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The first "proper" Kepler news Fri 17th Feb?

Prices are still far from certain, but anything near £400 and I will be staying clear of both 7970 and NVidia's new GTX460 replacement (even if it comfortably beats the 7970, which it probably will not). In order to open my wallet I need to feel that I am getting value for money, and £400+ for slightly better than last gen;s performance does not sit right with me.

At ~£300 each and I would probably buy two. At ~£400 each and I will pick up a cheap second hand GTX580.
 
LurkingWeasel said:
So if this 680 was originally going to be the 660/670, when will the card that was originally going to be 680 (but will now be, 685 or something?) be released... approximate guesses??
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August. Sort of. So I read.

No one knows. All we do know is that this particular card (104) was supposed to be a mid ranged card. It was touted as one (670ti) but then some smart person realised it could do over 1ghz stable instead of the 700mhz they thought it could do, and thus put it into a different performance category.

But yes, sorry for waffling, the higher end card is later in the year. Q3.
 
ALXAndy said:
August. Sort of. So I read.

No one knows. All we do know is that this particular card (104) was supposed to be a mid ranged card. It was touted as one (670ti) but then some smart person realised it could do over 1ghz stable instead of the 700mhz they thought it could do, and thus put it into a different performance category.

But yes, sorry for waffling, the higher end card is later in the year. Q3.
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Thanks man.
 
http://www.techpowerup.com/162305/GeForce-GTX-680-Up-To-40-Faster-Than-Radeon-HD-7970-NVIDIA.html

GeForce GTX 680 Up To 40% Faster Than Radeon HD 7970:

NVIDIA
GPU vendors tend to give out their own performance figures of the products they're launching, compared to competitors' products. In one such comparison, allegedly of the GeForce GTX 680, doing rounds on the internet, NVIDIA's new GPU was evaluated by its makers be be over 40% faster than the Radeon HD 7970 in some tests. Keeping Radeon HD 7970 as a baseline, NVIDIA presented its performance figures for the GeForce GTX 680's leads over it, and Radeon HD 7950's trails under it. Results of as many as 15 tests were presented, from 7 games/benchmarks. All benchmarks were run with and without AA. The one test that caught the eye is Battlefield 3 with "4xAA". Experts we spoke to think NVIDIA could be using FXAA algorithm. In any case, NVIDIA looks to be confident of taking back the fastest-GPU crown from AMD.
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People talk about nvidias finances and refer to the gfx market. But what about the mobile (phone/tablet) market?

Smart phones etc are far out selling computers and thusly if nvidia can maintain and even steal market share with tegra 3 they will be setup quite nicely for the future.
 
gregster said:
ile wait patiently for Duff-Man to explain that to me in lamen terms ;)
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Heh...

Not much to explain really. Nvidia are handling the shaders differently, so we won't know the real performance figures until it's released. 1536 shaders doesn't mean so much until we know what each one is capable of. 6Gbps for the memory bandwidth makes no sense whatsoever, given that the GTX580 was 194GB/s. Now 6.0Ghz would be not too far off a realistic memory speed, but this seems like a pretty stupid mistake for Nvidia to make, so I'm going to say this is yet another fake.

Beyond that, the base clockspeed at 1006Mhz is very high (to me it would indicate the absence of 'hot-clocked' shaders if it were true), and the bump in speed to the overclocked 'turbo' frequency is very small (~5%). TDP of 195W would probably put its power consumption around that of the 7970. But like I said, I doubt this is genuine - I can't see such a schoolboy error making its way through in an official document (even an internal one).
 
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LurkingWeasel said:
So if this 680 was originally going to be the 660/670, when will the card that was originally going to be 680 (but will now be, 685 or something?) be released... approximate guesses??
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They'll most likely just keep it waiting in the wings until it's needed, all they need to do is beat AMD and if their new mid-end card does that there's really no hurry for them to release the real deal just yet. :(
 
I love how the chart makes 10% look like 30% and 40% look like 200+%...

Dear me, its like seeing "100% Quality" instead of "100% juice" on a carton of orange juice.
 
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