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

555BUK · 15 Mar 2012 at 10:07

Ignore, I am blind.

spankingtexan · 15 Mar 2012 at 10:11

Is the 23rd March the deffo release date or is this rumour too?

kitch9 · 15 Mar 2012 at 10:15

555BUK said:
Do we know the final GPU clocks yet for GK104? Most of what I have read indicates 700-800MHz, which seems very low for 28nm. 800MHz is not even high for the old 40nm process, where even my old GTX480 could exceed that.

It seems likely that GK104 will have lower clocks, lower memory bandwidth, plus lower transistor counts, yet it will still compete favorably against the 7970. This means NVidia's core architecture is likely superior to Tahiti's. Perhaps GCN has scaling limitations, because AMD's own 7870 comes close to the 7900 series when overclocked, even with significantly less shaders and memory bandwidth.

We will find out soon.

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=360010

This thread may raise a few eyebrows....

Gibbo · 15 Mar 2012 at 10:35

Lejosh is pretty spot on.

Stanners · 15 Mar 2012 at 10:42

I know you can not say much, but have you seen anything yet Gibbo ?

xsistor · 15 Mar 2012 at 10:44

So about £420 then... Shucks. I'm not buying one till prices come down. On the bright side it does sound a little cheaper than the 7970 if the performance is indeed better.

Bobmunkhouse · 15 Mar 2012 at 10:46

Gibbo said:
Lejosh is pretty spot on.

Well I'm priced out again......

Shayper · 15 Mar 2012 at 10:46

Gibbo said:
Lejosh is pretty spot on.

There goes my hopes of a cheap 580 replacement...

Stanners · 15 Mar 2012 at 10:46

It is making the 7950 look better if that is going to be the price, just need the 7950 to drop below £300

straxusii · 15 Mar 2012 at 10:48

xsistor said:
So about £420 then... Shucks. I'm not buying one till prices come down. On the bright side it does sound a little cheaper than the 7970 if the performance is indeed better.

£420 would be the straight conversion plus vat but it will be higher at launch, it is an identical USD price to the 7970 so no reason to expect launch prices any different to 7970 unless AMD wades in with a cut to the 7970 which is entirely plausible.

eyetrip · 15 Mar 2012 at 10:51

Well, if it does outpace the 7970 by about 20-25% at just over £400, that would hopefully move the prices of the 7950/7970 down a chunk.

But I was hoping to go Nvidia this round, and would have happily paid around £600 for two of these, but not £800 or so.

Gibbo · 15 Mar 2012 at 10:51

Stanners said:
I know you can not say much, but have you seen anything yet Gibbo ?

I've seen everything there is to see in regards to presentations etc. My stock arrives beginning of next week, more than enough to go round too.

However I can't say anything that breaches NDA.

dave_beast · 15 Mar 2012 at 10:51

NDA on GTX 680 and Kepler family will be lift on 22 March at 6pm PT/9pm UTC/GMT.

http://translate.google.fr/translate...m%2F18768.html

So 1 weeks time

eyetrip · 15 Mar 2012 at 10:52

A week seems so far away right now.

Been a while since I was so curious about a GPU launch.

Stanners · 15 Mar 2012 at 10:52

Gibbo said:
I've seen everything there is to see in regards to presentations etc. My stock arrives beginning of next week, more than enough to go round too.

However I can't say anything that breaches NDA.

Nice

Gregster · 15 Mar 2012 at 10:58

kitch9 said:
The 680 smacks of a mid-range part that is clocked to within an inch of its life to compete with the 7970 to me.

I might be wrong.

I know what you are saying and hope this is not the case. I would hate to get the new card and only see an additional OC of 2-5%, because the card is already at its peak.

This has me concerned, purely on the basis of price. We all know the 7970/50 are great clockers and at the £400+ price this is justifiable, but if the 680 has no OC headroom and comes in at £400+......

Of course, we are still only going on rumours and untill there is some "Hard Facts" we can only speculate.

WesleyBurns · 15 Mar 2012 at 11:01

Hope there are some non reference designs right away like that Asus DirectCU II style. Dont want a noisy card (i've just come from bispoke watercooling), which would mean even more waiting with no gfx card...

Gregster · 15 Mar 2012 at 11:02

Gibbo said:
I've seen everything there is to see in regards to presentations etc. My stock arrives beginning of next week, more than enough to go round too.

However I can't say anything that breaches NDA.

You want me to come clean your office today Gibbo? I don't mind doing it for free and you can pay me in another way....nudge nudge wink wink say no more.

spankingtexan · 15 Mar 2012 at 11:03

Cars all fueled up, wanga in me pocket, ocuk next week here I come, luvly jubbly.

spankingtexan · 15 Mar 2012 at 11:06

gregster said:
You want me to come clean your office today Gibbo? I don't mind doing it for free and you can pay me in another way....nudge nudge wink wink say no more.

he,he