Asus GeForce GTX 780 Poseidon Platinum 3GB GDDR5 PCIe

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 12 expert reviews

Excellent:

6
Good:

6
Average:

0
Bad:

0

Pros:

Excellent performance, excellent power consumption, best overclocking, best cooling system, dead silent

Cons:

Price

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Last revision on May 20, 2015

Reviewers Liked

Excellent performance, excellent power consumption, best overclocking, best cooling system, dead silent

Expert reviews and ratings

Nobody would call the GeForce GTX 780 a particularly hot-running or noisy GPU, but that hasn't stopped Asus from giving it the Poseidon treatment via a “hybrid” air-and-liquid cooling setup. It's not a self-contained cooling system, but rather an...

By Maximum PC on December 23, 2014

It's exciting to see some innovative engineering being used for graphics card cooling. For far too long the higher end of the market (Nvidia 780 and AMD 290/x) has been largely based on reference designs. Now, in a rush, all that's changing. Asus seem to...

By PC Authority on June 19, 2014

There's quite a bit to take in with the Asus ROG Poseidon GTX 780. Firstly there's the price. It's a tad on the expensive side, although not unreasonably so, when comparing the cost of buying a bog standard GTX 780 3GB and slapping a dedicated...

By Bit-tech.net on February 14, 2014

Take a look at the card up close with our RushKit video below - the full OC3D TV review is in the conclusion where it always...

By Overclock3D on January 27, 2014

Innovation but not perfection Asus' Poseidon GTX 780 is an extraordinarily ambitious effort that falls just a few points short of perfection. It seems that Asus has taken the “good enough” approach to water cooling with the card, as while the DirectCU...

By VR-Zone on December 27, 2013

Well, this is the dream card for many users that want to build a liquid cooling loop for their system. The powerful GTX 780 chipset can face any gaming challenge while the hybrid DirectCU H2O cooler can keep the temperatures under a very strict...

By reviewstudio.net on December 12, 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

The ASUS Poseidon Platinum GTX 780 is certainly a very unique offering that has an astonishing amount of advantages over competitor offerings. The star of the show is the DirectCU H2O cooler, which offers the user the ability to use the air cooler in...

By overclockers.com on March 25, 2014

Last week, when we evaluated the ASUS ROG MARS 760 and we were discussing ASUS' ROG / Republic of Gamers branding. The ROG branding from ASUS classifies a certain level of enthusiast gaming quality, performance and custom engineering from ASUS. When we...

By HardOCP on March 25, 2014

The ASUS ROG Poseidon GTX 780 video card is the latest incarnation of the Republic of Gamer (ROG) Poseidon series. Like the previous Poseidon series products, the Poseidon GTX 780 features a hybrid cooler, capable of air and liquid-based cooling...

By PCPer on March 25, 2014

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