NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Offers 2,304 Cores For $650

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When NVIDIA released the GTX Titan (http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/02/19/1550243/nvidia-geforce-gtx-titan-uses-71-billion-transistor-gk110-gpu) in February, it was the first consumer graphics card to use the GK110 GPU from NVIDIA that included 2,688 CUDA cores / shaders and an impressive 6GB of GDDR5 frame buffer. However, it also had a $1000 price tag that was the limiting specification for most gamers. With today's release of the GeForce GTX 780 (http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-780-3GB-Graphics-Card-Review-GK110-Mini) they are hoping to utilize more of the GK110 silicon they are getting from TSMC while offering a lower cost version with performance within spitting range. The GTX 780 uses the same chip but disables a handful more compute units to bring the shader count down to 2,304 — still an impressive bump over the 1,536 of the GTX 680. The 384-bit memory bus remains though the frame buffer is cut in half to 3GB. Overall, the performance of the new card sits squarely between the GTX Titan ($1000) and AMD's Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition ($439) (http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-780-3GB-Graphics-Card-Review-GK110-Mini/Battlefield-3), just like its price. The question is, are PC gamers willing to shell out $220+ dollars MORE than the HD 7970 for somewhere in the range of 15-25% more performance?"As you might guess, there's similarly spec-laden coverage at lots of other sites, including Tom's (http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-780-performance-review,3516.html), ExtremeTech (http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/156588-nvidias-gtx-780-titan-like-performance-without-the-1000-price-tag), and TechReport (http://techreport.com/review/24832/nvidia-geforce-gtx-780-graphics-card-reviewed).HotHardware, too (http://hothardware.com/Reviews/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-780-Review/).

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