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** Official 680 review thread **

Wow, look at how pants it does in Metro2033, even a stock 7950 destroys 680oc :O

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Jas1222 said:
The H100 is for my CPU :P and I don't really intend on OC'ing it heavily (just yet anyway) By the looks of these prices I don't think i'll be ordering that however.

Disappointed with £430 for the Zotac ..
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Sold my 2 6870's and was looking forward to a 680, more than a little put off with the price, hope Amd drops theirs, fingers crossed.
 
straxusii said:
Decent overclock from Guru by the look of it

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That's quite a nice boost at 2560 x 1600 - around 25% :)




So the card seems to be quite powerful, and results fall quite nicely in line with the various benchmarks that have been leaking out over the past few weeks. As expected, performance (compared to the 7970) drops off at 2560 x 1600, with the two cards performing at a very similar level overall. This is undoubtedly a consequence of the choice to go for a 256-bit bus, which severely restricts memory bandwidth in comparison to the 7970.

It does make me wonder at what stage in the development process was the 256-bit bus assigned? My feeling is that it must have taken place before the decision to cast the 680 as the current-gen high-end card (i.e. before the release of the 7970). With 3Gb VRAM and a 384-bit memory bus, this card would have been a beast of efficiency. As it is, I see it as a qualified success.

At 1080p it's a monster. At 1600p and triple-screen resolutions, not so much. Though it's still a very impressive performer given its die size and power consumption.
 
had my Asus 7950 DCUII come the other day, did not opened it till i checked out
reviews on the 680, so i had the option to send it back.

just seen some of the oc results on gtx680, and glad to say my new 7950 is now out of the box and installed lol.
 
TwsT said:
+150 Core and +600 Mem
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Overall I am impressed with the card
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w3bbo said:
[*]tommybhoy (6950 Xfire) -2269
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I'm still not impressed by either of AMD/Nvidia's offerings, faster performance for less cash to be had for over 15 months!

dave_beast said:
Wow, look at how pants it does in Metro2033, even a stock 7950 destroys 680oc :O

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Youv'e found 1 game to moan about?

It's not that much faster at all(that you will even notice a difference) than a 7970 when both@stock, deal with it man!;)
 
Irishtrekkie said:
had my Asus 7950 DCUII come the other day, did not opened it till i checked out
reviews on the 680, so i had the option to send it back.

just seen some of the oc results on gtx680, and glad to say my new 7950 is now out of the box and installed lol.
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Hehehe, good on you :). Same feeling have no regrets buying my 7970's, though I must admit I was a little worried this morning having bought them last week
 
Irishtrekkie said:
had my Asus 7950 DCUII come the other day, did not opened it till i checked out
reviews on the 680, so i had the option to send it back.

just seen some of the oc results on gtx680, and glad to say my new 7950 is now out of the box and installed lol.
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Tempted by one of these now I've seen the prices on the 680. Be interested to see what you think of the card. Plus piccies of course!
 
Sorry, this is the last time I'll post this, but it does still make me laugh when I think about it:


Charlie Demerjian said:
In the same way that AMD’s Fusion chips count GPU FLOPS the same way they do CPU FLOPS in some marketing materials, Kepler’s 3TF won’t measure up close to AMD’s 3TF parts.
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Charlie Demerjian said:
The problem for Nvidia is that once you venture outside of that narrow list of tailored programs, performance is likely to fall off a cliff, with peaky performance the likes of which haven’t been seen in a long time. On some games, GK104 will handily trounce a 7970, on others, it will probably lose to a Pitcairn.
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Charlie Demerjian said:
When Kepler is released, you can reasonably expect extremely peaky performance. For some games, specifically those running Nvidia middleware, it should fly. For the rest, performance is likely to fall off the proverbial cliff. Hard. So hard that it will likely be hard pressed to beat AMD’s mid-range card.
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The man is a joke... He changes his mind more often than (most of us!) change our socks, and writes whatever he thinks will get the most attention for his site on any given day.
 
While not smashing the 7970 (which is still a quality card which owners should be happy with) the GTX 680 seems to be abit better in all areas power/performance/price overall.

My remit for getting ones was 480SLI performance in a single card and looks like its done that.
 
In any case, this has ended up being a launch not quite like any other. With GTX 280, GTX 480, and GTX 580 we discussed how thanks to NVIDIA’s big die strategy they had superior performance, but also higher power consumption and a higher cost. To that extent this is a very different launch –the GTX 680 is faster, cooler, and quieter than the Radeon HD 7970. NVIDIA has landed the technical trifecta, and to top it off they’ve priced it comfortably below the competition.
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Anandtech
 
They are selling for 435 euro in Germany :D must resist.. wonder what the price here in The Netherlands is going to be... Just saw around 430 on ocuk hmmm! :D
 
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