EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 

Averaged over all our benchmarks, performance is almost 10% higher than GTX Titan, and 8% higher than the R9 290X in its noisy "Uber" mode.

The card delivers impressive performance thanks to the GK110 GPU which has all its 2,880 shaders enabled.

We then see the card 6% faster than the reference design when averaged over our benchmarks.

All other GTX 780 Ti variants I've reviewed previously won't even come close to the noise levels of the MSI GTX 780 Ti Gaming, which is almost as quiet during full-on gaming as other GTX 780 Tis in idle!

You can find MSI's GTX 780 Ti Gaming online right now for $710, which is just a small $10 price increase over the reference design cards, and definitely worth it.

EVGA also includes an additional game, "Rise of the Triad," bringing the game bundle up to four titles.

overclock it to match GTX 780 Ti, and save some money. GTX Titan is largely irrelevant now with its $1000 price. It does offer 6 GB RAM, that you probably won't need, full speed DP math, that you most certainly won't need, but I could imagine some people in the professional/research space that could still find a use for GTX Titan.

Sure, the GTX 780 Ti features all of the 2,880 CUDA cores physically present on the GK110 silicon, the 240 TMUs, and the 48 ROPs; and sure, it's clocked higher than the GTX TITAN, at 875 MHz core, 928 MHz maximum GPU Boost, and 7.00 GHz (GDDR5-effective) memory, which belts out a staggering 336 GB/s of memory bandwidth; but there's a catch.

Even at stock, GTX 780 Ti with its 384-bit bus has more memory bandwidth than R9 290X with 512-bit (336 GB/s vs. 320 GB/s).

So even at frame-rates well below 60, games feel more fluid.

The card is whisper quiet in idle, which will be important if you don't game all the time.

Like other MSI Gaming products, it promises to be very quiet, which is something I'm looking forward to after seeing less than impressive noise results from GTX 780 Ti cards we reviewed earlier.

While the cooler works well, it would be nice to see a backplate to give the product a more complete feel and protect against damage during handling.

NVIDIA is using their "Titan"-style reference cooler, which we all love.

It looks great and the metal surfaces give the product a much more refined feel than a plastic cooler.