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GTX 780 Ti Specifications Leaked – Full Blown Gk110 Core with 2880 SP

MrMarvelous said:
Do you guys think the Ti would be overkill for 1080p with all my games maxed out?
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No, nothing wrong with beasty single GPU @ 1080P. Nice to have room in the tank for more demanding games in the future.

Will you give you solid performance for a good few years. Tbh @ 1080P I would be tempted to go with a single R9 290, great price VS performance on that one.
 
Orangey said:
There's a lot of doom and gloom around the 95C temperature, because people are used to a world where the product is designed to run as cold as possible... but that's not the world we're living in with these units. The doom and gloom is based on an old viewpoint.

95C is the optimal temperature that allows the board to convert its power consumption into meaningful performance for the user. Every single component on the board is designed to run at that temperature throughout the lifetime of the product.

If you throttle the temperature down below that threshold, then the board must in turn consume less power to respect the new temperature limit. Consuming less power means lowering vcore and engine clock, which means less performance.

You want to take full advantage of product TDP to maximize performance, and that is accomplished with a 95C ideal operating temperature for the 290 and 290X.

Even with a third-party cooling solution, like the Accelero 3 some users have started deploying, the logic of PowerTune will still try to maximize TDP by allowing temperatures to float higher until some other limit is met (voltage, clock, fan RPM, whatever).

It's so bloody smart and it kills me that more people don't fully understand it.
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Hmm, 95c is hot no matter how you slice it, thermal limitations causing a GPU to download is not good no matter how they try and spin it.

AMD cheaped out on the coolers in order to hit a lower price point. If 95c is impressive and "It's so bloody smart", then Nvidia's 83c must be amazing.

290's are best under water, that cooler is awful, no one wants a 95c part in their case. Epic card, awful cooler.

MjFrosty said:
What is frustrating is Black Edition or not, 6GB versions will be literally just around the corner. Probably before Crimbo.
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Yeah be gutted to buy 3GB version than 6GB appears soon after..

Pay day at end of the month, will 6GB cards be around then Gibbo?????
 
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MjFrosty said:
95c is fine as long as it stays there. Don't forget Fermi used to be safe up until 110C.

If they think the silicon can take it then there is no reason for anyone else to doubt it. I was surprised with mine just how little ambient heat the 290X produced regardless of the temps.
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Yeah but Fermi was to hot as well :p

Obviously AMD will try and make 95c seem like a positive, but we know it's not. It's hitting the limits of 28nm and needs water to really shine. Non ref coolers will do a better job, you think third party vendors will be aiming for 95c on their non ref parts? Hell no, everyone wants lower temps, less throttling :D
 
Well I think I'm going AMD again until 20nm, from the other thread Gibbo's reply to me,

Gibbo said:
If it was my money, R290X, waterblock. Because like you 4GB of RAM is the sweet spot, especially if your thinking 1440P, 1600P or 4k and latest games.

Also it seems AMD's new driver gives much larger improvements in games compared to benchmarks and its in such circumstances where R290X *MIGHT* indeed topple 780Ti or certainly match it.

The performance is incredibly close, but are awesome cards and both overclock like crazy making them even better! :D
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£550 at launch for a fully unlocked Kepler card, isn't that bad.

I challenge anyone to make a cheaper one themselves :p.

GTX 780ti kind of GPU is really aimed at the enthusiast, for everyone else there are plenty of options..
 
http://www.vortez.net/articles_pages/nvidia_geforce_gtx_780_ti_review,26.html

Pros
+ Fastest single core card on the market
+ Very quiet
+ Efficient cooling
+ Great looking

Cons
- £100 more expensive than the AMD R9-290X
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The simple facts are that the GTX 780 Ti is faster, cooler and quieter than AMD's flagship card. You don't buy a flagship GPU to save money, you buy one because it is the fastest money can buy and there can be no arguing that at the time of writing, the GTX 780 Ti is simply that: The fastest single core GPU available today.
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Aaaargh, I thought I had my mind made up on a 290X... Why do this to me Nvidia... So much want...
 
Gerard said:
How about reading more reviews rather than looking at just one. Just like any other card the results are going to vary depending on game and settings.
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They all seem to be saying the same things,

Faster, cooler, quieter, better made, when you factor in it costs £100 more, but... It comes with three games (290X comes with no games) and has a better cooler. I would say it's actually worth the extra money.
 
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