Introduction
By reader request we have updated our graphs to include the GTX Titan and R9 290X. The rest of the review has not been modified.
Since Nvidia’s GTX 780 hit the market we’ve only had the opportunity to take a look at the reference design card which we reviewed over 5 months ago, be sure to check that review out here, but today we’ve kindly been provided with a custom cooled partner design of the GTX 780 that we’ve been greatly looking forward to. What we have is the best Gigabyte has to offer in the form of the GTX 780 WindForce OC graphics card.
This enthusiast graphics card uses Gigabyte’s premium WindForce 450 cooling solution that has a trio of 80mm fans, five copper heat pipes and a hefty chunk of aluminium heatsink fins to offer cooling capabilities up to 450 watts which more than exceeds the 250W TDP of the GTX 780 GPU. That said Gigabyte have fully exploited the cooling capabilities and cranked the GPU up to 954MHz/1006MHz from the stock 863MHz/900MHz while leaving the memory untouched at the stock 6GHz effective throughput speed.
Our particular graphics card was provided as part of a press sample kit so came in a plain Gigabyte box with the graphics card only.
Why isn’t there any 290x results in this review?
there is a LOT of cards missing from this, basically every card competing with or beating this card except for the reference 780 is left out.
True but the 290x is the most direct competition for this card in both price and performance.
Agreed with this post, I wanted to see how it will put up against the reference R9-290X. What you could do is compare the FPS in the games that appear on both this review and the R9-290X review at most.
See Ryans comment further up, we have a reason (and solution) to this problem 🙂
im very sorry for going on such a minor detail, but wouldn’t other non reference 780’s be its most direct competition?
Maybe but sadly we have no other GTX 780s to test so that won’t be possible.
This review was written well before we reviewed the 290x or tested the gtx titan. sadly it was delayed in the system, in terms of publication, for a while and it now looks outdated and incomplete.
You can see this card up against the 290x/titan in this review
http://www.eteknix.com/amd-radeon-r9-290x-graphics-card-review/
When i have time later on this will I may come back and edit the graphs for this review.
GTX Titan and R9 290X added
we talk about a good graphic card…..and gpu clock in 954mhz are enought for ….keep going gigabyte…..