MSI Officially Launches GeForce GTX 780 Lightning Card
After quite a bit of time of rumors, leaks, and more, MSI's GTX 780 Lightning is finally launched.
MSI's GTX 780 Lightning graphics card is built to be the ultimate GTX 780 graphics card, and of course, as we're accustomed to from Lightning-series graphics cards from MSI, it does live up to being called Lightning. The graphics card is more powerful than a stock GTX Titan (thanks to its clock frequency), even though its GK110 GPU has fewer CUDA cores enabled, and half the memory capacity.
The card features a base clock at 980 MHz; the standard boost clock is set at 1033 MHz; the card's memory runs at 6.0 GHz and features 3 GB over a 384-bit wide memory interface. These numbers by themselves are good, but nothing that is particularly groundbreaking -- yet.
The groundbreaking part comes in the card's power management. The card has a 16+4 phase VRM circuit, which when the secondary BIOS is enabled, allows the card to reach some very impressive clock speeds. This is possible because, according to MSI, the secondary BIOS removes the restrictions, allowing the graphics card to reach much higher clock speeds. The primary BIOS does not enable the card's full potential. The card should be an overclocker's godsend.
Another very noteworthy point is the card's cooler. Known as the TriFrozr cooler, it features two larger black fans at both ends of the cooler with a smaller yellow 92 mm fan resting right in the middle. The yellow fan also has a denser fin arrangement.
Of course, there are a lot more points to make the GTX 780 Lightning a champ to consider. The card should start arriving at select retailers, and it carries an MSRP of $749.99.
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Oh man, I gotta clean my monitor now
Ease up on the porn and your monitor would not be so dirty.
If you own one of these, be sure to use the special version of Afterburner and also update your LN2 BIOS with the new version that allows a 300% power limit.
Obviously MSI doesn't think they need to compete price-wise with others either.
There are some of us that game alot higher than 1080p. 1080p is not even in our vocabulary. Stick with the 770 and below.
Anyway, mostly marketing, these can be done with any sort of decent cooling.
I'm guessing you didn't really take a look at the exact specs of the MSI GTX 780 Lightning.
Let's recap:
GK110 chip
384-bit memory bandwidth
Tri-Frozr cooler
Dual BIOS, including an LN2 setting
Special "SE" version of Afterburner includes sensors specifically for the Lightning's custom components.
Do Msi, Asus, Evga, etc try out the all their GPUs before deciding which GPU to use in their "superclocked" models?
Do Msi, Asus, Evga, etc try out the all their GPUs before deciding which GPU to use in their "superclocked" models?
I'm guessing you didn't really take a look at the exact specs of the MSI GTX 780 Lightning.
Let's recap:
GK110 chip
384-bit memory bandwidth
Tri-Frozr cooler
Dual BIOS, including an LN2 setting
Special "SE" version of Afterburner includes sensors specifically for the Lightning's custom components.
Do Msi, Asus, Evga, etc try out the all their GPUs before deciding which GPU to use in their "superclocked" models?
Each and every chip? No, definitely not.
They get a binned chip that is rater by AMD/Nvidia that is expected to perform in a certain way.
nvidia wont allow manufactures to modify any part of the titan pcb(which only has 2688 enabled) or the k20 and k20x, its against the law. but no worries, true enthusiasts have already surgically implanted the real k20x gk110 on this board and waterblocked it and are hitting some crazy numbers, upwards of 50% ahead of a reference 780 in synthetics.