MSI Makes 'Lite Edition' of its GTX 780 Lightning
MSI unleashes its GTX 780 Lightning LE.
MSI's GTX 780 Lightning has been on the market for a while now, and to spike a little extra life into the series MSI is now launching a Lite Edition, or 'LE,' version of the card.
The hardware on the GTX 780 Lightning LE is as good as much of the hardware of the non-LE version, with the exception of the card's clock speeds. The GPU is clocked at 889 MHz, and will boost up to 941 MHz. For reference, the non-LE GTX 780 Lightning is clocked at 980 MHz and will boost up to 1033 MHz.
On the card, users will find the new TriFrozr cooler, as well as a dual-BIOS (one of which hopefully removes various restrictions, like the non-LE card), a 16+3 phase VRM circuit, and 3 GB of GDDR5 memory which runs at the reference 6.0 GHz.

That's all purely speculation, of course :-)
That's all purely speculation, of course :-)
The 780 lightning sits at 549$ on newegg atm....so this one will most likely be 509 give or take.....
Intriguing.
Intriguing.
Every made chip has variationg among them. The production node is very small, so very small variation in electronic circuits can cause guite big difference is operation speed. The sam is True with Intel or AMD CPUs or Nvidia and AMD GPUs. There have been an allways will be chip that are better or worse than the next chip.
Those circuits are printed in many layers and sometime the thicknes of layer may vary, or it has a guite differen widenes os something else. All affect how much the circuit will leak.
still happy with my 680 Power edition,, just switch the bios button on the card and you have a true 780 Lightning ,,its that simple ! it worked on my 680 Power Edition\Lightning