Specs of Nvidia’s GTX 770 appear online

Nvidia is said to be about to introduce the GTX 770 video card. In fact, it is a chip that is identical to the GTX 680, but with higher clock speeds. The card should be considerably cheaper than the GTX 680.

According to the Japanese Hermitage Akihabara Like the GTX 680, the GTX 770 will be built around the GK104 GPU, which has eight SMX units with 192 Cuda cores each, for a total of 1536 computing units. In addition, 128 texture units and 32 rops are present. The card is equipped with at least 2GB of gddr5 video memory and can control up to 4GB.

Compared to the GTX 680, Nvidia has increased the different clock speeds. The core speed went from 1006MHz to 1046MHz and the video memory now runs effectively at 7010MHz instead of 6000MHz. The boost clock is also higher: where the GTX 680 does not go beyond 1058MHz, the GTX 770 can tap 1085MHz. The bus between the memory and the chip is still 256-bit wide. The higher clock speeds have pushed the TDP from 195W to 230W and therefore a six-pin and eight-pin power connector are now required.

The expected sales price of the new card is striking. According to the Japanese site, Nvidia would like to sell the card – depending on the version – for a price of 40,000 to 56,000 Japanese yen. That is converted from 305 to 425 euros. For comparison: the price of a GTX 680 is at the time of writing between about 410 and 550 euros. Nvidia is expected to announce the card this month.