14 DAY TRIAL // The EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Classified K|NGP|N Edition has shown up in the news a few times already, but only now it is getting formally introduced as the latest and greatest thing on the video card market.
The announcement is a bit frustrating though, because EVGA even now is withholding key information, namely the clock frequency of the GPU.
You'd think that the official launch would finally expose that small bit of info, but no, the company, Vince "K|NGP|N" Lucido and Tsemenko "TiN" Illya are keeping it close to their chest.
Sure, they said that the board can reach 1.85 GHz GPU clock with extreme cooling, but liquid coolers allow all high-end video cards to reach heights greater than any factory-overclock can pull off.
Still, the overclockers and the company itself have a point in that you'll be hard-pressed to find a different board that can reach 1.85 GHz, no matter the base clock.
After all, extreme overclocking needs you to directly mess with the voltage and wattage which, in turn, are limited by how much energy actually can go into the card.
If nothing else, EVGA's new board definitely rules in terms of potential TDP. As there are three power inputs (two 8-pin and one 6-pin), the wattage can reach 450W, more than many PSUs on the market.
"In order to break world records these days you need some serious hardware," said Vince "K|NGP|N" Lucido.
"This card was engineered to serve one purpose... be the world's best overclocking graphics card. Expect GPU clockspeeds at over 1.85 GHz with extreme cooling."
The EVGA GTX 780 Ti Classified K|NGP|N Edition features 2,880 CUDA cores, 3 GB of GDDR5 VRAM, a memory interface of 384 bits, four display outputs (dual DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort outputs) and a dual-fan (10 mm diameter) ACX cooler with translucent shroud and preinstalled dedicated PWM baseplate.
"With the EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Classified K|NGP|N Edition graphics card, we focused on the basic demands that are needed when doing extreme overclocking," said Illya "TiN" Tsemenko.
"Capable hardware design and heavy power delivery capacity is key for performance dominance and the ultimate gaming experience. So too is a unique power convertor able to provide over 450W of clean voltage for every kind of overclocking!"
