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

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 20 Mar 2012 at 19:08

WingZero30 said:
Yeah I can wait till then

Tbh not much in hurry as my 5850 copes well at 1080p res.

There is noise of the GK110 being released at the end of the year and no doubt AMD will be working on an improved version of Tahiti too.

Of course,keep your eyes open for any bargains too!

TAC4U · 20 Mar 2012 at 19:09

dave_beast said:
AFAIK, crossfire scaling on 79** cards is 100%

But it was broken on numerous games, from Skyrim to Arkham City. Several games posted lower scores with two cards than a single card. Much of that can be addressed with driver updates but games that are endorsed by nVidia have a tendency to perform below normal games.

Gregster · 20 Mar 2012 at 19:09

stulid said:
So is this thread going to get to 30+ pages before the first credible piece of info is released?

Nope, 86

WingZero30 · 20 Mar 2012 at 19:14

gregster said:
Nope, 86

hahaha

I remember the bulldozer thread which became huge with mainly speculations and when real info came to light, what a big disappointment (well not strictly) it was.

However in the case of 680, atleast it is other way round

Gregster · 20 Mar 2012 at 19:20

I was bored, so started reading back through this thread. Some real funny posts and well worth a read for a good chuckle.

spankingtexan · 20 Mar 2012 at 19:29

Off topic, so who's after z77 and ivy? TO complement Kepler?

Broken Hope · 20 Mar 2012 at 19:31

spankingtexan said:
Off topic, so who's after z77 and ivy? TO complement Kepler?

Most of us have Z68 and Sandy Bridge, hardly worth changing motherboard and CPU for basically no difference..

spankingtexan · 20 Mar 2012 at 19:35

Broken Hope said:
Most of us have Z68 and Sandy Bridge, hardly worth changing motherboard and CPU for basically no difference..

PCI-E 3, after all these next gen cards are pci-e 3, do you think kepler wouldn't gain from this technology? if not then why pci-e 3????

gazzaa · 20 Mar 2012 at 19:36

WingZero30 said:
Coming from a 1GB 5850, which card would you suggest for me; 680 or 7970?

I game at 1080p res and like to play games on atleast high setting.

I am always concerned about vram limitation as 1GB is constantly proving to have reached it's limit at my res.

680 looks the way to go

arc@css · 20 Mar 2012 at 19:37

Will be a while before PCI-E 3.0 is worth the change for that alone. Not worth it whatsoever atm.

Duff-Man · 20 Mar 2012 at 19:39

gregster said:
I was bored, so started reading back through this thread. Some real funny posts and well worth a read for a good chuckle.

Go on then - pull out a few choice examples

Stanners · 20 Mar 2012 at 19:44

Duff-Man said:
Go on then - pull out a few choice examples

Look for the ones that are stated as fact, They are always my favourite

Rofflay · 20 Mar 2012 at 19:47

I dont see what all the fuss is about or why 7970 owners are in angst.

From the benchmarks in BF3 it was about 3-4fps ahead anyways and considering both overclock i really would not upgrade from a 580 for this.

And only 2GB Vram? come on clearly this is 570 renamed like in the earlier post.

Where is the old GTX 785 with the 512bit ring bus? I suspect NV have a monster lurking somewhere ready to be unleashed once people catch on to what they are doing.

They are drip feeding us and i hate it!

Marine-RX179 · 20 Mar 2012 at 19:59

Rofflay said:
I dont see what all the fuss is about or why 7970 owners are in angst.

From the benchmarks in BF3 it was about 3-4fps ahead anyways and considering both overclock i really would not upgrade from a 580 for this.

And only 2GB Vram? come on clearly this is 570 renamed like in the earlier post.

I wouldn't call them being "in angst" as you put it. However it remains that the 7000 series' performance progress on this gen is so poor, that Nvidia can rebrand what they planned as GTX660 to a GTX680, and still beat the 7970. Let's face the reality, the 7000 series IS last year performance at last year price. Their performance increased yes, but so has the price...so they are not reallly much more bang for bucks than last gen.

Owenb · 20 Mar 2012 at 20:01

Toms figures seem a little odd. He has the 7950 offering 15% more performance per watt than the 7950 which is nowhere near accurate. The signs look good for Nvidia but I think the results will vary a lot depending how closely the reviewer sticks to Nvidia's guide- Tom's seems to have stuck very close to it.

Jakus · 20 Mar 2012 at 20:11

Well I think we are about done on this thread now... I hope dreams have come true for a few out there

Thanks to CAT-THE-FIFTH for keeping the info coming, a sterling job old chap !

Gregster · 20 Mar 2012 at 20:13

Duff-Man said:
Go on then - pull out a few choice examples

You load the gun and I will fire it :eek:

ile brb

southpark · 20 Mar 2012 at 20:15

Well, if you take gk110(very unticipated cards) the performace difference compared to gk104 will be approx 20%. It is like coparing 7800 series and 7900 series in some way. So the point is that gk110 wont differe much and considering 680 at 500$ it is a fair buy.

Gregster · 20 Mar 2012 at 20:16

LambChop said:
Come on Kepler, I've got a bundle of cash with your pretty little name on it.

Meaker said:
That's a bit sad in a way. So even if it's priced like the 7970 and performs like the 7950 you would still buy it?

LambChop said:
Yes of course, I would not **** on the 7970 if it was on fire.

Top notch

andybird123 · 20 Mar 2012 at 20:16

I don't think anyone had the GTX680 pegged as being equal to or even beating a 590 in some benches

good show Nvidia, now lets hope some enthusiasts feel the need to get rid of their 580's at drop down prices so I can nab a couple more haha