Gigabyte GTX780 WindForce OC Graphics Card Review

1. Introduction2. Gigabyte GTX780 WindForce OC3. Gigabyte GTX780 WindForce OC (Super High Res Gallery)4. Testing Methodology5. Unigine Heaven Benchmark6. Unigine Valley Benchmark7. 3DMark Vantage8. 3DMark 119. 3DMark10. Alien V Predator (Direct X 11)11. Sleeping Dogs (Direct X 11)12. Tomb Raider (Direct X 11)13. Max Payne 3 (Direct X 11)14. Dirt ShowDown (Direct X 11)15. Metro Last Light (Direct X 11)16. GRID 2 (Direct X 11)17. Thermal Dynamics18. Acoustics Performance19. Power Consumption20. Overclocking21. Closing Thoughts22. View All Pages

For our review today we are using the latest AMD Catalyst 13.8 beta and Nvidia Forceware 320.49 drivers. We have retested the cards in this review today, to ensure they are still relevant with the latest driver fixes and performance enhancements.

If you are interested in buying the Gigabyte GTX780 WindForce OC Graphics Card then head over to this page on Overclockers UK.

We built a very high end liquid cooled Core i7 3960x system and overclocked it to 4.4ghz.

We paired it up with 16GB of 2,400mhz memory and an ASUS Rampage IV Extreme motherboard.

Test System
Processor: Core i7 3960 X Extreme Edition @ 4.4ghz
Graphics Card: Gigabyte GTX780 WindForce OC (Forceware 320.49)
Cooler: Antec 920 H20
Memory: 16GB G.Skill 2,400mhz @ 10-11-10-30
Motherboard: Asus Rampage IV Extreme
Power Supply: Enermax Platimax 1250W
Optical Drive: Asus BluRay Drive
Chassis: Lian Li PC-A77FR Aluminium Red Full Tower Case
Boot Drive: Patriot WildFire 120GB
Secondary Drive: 1TB Samsung
Monitors: Dell U3011

Other video cards:
Nvidia GTX Titan
Asus GTX760 Direct CU II OC
Sapphire HD7970 6GB Toxic Edition
Sapphire HD7970 3GB Boost OC
MSI GTX770 TF OC
MSI GTX670 Power Edition
Nvidia GTX760
Sapphire HD7950 Vapor X
XFX HD7870 Core
KFA2 GTX760 EX
VTX3D HD7870 Tahiti LE
eVGA GTX660 TI SC
Gainward GTX660
Asus GTX660 Direct CU OC

Software:
Windows 7 Enterprise 64 bit
Unigine Heaven Benchmark
Unigine Valley Benchmark
3DMark Vantage
3DMark 11
3DMark
Fraps Professional
Steam Client
FurMark

Games:
Alien V Predator
GRID 2
Dirt Showdown
Sleeping Dogs
May Payne 3
Tomb Raider

All the latest BIOS updates and drivers are used during testing. We perform generally under real world conditions, meaning KitGuru tests games across five closely matched runs and then average out the results to get an accurate median figure. If we use scripted benchmarks, they are mentioned on the relevant page.

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