In the green trunks is the ASUS GTX 780 Ti DirectCU II OC which [H]ard|OCP overclocked to the point they saw in game performance of 1211MHz GPU and 7.2GHz on the memory. In the red trunks we find Gigabyte's R9 290X 4GB OC weighing in at 1115MHz and 5.08GHz for the GPU and memory respectively. Both cards have been pushed beyond the factory overclock that they came with and will fight head to head in such events as Battling the Field, Raiding the Tomb and counting to three twice, once in a Crysis and again in a Far Cry from safety. Who will triumph? Will the battle be one sided or will the contenders trade top spot depending on the challenge? Get the full coverage at [H]ard|OCP!
"Today we look at the GIGABYTE R9 290X 4GB OC and ASUS GeForce GTX 780 Ti DirectCU II OC video cards. Each of these video cards features a custom cooling system, and a factory overclock. We will push the overclock farther and put these two video cards head-to-head for a high-end performance comparison."
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So much for Nvidia cards
So much for Nvidia cards being power friendly
Idle
+3 watts more
Non-OC
+16 watts more
OC
+19 watts more
that close in power is not
that close in power is not noticeable 20 watts don’t mean anything. Look at fact 780ti is clocked 100mhz faster and ram is also clocked 2ghz more so that small amount of watts.
The ASUS GTX 780 Ti DirectCU
The ASUS GTX 780 Ti DirectCU II is also $130 more.
You dont argue w/ the
You dont argue w/ the perpetual drunk; he’ll forever see it his way.