Although AMD’s forthcoming Radeon R9 290X has yet to launch, NVIDIA has seemingly decided to go ahead and announce their 290X counter product ahead of time.
With that in mind, as the final announcement of NVIIDA’s Montreal game showcase NVIDIA has briefly announced their upcoming high-end gaming card, the GeForce GTX 780 Ti.

As something of a bare bones announcement, at this point we don’t have any solid details on the card other than a name and a market position. The GTX 780 Ti is being positioned as NVIDIA’s new high-end gaming card, replacing the existing GTX 780 in that role. Specs, pricing, and the underlying hardware are all unknowns at the moment. Though the reasonable assumption right now is that we’re looking at something to replace the GTX 780 in its $650 slot, and that it will be another GK110 card with higher clocks and/or more SMXes enabled. Furthermore from the very brief glimpse of the card it looks like it will be using the company’s GTX Titan cooler, or a minor variation on it.
                                                               
                                                                GTX 780 Ti    GTX Titan   GTX 780     GTX 770

Stream Processors                                              ?               2688          2304          1536

Texture Units                                                     ?                224           192            128                          

ROPs                                                                 ?                  48             48             32

Core Clock                                                        ?           837MHz      863MHz     1046MHz

Boost Clock                                                       ?           876Mhz       900Mhz     1085MHz              

Memory Clock                                                    ?              6GHz        6GHz        7GHz 
                                                                                      GDDR5      GDDR5     GDDR5

Memory Bus Width                                             ?              384-bit     384-bit     256-bit

VRAM                                                                ?               6GB          3GB         2GB

FP64                                                                 ?         1/3 FP32   1/24 FP32   1/24 FP32

TDP                                                                  ?           250W        250W         230W

Transistor Count                                                 ?            7.1B         7.1B           3.5B

Manufacturing Process                                         ?   TSMC 28nm   TSMC 28nm    TSMC 28nm

Launch Price                                                   $649?         $999           $649           $399


NVIDIA tells  that the card will launch in the middle of November, presumably after the 290X launches but before NVIDIA misses out on too much of the holiday shopping season. The NVIDIA TWIMTBP title Assassin’s Creed IV drops on November 19th, with next-generation console releases also planned in that timeframe, so we’ll see if NVIDIA tries to get ahead of those launches. In the meantime we’ll have more details as they become available.
 
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