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

RavenXXX2 · 20 Mar 2012 at 11:11

No Explosion? is that a valid selling point for MSI/Nvidia cards then.

straxusii · 20 Mar 2012 at 11:12

You think they mean the card, maybe the 680 filters out any in game explosions to keep the framerate up?

RavenXXX2 · 20 Mar 2012 at 11:18

Unlikely. Not to impressed with that overclock either, hope we see better results come the reviews.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 20 Mar 2012 at 11:19

HeX · 20 Mar 2012 at 11:21

RavenXXX2 said:
Not to impressed with that overclock either, hope we see better results come the reviews.

The thing is, if this was originally the mid range part (660Ti, GK104) then they've probably already clocked it up near it's limits for good yields to be able to give it the boost required to net the 40% improvement over the 580 (whereas originally the 660Ti should have been around the same performance as the 580).

So the OC ceiling might be quite low.

straxusii · 20 Mar 2012 at 11:22

Woah they got Saxton Hale, AMD are doomed

straxusii · 20 Mar 2012 at 11:23

HeX said:
The thing is, if this was originally the mid range part (660Ti, GK104) then they've probably already clocked it up near it's limits for good yields to be able to give it the boost required to net the 40% improvement over the 580 (whereas originally the 660Ti should have been around the same performance as the 580).

So the OC ceiling might be quite low.

You'd think so wouldn't you, if the O/C headroom is poor compared to 7970 due to this, and it costs the same, the rage will be palpable, as will the lack of sales.

RavenXXX2 · 20 Mar 2012 at 11:25

In that case everyone should just go out and buy a 7950 and clock it, and that 40% they are claiming is in heaven only afaik. The 7970 beats the 580 by a good amount in the same benchmark, in games I got a feeling there is not gonna be much in it, certainly not 40%.

1kiwi · 20 Mar 2012 at 11:25

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
No.

The GTX680 is the MASTER anyway!

Is the HD7970 now Kato to the GTX680 Green Hornet??

I saw this and thought there had been new benchmarks? Do we know how well the 680 clocks? Do we have any other benchmarks release within the last 24 hours?

straxusii · 20 Mar 2012 at 11:26

This review showed it beating 580 by 33% in heaven, only 29% in games though http://www.hkepc.com/7672/page/6#view

straxusii · 20 Mar 2012 at 11:28

kiwi1 said:
I saw this and thought there had been new benchmarks? Do we know how well the 680 clocks? Do we have any other benchmarks release within the last 24 hours?

Yes new benchmarks out yesterday, Heaven 3 at 1600x900

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 20 Mar 2012 at 11:31

straxusii said:
Woah they got Saxton Hale, AMD are doomed

With patented MANN Co tech they can go higher than the competitors cards!

Darujhistan · 20 Mar 2012 at 11:32

straxusii said:
So what your asking for is will a card that may or may not exist yet run some games in the future that don't exist yet?

Have you seen the blue stone of Galveston?[/QUOTE]

"So what you're telling me Percy is, is that something you've never seen is slightly less blue than something else you have never seen."

Mojo · 20 Mar 2012 at 11:33

straxusii said:
This review showed it beating 580 by 33% in heaven, only 29% in games though http://www.hkepc.com/7672/page/6#view

Isn't that along the lines of what a 7970 offers though? I suppose it doesn't matter so much if it comes in at the same price point as the 7970, but is a bit depressing all the same

psychodil · 20 Mar 2012 at 11:53

From the msi slides they expect the card to hit 75 celsius when gaming. Perhaps not as cool running as we thought.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 20 Mar 2012 at 12:15

psychodil said:
From the msi slides they expect the card to hit 75 celsius when gaming. Perhaps not as cool running as we thought.

Gregster · 20 Mar 2012 at 12:18

75 is pretty much standard I thought?

Duff-Man · 20 Mar 2012 at 12:20

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
http://i559.photobucket.com/albums/ss33/CAT-THE-FIFTH/GTX680SaxtonHaleEdition-1.png

Chinglish grammatical errors... Cartoon shirtless cowboy...

Yep - that looks really genuine.

Jakus · 20 Mar 2012 at 12:21

straxusii said:
So what your asking for is will a card that may or may not exist yet run some games in the future that don't exist yet?

Have you seen the blue stone of Galveston?

Not really, Just sensibly priced GK104, which I don't think will happen until GK110 is released. Mind You the writing was on the wall regarding GK104 price when Nvidia only dropped £50 on a GTX580 a week or so back.

I don't think I'm alone thinking these 28nm cards should be a little cheaper, but that is fuelled by the knowledge they use apparently smaller cheaper chips ! Really I suppose as always performance commands the price, not name or part number

Gregster · 20 Mar 2012 at 12:33

JAKUS said:
Not really, Just sensibly priced GK104, which I don't think will happen until GK110 is released. Mind You the writing was on the wall regarding GK104 price when Nvidia only dropped £50 on a GTX580 a week or so back.

I don't think I'm alone thinking these 28nm cards should be a little cheaper, but that is fuelled by the knowledge they use apparently smaller cheaper chips ! Really I suppose as always performance commands the price, not name or part number

I can understand where you are coming from. It would have been good if they released a 660/660ti/670 at some stage (sooner rather than later).

I don't know if this is not the case but nobody seems to say anything different.