Conclusion

Nvidia has brought the full force of its Kepler GK110 GPU architecture to bear with the GeForce GTX 780 Ti card released today. The company is throwing everything it can, including the kitchen sink, at AMD.

We begin by thanking AMD for bringing much-needed competition into the enthusiast graphics card space. It is highly doubtful that we would have been witness to substantial price reductions and arrival of the GeForce GTX 780 Ti had AMD not come in fast and hard.

Nvidia has brought the full force of its Kepler GK110 GPU architecture to bear with the GeForce GTX 780 Ti card released today. The company is throwing everything it can, including the kitchen sink, at AMD.

We tentatively gave AMD's R9 290X the mantle of world's fastest consumer graphics card. Nvidia wrestles it away just two weeks later by pushing the GTX 780 Ti to the limit of what's currently viable with its own GPU technology. Providing more context, our benchmarks show that GTX 780 Ti is up to 20 per cent faster than the non-Ti card that's been available for the past six months, though do appreciate that partners have already achieved GTX 780 Ti-like speeds by overclocking the standard GPU to to the hilt.

Nvidia's fastest card is set to arrive on these shores priced from £560, or over £100 more than the R9 290X that it eclipses in benchmarks. Whether this constitutes good value depends upon the games you play and how you view Nvidia's latest three-game bundle - AMD doesn't provide any games with R9 290X.

GeForce GTX 780 Ti is the epitome of GPU brinkmanship; Nvidia's hand has been forced and it fights the only way it knows how: to push back even harder. The cynic in us wanted this full-fat GPU available in May, rather than the hobbled version that was presented to us, but later is better than never.

Ideally suited to playing the latest games at high resolutions and image-quality settings, the GeForce GTX 780 Ti makes a very strong case for inclusion in the ultimate PC build.

The Good

Class-leading performance
Uses elegant reference design

The Bad

3GB frame buffer may not be that future proof

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Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 Ti

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bye bye titan nice knowing you!

power use and temps when overclocked?

uses more power than a R290…. and your own reviews shows an overclocked R290 is faster in 3dmark… so for £309 +£50 for an aftermarket cooler , you have a GTX780Ti beater ;)

I imagine there'll be third-party cards with 6Gb turning up at some point.

Jingee
I imagine there'll be third-party cards with 6Gb turning up at some point.

Let's hope so.

Not the beast I imagined it would be….HardOCP says it's only a Silver when the R9 290 is Gold, and at £100 more or so than a 290X NV looks bad value for money at moment. Cooler is better, but I'm thinking that AMD could drop the price and make NV look really really bad if they wanted to.

3dcandy
Not the beast I imagined it would be….HardOCP says it's only a Silver when the R9 290 is Gold, and at £100 more or so than a 290X NV looks bad value for money at moment. Cooler is better, but I'm thinking that AMD could drop the price and make NV look really really bad if they wanted to.

yup. And this is as far as they can push the current architecture. Stick a custom cooler on both and get the noise and temps down and you'd have to favour the red team on this one. They seem to win on bang for buck. But let's see what the third parties produce. This Christmas is looking interesting. :)