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TheRealDeal said:
This post was so cringe worthy that i got on the phone to jen hsun huang to put in a recommendation for you to be his new wife.
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GPU history:

9800 pro
X1900 xtx
Xfire 3850, 4850, 4870, 5770
SLI GTX 460, GTX 560 ti.

Thats all. I wouldnt have even bothered with the Nvidia cards if I had been smarter and bought a pair of 5850s on launch instead of 5770s.
 
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TheRealDeal said:
That chart has the gk 104 with a 384 bit bus but it does show you that the top end daddy was supposed to be out well late this year like every other rumour.
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Any one who truly and honestly believes that 104 Kepler was intended to be the top end uber card really needs to seek professional help.

If that's the case, then why does it trade blows with a 7970, getting beat in at least four tests in the overclock3d review?

There's two ways to look at this.

1. A very impressive mid ranged overpriced card.

2. A complete flop given that they've had months to refine it.
 
bhavv said:
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Also if its Nvidia and 256 bit, it most definitely is their mid range.
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You cannot argue with an official roadmap. NVidia may have been pleasantly surprised by GK104's performance, but it WAS originally designed as the mainstream 560/570TI successor. The fact that it performs as well as AMD's top card simply allowed them to pump the price up and label it wit "80", rather than "60" or "70". Some of the early picture leaks verify this by the fact they had "GTX 670TI" labels on. Also look at die size and memory buses, which clearly match NVidia's previous mainstream specs.
 
What annoys me is that we are paying the same price for the 7850 over 18 months later over the 6950


Don't mind paying if the performance is there
 
ALXAndy said:
Any one who truly and honestly believes that 104 Kepler was intended to be the top end uber card really needs to seek professional help.

If that's the case, then why does it trade blows with a 7970, getting beat in at least four tests in the overclock3d review?

There's two ways to look at this.

1. A very impressive mid ranged overpriced card.

2. The greatest mid ranged overpriced card ever.
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Corrected
 
bhavv said:
Seems that some people find the truth painful? Not my problem.
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I don't know, the original post was quite cringe-worthy.
I'm not sure if I'm just looking at different reviews or the graphs aren't displaying correctly on my integrated AMD graphics... ;) But it doesn't seem as bad for the "red team" really. This is hardly HD2900 v 8800GTX territory.
 
This thread is boring.

There is really no great comparison most review sites say both are good. Why any of you care this much is beyond me. Stop tryign to justify your savings/expenses and wait for the ocer's and benchers to get to grips with the cards also the drivers.

I'm chuffed with the 680 Very glad I as a nvidia user for the last 8 years haven't had to change to ATI MAybe Nvidia could have done better maybe ATI card is a bit better but I like thousands of other nvidia users are happy with the product becuase, simply put it smashes through games.

Can't wait to get it on water and can't wait for EVGA and ASus to start ripping the card to pieces Wouldn't be suprised to see MSI whack out a lightning version in a few months with our old friend the 8 pin PCI-E connector.

Also looking forward to the 660/670's see what they come up with there :)

Also who cares if this may have been designed as a 670 TI it only means the next card up will be even better again great news for gamers.


On topic AMD will have to decide what to do, they had a short headstart they produced a good product but I personally feel it would have to be a massive price cut to make a difference and can they afford to force the prices of every card they've released down on this one card? NO probably not. Maybe when we see the range of cards nvidia is offering we will see a good price drop maybe not but for now I would expect no massive price cut.

However I think a fair few 480's and 580's may end up in the members market and on ebay soon :)
 
Emlyn_Dewar said:
I don't know, the original post was quite cringe-worthy.
I'm not sure if I'm just looking at different reviews or the graphs aren't displaying correctly on my integrated AMD graphics... ;) But it doesn't seem as bad for the "red team" really. This is hardly HD2900 v 8800GTX territory.
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HD2900 vs 8800GTX...?
If I remember correctly everyone looks back now and says how bad that was for ATI, yet back in the day the ATI fanbois were blindly arguing in favour of the HD2900 a bit like they are here with the 7970. TBH if I didnt have SLI 470s and was in the market right now I'd choose 2nd hand SLI 470s over the 680. The performance of the 680 for approx £200. No brainer there.
 
There was me thinking that the GPUs are so evenly matched that every thread wouldn't degrees to fanboy arguments.

Guess that was a fanciful idea really.

kd
 
King Damager said:
There was me thinking that the GPUs are so evenly matched that every thread wouldn't degrees to fanboy arguments.

Guess that was a fanciful idea really.

kd
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not possible KD not possible at all. When your talking about spending 400 men have to justify there expense and not feel like they mugged themselves off (or make others feel like they have)

These threads are painful so I think I'm going to call it a day and play some games :)
 
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