Having taken the covers off the GeForce GTX 780 a week ago, Nvidia is ready to release their side by side part in the GeForce 700 series. Giving united states of america our first look at the GeForce GTX 770 is Gainward, with their special Phantom edition bill of fare featuring an upgraded cooling solution, factory overclocking, and 8-stage PWM.

Just let's put things into further context. The GTX 780 that debuted last week was based on the same Kepler GK110 compages used by the GTX Titan. Nvidia priced the GTX 780 at $650, making it 35% cheaper than the GTX Titan just as well forty% more than the GTX 680. In terms of performance, the GTX 780 was simply x - 15% slower than the Titan, so it added value to an otherwise very exclusive cost betoken, still when compared to the GTX 680 the numbers were less impressive as the GTX 780 was but 24% faster.

Therefore the GeForce GTX 780 is an attractive selection for those wanting Titan-levels of functioning at a more than moderate price, but in the overall scope of things, the 780 was inappreciably exciting news for the vast majority of gamers as it remains a very expensive affair and the release did nothing to drive downward prices of previous generation cards.

Looking forwards to the GeForce GTX 770's release, we were hoping this would be a lilliputian more meaningful for the gaming community. The GTX 770 is based on the GK104 architecture, start used by last year's GTX 680. Earlier rumors indicated that the GTX 770'southward specifications would be much like a GTX 680 on steroids, and as it turns out that'southward exactly what information technology is. About everything about the GTX 770 and GTX 680 are the aforementioned, except for core and memory clock speeds.

The GTX 770 features the fastest GDDR5 memory we have ever seen at 7GHz. Memory at that clock rate is adept for a pinnacle bandwidth of 224GB/southward, 16% more than the GTX 680. Therefore, technically if yous could overclock a GTX 680 well enough you could create a GTX 770.

GeForce GTX 770 Phantom in Item

Gainward has prepped their Phantom card in time for the GTX 770 release, touting a reworked PCB with an upgraded power phase, factory overclocking and a massive triple slot cooler -- the concluding of which is the most noteworthy enhancement. Although Gainward featured its Phantom cooler on some GTX 600 series cards, the GTX 770 is the get-go to market place with the visitor'due south tertiary-generation solution.

The new Phantom delivers better thermals while making less noise and boasting of a sturdier structure. Information technology's unlike any triple-slot cooler nosotros've encountered before. It features v 8mm heatpipes that excerpt heat from the base and evenly distribute it throughout the heatsink.

The most unusual part of the cooler pattern is the fans, or rather their location. Fans are typically attached to the top side of the heatsink, but instead Gainward has embedded three quiet 80mm brushless PWM fans inside the heatsink. The fans are also removable, featuring a tool-less pattern. Like to the way hot-swappable difficult bulldoze bays work, the fans slide out in one case a single thumb screw has been removed, no cables, no fuss.

The heatsink measures 257mm long, 65mm wide and 45mm tall. Information technology features a black fan shroud that forces the 80mm fans to describe air in through fins above them and push it over the menu below them at the same time. Moving past the heatsink is a black aluminum heat spreader that engulfs the acme side of the carte and cools the eight 256MB GDDR5 memory chips along with the 8-phase PWM.

By using a 8-phase design, Gainward includes two extra phases for power delivery to the GPU, which should better performance under heavy loads and help in the card's overclocking abilities. Speaking of overclocking, Gainward has done a picayune bit of the heavy lifting by pushing the core clock from 1046MHz to 1150MHz, a decent x% increase, while the Heave Clock is increased from 1085MHz to 1202MHz, an eleven% increase. The GDDR5 operating frequency has been left at 7GHz meaning the retention bandwidth remains at 224.3GB/s.

Every bit mentioned before, across clock speeds the GeForce GTX 770'south specifications are identical to the GTX 680. This means there are iv graphics processing clusters, 8 streaming multiprocessors, 1536 CUDA cores, 128 TAUs and 32 ROPs. The rest of Gainward'south card remains adequately standard, including a pair of SLI connectors, 6-pin and 8-pin PCIe power connectors, and an I/O panel configuration consisting of HDMI, DisplayPort and 2 DVI ports.