Palit GeForce GTX 780 JETSTREAM Pro Reviews

If you have a lot of cash burning a hole in your pocket and want a graphics card that will last for a while, Palit's Super JetStream GTX 780 is as good a bet as any.

Palit's GTX 780 Super JetStream comes with one of the highest out-of-the-box clock speeds available on the market. Unlike many other cards, the memory has also been overclocked, though only by a small amount, but every bit helps. We found the Super JetStream to overtake NVIDIA's flagship GTX Titan by roughly 2% in real-life performance. The difference in performance reaches almost 10% if compared to the GTX 780 reference design, which is quite a good improvement. Palit's large triple-fan, triple-slot cooler never struggled to keep the card cool, but I expected slightly better performance and less noise output considering it takes up three slots. Idle and gaming noise levels are similar to the GTX 780 reference design, which isn't noisy at all, but "improved cooler" also implies less noise to me. Palit's cooler mostly uses plastic instead of metal, but this also makes the card cheaper overall. Overclocking on our sample worked well and reached good clock frequencies that are on the upper end of the spectrum for typical GTX 780 overclocks. Palit's GTX 780 uses Samsung memory, which overclocks around 100 MHz better than the Elpida chips used on the MSI Lightning or EVGA Classified. Palit has also added a few voltage measurement points near the back of the card for extreme overclockers, and you will find two solder pads for variable resistors on the PCB, which makes voltmodding extra easy.

Anyone looking into a GTX 780 or Titan should check out the Palit GTX 780 Super JetStream for Titan-like performance at a discount. Not only did Palit's aftermarket solution meet or beat the GTX Titan in many of our tests, but it did so while consuming about 3% less power and running a couple of degrees cooler. Assuming Palit doesn't go crazy with pricing (should be $50 or less premium over a standard-clocked GTX 780), this is a real winner if you're willing to go the extra mile in building your PC gaming rig.