A week or so a go an ASUS 780ti Landed on my desk for testing. I have well documented on these forums and on HWbot what this card was capable of on LN2 cooling. It holds single card world records in 3D Mark 11, Vantage and Catzilla.
Here in this benching review I am going to look at over clocking the card on its standard stock cooler at Nvidia's theoretical max volts of 1.21 v. This is 1.21 -1.22 V while running 3D not sat in desktop as this new generation massively over volts in 3D applications especially when over clocked. So guys using 1.2v in software are actually applying 1.3+ in 3D when measured via DMM.
The stock cooler on this Ti is the new DC2 design which has massive heat pipes and is very effective at cooling the GPU. It only takes up 2 slots in this guise so allows SLI in all but the tightest of motherboards and in a board like the RIVE 4 cards fit no problems. When over clocked the GPU temp barely touched 60C and even with fans running full tilt remained fairly quiet. The fans on Auto setting are almost inaudible!!
Here are some pics of the card sat in my ASUS RIVE BE test system.
and the ROG panel showing the 1.22v volts while running 3D.
This GPU supports Hotwire which allows hardware level voltage setting on the fly when paired with ASUS motherboards supporting the technology. This for me is more reliable than any software option and in the pics you can see I am using this feature to read and overvolt accordingly.
The ASUS DC2 in testing reached an exceptional 1300mhz on the core which is in line with the best of the rest but at lower voltage to any card I have previously tested. It also managed a jaw dropping 2113mhz on the memory which is superior to anything else I have tested. At these frequency's it ran all the benches I threw at it with no problems.
The system used for this review was:
4930K 4.8
ASUS RIVE BE
Corsair RAM 2666 C9-12-12-21 1T
ASUS DC2 780 ti!!!
So lets have a look at the benchmark scores.
3D Mark 11P
Firestrike
Firestrike Xtreme
and Catzilla at 1080P
Very impressive scores indeed on stock cooler!!
In conclusion then would I recommend this card?? Yes very much so. It is cool quiet and massively overclockable and is in fact under all these criteria the best Ti I have tested so far. It outperforms by a small but tangible margin even the mighty EVGA classified and costs less so represents great value for money. I think its fair to say the DC2 range by ASUS gets stronger every revision and this is the best one yet well done ASUS.
Here in this benching review I am going to look at over clocking the card on its standard stock cooler at Nvidia's theoretical max volts of 1.21 v. This is 1.21 -1.22 V while running 3D not sat in desktop as this new generation massively over volts in 3D applications especially when over clocked. So guys using 1.2v in software are actually applying 1.3+ in 3D when measured via DMM.
The stock cooler on this Ti is the new DC2 design which has massive heat pipes and is very effective at cooling the GPU. It only takes up 2 slots in this guise so allows SLI in all but the tightest of motherboards and in a board like the RIVE 4 cards fit no problems. When over clocked the GPU temp barely touched 60C and even with fans running full tilt remained fairly quiet. The fans on Auto setting are almost inaudible!!
Here are some pics of the card sat in my ASUS RIVE BE test system.
and the ROG panel showing the 1.22v volts while running 3D.
This GPU supports Hotwire which allows hardware level voltage setting on the fly when paired with ASUS motherboards supporting the technology. This for me is more reliable than any software option and in the pics you can see I am using this feature to read and overvolt accordingly.
The ASUS DC2 in testing reached an exceptional 1300mhz on the core which is in line with the best of the rest but at lower voltage to any card I have previously tested. It also managed a jaw dropping 2113mhz on the memory which is superior to anything else I have tested. At these frequency's it ran all the benches I threw at it with no problems.
The system used for this review was:
4930K 4.8
ASUS RIVE BE
Corsair RAM 2666 C9-12-12-21 1T
ASUS DC2 780 ti!!!
So lets have a look at the benchmark scores.
3D Mark 11P
Firestrike
Firestrike Xtreme
and Catzilla at 1080P
Very impressive scores indeed on stock cooler!!
In conclusion then would I recommend this card?? Yes very much so. It is cool quiet and massively overclockable and is in fact under all these criteria the best Ti I have tested so far. It outperforms by a small but tangible margin even the mighty EVGA classified and costs less so represents great value for money. I think its fair to say the DC2 range by ASUS gets stronger every revision and this is the best one yet well done ASUS.
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