings support for Nvidia GPU Boost 2.0 technology that should ensure that the GPU is running at the highest clock possible under varied operating conditions. It also includes the new power balancing feature that allows the graphics card to forward the power from one input to another, preventing the "max out" of one power sources, which should allow overclockers to push the GTX 780 Ti even further than GTX 780 or the GTX Titan.
According to multiple reviews that appeared online, the Nvidia GTX 780 Ti is simply not as good as expected, at least when it comes to performance. While it is faster than the R9 290X set to work in the Quiet Mode, depending which game titles are you looking at and which reviews are you looking at, it is still slower that the AMD Radeon R9 290X set to work in the Uber Mode.
The Nvidia GTX 780 Ti does indeed a much better job than the R9 290X when it comes to noise levels, cooling and power consumption, but when it comes to ultra high-end market, everything comes down to sheer performance, and that is where AMD R9 290X is definitely better.
The most important thing is the price tag. While the GTX 780 Ti is definitely not a bad graphics card, it is still somewhat slower than the R9 290X and also quite more expensive. Nvidia decided to go with the rather steep US $699.99 launch price which puts it at good US $150 above the R9 290X.
Looks like AMD won this round.
Source: Nvidia.com.
Based on the same 28nm GK110 GPU with 7.1 billion transistors seen with the GTX 780 and the GTX Titan, the GTX 780 Ti GPU has 5 enabled graphics processing clusters (GPCs), 15 stream multiprocessors (SMs) or simply 2880 CUDA cores. It also features 240 texture units (TMUs), 48 ROPs and 1536K of L2 cache as well as 3GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 7000MHz and paired up with a 384-bit memory interface, which adds up to 336GB/s of memory bandwidth.
The base GPU clock is set at 875MHz with the Boost GPU clock set at 928MHz. As expected, Nvidia used the same PCB, as well as the same dual-slot cooler previously seen on both the GTX 780 and the GTX Titan, so it it does not come as surprise that the GTX 780 Ti is well cooled and has a better overall power consumption when compared to the R9 290X. It still needs 8+6-pin PCI-Express power connectors, has 250W TDP, recommends at least 600W PSU and has a thermal threshold of 95°C.
It also has HDMI, DisplayPort and two Dual-link DVI outputs.
The new Geforce GTX 780 Ti also brings support for Nvidia GPU Boost 2.0 technology that should ensure that the GPU is running at the highest clock possible under varied operating conditions. It also includes the new power balancing feature that allows the graphics card to forward the power from one input to another, preventing the "max out" of one power sources, which should allow overclockers to push the GTX 780 Ti even further than GTX 780 or the GTX Titan.
According to multiple reviews that appeared online, the Nvidia GTX 780 Ti is simply not as good as expected, at least when it comes to performance. While it is faster than the R9 290X set to work in the Quiet Mode, depending which game titles are you looking at and which reviews are you looking at, it is still slower that the AMD Radeon R9 290X set to work in the Uber Mode.
The Nvidia GTX 780 Ti does indeed a much better job than the R9 290X when it comes to noise levels, cooling and power consumption, but when it comes to ultra high-end market, everything comes down to sheer performance, and that is where AMD R9 290X is definitely better.
The most important thing is the price tag. While the GTX 780 Ti is definitely not a bad graphics card, it is still somewhat slower than the R9 290X and also quite more expensive. Nvidia decided to go with the rather steep US $699.99 launch price which puts it at good US $150 above the R9 290X.
Looks like AMD won this round.
Source: Nvidia.com.
News by Luca Rocchi and Marc Büchel - German Translation by Paul Görnhardt - Italian Translation by Francesco Daghini
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