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GTX680 to arrive at the end of February!

I am hoping it's true. But it's only stating 2GB memory! If you ask me, the 7970 will take the crown of fatest single gpu on the planet!
 
If theres any truth in that and its 768 shader @ 780MHz then it would be about 7970 performance, not very exciting but it wouldn't be the proper top end card.
 
no, if you read the article, the gtx680 will be around the power as the 7970, but with the 7970 having a gig more ram, it should have a slightly higher threshold for AA and may give better framerates!
 
2gb is the sweet spot, with a 512bit bus it's 2gb or 4gb, 2gb is a winner for bf3 high performance @ high texture and AA settings. 1.5gb just falls short and I am not aware of any games peaking 2gb as yet, even at higher resolutions.
 
2gb is enough for me to run 5760 x 1080 easily enough so i don't see any issue with that amount of vram
 
Oh dear, flagship single core card, and only performance to equal 7970? What a disappointment... Imagine if the price was higher than a 7970 too, would be pretty funny. :)

But it is only a rumour.
 
Rroff said:
If theres any truth in that and its 768 shader @ 780MHz then it would be about 7970 performance, not very exciting but it wouldn't be the proper top end card.
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How did you calculate that when the 7970 is only 20% faster than the 512 shader GTX580? Even without any optimisations (which there most probably will be) a 768 shader GTX580 should easily beat the 7970.

On the basis that the 7970 has approx 30% more shaders than the 6970, and that the GTX680/780 may have 50% more than the GTX580, and that the GTX580 was ~15% faster than the 6970 to start with, what do you really think will be fastest?

2GB vs 3GB will only make a difference when >2GB is needed. At the moment breaching 2GB is unlikely at most reasonablle resolutions. Why is AMD soon to launch 1.5GB 7970/7950's if that ammount of VRAM is insufficient to run games at high res?
 
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Fanatic said:
Oh dear, flagship single core card, and only performance to equal 7970? What a disappointment... Imagine if the price was higher than a 7970 too, would be pretty funny. :)

But it is only a rumour.
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It won't be the nVidia flagship card - it will be basically like the 560Ti in terms of how it stacks up in the Kepler range.
 
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