EVGA announces its complete GTX780 lineup

Nvidia today (27 May 2013) opened the floodgates for eager fans to buy the new GTX780, a stripped-down Geforce GTX Titan for around R6,000 less. EVGA, eager to ride the publicity wave, announced its GTX780 lineup which includes a brand new cooler design.

The GTX780 is quite a beast. It’s 27% faster on average than the GTX680 and 21% faster than the AMD Radeon HD7970 GHz Edition at ultra-high resolutions. It trails the Geforce GTX Titan by around 8% and its price, recommended by Nvidia at $650, is $350 shy of the asking price of the Titan and the Geforce GTX690. Its power consumption is good, it overclocks well, and the included 3GB frame buffer means it’ll run multi-monitor setups quite nicely.

The lineup starts with two reference designs that use blower-style fans, venting heat out the back of the graphics card and the case without feeding any of that heat back into the chassis. Its the same style as the cooler on the GTX Titan and it looks great. The shroud is made of metal and it includes a plexiglass cover on the top to see inside the heatsink fins.

Its complemented by a second stock fan that uses the blower design, although this shroud is completely made out of hardened plastic or possibly magnesium with a matte dark grey paint finish. It is probably the exact same stock fan cooling solution as the regular GTX780 versions, although EVGA may have tweaked the fan profile a bit.

The card then deviates with a custom cooler, a new design from EVGA that it calls ACX (probably stands for Advanced Cooling Xtreme or something like that) and its a plastic shroud with dual 90mm fans and two heatsinks connected with four copper pipes. Clock speeds are the same as the stock card. EVGA also overclocks this from the factory and sells it as the Superclocked GTX780, with higher core and boost speeds.

The cooler will also appear on the future EVGA GTX780 FTW, although no mention has been made of clock speeds or availability yet. FTW cards are binned and generally are the highest-performing of the regular overclocked cards that EVGA sells. Also in the works is the GTX780 Classified, which uses a larger cooler shroud that may block anyone looking to use those snazzy PCB SLI bridges. Previous Classified cards had a modded BIOS and could overclock much further than the stock models.

Below is a table detailing the card’s speeds, features and estimated pricing. The GTX780 is Nvidia’s budget Titan card with 2,304 CUDA cores, triple-SLI capability and a TDP of just 250W.

MyGaming contacted a few sources for more information and was told EVGA will be releasing local pricing next week, with availability in that same week from select online retailers.

Source: EVGA

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