 "Grosser Kurfürst" displaced as built and fully loaded, with a length of , a beam of and a draft of .She was powered by three AEG-Vulcan steam turbines, with steam provided by three oil-fired and twelve coal-fired Schulz-Thornycroft water-tube boilers, which developed a total of and yielded a maximum speed of .The ship had a range of at a cruising speed of .