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The first "proper" Kepler news Fri 17th Feb?
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Tbh, I'm starting to become more interested in the 7990 coming out next month than the GTX680.
Just wish AMD had better driver support with crossfire.
Just wish AMD had better driver support with crossfire.
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There might not be a CPU bottleneck:
http://www.overclock.net/t/1231113/gigabyte-gtx-680-2gb-already-arrive-at-my-shop/370#post_16750434
In that post an HD7970 3GB owner,tried the benchmark on their Core i5 2500K with half the cores disabled at 3.1GHZ, which makes the modded CPU slower than a Core i3 2100.
The score increased when the HD7970 was overclocked at two different GPU clocks.
It seems the GTX680 and HD7970 are quite similar. Of course the 706MHZ GPU clock is the big mystery.
http://www.overclock.net/t/1231113/gigabyte-gtx-680-2gb-already-arrive-at-my-shop/370#post_16750434
In that post an HD7970 3GB owner,tried the benchmark on their Core i5 2500K with half the cores disabled at 3.1GHZ, which makes the modded CPU slower than a Core i3 2100.
The score increased when the HD7970 was overclocked at two different GPU clocks.
It seems the GTX680 and HD7970 are quite similar. Of course the 706MHZ GPU clock is the big mystery.
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Tbh, I'm starting to become more interested in the 7990 coming out next month than the GTX680.
Just wish AMD had better driver support with crossfire.
From what I have seen the 7970 and the 680 are close to level. IE - there's a fag paper between them with the 680 winning my tiny amounts in the benchmarks we've seen it winning in.
So don't rule out the 7970. I just overclocked mine for the first time to 1125mhz and I can tell you it's a very fast card. So maybe the 680 will be a few FPS faster, but 5 FPS won't save either card when the time comes to replace them if you know what I mean.
Soldato
Apparently Asus GTX680 posted for sale on a US site for $566.75.
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/23058/gtx680_posted_for_sale_on_a_us_site_for_566_75/index.html
If it falls foul of competitors rule, even though it's several thousand miles away, & the item isn't for sale yet, would some nice Don delete the post please.
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/23058/gtx680_posted_for_sale_on_a_us_site_for_566_75/index.html
If it falls foul of competitors rule, even though it's several thousand miles away, & the item isn't for sale yet, would some nice Don delete the post please.
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I was referring to a stock 680 given the close proximity to the two benchmark scores. Thanks for the informative reply though
Soldato
Apparently Asus GTX680 posted for sale on a US site for $566.75.
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/23058/gtx680_posted_for_sale_on_a_us_site_for_566_75/index.html
If it falls foul of competitors rule, even though it's several thousand miles away, & the item isn't for sale yet, would some nice Don delete the post please.
That puts it at around the £355 mark, which seems about right. However I think it will be closer to £400 in the UK.
You're forgetting VAT, that puts it at £430 which is the price we've been seeing lately.
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With vat added its more like £425. Then you can add on what the retailors think they can get away with. I think they will be around £450.
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Well Gibbo saying green card is faster than top red is good enough for me.
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Is that at stock speed?
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http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18384853
this all I saw. just scroll down to gibbo post
Just another run windforce 7970 on air. max temps 66c.
1268 gpu- 1803 memory. think memory will go loads more.
no artifacts as yet.
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lets see what the kepler does fully clocked.
1268 gpu- 1803 memory. think memory will go loads more.
no artifacts as yet.
Uploaded with ImageShack.us
lets see what the kepler does fully clocked.
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I just realised something with GPU-Z. The 2D switching clocks are not mentioned in the main screen but in the sensors tab. Here is an example:
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1461/16/
So,the dynamic clockspeeds won't be mentioned I suspect in the main window but in the sensor tab.
The main window reports the reference clockspeeds set by the factory and any manual changes to the base clockspeeds.
So,was the card test by HKEPC manually overclocked to 1006MHZ?? If the card is going to boost itself to 1006MHZ and 1058MHZ automatically,then why overclock the card manually??
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1461/16/
So,the dynamic clockspeeds won't be mentioned I suspect in the main window but in the sensor tab.
The main window reports the reference clockspeeds set by the factory and any manual changes to the base clockspeeds.
So,was the card test by HKEPC manually overclocked to 1006MHZ?? If the card is going to boost itself to 1006MHZ and 1058MHZ automatically,then why overclock the card manually??
Soldato
Just another run windforce 7970 on air. max temps 66c.
1268 gpu- 1803 memory. think memory will go loads more.
no artifacts as yet.
Uploaded with ImageShack.us
lets see what the kepler does fully clocked.
That's very nice result
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looks good to me
Soldato
Interesting how GPUZ shows the boost clock !
That's the new version 6.0 which supports the 680, the older version 5.9 didn't.
That could be one reason. Also the previous Heaven bench was using the Forceware 300.65 drivers, the new one is 300.99