Reviews - EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Superclocked ACX

[HEXUS]

An early contender for the ultimate GeForce GTX 780 crown.

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[s12]

There is no way that power consumption reading is correct. It contradicts the other 2 reviews of this card and it just doesn't make sense. Yes the core clock is higher but not 62 watts worth.

[Tarinder]

Substantially increasing the core clock also automatically incurs extra voltage, per NVIDIA's GPU Boost specification. A GTX 780 consistently running at 1,100MHz-plus is burning through more voltage compared to the reference card that boosts to only 900MHz or so. But the cooler is up to the task of ameliorating the power-related disadvantages such high frequencies impose.

A very highly clocked GTX 680 can pull up to 300W of (system-wide) juice.

[s12]

Substantially increasing the core clock also automatically incurs extra voltage, per NVIDIA's GPU Boost specification. A GTX 780 consistently running at 1,100MHz-plus is burning through more voltage compared to the reference card that boosts to only 900MHz or so. But the cooler is up to the task of ameliorating the power-related disadvantages such high frequencies impose.

A very highly clocked GTX 680 can pull up to 300W of (system-wide) juice.

Why do the other 2 reviews of this exact card show it only consuming 10w more than the reference? Was going to buy this card now I'm not sure as I want a power efficient system.

I'm suspecting hexus may have increased the power target in their 'stock' speed benchmarks?

EDIT - Your review actually shows it using 80w more than reference, not 60. Was comparing it to Titan by mistake.

[HalloweenJack]

compute performance on par with a GTX 480..... so no folding

[Andi-C]

This makes TITAN look bad value for money, basically your paying for the extra Vram on a TITAN... I can see this will drive the price down on them ?

[HalloweenJack]

unless you do anything other than gaming..... 1/24DP32 is aweful on a GTX 780

[Nelly.]

USA retailers are selling the reference card for $649.99, they are only charging an extra $10 for the EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Superclocked ACX!

Here in the UK, the cheapest reference card is £549.99, and UK retailers are charging £80+ more for the EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Superclocked ACX!

It's absolutely disgusting that retailers can get away with this here in the UK, I wonder what the Office of Fair Trading would have to say about this anti-competitiveness?

Check here as one example >> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...x=-1166&y=-112

[outwar6010]

personnally i think the titan and this are really bad for the money. The 780 is around double the price of the 670 and doesnt perform that much better tbh

[unholy_war]

im going to stick with a 680 not a great deal of performance difference