Competitor rules

arc@css · 20 Mar 2012 at 22:15

Spit said:
its like "play your cards right" in here!

"Good game, good game...nothing for a pair in this game".

oggiet · 20 Mar 2012 at 22:18

RavenXXX2 said:
2GB is well enough for skyrims so called HD textures, at any res.

Tested by someone I know from another forum, loads of mods installed and playing at 1920x1080

0xAA/High Shadows - 1375MB
0xAA/Ultra Shadows - 1640MB
2xAA/Ultra Shadows - 1750MB
4xAA/Ultra Shadows - 1875MB
8XAA/High shadows - 1905MB
8xAA/Ultra Shadows - 2075MB

RavenXXX2 · 20 Mar 2012 at 22:25

Can't see a 4GB coming anytime soon, just turn down the AA and or turn some MODS and GFX teaks off.

oggiet · 20 Mar 2012 at 22:29

RavenXXX2 said:
Can't see a 4GB coming anytime soon, just turn down the AA and or turn some MODS and GFX teaks off.

Guess will have to bite a bullet . Wonder how new TXAA compares to AA regarding the look and vram usage ?

RavenXXX2 · 20 Mar 2012 at 22:32

oggiet said:
Guess will have to bite a bullet . Wonder how new TXAA compares to AA regarding the look and vram usage ?

No word on vram impact but performance and quality look to be great.

TXAA, which we talked about a little earlier, turns out to be a super-efficient temporal anti-aliasing algorithm. It has two levels: TXAA(1), and TXAA2. TXAA1 provides the image quality comparable to 16X MSAA, with the performance-penalty of 2X MSAA; while TXAA2 offers image quality higher than 16X MSAA (unlike anything you've seen), with the performance-penalty of 4X MSAA. Since few games natively support it, you will be able to enable it through the NVIDIA Control Panel, in the application profiles, provided you have a Kepler architecture GPU.

elrasho · 20 Mar 2012 at 22:36

Will we see any benchmarks before Thursday afternoon? I'm having issues with BF3 and my crossfire 5850s... maybe it's a sign to get a GTX680

oggiet · 20 Mar 2012 at 22:38

Thanks for that Raven, hopefully we will get to see some vram usage stats when user benchmarks come out.

Kurisu Makise · 20 Mar 2012 at 22:40

gregster said:
You still need your office cleaning for free Gibbo?

LOL

Jas1222 · 20 Mar 2012 at 22:55

Damn £420 .. even if it was £390 with P&P that would have suited me.

no_1_dave · 20 Mar 2012 at 22:57

Hmm,
I'm now wondering how much I could sell 2 watercooled 470s for (I have original coolers too).
But I guess my 470s will roughly equal the performance so it'll be pointless to swap? :confused:

panyan · 20 Mar 2012 at 22:57

Jas1222 said:
Damn £420 .. even if it was £390 with P&P that would have suited me.

wait a month and it will be 390

Jas1222 · 20 Mar 2012 at 22:58

panyan said:
wait a month and it will be 390

Can't wait that long >_< Had my build done in January but was just waiting on the GPU.

panyan · 20 Mar 2012 at 22:58

no_1_dave said:
Hmm,
I'm now wondering how much I could sell 2 watercooled 470s for (I have original coolers too).
But I guess my 470s will roughly equal the performance so it'll be pointless to swap?

that means two of these cards will be twice as good as your current setup

no_1_dave · 20 Mar 2012 at 23:00

panyan said:
that means two of these cards will be twice as good as your current setup

Please don't do that :eek:

Mr Krugga · 20 Mar 2012 at 23:02

Broken Hope said:
Higher than I would have liked to be honest, but I guess that's the joys of living in the UK, since if it does have a $499 MSRP they are only paying around £315.

Ever heard of VAT?

Still, I wouldn't pay more than £380 for this card, not that I could afford to buy one now anyway.

enigma27 · 20 Mar 2012 at 23:05

How on earth does Gibbo get this stuff befow the interwebs""1
1!!

If a 680 performs or outperforms my SLI 570 set-up i will hapilly sell and swap to go single solution.. if not no point in changing.

Rroff · 20 Mar 2012 at 23:05

panyan said:
that means two of these cards will be twice as good as your current setup

Most of the time I'm only using one of my 470s let alone both... not much call for 2x GTX680 unless your doing some mad super high res triple screen gaming IMO

Mr Krugga · 20 Mar 2012 at 23:05

RavenXXX2 said:
2GB is well enough for skyrims so called HD textures, at any res.

Define "well enough" and "any res".

Skyrim with some texture mods already eats up 2GB VRAM at 2560x1440 with MSAAx2.

enigma27 said:
How on earth does Gibbo get this stuff befow the interwebs""1
1!!

If a 680 performs or outperforms my SLI 570 set-up i will hapilly sell and swap to go single solution.. if not no point in changing.

It doesn't, it's not the top tier card.

beejjacobs · 20 Mar 2012 at 23:10

Unfortunately I can't afford one and won't be getting one, but looking forward to seeing some real reviews and full info on this

xsistor · 20 Mar 2012 at 23:16

AT £420 I think this is overpriced.

It might look like a good deal when you think of 7970 prices, but when you remember that its $499 USD + VAT = around £377 we're getting ripped off in a country where you earn less and get taxed more than the US

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