Galaxy’s GTX 770 Hall of Fame edition benchmarked

Features

The Galaxy GTX 770 HOF is physically larger than the reference version or the EVGA SC card which is built on the reference design. What immediately catches the eye, is that it is ‘all-white’ as befits a “Hall of Fame” version.

The Galaxy GTX 770 HOF uses custom cooling for the GK104 GPU which is also powered by two 8-pin PCIe connectors and it is recommended that you use a quality 600W PSU as a minimum. There is an LED that “breathes” along the side of the card and it looks quite good through a case’s side panel window. The Hall of Fame edition is a physically handsome card to match its impressive specifications.

Let’s compare the Galaxy GTX 770 HOF with the GTX 770 reference version and pay particular attention to the Base and Boost clocks. You will also note that the Outputs are also quite different from the reference version.

Reference GTX 770 Specifications

First, the specifications for the reference GTX 770:

Galaxy GTX 770 HOF Specifications

Here are Galaxy’s specifications for the 770 HOF. Although Galaxy left the memory clocks unchanged, they have increased the reference base clock by 15%, from 1046MHz to 1202MHz – or by +154MHz! The boost clock has also been increased from 1085MHz to 1254MHz. It will be interesting to see how much further our own sample overclocks and what its Boost will reach.

There are 75W more power available to the GPU from the two 8-pin PCIe connectors over the reference design’s 6-pin+8-pin design. Overall, it is a much beefier setup than the standard or reference GTX 770 as seen in Galaxy’s feature set below:

More Features

From Galaxy’s website:

Display outputs include three mini-HDMI, and one DisplayPort connector. There is no DVI connector and a separate (not included) powered adapter must be used for Dual-Link DVI. Galaxy supplies the adapter(s) to connect a Single-Link DVI input of a display with the mini-HDMI input of the HOF.

SLI

The GTX 770 is set up for 2- or 3-way SLI by using two or three GTX 770s. Next week, we hope to bring you a follow-up evaluation comparing GTX 770 SLI performance scaling over a single GTX 770. We will compare GTX 770 SLI ($900) compared to a single GTX Titan ($1000) and to a GTX 690 ($1000), and also versus HD 7970 GHz Edition CrossFire ($900).

Super-Widescreen 5760 x1080, Surround, 3D Vision Surround, and PhysX

The Galaxy GTX 770 HOF is set up exactly the same way for spanning 3 displays plus an extra screen, just as the rest of the 600 series and 700 series, including the Titan.  Since the GTX 770 is faster than the GTX 670 overall, one can reasonably expect the performance delta to be higher for super-widescreen resolutions as well as for Surround, 3D Vision Surround and for PhysX than in our last evaluation of the GTX 670.

However, for 3D Vision and for Surround, many games need to have their settings reduced. Just remember that you are playing across three screens for Surround and/or you are rendering each scene twice for 3D Vision!!

Head to the next page for the unboxing and then to the test configuration .