EVGA GeForce GTX 780 SC ACX review - Product Showcase

Product Showcase

If we rotate the card and look at the backside we can see two SLI connectors, so in theory four cards in quad-SLI GPU mode are supported. Quad SLI however is difficult and often a maze of driver problems, Nvidia has never really recommended and actively supported quad-SLI. But for a handful of benchmarks and sheer e-peen, it will work OK'ish. We really recommend to go with a maximum of 2 maybe three cards.

If we zoom in a bit we can see one RAM IC from Samsung. This is high density GDDR5 memory, Nvidia tucked 3 GB of graphics memory on this card (24 pieces of 32M ×16 GDDR5 SDRAM). 3GB we feel is a sweet spot for high-end anno 2013.

For the GeForce GTX 780 launch we'll have multiple articles ranging from single GPU to 2-way SLI. We'll also look at performance based on high-end yet more moderate processors and then on the X79 platform with an overclocked Core i7 3960X running at 4600 MHz.  EVGA didn't just pay attention to cooling the GPU, but also the surrounding components that make up the card. 

So overall you are going to witness some pretty interesting stuff in the upcoming days. The ACX Cooler features a reinforcement baseplate that helps maintain a straight PCB (printed circuit board), which helps lower mosfet temperatures by 7 percent and memory temperatures by 15 percent. That's it for this photoshoot though. We need to tell you a tale or two about the GPU and the architecture.