Palit GeForce GTX 770 JETSTREAM 2GB Pro Reviews

The immediate availability of custom-designed GTX 770s is made possible by the new GPU being a very simple manufacturing upgrade over the soon-to-be-retired GTX 680. Palit has jumped on this fact and offered the gaming enthusiast choice of cards straight out of the gate. Headlining the new range is the GTX 770 JetStream model, equipped with a triple-fan heatsink and solid boost to to the core speed. Palit's handiwork results in a card that's almost 10 per cent faster than reference, which is nice, and we're particularly pleased to see that acoustics haven't been sacrificed in the process. Our only niggle is that Palit hasn't gone the whole nine yards and overclocked the already-quick memory. Plenty fast, quiet and expected to ship at just £10 more than referenence cards, Palit's GTX 770 JetStream provides stern competition for partners producing AMD's Radeon HD 7970 GHz and also-overclocked GTX 770s.

The GeForce GTX 770 is another cornerstone for the foundation of a strong GeForce 700 Series. The new card is largely based on last generation's GeForce GTX 680, but improves upon it by running higher GPU and memory clocks, and adding NVIDIA's GPU Boost 2.0 algorithm. The memory chips have been upgraded to a fast 7 Gbps; this is the first time we see such memory used on a graphics card. Such memory allows NVIDIA to run significantly higher memory clocks, which directly translates into a performance improvement. Visually, NVIDIA has chosen to use a cooler that's similar to the GTX Titan's, which is definitely a pretty sight. Palit's card comes with a large overclock out of the box for a nice performance improvement. Memory is unfortunately not overclocked, which would have been easy given how well the new 7 Gbps memory chips overclock in our testing. In terms of performance, we see the GeForce GTX 770 beat the GeForce GTX 670 by about 15%, and the improvement over the GTX 680 is 10%. Compared to the recently released GTX 780, the card is 7% slower, which still makes the GTX 780 a significant upgrade (at much higher cost, though), especially when looking at factory overclocked GTX 780 cards. The GTX 770 easily beats the more expensive Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition with an 11% performance lead. The new GPU Boost 2.0 algorithm focuses more on operating temperatures, so the card's clocks will be reduced once it reaches 80°C. Palit's large cooler ensures the card never hits that limit, so it will deliver higher performance.