14 DAY TRIAL // Gigabyte's latest graphics card announcement is one of the strangest we've come across, simply because it somehow fails to explore the main topic mentioned in the title: factory overclocking for the GeForce GTX 780 Ti graphics card.
And by that we mean that Gigabyte has formally launched an overclocked GTX 780 Ti, but didn't say how overclocked it was.
In fact, given the way the issue is skirted but the cooler is lauded, we might be tempted to think there is no overclocking involved at all.
Maybe Gigabyte kept the reference clocks of 875-876 MHz and 928 MHz Base/Boost, but outfitted the GeForce GTX 780 Ti Overclock Edition (GV-N78TOC-3GD) with a better cooler to allow owners to tweak the performance themselves, via the bundled OC Guru II software.
Then again, saying a card is overclocked without it actually being overclocked would be too much of a faux pas.
So, the best guess we have is that the base and GPU Boost clocks are 10 MHz or so higher than the stock settings.
Given the cooler's ability to disperse up to 14% more heat than the stock solution, that would be a good balance there.
That said, the 3 GB of GDDR5 VRAM are probably left alone. At 7 GHz, they are already more than fast enough. Of course, the normal NVIDIA card is more than powerful enough by default, but we digress.
The cooling module is called WindForce 3X 2-slot and features the "Triangle Cool" Technology, which involves two 8 mm and four 6 mm copper heatpipes. It can handle a TDP (thermal design power) of 450W (adds credence to the idea that all the OC has to be done by you).
For those who want a rundown of the rest of the GK11 card specs, here they are: 2,880 CUDA cores, 384-bit memory interface, 240 TMUs (texture mapping units), and 48 ROPs (raster operating units), Dual-DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort.