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** Official 680 review thread **

For me it still awaits to be seen to how these clock, as we all know the 7000 series likes to clock and generally does it well, the 15% lead the 680 has can easily be overcome with a moderate clock of the 7970, I'm not a fan boys of either brand just im not really impressed by a card with less vram higher clocks out the box and most likely a very similar price range. Unless the 680 has huge clocking potential for me the AMD 7950/70 is still better value if you can call a £350+ card value :-S.
 
Marine-RX179 said:
So generally the GTX680 is roughly anything between 1-20% faster, with an average 12-15% faster than 7970 at 1920 res 4xAA, with the exception of AVP and Metro. But as people have said, need to see max overclock vs max overclock on air of the two cards to see the full picture...but to be honest even IF 7970 can clock a bit better, it still quite hard to close the gap between the two it would seem.
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In the summary on average its 10% faster at 1920x1200 and only 4% at 2560x1600. At the same clock speeds theres not much in it at all.
 
Marine-RX179 said:
So generally the GTX680 is roughly anything between 1-20% faster, with an average 12-15% faster than 7970 at 1920 res 4xAA, with the exception of AVP and Metro (Metro probably benefit from the wider memory bus and extra VRAM). But as people have said, need to see max overclock vs max overclock on air of the two cards to see the full picture...but to be honest even IF 7970 can clock a bit better, it still quite hard to close the gap between the two it would seem.
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Badly translated summary from the website:

"Through our 19 games (four of DX10, DX11) tests, we obtained the test results show that on average than the GeForce GTX 580 GeForce GTX 680 under 1920x1200 4AA 27.7% faster than the RADEON the HD 7 970 faster on average 9.4 percent;

Under 1920x1200 8AA on average than the GeForce GTX 580 24.7% 9.8% faster than the RADEON HD 7970 (DX10: 11.8%; the DX11 8.9%).

Resolution rose to 2560x1600, the GeForce GTX 680 ahead of the RADEON HD 7970's margin will drop to 4 percent level.

GeForce GTX 680 is not a victory, in the Metro 2033, AVP game's defeat."
 
Hm...I guess they probably add all the results of 1920 res 4xAA together and then average it out. I was looking at the result of their table not their comments, and looking at how much frame rate the GTX680 is faster comparing to the 7970. But I guess it's better than I thought it is then if the translation of "Through our 19 games (four of DX10, DX11) tests, we obtained the test results show that on average than the GeForce GTX 580 GeForce GTX 680 under 1920x1200 4AA 27.7% faster than the RADEON the HD 7 970 faster on average 9.4 percent" is correct. So 10-28% faster than the 7970 at 1920 res 4xAA then?
 
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I am pretty sure the turbo overclocking feature would have been working giving the gtx680 a good boost in some of the harder games. Is it a faster gpu overall i am not to sure. For those wanting to run more than 1 monitor its looking more like the 7970 is what you want.
 
Tempted :D

Sadly would have to be another GB SOC and I would lose my audio card into the bargain, not really a fan of multi gpu setups either to be honest.
 
liquidex said:
From how I read the translation posted is that at 1920res 4xAA its faster than the 7970 by on average 9.4% and faster than the GTX 580 by 27.7%.
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Yep and if the 7970 is clocked the same as the gtx680 this gap just about disappears. Its all gonna be about which one overclocks the best. I want to see this card benched with and without turbo just to see what advantage it gives.
 
liquidex said:
From how I read the translation posted is that at 1920res 4xAA its faster than the 7970 by on average 9.4% and faster than the GTX 580 by 27.7%.

At 2560 res the advantage over the 7970 drops to 4%. My take.
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Sorry, you are probably right...I missed the part about the GTX580. So it is more or less close to what I see from the table when I roughly estimated the GTX680 being around 12-15% faster than the 7970 (despite it was a little higher due do I haven't actually calculated the figures but only looked at the results on each of the games).
 
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Jas1222 said:
Well my specs are in my sig, may also order a H100 today aswel. 500r has 1 200mm fan, 2 120mm intake fans and 1 exhaust fan. It should all be safe?
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Nothing wrong with being a little optimistic, just offer a little prayer when you click the 'buy' button. H100? you must be planning on o/clocking the brute, not really into that myself, why would I spend circa £400 on a card and then try and fry it for a little self satisfaction?But then again each to his own.
 
TheRealDeal said:
Yep and if the 7970 is clocked the same as the gtx680 this gap just about disappears. Its all gonna be about which one overclocks the best. I want to see this card benched with and without turbo just to see what advantage it gives.
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The chart has a 1GHZ HD7970 in it. At this speed,at 1920X1080 and 2560X1440 there seems to be not much in it.

OTH,the pre-overclocked cards cost more.
 
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Unimpressive, I know it's normal to get 20-30% improvements from new cards but that was back when we had cards released every 6 months, not a year.

Oh well, Guess I'll just hold onto my GTX580 a bit longer then. :D
 
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