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** Official 680 review thread **

Loving the arguments for and against. I thought yesterday would be the day that I decided on a new card. I’m gonna wait now and see how this pans out before I chose between them.

The two are definitely great cards…
 
They would be great if they were well below £400. As it is, they cost too much for waht they are.

Ahving said that, with their perfomance equal and prices very similar, i'm considering 680 - the drivers thing, the "gimmick but still there" physx, less power draw (really scrapping the barrel now)...
 
Borsch said:
Turbo boost only OCs to 3.7GHz (from default 3.3), Manual OC of 4.5 Ghz for 2500K is most common.

In comparison, 680 can not be manually OCed to more than twice of its turbo boost.
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Can a new version of MSI AB or Rivatuner avoid that limit or is it a hardware issue?
 
kiwi1 said:
They are a company, it's not about being 'evil'. If they couldn't compete with AMD with their mid range offering then things would be quite different.
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Well on these forums they are generally portrayed by AMD fans as the evil empire with AMD being all sweet and innocent.

My point is both are as bad as each other, you can't blast NVidia for charging £450 for an intended 'mid range' part whilst ignoring the fact that AMD's £450 flagship card is generally slower.
 
kiwi1 said:
Based on what? Is there are faster cheaper card out there that I'm not aware of, because it certainly in not the 7970/7950.
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Base on the fact that the 7870 is being priced at £270~£290 and sending the pricing of the cards above up to the sky.

Seriously, we don't need a "re-release" of 6950/6970 at the similar price points...the 7850 and 7870 should have been a good £50 cheaper than 6950/6970's launch price.
 
kiwi1 said:
Has anyone seen any benchmarks on BF3 @ 2560X1600 comparing the 680 OCed to 7970 OC. From the reviews I have looked at, the 680 beats the 7970 at 1920X1080 when both cards are overclocked.

I'll be able to post my own benchmarks tomorrow in anycase.
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VERY much looking forward to this.

Also, anyone think the 4GB versions might be better at 2560x1600?

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18386173
 
DamoTourettes said:
VERY much looking forward to this.

Also, anyone think the 4GB versions might be better at 2560x1600?

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18386173
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Unlikely.

It's the memory bandwidth, not the memory capacity, which is limiting the performance at high-res. Memory capacity only comes into play when you run out of VRAM, causing stutter as the data is paged in from the system RAM. With 2Gb this is a pretty rare occurance at 2560. At triple screen resolutions it may be a different story though, especially when lots of AA is applied.
 
Marine-RX179 said:
Base on the fact that the 7870 is being priced at £270~£290 and sending the pricing of the cards above up to the sky.

Seriously, we don't need a "re-release" of 6950/6970 at the similar price points...the 7850 and 7870 should have been a good £50 cheaper than 6950/6970's launch price.
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Good point. It all depends on the price elasticity of demand. Obviously there is no change in the volume based on the increased price and thus prices should continue to rise.
 
Duff-Man said:
Unlikely.

It's the memory bandwidth, not the memory capacity, which is limiting the performance at high-res. Memory capacity only comes into play when you run out of VRAM, causing stutter as the data is paged in from the system RAM. With 2Gb this is a pretty rare occurance at 2560. At triple screen resolutions it may be a different story though, especially when lots of AA is applied.
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Agree with this. With my 480's, when I change from 2XMSAA to 4XMSAA I max out my VRAM at 1500MB and it stutters like crazy.

Will post results and impressions tomorrow at this res.
 
From what I've read and seen so far they seem like a good card, not brilliant for a die shrink and a new architecture, but good yes . For me to be tempted to spend £400+ pounds I'll want at least a 50% increase in performance over my GTX 580 and well we haven't reached that yet, so I'll be waiting and watching a while longer but if I didn't have a gtx580 I'd have ordered one
 
*hurries to order another 680*

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dave_beast said:
Nvidia fans wanted the 680 so badly that Nvidia rushed out an overclocked 670 for you all.
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More like nVidia saw how the "gtc670" performed against a single 7970 and tohught "oh its better, well we'll release this one the instead and give customers are faster, cooler, quiter, cheaper card" ;)

Not many are going to trifire 7970s anyways so that benchamrk doesn't carry much weight compared to single card benchmarks at 1080P which the vast majority of us will be playing at.
 
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