Don't be silly, this is a limited edition card geared towards overclockers who want to push the card to extremes: http://www.evga.com/articles/00813/
I would guess they weren't allowed or willing to go around the green light program again and said to hell with it. Nvidia got upset with both the 680 and 780 lightnings.
Or they figure they'd sell more 290x lightnings than 780ti's and put everything into that card instead of going the half-assed route of slapping a 780 cooler onto it as others have done.
Holy cow batman, 1800mhz on air?
Holy cow batman, 1800mhz on air?
I've got a bridge for sale Sol, you interested?
63.6? Damn that sucks, I'm sorry. Maybe you can return it?
Just installed mine and jumped right into a game to see what it does out of box with no tweaking.
Idle 26c and nearly silent. On par noise wise with Msi's coolers which I couldn't say about the 780 classified I got rid of.
In game 1189 @ 1.161 72c (still pretty quiet, noticeably better than the 780 classified).
Was able to run the valley benchmark with a +103 offset. 1292 mhz @ 1.161v 80c. Fan speed 54% and still reasonably quiet. No idea if it's completely stable yet though just did one benchmark loop.
Asic 63.6