Impressively, the GTX 780 Ti also has higher base and boost clock speeds than those other cards, while operating at the same 250W power limit. plentiful, a nice increase from the GTX 780 and Titan. The GeForce GTX 780 Ti is powered by a GK110 with all 15 SMX units enabled, granting it a grand total of 2880 shader processors and 240 texels per clock of filtering power. Nvidia has evidently been keeping some juice in reserve for an occasion like this one. But surely it wouldn’t be that easy, or they’d have done it already, right? So the simplest way Nvidia could raise its game was to enable all of the GK110’s available units. Nvidia has stated publicly that the chip has a total of 15 SMX units onboard, yet the GeForce Titan has one SMX disabled and the GTX 780 is down three SMX units. We’ve known for ages that no GK110-based product-not even in the expensive, compute-focused Tesla lineup-comes with all of the chip’s units enabled. The GK110 is the largest graphics processor ever made, over 100 mm² larger than AMD’s new Hawaii chip. Yeah, turns out the green team was holding back quite a bit. How much additional goodness did Nvidia really have left in reserve? After all, the GK110 chip that powers the Titan and the GTX 780 has been around for quite some time now. The intriguing question, in my view, was how Nvidia would achieve this feat. We knew this fact even before the card arrived in Damage Labs. The GTX 780 Ti’s purpose in life is crystal clear: to be the best single-GPU graphics card in the world. Things get even more interesting today, since Nvidia is finally pulling back the curtain on the GeForce GTX 780 Ti, its answer to the Radeon R9 290X. Makes you wonder about the whole post-PC narrative that’s so popular right now. Prices have dropped pretty dramatically in the past month, too.įor a dying market, high-end PC graphics sure has a lotta vitality.
Along the way, we’ve seen a host of new features and buzzwords injected into the high-end graphics space as part of the conversation: AMD’s Mantle low-level graphics API, Nvidia’s creamy smooth G-Sync display tech, and the TrueAudio DSP block built into the new Radeons. Nvidia counters by announcing price cuts and promising to introduce a mysterious new GPU, the GeForce GTX 780 Ti.
AMD uncorks the Radeon R9 290X and captures the GPU performance crown.
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