The first "proper" Kepler news Fri 17th Feb?

[RavenXXX2]

Blows away the HD 7970

Errr no. It's slightly better and clocked very high, need to see how far it clocks to make a fair judgment on this card.

 

[tribz]

follow the link. What does everyone think?

http://wccftech.com/nvidia-kepler-geforce-gtx-680-benchmarked-blows-hd-7970/

So is that actually overclocked to 1006MHz?

The note set that it clocks up when doing 3D but its not doing any 3D at the time of that screen shot?

 

[Jokester]

So more performance for less power? Any idea on the price yet?

Edit: 1GHz on the core stock?

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Errr no. It's slightly better and clocked very high, need to see how far it clocks to make a fair judgment on this card.

Plus the BF3 slide was omitted in the link too and both the GTX680 and HD7970 are more or less the same in this game.

So more performance for less power? Any idea on the price yet?

Edit: 1GHz on the core stock?

Basically in MW3 and BF3 the cards are more or less the same. In LP2 there is a significant performance boost but both LP and LP2 have done very well on Nvidia cards in the past and Batman:Arkham Asylum is around 10% performance boost.

Much lower idle power consumption for the HD7970,around 50W less at load for the GTX680 on average(sometimes less and sometimes more) under 3DMark11. Price is rumoured to be betweeen $499 to $550.

The core clock is 1006MHZ and it can boost itself upto 1058MHZ.

 

[Mojow]

As hyped as I am about the new cards I am slowly getting bored and my trusty 460 should be able to keep me going until a major new game is released which will require a faster card. Even then I will be able to get 600 series card without paying a day one price.

 

[RavenXXX2]

So more performance for less power? Any idea on the price yet?

Edit: 1GHz on the core stock?

It's up for pre-order on a site in the Netherlands for 507 Euro, Expected UK price to be £450-500.

 

[straxusii]

If these benchmarks prove to be accurate then in games the 680 is faster than the 580 by 33,36,10 and 35 percent so an averge of ~29%

How does this compare to previous Nvidia launches (using various review sites at 1080p)?

GTX480 was 41% faster than GTX285 so already this launch is worse than fermi by a large chalk.

GTX280 was 50% faster than 9800GTX.

8800GTX was 70% faster than 7900GTX


So looking like the worst high end Nvidia single GPU in recent memory.

 

[straxusii]

If these benchmarks prove to be accurate then in games the 680 is faster than the 580 by 33,36,10 and 35 percent so an averge of ~29%

How does this compare to previous Nvidia launches (using various review sites at 1080p)?

GTX480 was 41% faster than GTX285 so already this launch is worse than fermi by a large chalk.

GTX280 was 50% faster than 9800GTX.

8800GTX was 70% faster than 7900GTX


So looking like the worst high end Nvidia single GPU in recent memory.

 

[sehcure]

Cooler, faster, less power usage.

Looks great.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

A forum member on XS overclocked their HD7970 to 1060MHZ to match the GTX680 maximum Turbo Boost speed:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums...is-out-there&p=5070091&viewfull=1#post5070091

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums...is-out-there&p=5070098&viewfull=1#post5070098

The HKEPC review used a 3.3GHZ Core i7 3960X six core CPU and the forum member used a much slower Core i7 950 overclocked to 3.3GHZ which is a quad core,and the former also has PCI-E 3.0 which not all systems has.

Basically,in 3DMark11 Extreme preset,Batman:Arhkam Asylum and Unigine the scores of the two cards were more or less identical.

 

[RavenXXX2]

The 7950 is looking more and more tempting, still I will await some 680 overclocking results before making a move.

 

[N19h7m4r3]

The 7950 is looking more and more tempting, still I will await some 680 overclocking results before making a move.

Don't forget Price.

Although you're right, an overclocked 7950 seems like it might be the sweetspot for most.

 

[PCM2]

I know quite a few people with dyslexia and usually when they write their sentence structure is fine, it's just that they making more spelling mistakes and grammatical errors (so pretty it's pretty much indistinguishable from normal internet posts).

Fair enough but I was meaning his use of 'you're' over 'your' could be explained by that. Some people who are otherwise very articulate seem to type in quite an unstructured and difficult to understand fashion. Even academics.

 

[straxusii]

Not sure what card you got at the moment Raven but with a 480 SOC it's looking like I'm waiting for 780 or 7980, just not worth the upgrade

 

[cainer]

Don't forget Price.

Although you're right, an overclocked 7950 seems like it might be the sweetspot for most.

afaik they are due to release a 1.5gb version of the 7950??

if so this will be the sweet spot for 1080p gaming at the price point its likely to be

 

[RavenXXX2]

GTX260 at the mo, sold the 480 on a few month back. Any card I get will be clocked to the max, I know the 7950 is a great clocker, just need the lowdown on the 680.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I wonder if PCI-E 3.0 will make a bigger difference for the GTX680 when compared to the HD7970??

 

[tribz]

The core clock is 1006MHZ and it can boost itself upto 1058MHZ.

Why does the default clock say 706MHz then? Thats not a power saving speed either.

 

[Cyanide]

Need to see some actual everyday use benchmarks to compare it. Saying 'wow look at the 3dmark scores!' when it's got a LN2 cooled SB-E alongside it doesn't help much

 

[cainer]

so the 660 with a last minute bios update for higher clocks and marketed as the 680 is doing well... great, cant wait for the proper kepler