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MSI GTX780 Lightning 3GB Graphics Card Review

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Heaven Benchmark is a DirectX 11 GPU benchmark based on advanced Unigine engine from Unigine Corp. It reveals the enchanting magic of floating islands with a tiny village hidden in the cloudy skies. Interactive mode provides emerging experience of exploring the intricate world of steampunk.

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  • Little / big endian support (ready for game consoles)
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  • Comprehensive performance profiling system
  • Flexible XML-based data structures

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We use the settings shown above at both 1920×1080 and 2560×1600 resolutions.
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The MSI GTX780 Lightning has the edge over the reference clocked GTX Titan, outperforming the more expensive solution by around 4 frames per second. The highly overclocked Sapphire HD7970 6GB Toxic Edition takes last place, as we would expect given the competition.

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4 comments

  1. Wow, thats a hell of a card. I just bought a GTX770, this is slightly outside my budget, but very impressive.

  2. Yeah, id love this myself, but my car insurance needs sorted soon. great review and lovely board.

  3. The performance results are good, its interesting to see how far AMD are behind right now, even with a card that sucks so much juice and creates such noise.

    Hope they can get competitive again with the next generation.

  4. Christopher Hall-Nelson

    Id like MSI GTX760 card, would suit my rig better than the 780.

    I wonder how Nvidia feel about these GTX780s which are faster than the titan, seems a negative selling point if all you want to do is game.

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