EVGA GeForce GTX 780 ACX SC 3GB GDDR5 PCIe

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 4 expert reviews

Excellent:

3
Good:

1
Average:

0
Bad:

0

Pros:

Overclocked out of the box.
Large performance increase over reference.
Faster than GTX Titan.

Cons:

High price.
Reference design cooler looks more appealing.

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Last revision on May 20, 2015

Reviewers Liked

Overclocked out of the box
Large performance increase over reference
Faster than GTX Titan
Good overclocking potential
Quiet during gaming
Low power consumption
Extremely quiet in idle
Native fullsize HDMI and DisplayPort
Up to four active outputs

Reviewers Didn't Like

High price
Reference design cooler looks more appealing
Memory not overclocked
No backplate
No Metro: Last Light coupon included
£625 for a single GPU

Expert reviews and ratings

100

EVGA has unveiled its GeForce GTX 780 as well as a new GPU cooling design dubbed ACX that it plans to stick on all its high-end GPUs for the foreseeable future. The cooler's acronym stands for Active Cooling Extreme since it uses active cooling and it's...

By Maximum PC on February 11, 2014

There's no doubt that the EVGA GEFORCE GTX 780 SC is a great card with the factory overclock of around 10% being the cherry on the cake. The card came well packaged, although the plastic packing did seem a little cheap, even if it protected the card...

By pcGameware UK on July 01, 2013

The past five years of GPU product launches have shown that fourteen months can be a pretty long time to hold on to a product stack. After an unexpected launch of its 'wildcard' this February, the GeForce GTX Titan, NVIDIA turned its attention to its...

By techPowerUp! on May 24, 2013

ASUS' pair of Matrix cards are, once again, extraordinary products. The video cards target overclockers of both the more and less extreme variants. Regarding the overclocking aspect, the Matrix GeForce GTX 780 Ti does not offer higher overclocks when...

By uk.hardware.info on May 05, 2014

Yesterday, AMD released the Radeon R9 290X video card at $549 that was able to outperform the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 in the majority of benchmarks that we ran. We tested at 1920×1080, 2560×1600 and 5760×1080 resolutions over six game titles and two...

By Legit Reviews on October 25, 2013

In the end even with binning in play the 780SC ACX isn't capable of overclocking any higher than our reference GTX 780; in fact it's a hair worse, with the 780SC ACX topping out at 19MHz less than the reference GTX 780. So from a clockspeed perspective...

By AnandTech on September 22, 2013

The graphics cards we’ve tested today have a number of things in common. All of them are based on the reference PCB design, have the standard selection of video outputs and onboard connectors. They have the same amount of memory (in identical chips...

By X-bit Labs on September 15, 2013

Late May Nvidia introduced the GeForce GTX 780 which we called the 'Titan light' since it was based on the same high-end GK110 GPU used in the very expensive GeForce GTX Titan. You can find that original review here . Tests indicated that it was an...

By uk.hardware.info on July 17, 2013

EVGA has always been the thousand pound gorilla among NVIDIA’s board partners and their GTX 780 ACX SC has once again allowed them to flex some significant muscle. This card is everything an enthusiast could possibly want wrapped up into a package...

By Hardware Canucks on June 19, 2013

The EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Superclocked with ACX Cooling is a great looking card that is able to compete with a GeForce GTX Titan and costs $340 less. What is there not to like? ...

By Legit Reviews on June 03, 2013

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