MSI GeForce GTX 770 Lightning coming soon!

The GTX 770 was supposed to be unveiled on the 31st of May but thanks to Videocardz benchmarks, we have seen some official figures and performance levels from NVIDIA. As I said before in a different article, the GTX 770 will make use of the GK104 which has 1536 CUDA cores, 128 TMUS, 32 ROPS and 2GB GDDR5 VRAM with a 256bit interface. The GTX 770 will be available in reference and non-reference models with the option to make use of the TITAN cooler or the GTX 680 reference cooler. It seems the GTX 770 will be competing directly with the 7970 Ghz edition and will be priced closer to it as well, this could provide AMD with a significant challenge if they don’t hit back soon although we will have to see how it plays out, it is supposed to cost around $399 to $449 at launch.

MSI is one of the brands that have been spotted and plan to be releasing the GTX 770 soon. It has a non-reference PCB that uses all of the GTX 770 specs, and since the GPU is a Lighting model, we can expect it to be overclocked and offer a unique bios just like they did for the GTX 680. The Twin Frozr IV cooling from MSI will also be making an appearance with the Propeller Blade Technology and the high density fin grid array that provides heat dissipating technology which is in tandem with MSI’s SuperPipe technology. Two 8-Pins will be required to power the card and the GPU is shipped with MSI’s GPU reactor module provides more power to the VRM thus increasing it’s overclocking capability and reducing static noise.

GTX 780, GTX 770 and GTX 760 Ti

NVIDIA are apparently getting ready to release the next generation GPU’s which are still based on Kepler GPU’s but will be clocked higher to offer an incentive for the consumers to buy them. The GTX 780 is worthy of note because it is the consumer version of the K20A/C and is suggested to be 30% faster than your average GTX 680. It’s also supposed to have more RAM as well then the GTX 680 but is lower then the 6GB available on the Titan.

The GTX 760 Ti is based on the GK104 225 chip and the GTX 750 Ti is also based on the GK104 chip and has a 256-bit memory interface which looks to be similar to the GTX 670 performance wise. The GTX 770 is based on a faster GK 104 425 chip which is also a 256 bit unit and the word is that this seems to be a rehash of the GTX 680, in addition to that manufacturers will develop their own boards and cooling but the stock cooling solution on the card will resemble the ones that have come out on the Titan and GTX 780.  So far the GTX 780 has seen the light of day but we should be getting ready to see more come out from NVIDIA soon, check out the video below showing an unboxing of the GTX 780 by LinusTechTips.