Galaxy GeForce GTX 780 Ti HOF On Its Way
Reportedly, Galaxy is working on a Hall of Fame version of the GTX 780 Ti, and this is not at all surprising.
Galaxy (which in other parts of the world is known as KFA2) had the idea a while ago to take reference graphics cards, completely redo the PCB, slap a bigger cooler on it, overclock the card, and sell it for a premium. While many manufacturers do this same thing, Galaxy makes its own 'special' version of the cards as well, often known as the HOF (Hall of Fame) cards. These cards feature all of the above, plus an unusual white PCB.
Now, according to a German report, Galaxy is working on its GTX 780 Ti Hall of Fame card. The report doesn't say much, except that the card features a non-reference power connectivity option (two 8-pin PCIe power connectors), which it uses to suggest a higher phase count on the VRM than on the reference, which is rather unsurprising. The report also indicated that while the card will still feature the standard 3 GB of memory, Galaxy has not excluded the option of making a 6 GB card.
Beyond that, and a picture, there wasn't much info. Supposedly, Galaxy will be announcing the card within about a month, with retail availability not long after that.

this is HOF series. with this kind of product value is not the target audience
Nvidia next gen will not come out anytime soon.
Considering both AMD/NV seem to be making huge dies now, it will take a die shrink for either side to do anything meaningful. AMD used to make smaller ones, which allowed cheaper pricing; hence the enlarged hawaii comes in at 400/550 and probably still won't make any GPU money (the game bundle being cut-down shows this is more expensive-well duh it's larger). I don't expect a price cut soon on the new AMD gpus even after NV lowered theirs. AMD can't be making much even after lowering the bundle and lowering before xmas surely would equal losses.
The only reason AMD made any money last Q was PRE-console chip orders to get the launches of both consoles out the door. It remains to be seen if they will keep ordering tons after xmas. Sales up to xmas I guess will dictate those numbers. If there is a massive drop-off up to xmas then they will do the same as apple etc, and reduce orders due to products not selling like they though. You can imagine the cancelled orders on chips running wiiu which hasn't cracked 5million yet (has it cracked 3.5mil?). They are under 50% of what they expected so clearly someone had to say OK, lets stop ordering new ones made since our shelves, warehouses etc are already at full tilt and we need to sell some crap before ordering more chips, memory, cases etc...It affects everyone making something in the wiiu box.
It doesn't help AMD numbers with 1/3 of the PS4's coming DOA on amazon alone and I'm sure a LOT of xbox360 owners have RROD firmly in their minds now seeing PS4 issues out of the game (granted probably sabotage, but users don't care, it's BROKE no matter who did it). Do you risk buying your kids a DOA xmas gift or just buy a new gpu, phone, tablet etc which aren't famous (yet?) for their failures? Any bad info hurts sales at this point, and that leads to no devs, no games, no BUYERS:
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/10/the-wii-u-death-spiral-and-how-nintendo-can-reverse-it/
There's a rundown of what happens when hardware/software sales suck. Even a price cut probably won't help much as a quick look at metacritic shows only 37 games above a score of 75. Most of those are on other platforms with far better graphics, so why would I buy one? NV can afford to take less per gpu if needed to get a product out the door, but seeing AMD so weak, I doubt they'll go EARLY with 20nm and take risks. There is no need as AMD can't even afford a risk and must go late I'd think.
To be honest, I think we'll see LARGE die products (gpus from amd/nv) late in the year as they want to test 20nm with smaller chips that aren't wasting such huge space on failed dies (considering both company's profits, I'd think you need to MILK this current cow quite a bit longer also). It's expensive to test new processes on the largest chips being produced by anyone. GPU's are the largest dies of anything outside of Intel 15 core Xeons (which are 541mm- Ivy Bridge-EX-15).
You get the point. Large dies will come last most likely after experience is gained from 20nm socs etc. I doubt the next gpus will be any easier to make than current gk110b or Hawaii so assume their replacements will be later. IE, they should be able to sell this HOF model for 6-9 months. AMD doesn't even have an AIB with better fans/heatsink announced yet right? OR did I miss an announcement? Still all REF designs. All of the new cards have plenty of time to sell (probably more like 9-10 months for both sides).
The R9-290x came out and sounded really great. Then we discovered severe throttling issues due to heat (as much as 25%) so many of the benchmarks. Also, all the benchmarks I saw compared to a stock 780. So LOWER the score of the original R9-290x benchmarks and RAISE the score of the 780 by 10% to compare to an EVGA 780 ACX 967MHz model (that's what I'd buy) at $500.
Once we see both the R9-290x and 780Ti with custom coolers we can revisit the benchmarks and see where the value lies.
The last time I checked at $500 you couldn't beat the EVGA 780 ACX (967MHz) versus anything else.
That should be the R9-290 vs the 780 above, not the 290x vs the 780. Ignore most of it and just remember to compare CUSTOM cooling solutions for all cards once available.
I don't know about now... but when I tried to send my 9800GX2 card to them some years ago when it was still high-end card, they refused on a technicality ( bought it advertised as 3 years warranty and in reality only SOME cards of that series offered 3 years and some only 2, depending on date of manufacture- 1 week difference in my case).
I tried arguing with them but they found 101 reason why not do any repair work. So even since that I stopped buying their shit... if they want to lose a high-end GPU customer over some BS then that is their problem.