Card Layout and Photos

With the GTX 780 Ti you are getting basically the same cooling design as we saw with the GTX 770 to the Titan. The all metal design was very impressive to me when I first saw it and even months later It still catches my eye every time I find a reason to get my hands on one here in the office. You get the same green GeForce GTX logo on the top of the card that lights up and you also have the window on the side that gives a little style while also letting you peak in and see if you have any dust buildup. I really have no idea how Nvidia is going to improve on this design with future models.

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I know it’s a small change but filling in the name that is molded into the metal fan shroud was a nice touch. It really brings your attention to the card name, before you have to look fairly close to see if someone was running a GTX 770 or a Titan. When you are putting this amount of money down for a card, a lot of people are going to want people to know what they have inside!

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The other exterior change for the GTX 780 Ti was behind the side window. To go along with the black lettering they anodized the cooling fins in black as well. These aren’t huge changes, but they are small touches that do give the card a little more styling without losing what made the GTX 770, GTX 780, and Titan great looking cards.

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The blower fan on the Ti is the same as we have seen on the previous cards with this same cooling design. For those of you who haven’t seen them before, it is a fairly typical reference fan design that pushes air towards the sides where a lot of aftermarket cooling designs push air down and are thinner. I love the design around the fan where you get the black formed area with the machined lip just around the fan; all of this is of course made of metal just like the rest of the fan shroud. To match the fan to the rest of the design they have also machined a metal cap for the center of the fan that brings it all together.

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There are only two areas for the air that the fan pushes to go, half goes towards the PCI slot where it will go over the heatsink that is behind the window and then out of the back of your computer, the other half goes over a smaller heatsink that is just between the fan and the end of the card and then into your case. This means the GTX 780 Ti will put a little heat into your case, but not nearly as much as an aftermarket cooler that will vent all of its warm air into the case.

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The GTX 780 Ti shares the same connection configuration as almost every card on the market now. You get a full sized DisplayPort connection along with a full sized HDMI. Then at the bottom you have two DVI connections, with one having analog pass-through as well for those who still need to use a DVI to VGA adapter. Being a reference design, the card does fully use the PCI vents, so Nvidia made sure to slip vents in between the HDMI and DVI ports as well as the larger vent.

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With the GTX 780 Ti having the same 250 watt power requirements as the GTX 780, it’s not a shock at all that they both have the same 8+6 pin power configuration. This leaves room for overclocked cards later to go with a 8+8 configuration as well if they need the additional power.

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Much like the GTX 780 and the GTX 770 the GTX 780 Ti comes with two SLI connections. Unlike the GTX 780 though, you can run the GTX 780 Ti in Quad SLI. Before this was limited to just the Titan, but with this being the new gaming flagship, the GTX 780 Ti has the same ability if you have the money in your budget.

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When you put the GTX 780 Ti next to the GTX 780 you can see the differences a little more clearly, especially the blacked out name badge and the black heatsink through the window. On the flip side of the cards we can finally see how much changed on the PCB. After taking a close look I can say without a doubt that the Ti does have a lot of differences from the GTX 780’s PCB. They do share a lot as well, but this isn’t just a different GPU tossed on the same PCB, this is a different card all together.

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garfi3ld replied the topic: #33261 07 Nov 2013 14:01
Today we break things up a little with the launch of Nvidia's response to the R9 290X.

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