NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870 “Maxwell” Specifications Analysis – 13 SMM Units With 2nd Generation 1644 CUD

[Fire_fly]

At £250 I may just be tempted by an upgrade. A reasonable upgrade over a 680, but I was hoping for better performance.

or I may just wait for the inevitable £700 monster that will be released next year.

 

[Finners]

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/8604885

I ran 3DMark11 on a Titan clocked at 1032Mhz (locked clocks) for comparison. 1k points more than the leaked slides. It would be cool of someone with a 780 would run it on stock clocks.

Is that a typical titan oc? I'm thinking of picking one up if I can as there should be no VRAM limit going forward.

These new cards seem like they will struggle sooner than the 780/titans like my 680 is starting to.

 

[Gregster]

Is that a typical titan oc? I'm thinking of picking one up if I can as there should be no VRAM limit going forward.

These new cards seem like they will struggle sooner than the 780/titans like my 680 is starting to.

Not even close. On stock BIOS, 1200Mhz is nice and 1150Mhz should be doable (my bad bad card does 1150Mhz). As for a custom BIOS, 1250Mhz is very easy with a little addition in voltages

 

[setter]

Here you go guys.

ScoreP12840 with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780(1x) and Intel Core i7-4790K

Graphics Score
13911

Physics Score
10538

Combined Score
10276

Thats a totally stock system, even ram is knocked down to 1333mhz. My card runs at 1097/3305 at stock including core boost.

 

[Gregster]

Here you go guys.

ScoreP12840 with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780(1x) and Intel Core i7-4790K

Graphics Score
13911

Physics Score
10538

Combined Score
10276

Thats a totally stock system, even ram is knocked down to 1333mhz. My card runs at 1097/3305 at stock including core boost.

So about 600 points higher than the supposed leaked slides. Thanks for running that

 

[Kaapstad]

I definitely think it is a fake

I have just been trawling around the 3dmark11 site and found a card/CPU combo that pretty closely matches the posted benchmark.

It looks like a 4820k and NVIDIA Quadro K6000 lol.

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/8485262

 

[bemaniac]

looks like nothing is coming out in September basically. My 780s are supreme.

 

[setter]

So about 600 points higher than the supposed leaked slides. Thanks for running that

No probs.

looks like nothing is coming out in September basically. My 780s are supreme.

Hence ive just went for another 780 myself.

 

[humbug]

It is definitely slower than a stock 290X, I have just run it and even with me browsing the internet in the background it was not close.

I also think that the slides are fake as they have covered parts of GPUZ that does not need it.

And then some.

290 (none X) at Reference clocks 947/1250 GPU Score = 14149. 6 or 7% faster http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/8604967

@ 1032/1400 GPU Score = 15330 http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/8604995

Clock for Clock about 8% faster than a GTX Titan, i'm genuinely surprised at that.

 

[Digital X]

If it's under £300, then the 870 is a maybe for me, 880 under £400 is a maybe too. fingers crossed..

 

[Gregster]

Well not long to wait for something official by all accounts and interesting points are what OC headroom will it have and will it be fully DX12 compatible. It is looking like this mid-range card has the makings of a powerful beast.

@ Humbug

You should beast your 290 and add your score to the 3DMark11 thread.

 

[setter]

Dependent on price, it could be a nice upgrade for people still using 600 series cards.

 

[Boomstick777]

Meh....

First Tonga...

Now this...

 

[Stanners]

Think I will wait for the true next gen nvidia/amd offerings.

 

[Boomstick777]

Think I will wait for the true next gen nvidia/amd offerings.

+1.

We're going to be waiting a loooooooooooooong time..

 

[Stanners]

+1.

We're going to be waiting a loooooooooooooong time..

I know

I am tired of little performance increments.

 

[James J]

We'll have to see if any of this is actually true though, as it could be just some dodgy PR campaign from fanboys anyway. I'd be very surprised if the 870 has the specs stated for a start.

 

[Kaapstad]

As I posted earlier the numbers stack up saying it is a K6000 card, if they are selling those for £250 to £300 they are going to shift a lot.

 

[Gregster]

We'll have to see if any of this is actually true though, as it could be just some dodgy PR campaign from fanboys anyway. I'd be very surprised if the 870 has the specs stated for a start.

Agreed. I tend to take WCCFTech with a pinch of salt and at times they are right and others, a mile off and more often the latter, however, if these stats are close to being correct and the price is ~£250, it does look like a worthwhile upgrade for guys still on 5xx/6xxx GPUs.

 

[Kaapstad]

Agreed. I tend to take WCCFTech with a pinch of salt and at times they are right and others, a mile off and more often the latter, however, if these stats are close to being correct and the price is ~£250, it does look like a worthwhile upgrade for guys still on 5xx/6xxx GPUs.

Something else that looks dodgy about the slide is the clockspeed on the CPU, no one runs a gaming/review rig that slow. If they are running a pro card the CPU clockspeed makes more sense.