GTX 780 Ti GHz Edition from Gigabyte
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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1,023 words · ~5 min read
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welcome to another attempt at a
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windforce GTX 780 Ti but this time we've
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got the GTX 780 Ti windforce gigahertz
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Edition the Corsair flash Voyager go is the easy way to move photos music and
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videos between your Android device and your PC click now to learn
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more it's about a $50 Adder over for a
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normal OC wind Force card and for that you get a non reference board design
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that adds two additional power phases and replaces one of the stock six pin
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connectors with an8 pin connector this translates into some extra tweaking
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flexibility with a 116% max power limit compared to 106% on a reference card you
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get a much faster stock clock speed this card comes at
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1.15 GHz boost by default and finally
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you get a Gigabyte windforce cooler same as the other one but now it comes with a
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sexy back plate which is usually about a $20 Adder if your car doesn't already
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come with one the cooler is a massive six heat pipe triple fan affair with
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their triangle cool concept which is designed to spread the hot air away from
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the graphics card it's got a maximum cooling capacity of 450 Watts which I've
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seen in action and it should be noted that on Modern highend graphics cards
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this is actually very important because the better you can cool the card the
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more power limit is available the better the card will actually perform across a
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wide variety of games even if you don't do any overclocking it supports the
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usual NVIDIA technology so that's SLI up to four-way GPU Boost 2.0 Cuda fizx
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GeForce experience gameplay recording and streaming and the allnew g-sync
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which finally has some sweet looking monitors coming for it and all the usual
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stuff is included a couple adapters driver dis Etc but what I was really
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interested in with this card and what I've been making my way towards in this
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video is the binning process that went on with this card GPU binning just like
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any other performance computer component like a CPU or RAM is the process of
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selecting the best parts from a large batch and using them for a higher
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performance variant of the same product than offsetting the cost of doing that
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binning by charging more for that higher performance product we saw with
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gigabytes normal 780ti windforce that in
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spite of GPU boost 2.0's Dynamic
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optimization of its performance just adding a better cooler to a
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run-of-the-mill chip doesn't necessarily result in performance that can beat our
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very very strong uh golden sample 780 Ti
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reference card but in this case Gigabyte
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is delivering a better Bend card to Market so it's not Pure Luck of the draw
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you have theoretically a better chip and a very good cooler now as always we've
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overclocked our cards to the max and I think you'll be pleased to see the
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results from this card that looks great runs cool and quiet and performs well if
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I told you that Luke would be out of a job I guess so over to you Luke so I'm
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going to preface this with something that you guys probably already know by now if you've been watching quite a few
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of my videos with 780 Ti in them and that is that my reference card is very
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likely quite golden if you guys want to and I think you should if you're very
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interested is check with the overclocking dock in the description below because you can see all of the
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settings for all of my cards and you can check how these two different cards were
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set against each other in overclocking software see how they perform and see
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their actual core clocks while I'm running these tests the Gigabyte card
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comes really highly overclocked outside of the box which is a nice benefit my
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current reference card is able to overclock to basically the exact same
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amount to where these cards trade just depending on what game it was which
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means there's just margin of error there
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um but it's it's it's interesting
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because if you bought a reference card you probably wouldn't get that level of
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Bin it's very unlikely but if you bought this windforce card it is more likely
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that you are going to get a card that can perform this fast so that's actually
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where you're getting a lot of value out of buying this card and as you can see
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in the benchmarks it did quite well comparative to the reference card all
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right guys thanks for watching the video uh as always while you're here on
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people away from being in second place and I'm really excited for that um also
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you're a forum contributor you won't see the ads so that's quite cool we also are
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selling shirts now that's in the description below as well and there's a
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few that I'm going to have to pick up so be sure to check that out and as always
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