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** Official 680 review thread **

vicarious81 said:
Based on what we now know about the gtx 680 I would like some advice from the good folks here.

I recently got myself a i5 2500k, asus p8z86-v/gen3, 8gb ripjawzx. However, I'm still running my trusty ati 4870. I have a 750w antec truepower psu.

I game at 1650x1050 and was wondering which card you guys would go for? As I don't need to run at the mega high resolutions in some of the reviews.

I mainly play world of warcraft and soon, diablo 3(woot) and some battlefield 3 online.

Money isn't really an issue, however I'm not willing to pay £420 for a gpu.
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7950 or maybe a 7870
 
6970 was about 10% behind the 580 at launch yet about £150 cheaper. If AMD priced the 7970 at under £300 I doubt the 680 would be under £400 at launch for a better all-round performer.

Assuming manufacturing cost is at least the same, AMD got high margins of profit from the earlier launch and now can undercut Nvidia if they so please.
 
Martini1991 said:
Well, it's a rebranded mid range card, but it's the flagship that's released, it is there flagship (Wrongly), blame AMD for that.

Still doesn't change that they've improved their price/performance which AMD didn't.
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Hmm I think I will go with you on performance per the GPU itself. That part is rather remarkable. Overall price to performance though? no better than the 7970 really is it?

Spend £420 or so on a 7970, spend ten seconds sliding a couple of sliders, end result.

Spend £430 or so on a 680 and let it do it all for you. Pretty much identical performance end result.

Hardly fantastic for £430 is it? Well, unless you're a complete noob and don't understand that the card is overclocking to show off.
 
Martini1991 said:
Well, it's a rebranded mid range card, but it's the flagship that's released, it is there flagship (Wrongly), blame AMD for that.

Still doesn't change that they've improved their price/performance which AMD didn't.
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Have you seen the compute performance? Quite a bit lower than the GTX580 in a couple apps and better in others, it's a mixed bag.

But hopefully we'll see some proper GK104 drivers for folding etc but so far the 7970 is doing incredibly well in pure compute power.

And another but, it's not games so nevermind. :p
 
ALXAndy said:
Hmm I think I will go with you on performance per the GPU itself. That part is rather remarkable. Overall price to performance though? no better than the 7970 really is it?

Spend £420 or so on a 7970, spend ten seconds sliding a couple of sliders, end result.

Spend £430 or so on a 680 and let it do it all for you. Pretty much identical performance end result.

Hardly fantastic for £430 is it? Well, unless you're a complete noob and don't understand that the card is overclocking to show off.
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The 680 is 420 and it makes no difference how you get there really.
 
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Damn it. Couldn't resist and spent £430 I didn't have. The way I see things is that these will all go out of stock soon. I'll play with it for a few weeks and then sell it for close to what I paid. I should get my new toy rush for a minor loss.

In my experience, the best overclocking cards are available at launch (both AMD & NV). They hold the duffers back until after all of the reviews have hit. This has applied for my 5850's, GTX480's, GTX580's and more before them.
 
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tommybhoy said:
7970 can be had for ~£375 delivered, if it was my money, I'd get there £45 cheaper.

The 680 is $50 cheaper than a 7970 in USA=£45 more expensive in the UK due to the usual blatant price gouging.
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Yeah I've been looking at those 7970's myself recently. I think we were comparing just OCUK prices.
 
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