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The Nvidia GTX780Ti took the enthusiast sector by storm when it was released in 2013, and it has dominated the performance charts since then. We have seen a stream of excellent, high grade partner GTX 780Ti's in the last six months, with our particular favourite being the Palit GTX780 Ti JetStream OC.
Today, the Palit GTX780 Ti JetStream OC has been knocked off that top position by the Inno3D GeForce GTX 780 Ti iChill DHS.
The Inno3D card looks meaner than the Palit card and thanks to the modular design all the fans can be individually, and easily removed for cleaning. Some people may never touch them, but for those people who like to keep their fans running smoothly, Inno3D have implemented a useful, practical system. There is no doubt that the first impressions are positive – this is a card designed to rock with the best of them. Inno3D have put a lot of time and thought into the development of this card, and it shows.
While the out of the box clock speeds are very noteworthy … and faster than anything else we have reviewed to date – it is the remarkable cooling system that has aroused the geek in me. We have tested some fantastic cooling systems in recent months, Sapphire's Vapor-X, Tri-X and Palit's JetStream spring to mind immediately. They are outperformed however by this latest implementation of the iChill cooler.
With the falling prices of Ultra HD 4K screens Nvidia's GTX780Ti is an ideal partner to drive all those pixels. If you can afford only one GTX780Ti then in a perfect world you will want to get the fastest model you can get your hands on. At 3,840 x 2,160 every single frame per second will make a difference.
The Inno3D GeForce GTX 780 Ti iChill DHS would be right at the top of our shortlist for a new 4k system build, it is without question one of the most impressive high end graphics cards we have reviewed at KitGuru.
Is there a negative? Well apart from the hefty £599.99 asking price – we do wish that Nvidia would double the GTX780Ti memory count to 6GB, like they did recently with the older GTX780 Non Ti version. Nvidia may know however that this could eat into GTX Titan Black sales, because even though they said the Titan Black was never designed for gamers, over 80% of their sales are actually from the gaming sector.
Get the Inno3D GeForce GTX 780 Ti iChill DHS from Overclockers UK for £599.99 inc vat. It is a lot of money, but worth bearing in mind that two of these in SLi would outperform AMD's R9 295X2 which is priced around £1,100. Overclockers UK are bundling a code for Watchdogs with the Inno3D GeForce GTX 780 Ti iChill DHS, worth £30.
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Pros:
- The fastest single GPU graphics card we have tested.
- Amazing cooler design.
- tasty bundle including a mouse mat.
- lowest temperatures of any GTX780ti.
Cons:
- Not the quietest (but its acceptable).
- Its £600.
- triple slot.
Kitguru says: A showcase card with performance to match. We love the design and appearance.
It’s a great card for performance and some light future-proofing… At the cost of about $700 and tax… that is hard money to justify, unless you know you will not regret it. Again, the price is probably the only ‘con’ but at the same time, it is difficult to justify the high price as a con, when this is a company’s flagship device we are talking about. If anything, I am just glad it didn’t start at a price much closer to the Titan (for how it performs, compared to the GTX 780)… that is just $300 dollars way north of the 780 Ti (or $600 if its SLI).
Hard to go wrong with one of these.