EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Superclocked w/ ACX Cooler Pro Reviews

EVGA has done an outstanding job. The new ACX cooler impressed us both in terms of performance and low noise, the overall performance of the GTX 780 Ti SC ACX is exceptional and the card should be able to handle new games for at least a couple of years.

The Sapphire Radeon R9 290X and EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti are both capable of gaming at 4K, but it really comes down to what you want to pay and your brand loyalty.

EVGA's GTX 780 Ti SuperClocked with ACX cooler delivers truly impressive performance. While the GTX 780 Ti is very fast already, EVGA topped it by quite a big margin with their overclock out of the box and the new ACX cooler. ACX plays a significant role in these improvements as it enables the card to run cooler, which results in better performance due to NVIDIA's GPU Boost 2.0 mechanism. When the GTX 780 Ti reaches its temperature target (82°C), Boost 2.0 will reduce clock frequencies to keep the card below that temperature. But the EVGA 780 Ti SC never reaches 82°C, which results in highest Boost clocks being active almost all the time (except for when power consumption is exceeded). We verified this with our clock speed analysis on page thirty. We then see the card 6% faster than the reference design when averaged over our benchmarks. At 2560x1600, the difference is even bigger with 8%, which matches the GTX 690's average performance! It's also a whopping 14% faster than the R9 290X in "Uber" mode and 20% faster than the R9 290X in "Quiet" mode. Had EVGA overclocked their memory, too, which is certainly possible given the use of fast 7 Gbps GDDR5 chips, we'd have seen an even bigger increase in performance.