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

Havana_UK · 19 Mar 2012 at 15:53

xsistor said:
At a 706 Mhz core if it scores 1362 on heaven then at 1006 Mhz it should score 1940.

Yes, which would make it VERY impressive....but like I said, I think we need more info from the possessor of this card!

Gregster · 19 Mar 2012 at 15:53

111 points more than a 580? something is iffy with this. At least I hope so anyway.

dave_beast · 19 Mar 2012 at 15:58

gregster said:
111 points more than a 580? something is iffy with this. At least I hope so anyway.

Well the 660 on which it's based is the replacment for the 570, so it's not really surprising really. Unless the person benching has deliberately clocked the card down to 700mhz, or that is the actual clock. Until we see official reviews from official channels it's all still open to interpretation depending on which way your willy faces.

Gregster · 19 Mar 2012 at 15:59

dave_beast said:
Well the 660 on which it's based is the replacment for the 570, so it's not really surprising really. Unless the person benching has deliberately clocked the card down to 700mhz, or that is the actual clock. Until we see official reviews from official channels it's all still open to interpretation depending on which way your willy faces.

Very true.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 19 Mar 2012 at 16:02

HD5850 1GB at 1GHZ for the core and 1200MHZ for the RAM. The CPU is a Core i3 2100.

HD5850 1GB is obliterated by both the HD7970 and GTX680!

iB CoMpL3XiTy · 19 Mar 2012 at 16:05

GPU-Z shows 706Mhz for the default core clock so unless he has edited the bios and flashed the card or is handy with photoshop 706Mhz is the default clock speed.

From those results it looks to be about 15% faster than my factory overclocked GTX570 with the same settings (CPU at stock and RAM at 1333Mhz).

straxusii · 19 Mar 2012 at 16:07

Rroff said:
If that benchmark is for real then his CPU is really really holding him back - or something - at that point after the benchmark finishes with that kinda score the fps top right should be atleast double that number - tho that not a reliable metric as random things could be pulling the fps low or his PC could be really slow at recovering after reloading after the benchmark.

Also not tried 300.6x drivers but pretty sure they don't have GK104 in the GPU ID string.

With those settings a GTX680 should be getting a ~80fps.

Surely heaven isn't that CPU limited? It's looking like Kepler failing against the 7970 at the mo (based on one dodgy benchmark

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dave_beast · 19 Mar 2012 at 16:08

Oh, how ALXAndy will be singing tonight when he's on here.....

♫♪♫♪ Nvidia said 7970 was disappoint ♫♪♫♪

Rroff · 19 Mar 2012 at 16:12

straxusii said:
Surely heaven isn't that CPU limited? It's looking like Kepler failing against the 7970 at the mo (based on one dodgy benchmark )

Generally no but I've never tried it on a 2100 or similiar CPU at relatively low clocks to see how much of a difference that would have.

bru · 19 Mar 2012 at 16:12

Gibbo said:
New Green card on Thursday is faster and supports 4 monitors out the box.

from this thread

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=21506232

dave_beast · 19 Mar 2012 at 16:17

Going to be a 7970 on an i3 benchmark for comparison up soon in this thread http://www.overclock.net/t/1231113/gigabyte-gtx-680-2gb-already-arrive-at-my-shop/280

Somebody is going to be posting i3 and 7970 benches soon (clock for clock and stock for stock). Either myself or another member.
Once the thread is started up for it, I'll edit the OP with a link to the comparison if its okay with ironman86.

RavenXXX2 · 19 Mar 2012 at 16:22

Noticed the shop guy is using an older driver compared to the other more legit benchmarks doing the rounds, if it is legit I bet the card is running at 706 core and not 1006 as seen in other tests.

shop guys GPU-Z

Dazboots · 19 Mar 2012 at 16:24

dave_beast said:
Stock GTX680 i3

Stock 7970 i7 with 2 cores disabled at stock speed 3.4ghz (best I could do!)

Not going to bother with the overclocked results as they were at least 10fps more

This is my air cooled windforce 7970 1285 gpu 1750 memory. 1 card 1.25 volts.

Uploaded with ImageShack.us

psychodil · 19 Mar 2012 at 16:50

Wow, 42.5% faster than the supposed 680 score. Nice clocks on that 7970 :-)

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CAT-THE-FIFTH · 19 Mar 2012 at 16:55

RavenXXX2 said:
snip

So the 1006MHZ is a driver based overclock then??

It would explain the 706MHZ default clock and 1006MHZ GPU clock in previous GPU-Z screenshots.

So is this a permanent or temporary boost though?? If it is permanent why isn't the 1006MHZ clock the default one??

psychodil · 19 Mar 2012 at 16:57

I700mhz is probably just a low power state, like my sandy bridge shows 1.6ghz on cpuz.

stulid · 19 Mar 2012 at 17:04

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/2120/TechPowerUp_GPU-Z_v0.6.0.html

Added optional GPU-Z installer which launches when GPU-Z is started for the first time, or can be started manually via the GPU-Z system menu
Added support for AMD Radeon HD 7870, HD 7850, HD 7670M, FireStream 9370, FirePro V3900
Added support for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680, GT 640M, GTX 560 SE, GT 550M, GeForce 510, NVS 2100M
Fixed clocks not showing correctly on some systems with Catalyst 12.2
Fixed board id reading on pre-Fermi cards
Fixed OpenCL detection for ATI Fusion (Sumo & Ontario)
Fixed GPU-Z window getting cut off at certain DPI settings

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 19 Mar 2012 at 17:08

psychodil said:
I700mhz is probably just a low power state, like my sandy bridge shows 1.6ghz on cpuz.

I somehow doubt 700MHZ would be a low power state though??

The GTX580 idle clockspeeds are well under 125MHZ:

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1461/16/

chief barker · 19 Mar 2012 at 17:09

Dazboots said:
Stock 7970 i7 with 2 cores disabled at stock speed 3.4ghz (best I could do!)

Not going to bother with the overclocked results as they were at least 10fps more

This is my air cooled windforce 7970 1285 gpu 1750 memory. 1 card 1.25 volts.

Uploaded with ImageShack.us

I have just this minute caved in and bought 2 windforce cards.

Had a bit of luck selling my old cards and got £430 for them and just won some money in work.

spankingtexan · 19 Mar 2012 at 17:12

straxusii said:
First benchies from the guy in the shop with one.

(For comparison I get 48 at these same settings, my 480 runs ~580 speed, his CPU is an I3 but even so I am underwhelmed)

that bench is just not accurate, i get a higher score than that at those settings with my gtx 580.
Are you saying the gtx 580 is faster than a gtx 680? I doubt that very much.

BUT!! my processor ia an i5 2500k @ 4.6ghz but still can't see an i3 making that much of a difference.