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Asus ROG Matrix GTX 780Ti Platinum Review [T-break Tech (Middle East)](T-break Tech (Middle East) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) The ROG range of products is more like a lineup of the best of the best that Asus can offer. Whatever your gaming needs the Republic of Gamers has you sorted but at a price of course. Today we have the ROG's Matrix Platinum graphics card based on Nvidia's GTX 780Ti in for some testing and it is a beast of a card. The PackagingThe card comes in a standard ROG branded box with various shades of red being the dominant color. The front of the box only has the brand and model while the back is where most of the specifications are displayed. Like most new ROG products the box has a flap which gives you a preview of the card and description of the card features. Inside, the card is snuggly enclosed in black foam along with two 6 to 8pin connectors and underneath is an ROG metal badge, a manual and a CD. Not much on offer accessories-wise but that's because all the money has been invested in designing the card itself. The Graphics CardThe card has two large fans and underneath it's cooled by Asus own Direct CU II cooling design which has four heatpipes that run over the GPU. At the back the card has a molex connector for extra power when the card is used in LN2 mode and a pin which turns on the memory defroster which heats up the RAM when using LN2. Also at the back there's a BIOS switch which resets the card to a factory safe mode in case an overclock has not been successful. Next to this are also soldering points to connect the card to an ROG compatible motherboard for direct monitoring and overclocking via the motherboard itself. On the side there are two 8-pin connectors on one end and two SLI connectors on the other. The 780Ti Matrix Platinum supports a quad SLI setup but Nvidia's support for this is grainy at best. A dual or triple SLI is recommended. Next to the SLI connectors is a dip switch to switch the card from standard to LN2 mode. In LN2 mode the normal overclock and voltage restrictions are removed allowing LN2 users the ability to overclock the card without those limits. In between the 8-pin and SLI connectors is the ROG logo; when the GPU is idle it glows blue but as GPU load increases the logo goes from blue to orange to red. On the I/O plate the card has two DVI ports, an HDMI and DisplayPort as well as the standard ventilation holes. The card is factory overclocked at 1006MHz core 1072MHz boost and the GDDR5 RAM at 1750MHz on a 384bit bus. Running GPU-Z we noticed the GPU would sometimes run at 1149MHz. So Asus have only overclocked the GPU core from 87MHz core and 928MHz boost while leaving the memory at stock. TestingWe used our i7 Ivy Bridge setup to test the card with a Core i7 3770k, an MSI Z77 motherboard with 2 DDR3 Gskill Ripjaws. The Geforce drivers at the time were the 335.23 and for comparison we used the Zotac 780Ti AMP! running the 331.82 drivers and the Asus Direct CU II OC R9 290X running the Catalyst 13.12 drivers. Benchmarks OverclockingWe managed to overclock the card to 1107MHz core, 1172MHz boost and 1175MHz for the RAM. Power was set to 110% and the voltage was increased from 1.137V to 1.178V using Asus own GPU Tweak software. Unfortunately the RAM was the most disappointing where anything over 1180MHz would result in some glitches and a crash in 3DMark. At the current overclock the 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme score was 5721 which is decent increase over the already factory overclocked score we received. At no point did the temperature go over 71C which proves Asus Direct CU II cooling solution can handle the card's high clock speeds without issue. The fans also were not loud enough to be a nuisance either. ConclusionThe Asus ROG Matrix Platinum 780Ti edged both Zotac's 780Ti AMP! and Asus own Direct CU II OC 290X out to take the crown for the fastest single GPU we have tested so far. It packs a lot of features for the avid overclocker with its LN2 mode and memory defroster ensuring LN2 users get the most out of this card. It maybe that the driver improvements and higher than factory recorded GPU speeds helped it beat the two other cards we compared it to but our own attempts at overclocking were marred by the mediocre increase in clock speeds we got from the memory. Pricing as of yet is unavailable for this beast but don't expect it to be cheap, however for LN2 users this will be the card to buy especially if you have an ROG motherboard and a monitor capable of handling more than 1080p. The post Asus ROG Matrix GTX 780Ti Platinum Review appeared first on tbreak. COPYRIGHT 2014 TBREAK MEDIA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Provided by Syndigate.info, an Albawaba.com company (c) 2014 All rights reserved. Albawaba.com |