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Gashman said:
personally looking forward to seeing what the GTX 660 (is that right) can offer? big fan of mid-range, multi-card set-ups and with Kepler being so potent, apparently perhaps they'll strike another GTX 460 style sweet spot in the market...? all good news in the end, competition = good for the consumer.
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Yeah, I never buy the very top end, the sweet-spot tends to be mid-range. GTX 660 should be bang on.
 
Darujhistan said:
Yeah, I never buy the very top end, the sweet-spot tends to be mid-range. GTX 660 should be bang on.
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tends to be the case most of the time, two GTX 460 = less cost and more performance than GTX 480, same applies to GTX 560, two of them are cheaper and faster than single GTX 580.

was why I was tempted to get dual 7770, great performance, very low power consumption and 'zero-core' so the second card is powered down if its not needed, which is a nice feature.
 
Gashman said:
personally looking forward to seeing what the GTX 660 (is that right) can offer? big fan of mid-range, multi-card set-ups and with Kepler being so potent, apparently perhaps they'll strike another GTX 460 style sweet spot in the market...? all good news in the end, competition = good for the consumer.
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Same here,although even the current cards under £200 seem pretty decent too.
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Duff-Man are you sure he did not mean the financial year??

I would be very surprised if Nvidia did not release the GK110 in some form in 2012.
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I don't know... But since the financial year ends in a couple of weeks (April 6th is the start of the new fiscal year), I can't see ANY new cards coming before then (aside from the GTX680 of course). Either way I'm talking about 2012. I expect to see GK110 (or whatever they deign to call it) later in 2012.

Of course - given that it will be laden with GPGPU features, it may well end up being significantly less efficient (performance per Watt / per mm^2) than GK104, in much the same way that Tahiti is significantly less efficient than Pitcairn. But that's another discussion entirely...
 
I wonder how far behind the 680 launch the 660 is.

Can't decide if I should just grab a 7850 next week, or wait and see what the 660 brings :o
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Here are the slides:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums...orce-GTX-780&p=5071447&viewfull=1#post5071447

Of course I would wait for more reviews to see how the card does in a range of games and settings,but performance looks decent at your resolution. Of course there should be some more benchmarks using CUDA too,so at least we will get a clearer picture in this regard.



In that case it should cost you little to get the GTX680. I suppose having at least some level of CUDA functionality will be better than none in your situation.

Win-win situation??:p
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Yeah thanks, looks like nVidia sacrificed compute, but as you say some CUDA (albeit not as good as the 580) is better than none at all.

So I get CUDA back, a gaming performance increase, with little cash loss. If there's a downside, I can't think of one.
 
What I want to know is when are all the cards going to be priced properly (the last gen ones), at the minute you have;

- a 7850 which performs about the same and slightly better in some games and is the better overall card regarding heat, power consumption etc. and costs £200 yet a 6950 2GB costs £220+ No one is going to get a 6950 now unless people want to crossfire

Same can be pretty much said for the 7870 and 6970

- a 560ti 448 edition (essentially a 570) performs much better than a standard 560TI 2GB and costs less/same, except OCUK is a rip of for the 2GB MSI 560TI model, can get that card elsewhere for about £190 from a lot of places for the last few months now

And of course if they decrease in price (the 6950, 6970, 560TI etc.) then the lower end cards (like the 560, 6870 etc.) have to be priced lower as well.
 
reddev85 said:
Yeah thanks, looks like nVidia sacrificed compute, but as you say some CUDA (albeit not as good as the 580) is better than none at all.

So I get CUDA back, a gaming performance increase, with little cash loss. If there's a downside, I can't think of one.
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Like I said do wait for a few other reviews though. They should be out on Thursday.
 
This news has just made me put my 580 on eBay, get paid a bonus this month to. :D WIN. May however fall back on integrated gfx for a week or three as this could rock the market. :)
 
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HeX said:
I wonder how far behind the 680 launch the 660 is.

Can't decide if I should just grab a 7850 next week, or wait and see what the 660 brings :o
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Yep, judging by 680 performance 660 should be about equal to 580/7950. And since price wars have started, it will be well under £300 too. :)
 
reddev85 said:
Yeah thanks, looks like nVidia sacrificed compute, but as you say some CUDA (albeit not as good as the 580) is better than none at all.

So I get CUDA back, a gaming performance increase, with little cash loss. If there's a downside, I can't think of one.
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They didn't really sacrifice on compute performance GK104 was always intended for the mid-range part (despite what 1-2 posters said above) as such its weaker in compute than a true next gen top end architecture - comparable CUDA performance to the top end last gen should be expected.
 
Hi there

In short, all cards reference design, no 4GB parts anytime soon. OC models about 2-4 weeks away but just OC yourself.

Card is mega quiet and is only 2x 6pin power connectors as they have very low TDP and run very cool.
 
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