14 DAY TRIAL // Right now, the GeForce GTX Titan Black graphics card is the best NVIDIA single-GPU video adapter in the world, but there are ways that the GTX 780 Ti can match, if not exceed it, and Inno3D has just used one.
If you were to possess £619.99 / $1,037 / €755 and drop by the Overclockers UK retail website, you might find yourself inclined to buy the latest graphics card from Inno3D.
Said graphics card is known as the GeForce GTX 780 Ti iChill DHS and may very well be the best graphics card from NVIDIA yet, not counting dual-GPU ones.
Normally, the GeForce GTX 780 Ti has a base clock of 875 MHz and a top GPU boost threshold of 928 MHz.
The one from Inno3D can go above 1,300 MHz, which is over 50% better than that. Obviously, not something that anyone can overlook.
1,300 MHz is a massive GPU clock that promises great performance even on mid-range cards, but on a board like GTX 780 Ti it's a truly monstrous level.
After all, the GK110 graphics processing unit (GPU) has 2,880 CUDA cores, providing massive processing power.
No wonder the GTX 780 Ti is considered the best graphics card on the market. Even the GTX Titan/Titan Black, with 6 GB GDDR5 VRAM instead of 3 GB, is slower than it.
Of course, in order for Inno3D to make its newest board even more ludicrously overpowered than before, some changes had to be made to the PCB (printed circuit board). Better components for extra endurance and stability and all that, even a three-rail PWM with load balancing.
Another thing was the installation of the Herculez X3 cooler, a triple-fan model with a copper base plate, five heatpipes, and two fin arrays, one that “grows” out of the main piece and one that covers the rest of the card.
It cools all heat-generation parts on the video board (GPU, VRM, memory chips), but it does it separately for the graphics processor, which adds a layer of insulation that is perhaps unnecessary but helps all the same.
Unfortunately, as we said from the very beginning, the Inno3D GeForce GTX 780 Ti iChill DHS has a rather painful price and a limited availability (ergo, you'll only find it in the UK). Don't worry though. Retailers from the rest of the world have GTX 780 Ti cards for sale, which might not reach 1,300 MHz, granted, but it's not like such a feat is all that necessary.
