WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:06.319 this video is brought to you by the Corsair obsidian 350d microatx case 00:00:04.759 --> 00:00:11.400 exceptional expansion and cooling flexibility for compact high performance 00:00:08.360 --> 00:00:13.839 PCS visit Corsair.com obsidian to learn 00:00:11.400 --> 00:00:19.160 more welcome to my unboxing of the replacement for the GTX 680 this is the 00:00:16.480 --> 00:00:24.800 GTX 780 and you guys won't be able to get a box quite like this but the 00:00:21.279 --> 00:00:27.920 contents of yours will be very very 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:31.439 similar the GTX 780 is the second 00:00:27.920 --> 00:00:33.079 graphics card to use the gk1 10 GPU this 00:00:31.439 --> 00:00:38.719 is the same one that's used in the GeForce GTX Titan and the same one 00:00:35.520 --> 00:00:40.480 that's used in the Tesla gpus that power 00:00:38.719 --> 00:00:45.600 the most powerful supercomputer in the world the Titan so what I find inside 00:00:43.600 --> 00:00:50.079 here is a special edition collectible sticker which may or may not actually 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:53.440 come with your retail card and I also don't find any of the accessories that 00:00:51.879 --> 00:00:58.160 would normally come with a retail card either so normally you'd have some Molex 00:00:55.600 --> 00:01:02.120 2 PCI Express adapters and some driver discs and all that kind of stuff this 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:05.840 contains absolutely nothing so don't worry too much about that because the 00:01:04.360 --> 00:01:11.439 part that we're interested in more than anything else is this guy right here and you 00:01:10.040 --> 00:01:18.200 might be noticing some other similarities to the Titan already 00:01:13.920 --> 00:01:20.840 because this is one sexy graphics 00:01:18.200 --> 00:01:24.079 card now the GTX Titan when it launched was a bit of a strange skew because it 00:01:22.600 --> 00:01:29.159 didn't even follow the normal numbering scheme NVIDIA basically came out and 00:01:26.079 --> 00:01:30.560 said this does not fit into our regular 00:01:29.159 --> 00:01:34.240 product stack so we're just going to call it Titan because it performs way 00:01:32.720 --> 00:01:39.200 better than anything else we have but it comes with a significant price premium 00:01:36.680 --> 00:01:43.040 the GTX 780 takes that technology and brings it down to a price point that's 00:01:40.920 --> 00:01:45.640 more in line with a regular GeForce card like what we're used to seeing in the 00:01:44.280 --> 00:01:50.240 past so you can see here I've Illustrated on the table kind of how 00:01:47.320 --> 00:01:55.320 this works the GTX 780 is almost as fast as a Titan has most of the same well has 00:01:53.119 --> 00:02:00.360 almost all the same technology and is significantly faster than something like 00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:01.479 a 680 about 35% faster not not only that 00:02:00.360 --> 00:02:06.920 but there's a couple new things that NVIDIA is rolling out so the GeForce experience which has been in beta for a 00:02:04.799 --> 00:02:10.479 long time now is going to be released wholesale it'll come by default 00:02:08.560 --> 00:02:13.800 installed by default with your latest driver download that means you'll get 00:02:12.040 --> 00:02:17.239 automatic driver downloads and you'll get suggested settings for popular games 00:02:16.200 --> 00:02:21.360 to make sure that you're getting the most out of the hardware you're using not only that but there's going to be 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:27.200 some other cool features coming in GeForce experience such as Shadow play 00:02:23.920 --> 00:02:30.040 shadowplay uses the h264 encoder that's 00:02:27.200 --> 00:02:34.680 built into your GPU to automatically record up to 20 minutes of previous 00:02:32.319 --> 00:02:38.360 gameplay for you to cut together and make gameplay videos what's neat about 00:02:36.480 --> 00:02:41.720 it is that it comes with about a 5% performance hit compared to running 00:02:39.720 --> 00:02:46.280 something like fraps which has huge files and potentially a big performance 00:02:43.640 --> 00:02:49.760 hit and the files are already compressed so they're much smaller to deal with you 00:02:47.760 --> 00:02:53.200 don't need a huge beefy storage subsystem so it's really cool to see 00:02:51.640 --> 00:02:56.800 where NVIDIA is going because I know a lot of game streamers who are investing 00:02:54.800 --> 00:03:00.360 in dedicated hardware for game streaming when it might just be a matter of buying 00:02:58.440 --> 00:03:04.879 a GeForce GPU to record Rec your Let's Plays or gameplay videos or who who 00:03:03.360 --> 00:03:10.400 knows I'm not promising features and video is going to deliver but let's see what they do with that very cool little 00:03:07.920 --> 00:03:16.519 bit of tech the 780 really is intended to leave single GPU competition in the 00:03:12.480 --> 00:03:18.640 dust but do so quietly efficiently and 00:03:16.519 --> 00:03:22.120 it uses a dual slot form factor so unlike some of the non-reference cards 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:26.319 that we're likely to see it won't take up unnecessary space and it'll be 00:03:24.280 --> 00:03:30.200 compatible with three-way or four-way SLI now all along the top of the card 00:03:28.439 --> 00:03:34.200 you can see the two SLI connect c s that are going to give you that compatibility 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:38.760 the illuminated GeForce GTX logo that you can control in software and a six 00:03:36.159 --> 00:03:43.400 pin and 8 Pin PCI Express connector on the back of the card you see display 00:03:40.640 --> 00:03:47.360 port HDMI and two DVI ports with full support for NVIDIA surround plus an 00:03:45.239 --> 00:03:52.720 auxiliary display and on the bottom of the card it uses PCI Express 3.0 16x for 00:03:50.560 --> 00:03:56.720 the fastest connectivity on the back of the card we see some more of the Titan 00:03:54.519 --> 00:04:01.879 roots of this particular graphics card because it uses the same PCB design as 00:03:59.599 --> 00:04:08.120 the Titan see that except ah there's RAM missing so on the 00:04:06.280 --> 00:04:12.360 back here you can see solder points for the other 3 gigs of memory that would be 00:04:09.920 --> 00:04:21.079 on a Titan which has 6 gigs of RAM whereas the GTX 780 has 3 gigs of 6 GHz 00:04:17.519 --> 00:04:23.160 gddr5 lengthwise the GTX 780 is exactly 00:04:21.079 --> 00:04:27.759 the same as the Titan so there you go there's the two of them side by side how 00:04:25.120 --> 00:04:32.960 sexy does that look uh which makes it slightly longer than a GTX 680 so you 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:37.280 can see that little difference there and slightly shorter than a Radeon 7970 00:04:36.039 --> 00:04:43.000 because it's got that extra little bit of plastic shroud at the end of it there 00:04:40.840 --> 00:04:48.800 just like the GTX Titan the car does a Marvel of industrial design oh it's so 00:04:46.400 --> 00:04:54.880 beautiful I mean the aluminum and the fins and the just the fact that gpus 00:04:52.360 --> 00:04:59.000 come with metal coolers now when you pay hundreds of dollars for a graphics card 00:04:56.560 --> 00:05:03.600 and it really feels like something solid and weighty and just absolutely gorgeous 00:05:01.479 --> 00:05:07.600 in your hand I mean that combined with the fact that the GTX logo on the top is 00:05:05.759 --> 00:05:12.400 illuminated and you can control that making it pulsate or you can change the 00:05:09.919 --> 00:05:15.400 intensity levels according to uh things like GPU power consumption so when 00:05:14.080 --> 00:05:21.919 you're in games it'll be more intense when you're not in games it'll be less intense makes it a very very cool 00:05:19.440 --> 00:05:28.400 premium feeling product to own that goes beyond just frame rates now speaking of 00:05:25.520 --> 00:05:33.039 frame rates especially in SLI the GTX 780 compared to the competition from the 00:05:30.639 --> 00:05:36.600 red team does deliver a smoother experience I'm not going to cover it in 00:05:34.919 --> 00:05:40.520 full depth now but if you do a quick Google search for frame rating you'll 00:05:38.919 --> 00:05:45.919 get a lot of information out there that might be a little bit confusing so I'm going to give you a basic overview it's 00:05:43.800 --> 00:05:50.240 not all just about frames per second anymore it's about the consistency of 00:05:47.880 --> 00:05:54.440 the frames per second how long was each frame on the screen that determines 00:05:52.440 --> 00:05:58.280 whether the image appears to stutter and or whether it appears to be smooth and 00:05:56.360 --> 00:06:02.160 NVIDIA's drivers cooperate with the hardware that they've built into their 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:06.800 cards to make the experience smoother particularly in multi-way 00:06:04.880 --> 00:06:12.080 configurations because of its Kepler lineage the GTX 780 is extremely power 00:06:09.560 --> 00:06:16.080 efficient but because it's still such a powerful graphics card it's going to 00:06:13.840 --> 00:06:19.319 require at least a 600 wat power supply according to NVIDIA now I know from 00:06:17.800 --> 00:06:23.919 personal experience you can get away with less than that but make sure you're 00:06:21.039 --> 00:06:28.160 using something that is a good quality lower than that power supply 00:06:25.440 --> 00:06:32.400 realistically anything about 450 to 500 watts if it's an extremely built power 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:36.680 supply will be able to handle something like a GTX 780 it inherits some other 00:06:34.960 --> 00:06:43.960 really cool technology from the Titan as well most importantly GPU Boost 2.0 now 00:06:40.360 --> 00:06:46.000 the old GTX 680 at sort of offensive to 00:06:43.960 --> 00:06:50.880 call it old I guess but the GTX 680 had GPU boost which allowed the GPU to 00:06:48.280 --> 00:06:54.599 overclock itself in response to the fact that it wasn't consuming as much power 00:06:52.759 --> 00:06:57.680 as NVIDIA set for it as a power Target you could turn that power Target up a 00:06:55.879 --> 00:07:01.440 little bit but this also always felt like a bit of a weird relationship to me 00:06:59.639 --> 00:07:07.800 because the thing that kills a GPU from overclocking is heat and voltage so the 00:07:05.560 --> 00:07:12.960 fact that GPU boost and overclocking tool didn't respond to temperature was 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:18.639 weird to me GPU Boost 2.0 is inherited from the Titan and responds to 00:07:14.840 --> 00:07:21.000 temperature voltage clock speed and 00:07:18.639 --> 00:07:24.879 power so it can do all kinds of cool stuff you can say okay uh I'm not 00:07:23.240 --> 00:07:29.039 comfortable with the 80° Target that NVIDIA sets by default I want my GPU to 00:07:26.759 --> 00:07:33.160 run at 70° it'll dynamically turn its clock speed voltage down in order to not 00:07:30.919 --> 00:07:36.520 go above 70° then you can say you know what I'm comfortable with a higher 00:07:34.400 --> 00:07:39.800 temperature I mean I'm okay with 90° and it'll turn itself up in terms of what 00:07:38.360 --> 00:07:43.560 the power consumption it allows and the clock speed and voltage that it allows 00:07:41.720 --> 00:07:47.000 making it actually run faster if you say you're okay with it being hotter and 00:07:45.120 --> 00:07:51.000 it's a water coolers Delight which is very very cool so you slap a water block 00:07:49.000 --> 00:07:55.560 on this thing tell it any temperature any power any anything is okay give it 00:07:53.759 --> 00:08:00.400 all the voltage go for it and the card will allow itself to be at maximum clock 00:07:57.960 --> 00:08:04.560 speed all the time and they've integrated something new in the software 00:08:02.879 --> 00:08:08.879 they're doing something called limiting factors where it'll give you a little 00:08:06.520 --> 00:08:13.080 indicator next to your power or your temperature or whatever else or your 00:08:11.319 --> 00:08:16.840 voltage that says hey you've reached the max for this one this is the one holding 00:08:14.919 --> 00:08:24.599 the card back from overclocking anymore so it's no longer guesswork so what is 00:08:19.599 --> 00:08:27.479 the GTX 780 with 234 Cuda cor a 384-bit 00:08:24.599 --> 00:08:31.360 bus 3 gigs of memory all the connectivity that you can pretty much 00:08:28.960 --> 00:08:36.919 want out of extremely high-end card and coming in at a significantly lower price 00:08:33.200 --> 00:08:39.800 point than the Titan it's basically the 00:08:36.919 --> 00:08:44.959 premium Ultra Uber high performance card that makes more sense than something 00:08:41.560 --> 00:08:46.240 like a Titan but is well still ultra 00:08:44.959 --> 00:08:52.279 high performance and Uber and overclockable and all that stuff I mean you can even overclock your display 00:08:49.399 --> 00:08:56.480 using the NVIDIA software thank you for checking out this unboxing and first 00:08:53.880 --> 00:09:00.120 look at the GTX 780 let me know in the comments if you like our new style which 00:08:58.320 --> 00:09:04.320 includes a little bit more glamour footage of the card and closeups and 00:09:01.720 --> 00:09:07.720 cool stuff like that and as always guys don't forget to subscribe to lus 00:09:05.680 --> 00:09:11.120 techtips for unboxings reviews and other computer videos