MSI GTX780 Lightning Review

Introduction and Technical Specifications

| Source: MSI Price: £590 Author: Tom Logan

Introduction

The GK110 GPU that's been demolishing benchmarks since it first appeared on the GTX Titan, and then beneath the hood of the incredible GTX780 is unquestionably an enormous performer. It's so good that at first glance the idea of overclocking it out the factory seems to be a strange one, given the amount of potential it has at stock.

However, if we've discovered one thing in our testing of factory overclocked GTX780s that the GK110 Kepler GPU responds massively to a boost in clock speed, so having the benefits of a 3rd party cooler alongside a factory overclock should be enough to tempt even the most fiscally prudent amongst you.

Just tweaking the clock speed would hardly be enough for MSI to give this particular card their Lightning moniker and fortunately there is a lot more beneath that yellow cooler.

Technical Specifications

There is a big increase on both the Core and Boost clocks, up from 863/900 to 980/1033. That should see a large performance improvement when compared to the standard cards, even with the memory remaining at 6008MHz effective.

Model GTX780 Lightning Cores 2304 Core Clock 980MHz Boost Clock 1033MHz Memory 3 GB GDDR5 Memory Bit-Rate 384 Bit Memory Clock Speed 1502MHz (6GHz) Cooling MSI TriFrozr Connectivity 1 x DisplayPort

1 x Dual Link DVI-D

1 x Dual Link DVI-I

1 x HDMI Power Phases 16+3+1 Power Connectors 2x 8 Pin PCIe GPU Power 250W

1 - Introduction and Technical Specifications 2 - Up Close 3 - Features 4 - Test Setup and Overclocking 5 - AvP 6 - CatZilla 7 - Resident Evil 6 8 - 3D Mark Vantage 9 - 3D Mark 11 10 - 3D Mark 11 - Unigine Heaven 12 - Unigine Valley 13 - Conclusion «Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Next»

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