Overclocking
Overclocking was pretty sweet with the Gigabyte GTX 780 WindForce OC. If you consider that 954MHz vs the reference 863MHz is already a 10.5% increase then the 1054MHz we achieved stable without any voltage tweaking is a 22% boost over the reference Nvidia clockspeeds and a 10.5% increase over Gigabyte factory overclock speeds.
How did that overclock translate into performance? It did decently well in 3DMark11 where we saw about a 6% boost over our original score at this card’s default clock speeds. Our results show an overclocked Gigabyte WindForce GTX 780 is quite some way ahead of an overclocked GTX 770 – around 20% faster – which is mainly down to the use of the GK110 GPU in the GTX 780 vs the GK104 in the GTX 770.
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 sadly it was delayed in the system, in terms of publication, for a while and it now looks outdated and incomplete.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…..