The board will really be the best NVIDIA graphics card out there

Nov 1, 2013 13:41 GMT  ·  By

Eager to match AMD's new Radeon R9 290X graphics card somehow, NVIDIA has prepared the GeForce GTX 780 Ti, which has now been detailed. And the details are quite encouraging.

So far, we have only had some speculation and disjointed leaks to go on, so the assumption that GTX 780 Ti would be superior to the GTX Titan was just that: an assumption.

Now, though, it is a certainty. Or at least as much of a certainty as yet another, admittedly more reliable, leak can make things.

The first confirmation that GTX 780 Ti is superior to GTX Titan is that it has another name, Titan Ultra. Or rather, it had that name in the past.

From what we can tell, courtesy of VideoCardz, Titan Ultra was going to be a replacement for GTX Titan, one priced at $1,000 / €1,000.

But now that AMD made the R9 290X, which matches Titan but has a price of $550 / €550, NVIDIA was forced to change plans.

So the GTX Titan Ultra became the GTX 780 Ti, with no fewer than 2,880 CUDA cores, 240 TMUs and 48 ROPs (presumably) and 3 GB of GDDR5 VRAM at 7 GHz.

The GTPU has a base clock of 876 MHz and a GPU Boost maximum of 928 MHz.

The 3 GB RAM are a surprise really. We suppose that there will be 4 GB versions, and maybe some with more memory than even that. The interface is of 384 bits.

Among the supported technologies, the GTX 780 Ti “Titan Ultra” has DirectX 11.2, 3D Vision, GPU Boost 2.0, Adaptive V-Sync, NVIDIA Surround, PhysX, Quad-SLI and OpenGL 4.4.

The GeForce GTX 780 Ti has two power inputs, a 6-pin and an 8-pin port. A PSU of 600 W or more should be used in whatever PC the thing ends up in.

The GeForce GTX 780 Ti should become available on November 7 for $699 / €699.