GALAXY GeForce GTX 780 HOF Edition is a Beast – Ships With External Power Supply Module

Galaxy Tech unveiled their latest GeForce GTX 780 HOF Edition graphics card at Computex 2013, the card looked amazing in terms of design and featured a white PCB but most of the details regarding clock frequencies weren’t unveiled to the public until now.

GALAXY GeForce GTX 780 HOF Beast GPU Unveiled and Detailed

ChinaDIY got hold of the Galaxy GeForce GTX 780 HOF and provides a
brief overview of Galaxy’s flagship GeForce 700 series offering. The
GeForce GTX 780 HOF follows six principles –  frequency, power, materials, PCB, cooling and overclocking. All these principles combine to form Galaxy’s highest tier Hall of Fame edition GPU offerings. In terms of specifications,
the GeForce GTX 780 HOF comes with the GK110-300-A2 core that features
2304 cores, 192 TMUs, 48 ROPs and a 3 GB GDDR5 memory running along a
384-bit interface. The card makes use of custom designed PCB which is
white in color and features memory chips from Elpida Memory. The core
runs at an clock speed of 1006 MHz with a GPU Boost clock of 1058 MHz
while the memory operates at the reference 6008 MHz or 6 GHz effective frequency.

The PCB design on the GeForce
GTX 780 HOF is impressive in itself, featuring an 8+2 Phase PWM which is
given power through dual 8-Pin connectors. The back of the PCB is
equipped with the industry’s high-end Panasonic tantalum capacitors. In total, the core has its eight while the memory has four KEMET tantalum capacitors
with a capacity of 330uF. On the back, six MDU3606 Mosfet from
Magnachip can also be spotted. To deliver high-speed under overclocked
specs, the memory is equipped with its own heatspreader. The PWM supply
has its own set of heatsink. Its an incredible design for a PCB which would allow users to gain impressive overclock settings as seen previously when HKEPC overclocked the same GPU to 1900 MHz on core and 7.4 GHz memory clock as seen here.

Ofcourse, a GPU of such a design would require large amounts of
cooling to keep the core and memory stable. Galaxy covers the cooling
side with their flagship HOF series dual fan cooler which offers a much
beefier heatsink design. The Galaxy GeForce GTX 780 HOF makes use of a
densely packed aluminum fin array that’s conveyed heat through four 6mm
heatpipes running through the copper base. The dual fans measure 9cm and
have a total of 9 blades which are enough to handle some mighty
overclocks. The shroud itself looks beast for the monster card that is the GeForce GTX 780 HOF.