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EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Classified review - Technology & Specifications (Reference)

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 09/05/2013 10:44 AM [ 5] 9 comment(s)

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Technology & Specifications (Reference)

The GeForce GTX 780 is, as stated, based on Titan which has GK110 Kepler GPU architecture. The chip is huge in size, it is still based on the 28nm fabrication node. But when I say huge, I mean it as it has 7.1 Billion transistors tucked away in a 45 mm × 45 mm 2397-pin S-FCBGA chip. That's a 561 mm² die size.

The GPU on that 10.5 inches long dual-slot GeForce GTX 780 graphics card boasts an impressive 2304 CUDA (shader) cores and has 7100 Million transistors.

That shader amount is amongst the biggest differentials:

  • GeForce GTX 780 has 2304 shader processors and 3 GB of graphics memory.
  • GeForce GTX Titan has 2688 shader processors and 6 GB of graphics memory.

The product is obviously PCI-Express 3.0 ready and has a TDP of around 250 W with a typical idle power draw of 15 Watts. That TDP is a maximum overall, and on average your GPU will not consume that amount of power. But let me first show you the GK110 GPU die:
 

NVIDIA GK110 Kepler architecture GPU - you can see 15 sets of SMX clusters, GTX 780 uses 12 of these.


The GK110 is based off the Kepler architecture, as such you will get the fairly standard pre-modelled SMX clusters of 192 shader processors per cluster. Out of the 15 available, there are 12 active SMX clusters for the GTX 780, times 192 shader processors which thus offers you 2496 shader processors. If it would have had the full 15 SMX clusters enabled, yeah that would have been 2880 shader processors. There is a distinct difference with extra double precision units, but we'll talk about that on the next page though. But how does 4.3 Teraflops of peak compute performance sounds?

But to make a bold comparison, the GeForce GTX 680 which many of you guys have have 1536 of these shader processors. We'll get more in-depth into the architecture on the next page though. As far as the memory specs of the GK110 Kepler GPU are concerned, the boards will feature a 384-bit memory bus connected to a 3 GB of GDDR5 video buffer memory, aka VRAM aka your framebuffer aka graphics memory for the GTX 780.

On the memory controller side of things you'll see that the reference memory clock (effective data-rate) is now set at 6 GHz / Gbps. This boils down to an exotic memory bandwidth of no less than 288 GB/s on that 384-bit memory bus. Much like the GTX 680, the GPU core versus the shader processor domain is are both clocked at 1:1, meaning both the core and shader domain clock in at a 863 MHz reference base clock frequency. One clock to rule them all (well internally there are dozens of different other clocks really, but let's keep it simple, shall we?). With this release, NVIDIA now has the final series Kepler cards on their way. We expect at first launch wave to see maybe 25maybe 50K cards available, so you'd better be fast if you want one. Obviously, later on there will be more batches available depending on demand. This is not going to be a "limited" or extremely hard to get product series.

The new graphics adapters are of course DirectX 11.1 ready. With Windows 8, 7 and Vista also being DX11.1 ready with game compatibility to take advantage of DirectCompute, multi-threading, hardware tessellation and the latest shader 5.0 extensions. For your reference here's a quick overview of some past generation high-end GeForce cards opposed to the new Kepler based GeForce GTX 680.

 

Single GPU based cards GeForce GTX
480
GeForce GTX
580
GeForce GTX
680
GeForce GTX
780
GTX 780
EVGA Classified
GeForce GTX
Titan
Stream (Shader) Processors 480 512 1536 2304 2304 2688
Core Clock (MHz) 700 772 1006 863 993 836
Shader Clock (MHz) 1400 1544 - - - -
Boost Clock - - 1058 900 1046 876
Memory Clock (effective MHz) 3700 4000 6008 6008 6008 6008
Memory amount 1536 1536 2048 3072 3072 6144
Memory Interface 384-bit 384-bit 256-bit 384-bit 384-bit 384-bit
Memory Type gDDR5 gDDR5 gDDR5 gDDR5 gDDR5 gDDR5
HDCP Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Two Dual link DVI Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
HDMI Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

 

For Kepler overall, Nvidia kept their memory controllers GDDR5 compatible. Memory wise, Nvidia has nice large memory volumes available due to their architecture, we pass 2 GB as standard these days for most of Nvidia's series 600 graphics cards. The 3 GB on the GTX 780 however is plenty. The hardware engineers of Nvidia reworked the memory subs system quite a bit, enabling much higher memory clock frequency speeds compared to previous generation GeForce GPUs. The result is this memory speeds up-to 6 Gbps. 

  • The GTX 580 has six memory controllers (6 x 256 MB) = 1536 MB of GDDR5 memory
  • The GTX 680 has four memory controllers (4 x 512 MB) = 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory
  • The GTX 780 has six memory controllers (6 x 512 MB) = 3072 MB of GDDR5 memory
  • The GTX Titan has six memory controllers (6 x 1024 MB) = 6144 MB of GDDR5 memory 
Each memory partition utilizes one memory controller on the respective GPU, Titan has a total board memory of 6 GB and that's 24 pieces of 64M × 16 GDDR5, SDRAM whilst GTX 780 has a total board memory of 3 GB and that's 12 pieces of 64M × 16 GDDR5, SDRAM.



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