When it was first announced at NVIDIA’s Montreal event, it was obvious that the GeForce GTX 780 Ti was an attempt to recapture the performance crown from AMD’s extremely capable R9 290X. However, NVIDIA does have an interesting situation to contend with since the 290X currently goes for $549, competes well against the almighty TITAN but hasn’t been widely available in the retail channels since its launch. This has left the door open for a more powerful, highly targeted alternative NVIDIA is ready to go.


The GTX 780 Ti is the card we’ve all been waiting for since Kepler was first announced as it represents the first GeForce-branded unveiling of NVIDIA’s fully enabled 7.1 billion transistor GK110 core. This means it has one more Streaming Multiprocessor active than the TITAN but it still retains the same 384-bit memory controller and ROP layout.

Having that extra SM grants access to some additional processing backbone in the form of 2880 CUDA cores, 240 texture units, additional L1 instruction cache, and another all-important PolyMorph Engine. Budding CUDA developers may be salivating right now but unlike the TITAN, the GTX 780 Ti’s double precision throughput has been neutered to 1/3 the single precision rate. With this in mind, double precision performance will be faster than a GTX 780 but significantly slower than a TITAN. This approach towards segmentation actually makes sense since NVIDIA wanted to keep some differentiation between the two cards.