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"The GeForce GTX Titan is in a victor class of what is technically possible in good order now" is what we said about Nvidia's flagship punt in March, and that statement held even for a spell. Since so, Nvidia has enabled another SMX unit (containing 192 CUDA cores) along its 561mm2, 7080-million-electronic transistor expire, making the GTX 780 Ti its most powerful and compound GPU to go out, besting even the dual-GPU GTX 690 at times and performing about equal with a duo of last year's flagship graphics card game -- awe inspiring to read the least.

On average, the GTX 780 Ti was 24% quicker than the GTX 780 and 9% faster than the R9 290X and those margins jumped to 34% and 18% with GB's GTX 780 Ti OC. The company's factory-overclocked card was also 8% quicker than a standard GTX 780 Te along with outclassing dual-GPU products from both camps when playacting titles including Tomb Freeboote and Metro: Last Lighted at 2560x1600. As incredible as those results are, Gigabyte's GTX 780 Ti OC doesn't entirely overshadow the GTX 780 Gigahertz Edition.

For instance, the GHz Edition card was just as impressive providing nearly 20% more performance than a standard GTX 780 on average, which works bent on about 5% slower than the standard GTX 780 Ti and 4% faster than the Radeon R9 290X. Despite those massive gains from factory, we extracted other 8% from each card by overclocking them further and what's most impressive is that we didn't let to adjust the WindForce 3X's coolers, which remained extremely quiet during loads -- a rarity on stock high-end cards.

Unfortunately, neither of Gigabyte's cards seem to be usable online yet, at least not through major retailers we typically utilization, and that makes it difficult to assess their value. It seems reasonable to sham they leave be inside ~$20 of Nvidia's MSRP, as Gigabyte's GTX 780 OC (GV-N780OC-3GD) has the same 450W cooler and costs just $510 (only $10 Thomas More). If that's indicative of what we can expect, then Gigabyte's GTX 780 Gigahertz Variant should be around $520 and the GTX 780 Ti OC might represent $710 aroun.

At those rates, the GTX 780 Titanium OC would make up 30% pricier than the R9 290X and 78% more expensive than the R9 290, disdain being only 18% and 24% faster. The Radeon cards are more affordable and offer less brute functioning, but they remain a pretty good value.

Likewise, assuming Gigabyte's GTX 780 GHz Edition will cost $520, it'd live 5% cheaper and 4% faster than the R9 290X, so that's an obvious choice. Against the non-X R9 290 however it offfers a less impressive standing when you see that IT's 30% more expensive and just 10% faster. Perhaps even worse than those figures, the GTX 780 Titanium costs 40% more than the GTX 780 while being only 24% faster.

Those ratios preceptor't bode particularly well for Nvidia's GTX 780 Titanium, which seems like it mightiness feel itself in company with the GTX Colossus. If you need the fastest single-GPU available, you'll have to invite it and that's ever going to be the case. At the stop of the day, we really look-alike the GTX 780 Ti OC and GTX 780 Gc Edition -- especially the latter -- merely the realness is that AMD's R9 290 offers similarly rock solid results for $300 less, and that's plenty savings to sway our recommendation for now.

Pros: Fast, faster and fastest are the GTX 780 GHz Edition, GTX 780 Ti and GTX 780 Ti OC, offering dual-GPU performance that's virtually inaudible with Gigabyte's ice chest.

Cons: Pricey, pricier and priciest they are, too. At $500-$700+, you can look to pay a serious agio ended AMD's $400 Radeon R9 290, which is a great deal similarly fast.