It is factory overclocked, meaning that the GPU reaches 902 MHz

Mar 26, 2014 08:48 GMT  ·  By

The GeForce GTX 780 graphics card normally has 3 GB of GDDR5 VRAM and clocks of 863 MHz / 900 MHz Boost for the GPU and 6 GHz for the memory. The new board from Palit is faster and has twice the RAM though.

The new product from Palit is called GeForce GTX 780 JetStream 6GB and is peculiar not because of the memory amount, but because of the GPU clock.

Well, actually the 6 GB of VRAM are strange as well, since we've only seen them on the two EVGA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB of two days ago.

Nevertheless, the boards with twice the normal memory amount have been on the way for a while, so that's not the surprising thing here.

The clock is the surprise. Or rather, the vagueness of the “reference” specs, if there even is such a thing at this point.

Palit says that the GeForce GTX 780 JetStream 6GB has a factory-overclocked graphics processing unit, because it reaches 902 MHz.

What's strange is that we still don't know the “base reference” clock. Moreover, the 3GB GTX 780 has a GPU set at 863 MHz / 900 MHz Boost, and we can't imagine that the factory OC is of only 2 MHz here.

The memory, at least, is left alone at 6 GHz, but it doesn't help the dilemma at all. According to new reports, the two EVGA 6 GB GTX 780 cards reach 941MHz / 993MHz Boost and 967MHz / 1,020MHz (base / dual-fan cooling). That puts the Palit card quite a bit behind.

According to the press release on Hexus, 902 MHz is 39 MHz above the standard speed, so that suggests that the base setting is of 863 MHz, like on the 3 GB adapter.

But if that is true, it would suggest that 902 MHz speed is the base GPU clock in this case, which leaves the question of what the Boost maximum is. Apparently, Palit decided to leave us hanging on that one.

At least the cooler was thoroughly covered, a triple-fan product (80 mm – 90 mm – 80 mm sizes) with blue LED lighting and TurboFan Blade fan bearing. The copper base pulls heat out of the GPU, and the fans disperse it very well due to the alternating blade rotations.

“Each adjacent fan rotates in a different direction to reduce airflow conflicts and effectively improve overall cooling performance,” is how Palit describes it.

Unfortunately, the price and ETA (estimated time of arrival) for the Palit GeForce GTX 780 JetStream 6GB are still unknown at this time.