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Broken Hope said:
Wouldn't surprise me if we're getting OcUK tax, as much as I love this place they do like to add a bit for new hardware launches.

I just don't get how 7970 which launches at an RRP of $549 and has cards in the UK on launch day for £416 can be the same price as the GTX 680 which has an RRP of $499, someone is making the extra money because the difference in price sure isn't being given to the consumer.
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That £416 was a mistake by 1 etailer and was quickly corrected on the day, probably fairer to say the keen launch price of 7970 was £440-£450
 
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Does it come with two sets of stickers so the user can change it to a 675ti or whatever they call it 6 - 8 months later when the full fat version is out and this card is re-released.
 
This although might be a great card, but it doesn't have a 384bit memory interface like current top end cards also not all cuda bells and whistle or what ever it is so nvidia can call it what they like this is not a high end part. Will wait for all hype and marketing crap to settle and buy whatever has best price in summer.
 
Duff-Man said:
While I don't doubt that the NEXT faster card from both parties will be a dual GPU card, suggesting that there won't be another faster single-GPU (i.e. GK110) from Nvidia this year seems extraordinarily unlikely... I know you have access to different information to us, and it does your job no favours to advertise that this may be a short-lived product, but everything points to GK110 appearing later this year. For example:


1: Most accounts have it that the initial GK110 die has already taped out from TSMC. Unless there have been major issues, this would put it somewhere in the 4-6 months timescale for potential availability - depending on respins.

2: Far more importantly: GK104 is not a 'true' compute chip. A replacement for GF110 is required in the HPC market. A chip with ECC capability, full double-precision support, and fast interconnects.


Through the University HPC we are assured that the replacement for the M2090 will be appearing "this Fall", and will offer over twice the double-precision performance of current Tesla cards. GK104 cannot meet this spec, even with a Tesla-specific respin to enable 2:1 sp : dp performance (like the Fermi-based Tesla cards). So, with GK110 appearing for the HPC market this year, it seems highly unlikely that Nvidia would not release a gaming version alongside this chip. Historically, the gaming cards have always appeared before the professional versions (Tesla / Quadro), and there is no reason to assume this will change.


Anyway - colour me unconvinced. The only thing that will stop GK110 appearing this year is if it has further design problems, and needs yet another major redesign.
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That makes perfect sense.....a little info on GK110

http://news.softpedia.com/news/NVIDIA-s-GK110-Alleged-Specs-GTX-700-Kepler-GPU-259883.shtml
 
I'm on this like a shot , just need Ivy Bridge and Z77 mobos to be released and its a complete system rebuild :D:D

But not until August at the earliest when hopefully the GK110 card is released . Until then my GTX580 3gb will do the biz ;)
 
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dokko said:
£420 is a joke like, greed as usual comes first. Should have been £350, that's a fair price point.

Oh well, will watch out for 580 bargains coming available.
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No they should be £299.....but you have to understand their price point when it's as fast as a £450 red card ;)
 
Ciff1 said:
Does it come with two sets of stickers so the user can change it to a 675ti or whatever they call it 6 - 8 months later when the full fat version is out and this card is re-released.
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So although this is named the 680, nvidia are planning on releasing a better card later in 2012?!? Suppose that one will be a GTX 685 like the GTX 285 was to the GTX 280...
 
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