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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 First Look

2013-05-23
excellent hello everyone and welcome back to Pauls hardware today I have a mysterious black geforce gtx box sitting here next to me what could be inside you probably have no idea given that the title of this video is most likely listed right below me right now so I'm not fooling anyone this is the new geforce gtx 780 brand new video card based on the gk110 GPU that's the same GPU that shipped with the geforce gtx titan i'm going to go ahead and give you guys a close up look as well as go down all of the gritty details and specifications so let's take a closer look at the 780 and the first thing you're probably going to notice is it's a Titan well it's not really a Titan but it's very close to its site and you'll notice essentially the same design even the same layout on the PCB it's it's really like ninety-nine percent there I sort of call it about eighty-five percent of a Titan because if you actually look at the number of SMX units that's streaming multiprocessors those are kind of the building blocks that make up the Kepler architecture the Titan has 14 SMX units that gives it 2688 cuda cores the 780 has 12 or as compared to 14 that gives it a total of 2304 cuda cores so still a ton of processing power here so i say eighty-five percent when it comes to the GPU will say fifty percent when it comes to the memory because you do get three gigabytes of gddr5 memory with the 780 that's as compared to the six gigabytes that you get with the titan you get the same layout the same cooler you get the aluminum housing polycarbonate window there you can also see the dual slot aluminum heatsink through there so you're getting essentially the same cooling solution as well so you have a spectacular way to spectacular li weighted blower style fan stays really really quiet even when it spins up to pretty decent rpms when you get when you get it under an extremely heavy load it might spin up a lot more than that but in my experience even when I was running like three or four Titans it was still staying very very reasonable when it came to sound as well as temperature speaking of temperature that's another feature you get here is the the advantage of GPU boost to point out previously only available on the Titan so that's kind of going to give you automatic overclocking within a defined temperature target as opposed to a power target that GPU boost one point I used you also get the ability to over volt so that was another feature of the Titan that was very very nice of them to include you get a base clock of 863 and a boost clock of 900 megahertz although I'm guessing when you're actually utilizing GPU boost to point out you're actually going to get much higher frequencies and that the Titan was very easily able to hit and go beyond 1000 mega Hertz with just a tiny little bit of tweaking memory six thousand eight megahertz affective memory clock 3072 megabytes total you do also maintain the 384 bit memory interface so that's going to be extremely helpful if you're running a lot of eye candy in your games if you're going to be turning on TX AAA or higher level anti-aliasing effects tessellation physics and a fatter memory pipe is always helpful when it comes to that gives you a total memory bandwidth of 288 point four gigabytes per second you will be having some benchmarks over on the newegg TV YouTube channel of course so you can check out those once we actually have them up but 1080 or Beyond if you're going to go with the 2560 x 1440 2560 x 1600 gonna see really excellent performance out of this you have 7.1 billion transistors on the gk110 it's seriously just massive and extremely powerful when it comes to a GPU beyond that again just like the Titan you get two dual-link DVI connection points one HDMI one DisplayPort you can still do your triple monitor gaming out of this you can actually do three plus one displays so you can have four connected total it maintains a dual-slot designs so of course you do still have to sli fingers right there so you can do to weigh three way or four way I am hoping that we can somehow get for these so we can kind of duplicate our our Titan setups where we were doing four-way Titans because that was a lot of fun i'd like to see how the seven 80's perform in that configuration power connectors eight pin and a 6-pin nvidia is recommending a 600 watt power supply for this units TDP stays at 250 wats so again a really good power consumption for this device so another really cool feature again I want to come back to the the cooler on this because it's it's a really impressive design design I like it a lot you get a copper vapor chamber dual slot aluminum heatsink blower fan an actual metal housing for the entire thing the blower fan means that the hot air is primarily going to be ejected at the back of the case so it's not really going to be contaminating the heat or temperature for the rest of your internal components in your computer so yeah a really good design overall and oh I should also mention the green logo on the side when you actually install and plug it in that will glow just like the Titan and that is just about going to wrap it up for this video guys but I know what you're probably thinking you're thinking Paul we want to see benchmark show us benchmarks and I will I will very soon I promise as of the filming of this video I really only just had a chance to sort of take it out of the box get a first look at it so I'm kind of the same boat with you guys but we will we will be testing this we will be showing you benchmark comparisons probably against like I'm thinking the 680 probably compared to the Titan maybe also compare it to some of the AMD video cards that are that are out there as well so it should be pretty awesome so stay tuned to the newegg TV youtube channel for that of course if you'd like to see more of my personal videos you can stay tuned to my channel which you are watching right now don't forget to subscribe don't forget to like this video because it's a freaking gtx 780 damn it and it's awesome and yeah I guess that wraps it up thanks again guys and we'll see you in the next video
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